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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 21, 1959
Page
7
An article notes rising Canadian immigration from the United States with a growing number of Americans relocating to Canada each year. It discusses living standards and national pride, urging Canadians to welcome and consider the impact on youth training and skills migration.
The Batevan Agricultural Society plans a new advertising approach for the prize list. Advertisers will be rated in the prize list and children's tickets will bear their names. Tickets may be used at the gate grandstand and midway until 6:00 pm on Kiddies Day July 2. The Mercury Estevan Sask.
Mrs Lissa Taylor, DuPont of Canada fashion consultant, reports from Paris on recent fashion week trends. She notes casual beige mink-lined ramcoats, nylon hosiery with many colors, lace patterned stockings, seed pearls on bridal ensembles, nylon net and tulle veiling, and the practical, well-made lingerie available in Canada versus Paris. Canadian women are seen as better dressed and more able to afford chic, mass-produced fashions.
Meat packing remained Alberta s top classified industry with production valued at 169 million dollars in 1958. Foods and beverages overall grossed 331 million, more than twice the petroleum and coal production of the next largest sector.
Inflation reduces purchasing power as today’s two Canadian dollars buy roughly what one dollar did in 1939 for foods and services. The note highlights the broad decline in value and the era’s comparatives.
James A. Michener argues that North American wives and mothers bear heavy workloads, comparing them with Asian peasant women. He praises women's community involvement while urging new support for housewives with children, and criticizes critics of household help. The Bulletin, Brooks, Alta.
Advertisement notes a prize-winning butterfly themed quilt design Pattern 7405 with charts and patch directions. It instructs sending thirty-five cents in coins with name address and pattern number to Household Arts Department PPL Front Street W Toronto.
Manitoba government boosts grants for secondary highways to 75 percent and raises bridge aid on main routes with a sliding scale up to 80 percent. Arterial street, surfacing, and snow plow grants rise. right of way costs become municipal funded. rural snow support doubles to 1000 dollars.
Discussion urges habitual proper signalling as essential to safer streets and highways. Emphasizes signaling as a top safety practice to reduce accidents and enhance road user awareness.
Mrs. W. C. Diment, longtime Sintaluta postmaster’s wife, has pursued a unique hobby for nine years accumulating about 245 pairs of salt and pepper shakers from England Denmark Australia the United States Canada and several Canadian provinces. Her collection fills three goal sized cupboards with no duplicates and she plans no fixed goal, enjoying dusting them as a pleasant pastime.
During Easter holidays the Assiniboia branch of the Saskatchewan Fish and Game League began its Juning Rifle Club and Hunters Safety Course. Open to boys and girls 11 and older, the program promotes safe hunting practices and field safety, with plans for equal or more student turnout this year. Parents and friends are encouraged to attend along with the youths.
Dr. Ernie Small observed a coyote standing rigidly along No. 9 highway near Good Hope School. Investigation revealed the animal was dead and mounted for a joke, a prairie wolf kept in sentry pose by unknown handlers.
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