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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1958
Page
2
If you suspect a gas leak place the liquid in a container and mix with soap. Use a small paint brush to apply the soap solution to fittings and connections. Bubbles reveal seepage and their size indicates leak seriousness.
The piece notes cherry and plum blossoms in Japan during early April around Tokyo and Kyoto, with Mount Fuji described as a non active cone capped by snow. It mentions the Cunard Caronia voyage departing April 12 and a Grand Oriental Ball aboard ship between Yokohama and Honolulu reflecting Oriental pageantry.
A pig named mother pig north of town produced twenty piglets on September 2, a record for owner Shel don Amy. Three died at birth, leaving 17. five were cared for indoors by Mrs Amy with spoon feeding, and only two survived on special powder milk. The two healthy piglets sunbathe on the farm steps as they take in vitamin D.
Joe Morrisroe of Bentley told a Globe reporter that one field yielded 105 bushels of barley per acre this year. He said an earlier 65 bushel crop from spring carried over, then a later 40 bushel crop was grown this fall on the same land, totaling 105 bushels per acre.
Maj. Gen. H A Young Deputy Minister of Public Works in Ottawa calls the fire waste crisis a national illness. Montreal industrialist Edward C Wood adds that people can teach themselves to be careful.
A gold key opened Saskatoon's new million dollar court house on October 8 before thousands. Attorney General R A Walker cut the ribbon, with May or S L Buckwold and J B Wedge attending. The building on Spadina Crescent features an automatic data centre control panel, new dress room and prison cells, two upper floors housing Queen's Bench and district courts, a large law library, and substantial private stairways.
When a crime is committed aboard a vessel at sea the trial falls under the nation whose flag the ship flies. This principle assigns legal authority based on flag state rather than crew nationality or location on the water.
A humorous list presents a self centered guide titled How to be perfectly miserable. It enumerates twenty two self serving tips such as thinking about yourself, talking about yourself, envying others, distrust, refusing duties, and loving yourself supremely with a final note claiming the recipe is infallible from The Echo in Star City Sask.
The largest used clothing drive yet for Canadian Lutheran World Relief launched on Thanksgiving Sunday. Rev. C. L. Monk will lead the opening sermon at St. Peter's and St. Matthew's Lutheran Churches with a broadcast from the latter. The drive involves 175 Western Ontario Lutheran churches and urges all community members to contribute regardless of religion.
The Glenlawn School Board will exclude all non-resident pupils and repeaters from Grade XII courses this term due to overcrowding. About 15 pupils are affected, per the St. Vital Lance.
The text notes coffee as the most widely cultivated beverage plant. It asserts Africa as a lightly populated and fertile continent with greater undeveloped potentialities than any other region.
Four more booklets have been added to a list of nearly a dozen centres surveyed and recorded in book form by Manitoba’s department of industry and commerce. The surveys cover history population economy and development prospects, with 500 copies of two towns distributed by Hon. Gurney Evans. Additional towns in the program include Altona Steinbach Portage la Prairie Beausejour Morris Dauphin The Pas Rivers Roblin Gimli and others. Copies go to investors banks trades groups and business leaders for location considerations.
The primrose is not a true rose but belongs to the herb family. It is often grouped with garden perennials and blooms early in spring with pale flowers.
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