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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1958
Page
7
A vintage pattern set offers actual-size cutting and painting guides for a life-size Santa with a chimney. Includes 10-inch Merry Christmas letters for eaves and mounting directions. Five large pattern sheets provide reusable year after year use. Price listed at $1.75.
Lawn decorations show 21 inch figures used to depict the Christmas story with actual size guides provided in pattern R74 for display in yards or Sunday school rooms.
An ad previews Home Workshop Patterns with actual-size cutting guides for a candle holder and a card tree plus wreath directions, bundled in packet 45 with crib-set guides and other decorations for 1.75. The rest is a devotional on prayer, gratitude, and divine peace for troubled hearts.
The notice describes a doll pattern 7260 with pieces and instructions for a 91 inch doll plus a party outfit and two school dresses including coat robe pajamas panties crinoline jacket slacks nightie. It asks sending thirty five cents in jcoins to Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto. It mentions the Roman month Quintilis for July in memory of Julius Caesar.
Twenty two Boy Scouts from Gordon's Indian Residential School at Punnichy attend a banquet in the Bessborough Hotel Saskatoon hosted by the Government of Saskatchewan. They present Lord Rowallan with an Indian headdress and perform Indigenous dances after the dinner.
Geese travel biannually in outer space to migrate between Arctic tundra and southern lands. Their journey, guided by Nature, includes resting at sanctuaries such as Fler Miner's sanctuary providing feeding fare. Jack Parrish of Orissia Ontario notes the annual flight and potential losses en route.
A late note from several papers thanks volunteers who battled fires across the Peace River country this summer. Their hard work prevented serious losses of marketable timber in one of the driest seasons on record.
Pickering Township will pass a bylaw appointing a Fox Bounty Officer. Current bounties are three dollars per fox, with payments previously made by Sid Pugh and Lorne Jones of the Township Game Commission. Ontario County will now pay four dollars per pelt, an increase of one dollar.
A cautionary public service message urges drivers to exercise caution on the roads to protect themselves and others. It emphasizes responsible driving and situational awareness to reduce accidents and injuries.
Keith Hitchings owned a 42 pound pumpkin this Halloween. It was grown by Mrs. Les Skinner of Foam Lake in a garden with minimal watering, relying on scarce moisture from the area. The report comes from The Touch Wood Times in Punnichy Saskatchewan.
Canadians revive home music making as families gather to play and sing like in earlier days. Piano sales rise, organs return, and instruments such as accordions guitars and violins sell well to Canadians of all ages. Veterans and new Canadians are cited as sparks for the trend enriching national culture.
Merchandising chain stores again expanded in September with a 7 plus percent rise versus an average 6.4 percent for the year to date. Food stores contributed about 10 percent of the month’s gain, accounting for over half of the dollar increase among the eleven sectors tracked by the Bureau. All sectors showed higher earnings than the prior year.
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