Granite City Aberdeen’s granite fame and fertile Abyssinia soil
Aberdeen is known as the granite city for its buildings of local granite. Abyssinia’s soil is highly fertile with two or three crops a year.
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1951
Page
2
Aberdeen is known as the granite city for its buildings of local granite. Abyssinia’s soil is highly fertile with two or three crops a year.
An acre of land will divide into nearly 14 lots each 25 feet wide and 125 feet long. Acadia University in Nova Scotia dates to 1838. About two percent of Akron residents are of Hungarian birth.
National Kids Day will be observed Saturday with a Rex Theatre cartoon showing and free apples for children. Rivers Kiwanis plans a playpool for youngsters and fundraising activities including Kiwanis apple sales to support youth services and play areas.
A large sum was raised and directed to local projects inside the community. The funds support efforts for local youngsters, empowering education, recreation, and youth services within the area.
Nova Scotia sports draw anglers from far abroad as Wedgeport hosts the international tuna cup matches each September. Tuna giants weighing up to 1000 pounds battle bait for hours, delivering the sport’s greatest thrill to participating fishermen and writers from leading outlets.
Farmers warned against starting harvest before grain is fully mature as this lowers yield and harms quality. Proper combine adjustment, slow cylinder speeds, and careful threshing reduce kernel damage and losses, maximizing returns on the 1951 grain crop for western farmers.
Magazines and newspapers, motion and still picture cameramen and radio commentators from all sections of the world cover this important sporting event. Participating teams hail from the United States, England, Bermuda, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Sweden, Denmark, Cuba, France, Belgium, and Canada.
A two-storey trailer with an upstairs bedroom, ground floor nursery, bathroom, kitchen, living room and roof garden will appear at a British motor show in London on October 17. The opera Aida was composed in 1871 to celebrate Cairo's grand opera house opening. Albania stands as the sole European country without railways.
J. D. Nixon of Vancouver has been named recipient of the Imperial relations trust bursary for 1951. The award requires three to four months in the United Kingdom studying BBC radio and television and learning about Britain’s conditions. He plans to depart for the UK in the early fall.
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