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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
4
A satirical piece from The Press La Fleche Sask dated November 6 1957 mocks the flu conversation. It portrays healthy people boasting about not getting ill while others recount fever aches and Canada wide case reports. The text highlights social pressure around illness and communal chatter during a blizzard period.
J E Buchanan of the University of Maryland and president of the Asphalt Institute told Canadian Technical Asphalt Association members in Regina that asphalt paving is the sound economical answer to road surfacing. He urged public relations efforts to show asphalt as a versatile engineering material and urged the oil industry to view asphalt beyond a by product. The Leader-Post reports from the Hotel Saskatchewan banquet during the association's conference.
Roger Ward sought game at Round Lake as ducks and other game talked of, but found success fishing a 24 pound jack after a line break near shore. He chased the bucking fish and tackled it as it neared. The Herald reports this on Mev. 6, 1957.
The text compares a pocket gopher’s backward and head first speed using its tail as a guide. It mentions the left side mounting origin with swords, then lists American Samoa’s location and Tobago’s nickname linked to Defoe. It oddly weaves in Moorish Islam Phoenician notes and Mecca birth years in a late comment about alphabet and gas.
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