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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1948
Page
4
A Canadian traveler urges readers heading to Britain to prepare for postwar hardships while enjoying hospitality. Advice covers hotels food costs and shortages packing parcels for friends and the value of travel literature from the Travel Association.
Manitoba faces a shift from agriculture to industry as Hon. J. S. McDiarmid notes a two year survey by the bureau of industry and commerce showing 70 towns studied. Since 1940 new Manitoba industries outside Winnipeg comprise 25 percent of growth, with total industrial value rising from 150 million dollars in 1929 to over 350 million in 1947 and 40 thousand jobs.
An advertisement offers a woodland scene needlework pattern 15 by 20 inches. It features improved visuals, charts, photos, and complete directions for easy stitching. Send twenty five cents in coins to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg for pattern number 7011 CM. Include name and address.
A Calhoun County man and his wife hunted a slick talker who swapped his motorcycle for a car. Police arrested Gene R. Lester, 26, on suspicion of larceny after Hackney and his wife tailed leads from Jackson to Macon and Augusta before spotting the suspect at Atlanta transit terminals.
The text explains that both emeralds and rubies derive their color from chromium oxide. It notes chromium ions impart the distinctive green for emeralds and red for rubies, illustrating color origin in colored gemstones.
Ottawa reports Canada's wheat crop this year may reach 372 million bushels per CBS estimates, about 30 million above last year but roughly 35 million under the 1938-47 average. Prairie spring wheat is pegged at 340 million, up from 319 million previously.
Moose Jaw Sask Don Tett 32 Dauphin Man pleaded not guilty in RCMP court to theft of a guitar bought by F David Servoss Briercrest farmer as inducement to keep Flett on the job The instrument valued at 142 dollars was to be paid from wages but Flett quit after one week claiming time to pay was long He said he would send the money later
The earliest diadems, worn in ancient times instead of crowns, were crafted from silk wood and embedded with precious stones, reflecting historic royal adornment.
The plan to fortify commercial mixed feeds especially poultry feeds with vitamins A and D is standard. Manufacturers must ensure sufficient vitamins without wasteful cost. The Dominion Department of Agriculture has long tested vitamin guarantees in feeding oils and improved methods to reduce discrepancies.
Canadian born college teacher Sir Edward Peacock now a knighted director of the Bank of England says the gold standard remains the best medium for world exchange. He notes trade is hampered by restrictions but gold commands global confidence and will endure despite new monetary theories.
French promoters abandoned a 20 year effort to cultivate silk in French Equatorial Africa after native workers began eating silk worms. Mulberry trees were planted in 1928 and worms thrived until the workers savored the larvae, defusing the project despite threats and bribes.
In Brooklyn a man threatened suicide calling Snyder Ave station saying Buddy saved him by recognizing a shared wartime connection. Patrolman Joseph Cone, a 65th Infantry veteran, learns the caller was with the Fourth Armored and assists as police locate Nathan Robbins, 26, at a drug store booth.
Practical tips cover dust mop technique to avoid scattering dust and a clothes pin bag on a line to save steps. Also suggests heating oranges before juicing, and washing feather pillows with air holes opened to prevent clumping while keeping feathers intact.
Two men boast about their old cars as one claims his cab cannot run 200 miles an hour. The other asks for the reason, and the answer cites the time needed for shawiness of the time. The note then shifts to a remark about the western world receiving precious stones from Alexander Great’s eastern conquests.
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