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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1955
Page
7
Marcia waits outside a hospital room where her husband lies dying. A nurse warns of internal injuries as Marcia plans a murder she believes will end his life. The doctor reveals he will live, with a stomach wound and a lengthy recovery ahead.
A farm listed by a house agent as haunted saw a man hired to lodge one night. The next morning the sash and shutters lay wrecked on the lawn, but the watchman was gone. Four days later the man was seen three miles away, saying he had been coming back.
In Meopham Kent England F H Hughes chats with his son Peter 32 who emigrated to Espanola Ontario in 1951. Peter built a miniature radio station to keep in touch with his father Morse code links reach 11 hours at times with help from Hughes’s younger son and his own radio studies.
Canadian Press observes New Zealand moves away from the term dominion in official use as historians and editors weigh a fitting label. Experts suggest realm or kingdom as possible replacements, with realm gaining favorable press reception for a concise headline term.
Regina reports Saskatchewan Plant Industry Branch director R. E. McKenzie warns stubble burning harms soil. He cites straw and stubble as vital protection against wind and water erosion and warns against eliminating rotted straw which adds humus and aids water absorption and soil aeration.
Denver photographer Harry Mellon Rhoads, 74, demonstrates early flash methods by lighting a magnesium flare alongside a flash pan and gun. The scene contrasts the original 1930 G.E. magnesium unit with today’s compact smokeless bulb, smaller and quieter than the old model.
Ottawa reports 143 290 in federal health grants to six prairie hospitals for new constructions and additions. Manitoba Grandview Hospital 29 790. Davidson Union Saskatchewan 16 000. Wakaw 10 000. Alberta Lutheran Chronic Calgary 58 500. Spirit River 20 750. Two Hills 8 250. Special training bursaries awarded to Manitoba and Saskatchewan nurses and physiotherapists.
A prominent Alberta farmer from the We taskiwin district imported a large shipment of 110 ewes and four rams of registered Columbia sheep from the White Columbia Sheep Company in Montana. The purchase averaged $60 per head as the start of a breeding flock noted for both wool and meat. Mr. Smith, president of the Alberta Fish and Game Association, plans to maintain a purebred Columbia flock on his farm.
Mrs. R. S. Featherston, a 33 year old Auckland timber worker's wife, has given birth to her fourth set of twins here, a boy and a girl. The Featherstons already have three daughters, bringing their total children to 11.
A small mole, about six inches long, reportedly tunneled more than 75 yards in one night, illustrating its surprising digging efficiency.
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