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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1950
Page
8
Spencer escapes from prison with aid of a guard's wife and plans to flee with a lover. Joyce, his lawyer, and Clara stand in the shadows, debating loyalty and sacrifice as the pursued man moves toward freedom and a new life across the border.
Prince Albert district farmer Henry Hack reports 116.6 bushels per acre from 24 acres of Ajax seeded oats, potentially the highest in northern Saskatchewan. Provincial ag rep Murdock McKay notes the yield may be the district’s top, with May 11 sowing and 2,800 bushels total.
Seventy-seven pupils registered for the new term in Churchill, the Hudson Bay town. Children of Canadian and American service personnel stationed there are among the student body.
At Work Point Barracks soldiers lost about $60 of clothing after a man entered the men's quarters seeking work for a dry cleaning firm that did not exist. The incident exposed a fraud targeting soldiers in their quarters.
Four gay apron patterns offered for Christmas bazaars and personal use. Pattern 4694 includes sizes small and medium with bib style, single fabric, fabric yardage listed. Easy instructions with full illustrations and fit-tested design. Send 25 cents coin to order. include name address and style number. The RCAF reached peak strength in January 1944 at over 215000 personnel.
Fire damages a British Columbia fruit plant with losses pegged at 250000 dollars. In Vancouver lumber leaders are invited to discuss 1951 prospects in Britain. Carrot River council considers a personal tax to fund a municipal doctor. Medicine Hat opens a 15000 dollar Boy Scout hall financed by waste paper drives. Delta wildlife preserve plans a high fence to protect waterfowl. Rosthern votes all day Wednesday closing for stores starting Jan 1.
Ottawa government proposes extending the 1946 Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act to Korea volunteers and regular service personnel to safeguard civilian job reinstatement after military duty. Defence Minister Claxton announced in Commons that the measure would apply from July 5 of last year.
Ottawa records show percentage increases for farm and related goods from July 1946 to July 1950. Items include six foot combine 40.1 percent four cylinder tractor 44.7 percent eight foot grain binder 29.0 percent two furrow plow 36.8 percent and more. Urban cost of living rose 33.9 percent and standard freight rates 41.2 percent with noted exceptions.
British American Oil Co Ltd announced a multi million dollar expansion of the Moose Jaw refinery over the next 18 months. Plans include Saskatchewan’s first catalytic cracking unit a cooking plant thermal cracking unit catalytic polymerization equipment extra tankage and expanded utilities aimed for completion by end of 1951 or early 1952.
A detailed home bread guide for sour cream buns. It lists ingredients like sour cream, mashed potato, yeast, and butter, with step by step mixing and rising instructions, shaping into rounds, filling with raspberry jam, and baking at a hot oven for about 15 minutes yielding three dozen buns.
The will probated awards a net estate of 1 043 022 to the late R C Thomas Calgary hotel man who died June 6 2899.
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