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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1949
Page
7
George Randolph buys a television set and uses its light and power to stop a burglar. He recounts the act proudly, claiming credit for the capture while neighbors praise the gadget’s “science.”
The Anne Adams Pattern Dept offers pattern 4817 for misses sizes 10 through 16. A size 16 blouse requires one yard of 54 inch fabric with a mandarin collar and pocket flaps. Send 25 cents in coins with name, address, and style number to Winnipeg newspaper union.
A mix of Graham wafer crust and lemon filling is baked in two stages. Included are a beef and carrot meat loaf style roll with parsley and breadcrumbs baked at 350 degrees for an hour.
Edmonton industrial official Graham W. Curtis reports fifty new oil companies relocated to Edmonton in the first six months of 1949. The roundup covers growth in Western energy sectors across multiple communities and signals a postwar expansion in western oil activity.
The Province of Saskatchewan takes its name from the Saskatchewan River, the term of Indigenous origin meaning rapid river, reflecting the fast current of its waters.
E S H Workman of The Lemberg Star in Saskatchewan faced a stunned moment after students permuted the masthead letters. The issue rolled off the press declaring The Lemberg Rats instead of The Lemberg Star, a mix up the editor can hardly live down.
In Athabasca Alberta a small group of black settlers, who fled Oklahoma in 1910 to escape discrimination, has built a thriving community. The enclave grew from a handful to about 400 residents with a landscape of wooded valleys and wheat fields reflecting prosperity.
Mrs. Margaret Bristow of Vancouver, head of the Silver Cross Mothers, says Dutch cemeteries show superior care to Canadian graves in Canada after a two month tour of European sites. She notes 4,000 Canadian graves in the Netherlands have been adopted by Dutch families, with white crosses and flowers everywhere.
Caribou district farmer Jack Mann recounts a dramatic encounter where his horse, rearing on its hind legs and striking with the forelegs, held off a half-starved bear before Mann frightened it away and shot the animal.
J. W. Tomlinson of the Saskatchewan Power Corporation said 1,200 rural residents will get electrification this year under the rural electrification program. By April 1949 the corporation had received over 6,000 applications.
A note states that rainbows disappear when the sun is more than 40 degrees above the horizon. The guidance implies rainbow arcs are visible only with lower sun positions and specific geometry.
Manitoba officials expect the 1949 sugar beet crop to surpass 130000 tons, rising from 15000 acres of cultivation mainly south of Winnipeg. The new forecast tops 1942's 128653 tons from 14130 acres, outpacing last year's 80500 tons from 9500 acres and signaling continued growth. The industry, averaging 1 million dollars yearly for farmers since 1940, aims to double production in coming years as labor improves and markets expand in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
By 1900 the exchange medium among Northwest Pacific coast Indians remained a woolen blanket. Trade used blankets as a standard for value, serving as a common commodity in regional commerce and bartering practices.
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