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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1948
Page
5
Tourists return to Versailles as cafes along Avenue de Chateau offer French fare and English tea room vibes at the Hotel Angleterre. Gardens, tapestries, and paintings are rehabilitated after four years of occupation, with historians noting relics hidden by Germans were not found.
The piece playfully notes rhubarb's bid for fruit status amid debates over what counts as fruit or vegetable. It recalls tomatoes melons nuts and rhubarb and hints the rhubarb pie remains a favorite dish while a separate note mentions collecting eggs in wire baskets to improve market quality.
Liechtenstein plans a ten franc stamp featuring Icarus with feathered wax wings. The small principality, bordered by Switzerland and Germany, relies on stamps for revenue and tourism. Swiss administration oversees Liechtenstein's post, with a rich history of pictorials and royal portraits since 1912.
New York report quotes Dr Bryn J Hovde president of the New School for Social Research saying postwar housing is built too small and crowded. He asserts millions of new homes must be planned scientifically to avoid driving couples to seek escapes.
A collage of jokes and opinions weighs social trends from Shaw diet to housing design. Topics touch on politics shifts in France, rising eggs, Carnotlike urban crowding, and crowded apartments hurting privacy. Dr. Hovde links neighborhood crime to mental health bang.
Samuel Thomas Maun a Windsor stationmaster from 1903 to 1925 died at 88 in Britain. He claimed to slap Princess Alice by accident while swatting a fly, and that he once locked up King George VI as a child after a refused train hold.
The north Pacific halibut serves as an example of a resource restored through study and regulation. Intensive fishing from 1910 to 1930 depleted stocks, but since 1930 U.S. and Canada management under mutual agreement increased abundance and kept production high.
New York report notes rising unescorted female travel across the United States with advice from Carol Lane a travel bureau director. She urges prudence choosing lodgings avoids cabins with bars and where registration is not offered and suggests practical road etiquette and budgeting for trips including meals and roadside help.
In Ottawa during a downpour a Department of Public Works gardener watered the lawn on Parliament Hill. Wearing a large slicker, the man admitted he was following orders to water the lawn on Thursdays, a sight observed by a press gallery correspondent.
James Monroe, fifth U S president, served with Washington in the Revolutionary War. He was wounded at Trenton New Jersey and fought at Harlem Heights New York City White Plains New York and Monmouth New Jersey.
An unusual note highlights many women in their late seventies and eighties marrying, including 79 year old Alice Le mar once a London music hall star. The piece muses on secret services of the Soviet Britain and France, recalling a WWI spy chauffeur incident and recalling Genfe's GREATEST.
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