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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1949
Page
2
The article notes juvenile delinquency as a major social issue yet reports a decreasing crime rate in Canada. It cites a wartime peak in 1942 with 11 758 major and minor convictions, attributing the rise to parental absence due to military service and mothers' wartime work in munition plants and industries.
The article notes a nationwide drop in juvenile crime as war housing shortages ease and family life normalizes. It cites community recreation, parent education, psychiatric services, and youth protection laws as factors aiding the decline.
The article praises police efforts to reduce juvenile delinquency via the police and youth programme. RCMP and local forces conduct school lectures on citizenship, host games, form youth clubs, and visit Boys' Industrial Homes. It emphasizes home influence and prevention.
Joseph Phillips of Estevan earned a $45 hockey pool payout from the Toronto Chicago game and received a 1949 Plymouth car at the Rotary carnival. The story notes fur coats increasingly come from fur farms with fox and mink predominating.
A historical ad promotes D. D. D. Prescription ointment for relief from intense itching, edema, rashes, athlete's foot, and related skin irritations. It claims rapid action from the first application and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Weyburn Saskatchewan. Provincial field crops commissioner W. H. Horner warned that grasshopper infestation could be worse in 1950 than in the current year. He urged cultural controls and shallow cultivation in fall or spring to destroy about 70 percent of grasshopper eggs and cautioned farmers against feeding stubble fields with heavy infestations. He noted that favorable hopper weather could double pest output.
This note recalls The Illustrated London News as the first illustrated newspaper, believed to debut in May 1842, marking a milestone in journalism.
At Moose Jaw Saskatchewan the annual sheep and lamb sale saw record prices. Ben Brown Antelope sent the top pen of 15 whiteface lambs sold to E S Schneider Kitchener Ontario for 23.25 per cwt. Hawkins and McDermid Moose Jaw had top whiteface lambs bought by Schneider for 22.10 per cwt. Bill Brown Buffalo Gap sent the second prize blackface pen 15 lambs sold to Schneider for 22.50 per cwt.
A set of light quips and exchanges features a wary cashier applicant, a signboard at a shoe repair, a quip about prescription errors, window dressings, a waiter’s tenure, a crystal gazer’s warning, a river rope joke, and Johnny’s pun about Washington’s memory and a monument.
Calgary based Hudsons Bay Oil and Gas Co has secured seven crown exploration permits in Saskatchewan. The blocks cover about 100000 acres each, spanning a northeast to southwest strip about 95 miles long and 25 to 30 miles wide centered near Melfort, 100 miles northeast of Saskatoon.
The Dominion executive of the Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts association decided that jamborees will be held every four years, similar to the Ottawa event last July. The note appears alongside a mention of a 1860 onset in the chewing gum industry.
Four Ontario youths claim the Salada Tea Inter County Plowing Match at Burford with contour plowing demonstrations by the Ontario Agricultural College. Winners Earl Bacher Cayuga and Robert Nixon Hagersville Halderman County first. E Timbers Milliken and N Watson Woodbridge York County second.
CALGARY, Alta. One of the largest shipments of cattle ever to go to a single buyer was made recently to Cherokee, Ia. Officials of Burns Company said 1,083 cattle, representing a value of $131,000, were loaded into 28 box cars. They said the cattle had been purchased by E. E. Beck, an American cattle buyer.
Winter's rival in the next weeks will halt initial work on a 1100 mile crude oil pipeline from Edmonton to Superior until spring. Officials say full-scale construction resumes in May with a target to finish the line to Superior by October.
Vancouver 65 year old L. J. Walshe invented permanent licence plates that double as tail lights and will be offered to the British Columbia government. Models use perforated glass or plastic with numbers outside and a light inside. by day they resemble a bulkier plate and by night glow with rear red and front white illumination. Renewal plates with the year are removable and can feature distinct designs or colors. Walshe has patented the device in Canada and the United States.
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