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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1951
Page
2
The article stresses soil fertility must be maintained by returning crop elements through methods including commercial fertilizers. It notes fertilizer production has become a major global industry and is widely used where crops are grown to preserve soil productivity.
UN FAO official Mr. G. J. Gallister warns that despite high world fertilizer output a sulphur shortage threatens production increases. Demand rises in Asia and the Far East while Canada holds supplies for now. refineries and Athabasca tar sands are being tapped to bolster the world supply.
Michael Verigin, 68, a longtime Doukhobor figure and founder of Hillier settlement on Vancouver Island, died in Vancouver hospital after post operative pneumonia. He had earlier worked a grain elevator near Winnipeg and a Vancouver boarding house before returning to the Doukhobors. He was not related to Peter Verigin, killed in a 1924 bombing at Farlow, B.C.
The Niagara Falls Review notes a suggested universal remedy for illness by combining three parts kindness personal interest and knowledge of human nature with one part spirit of service and self sacrifice and applying it to the human factor in every disease.
The notice promotes a crochet Jifficoat pattern 7143 for sizes 32-34 and 36-38 using cotton or wool. Send 25 cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Toronto with name address and pattern number. Also advertises 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework catalogue offered for 25 cents plus mentions a free pattern.
A collection of short humorous exchanges and lines across trains, church talk, rescues, borrowing, alums, dating, and parish life. Jokes feature a minister, a porter, a deacon, family ties, and light domestic quirks with punchlines about calls raises umbrellas and hats.
An authoritative survey shows 170 drilling rigs actively prospecting for oil across western Canada, highlighting intensified exploration activity and potential growth in the region's energy sector.
Ottawa reports an unprecedented egg shortage forcing Canada to import thousands of cases from the United States and Holland. Officials say production will lag until autumn, with Britain having reduced purchases since 1949 and domestic flocks recovering to near prewar levels by next fall.
Summer salad idea uses fruit and cottage cheese with a gelatin mold. Mix lemon juice with plain gelatin, heat apricot nectar to dissolve gelatin, then cool. Layer and chill to form a clear gelatin base with a cheese topping, unmold onto greens. Serves six.
The first airborne clinic of the Red Cross blood transfusion service in Manitoba departs Winnipeg for Fort Churchill on August 13. Two RCAF Dakotas will transport personnel and equipment to the northern army base to set up a station hospital clinic with another clinic planned at The Pas.
The Pas Manitoba story notes a leather satchel with about $2,875 left on a sidewalk outside a hotel beer parlor for three hours. Passers-by ignored it until a man alerted police constable Pat Shaw, who recovered the money and arranged express shipment to the owner after tracing him.
In Pittsburgh Massachusetts or nearby, Julius Hagenguth warns there is no safe spot during a storm, advising avoid open fields and stay in a building. if in a car stay inside, avoid standing with one foot on ground and the other on the car, keep away from electrical fixtures and water, and note lightning rods remain best protection though fatalities total around 2,000 annually.
Ottawa reports the Post Office Department considers a commemorative stamp for the October royal tour of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. A spokesman says a postal tribute is planned but design time is tight, possibly delaying issue until the tour is underway.
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