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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 10, 1946
Page
4
The article envisions a house of the future with automated dust collection, self cleaning shoe mats, stain proof carpets, and dirt resistant furnishings. Electronic ovens use radio waves for fast even cooking, while high tech windows and automated telephones integrate into daily life and allow remote monitoring and messages.
The British Government has negotiated food contracts with Canada, including over two million boxes of British Columbia apples and three hundred thousand barrels from Nova Scotia. Minister Gardiner did not quote prices but expects a profitable impact for Canadian producers while Britain stores up supplies. The order is the largest for apples since before the war and will represent a sizable share of this year’s crop. Final crop statistics are not yet ready.
Experts report a study finding classrooms painted yellow or pale green best encourage study. The note highlights several unrelated curiosities, including polio description in 1784, a pinhead sized motor by Robert Stanley Lewis, a Key West Duval Street lone coastal axis, eye retina thickness, Peter the Great’s literacy delay, a record elephant task age, and Columbus expedition food cost per man.
The London News Chronicle reports that secret printing presses in Germany churn out large numbers of counterfeit travel permits and documents. These are sold to soldiers seeking illegal leave, displaced persons wanting to flee Germany, and German civilians posing as Allied nationals.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police vessel St Roch arrives in Vancouver after 18 months in the Arctic with Con stable A C Levens aboard. Eskimos near Cambridge Bay allegedly grieved with whites as cold spread after contact with Operation Muskox.
In Philadelphia a housewife struck a male shopper over the head with a leg of lamb after a brief scuffle at a crowded butcher counter. The leg of lamb, laid on the counter by a butcher, was the only meat visible to about 100 customers as both fought for the piece. The man left empty handed while bystanders jeered.
A jar of regular damson plum preserves with a White House label fetched $2 at the Woman's City Club annual harvest festival in Kansas City. The jar was donated by Mrs. Harry S. Truman.
If you keep your dustpan well waxed you will find it always looks clean and the dust and dirt slips from the pan more easily.
John L. Ward of Kamloops places a 1615 Breeches Bible copy and a five year earlier King James prayer book with the British Columbia Archives for safekeeping. The Breeches Bible is noted for Genesis 3 7 describing Adam and Eve sewing fig leaves into breeches.
A Dominion Department of Agriculture report by Alan G. Dustan details insect conditions observed during a survey across Fort Smith Fort Resolution Hay River Yellowknife Port Radium Fort Norman Fort Good Hope Aklavik and other sites. Despite a wet season, garden insect presence was rare with grasshoppers and red turnip beetle appearing near Fort Simpson.
Dr Hans Selye at a Montreal dinner urged diet as a counter to stress related ailments. Dr I M Rabinowitch of Montreal General Hospital stressed better nutrition could help people reach ages of 110 or 115, noting no inherent limit to human longevity.
Two hundred children from England's industrial Midlands left London for three months in Switzerland with Swiss families. Some aim to become skiers, while a little girl joked she would eat so much she would be too fat to fit into the train on return.
Tea experts can identify hundreds of tea varieties and determine the region of origin within moments by evaluating aroma and flavor characteristics.
Henry Jackson Moore of Islington Ontario died in Kingston at 67. A developer of the International Peace Garden on the Manitoba North Dakota boundary, he was an associate of honor of the Royal Horticultural Society and a Kew Gardens graduate. Moore helped found the garden with a $5 million fundraising drive. The project created a cross border park on over 3,000 acres between Boissevan Manitoba and Dunseith North Dakota opened in 1932.
Pattern 7116 offers a Bobby Sox doll wardrobe kit with transfer and directions for doll and outfits. To obtain this pattern mail twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue East Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number clearly.
A three nation commission of United States Britain and France will oversee restitution of gold looted by the Nazis and held in allied countries. American delegate Russell H. Dorr said the estimated value exceeds 700 million.
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