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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 22, 1955
Page
4
Price indexes rise on food while overall consumer index trails last year. Farm and industrial sectors gain with higher outputs, exports grow, and trade deficits narrow. August rail loadings surge, foreign car arrivals up sharply.
The column suggests dry cleaning for stains on hard fabrics like gabardine. It advises protecting leather hat bands with tape to prevent perspiration stains. It recommends trimming wool tuft burns and using a soapless sponge for cleaning. It warns linoleum cracks are trip hazards and water rot risks, and proposes sealing wax to repair breaks.
Two species are cited as the most poisonous, the tiger snake of Australia and the island viper from a small Brazilian island. The note highlights their deadly venom and geographic ranges in a brief science item.
CPC Correspondent notes Jamaica marks three centuries under the Union Jack amid record tourist arrivals with 121 732 visitors in 1953. The piece recalls Columbus, Port Royal, and Montego Bay as a growing Caribbean haven with rich history, coffee and banana wealth, and mild year round temperatures.
Portage la Prairie reports a Canadian Press feature recalling John McLean a bold Manitoba pioneer. The 19th century settler faced Indian resistance and property clashes while building a westward life after arriving in 1827. His feats are told alongside other frontier legends in local memory.
A rock inscription near the Niagara gorge marks the 1939 drowning of 15 year old Tom Cardinal who tried to swim the river to Canada. The carving, believed by friends to warn others away, reads Tom Cardinal drowned trying to swim river July 1939.
Research from Michigan State University describes extracts from certain mushrooms that slow growth of some cancers in mice. Ten of 30 tested species yielded active compounds that resist heat and may survive digestion, though no human data yet. The study notes folklore origins and contrasts American mushroom results with European varieties.
The piece highlights various glove leathers and cuts for fall, from luxury doeskin to kidskin and polished boxlaw. It notes long elbow gloves, mid length, shorty arm styles, and trims like rhinestones and embroidery, plus colors such as beige, frosty mist, chestnut, tan, curry, persimmon and avocado.
Reader's Digest notes there is no cure for snoring though sleep debt can be repaid with extra rest. It warns against habitual sleeping pills and excess coffee, and offers advice on cool beds, back sleeping, and gentle alarms to improve rest.
A collection of humorous quips about tea misfires hillbillies religion insurance and travel mishaps. Witty exchanges feature a wife seeking cocoa tin marked matches a Ozark native and grandpappy, a missionary and cannibal joke, and a college rider consigned to Podunk with a sleepy porter’s quip.
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