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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1950
Page
2
The article notes many farmers leaving rural areas for towns and cities. War and postwar prosperity drew people to higher wages, education, and housing, increasing abandoned farms and landlords living elsewhere, which concerns agriculture advocates who value rural land use.
Increased interest in improving farm living conditions has led to better rural schools and transport. Large, well equipped schools now serve farm communities and school buses bring pupils to these facilities. Rural electrification has extended, benefiting farm work and home life with modern lighting.
The article notes improvements in farm living and a rise in people returning to rural life. It contrasts urban shortages of housing and rising food costs with farm advantages like secure homes and homegrown food. The piece stresses farming as vital to national welfare.
A collection of quick wit and strained misunderstandings shows couples and friends trading barbs over boasting, shopping, and everyday quirks. Jokes touch on marriage, vanity, education, and a comic sense of timing from a bygone era.
An old advertisement promotes D D D eczema relief claiming fast comfort from itching. The Trial bottle costs 35 cents with an offer to check money back if it fails. The copy targets athletes and general sufferers seeking topical relief.
Alberta moves to curb illegal coarse grain dealings in oats barley and rye. Agriculture Minister David Ure says illicit trading undercuts mill operators and will be halted by enforcing the 1949 law requiring all coarse grains to go through the Canadian Wheat Board.
A series of curious items includes grasshopper swarms halting trains in South Australia with engines unable to grip the tracks. A Sig nal Hill California clerk laments a missing two dollars in an unsigned note. A Sayreville New Jersey householder reports a skunk in a washing machine, prompting Officer Kupsch to shoot it and bury the clothes. A London hospital details a baby born with a three inch tail that was removed and left the child normal. A large buck deer was killed after being struck by two cars near Timagami Ontario.
Famed playwright George Bernard Shaw aged 94 is shown in an ambulance departing London hospital and returning to Ayot St. Lawrence after a stay of just over three weeks following a fall that broke his left thigh bone.
Winnipeg tests a stockpiled blood transfusion solution under Dr Harris with several local doctors. Already used in Sweden and Britain, it shows promise for first aid and shock cases and may be manufactured in Canada for disaster use.
In Flin Flon Manitoba Shetland ponies are taking over work once done by dogs hauling fish toboggans to packing depots on the lakes. The shift marks a change in winter logistics in the northern region.
Ottawa reports immigration from the United Kingdom to Canada remains at about half of last year. For eight months this year 9,000 Britons arrived, vs 17,120 in the prior year, with total arrivals from all sources at 49,220 against 71,975. The decline began after the pound devaluation and capital limits, with possible easing discussed by London. C E S Smith travels abroad to study schemes to boost UK and European immigration and will report to Minister Walter Harris.
The Census Bureau estimates the U.S. population reached 152 271 000 as of September 1. Regulation curling stones are specified to weigh 44 pounds.
John A. Marsh of the Canadian Exporters Association warned that rising lived costs threaten Canada’s ability to price goods for world markets. He told the Purchasing Agents Association that higher wages push prices upward, risking loss of export competitiveness in wheat fish pulpwood and manufactured products. He noted 35 cents of every dollar in pockets depends on world trade, 25 cents on export trade.
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