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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1959
Page
4
Advertisement for Anne Adams Printed Pattern 4713 showing two main pattern parts a low neck elegant crepe evening version and a high neck cotton day version. Size 16 requires 41 percent of 39 inch fabric. Instructions printed on each pattern part. Send 40 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept. Toronto.
Parkland barley proved its yield superiority over other varieties in 1957 58 Manitoba comparisons at Experimental Farm Brandon. W H Johnston notes Parkland's resistance to root rot and leaf spotting helped maintain gains in a disease free 1958 season with high test weights. Husky showed greater disease impact, limiting acceptance by growers.
The larger kangaroo species give birth to joeys about an inch long, a fact noted in small type.
Olive Diefenbaker, wife of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, describes her role as being on hand when needed. She has born much of the public weight of two elections and a world tour, while hosting guests at 24 Sussex Street and supporting her husband amid nonstop travel, social duties, and public scrutiny.
Pattern notices describe printed Simplicity 4844 junior miss dress with slim front and gathered back, including yardage for 54 inch fabric and directions. The text also mentions Mrs Diefenbaker teaching in Ontario after her husband’s death, and her marriage to John Diefenbaker in 1954.
The News of Indian Head Sask reports that severe grasshopper infestations have been mapped for parts of southern Saskatchewan for the first time since 1950. Dry fall 1958 and potential dry spring conditions may worsen crop growth, with $925 of hopper poison purchased by the RM council in 1958 and supplies kept for 1959 outbreaks. The clear winged grasshopper is common across the outbreak area and eggs have been found widely, with entomologists predicting up to a 70 percent area increase.
In 1908 Canadians were asked to buy Christmas stamps to fund the tuberculosis campaign. The death rate then stood at 20 times the current figure, about 7.1 per 100000, highlighting a much higher toll from the disease at that time.
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