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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1951
Page
2
The article notes rising safety concerns as Canada expands industry. It cites 39,094 Workmen's Compensation claims and 1,011 deaths from industrial accidents last year, with about 1,500 workers absent daily. It highlights farm machinery as a growing source of injury alongside factories and construction.
In 1948 Canada recorded 1 350 fatal industrial accidents with 94 on farms, seven percent of the total. Carelessness and rule disregard are blamed. familiarity with machines fosters risk. The National Safety Council of the United States issued farm safety practice recommendations to cut farm accidents.
Farmers were urged to keep machinery in repair and to handle kerosene and gasoline with care. Caution with ladders firearms and driving farm machines was advised. First aid knowledge and kits were stressed to reduce injury and downtime. Safety awareness is vital in farming as in industry, to prevent accidents and equipment damage.
Springfield Colorado reports on Herman James Mason a ten year old boy weighing 267 pounds with a 50 inch waist. He consumes six eggs two quarts of milk and a pound of bacon for breakfast and the other meals are equally large costing about 50 dollars weekly. His father works as a hardware store clerk.
A vintage craft notice promotes Pattern 7140 by Wee Bankes titled Rockabye Sampler of Baby's birth record. It describes a transfer of an 11x14 inch picture, invites mothers to embroider birth statistics, and asks buyers to send twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern.
Household Arts Department of the Winni Newspaper Union at 60 Front Street W Toronto requests readers to send twenty five cents for the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue. It features crochet knitting embroidery patterns and other handwork with a free pattern printed in the book.
An ex serviceman tried to leave all his possessions to a lifelong woman friend but the will failed when he collapsed and died while signing. With no relatives or dependents, he died intestate and his estate will go to general revenue. A Deputy Public Trustee noted a will must be signed by witnesses in the presence of the executor.
The Windsor Star laments graduates struggle with spelling. Employers note failure to form two syllable words and basic word building. It questions why spelling is not taught more diligently in schools and links poor spelling to business needs.
Elton Montgomery, 12, shows a versatile pocketknife from Pontotoc Mississippi that includes a screwdriver, scissors, bottle and can openers, leather punch, file, corkscrew and two cutting blades. One blade measures 31 inches and the knife weighs more than a half pound.
Robert Cardy the superintendent of the Kitchener Municipal Swimming Pool was asked to hold a tooth for a child entering the pool. The tooth had been pulled elsewhere and was intended as a keepsake, marking the first such request received at the pool.
A two part dessert combines vanilla pudding in a baked pie shell with a blueberry topping. Cook blueberries with water until thick, then stir in sugar cinnamon salt and cornstarch, add lemon juice, and spread over cooled pie. Chill and serve with whipped cream and coconut.
A collection of light jokes and quips about teachers, professions, travel, relationships, and daily scenes. The items include a dairy quiz, life insurance humor, telephony contrasts, courtship puns, weather humor, aging wisdom, and seaside boarding house antics, each delivered in playful dialog.
Ottawa reports Agriculture Minister Gardiner announces a government import plan to avert a winter shortage. The Agricultural Products Board will import up to 20 million pounds, ban private butter imports, and may buy small amounts above the government price. Possible sources include New Zealand Australia and the Netherlands. Production and stocks are below recent years.
Mario Astorga research director from Santiago Chile will stay three months at Altoona Manitoba to study a hybrid sunflower seed adaptable to Chile. He will meet with Dr Eric Putt chief agronomist for vegetable oils to discuss improving Chilean sunflower production at Canada’s sole sunflower oil industry site.
A brief tip explains salting peanuts in the shell by boiling in salted water then drying and roasting. No special equipment is needed.
Nearly 100 representatives from major oil companies are invited to a September symposium in Alberta on northern oil sands. Delegates will tour the pilot plant at Bitumont and discuss all phases of development as international interest grows.
The obelisk Cleopatra's Needle was transported from Egypt to the United States arriving in July 1880. The move marked a notable late 19th century cultural exchange between Egypt and America.
Thieves in Tip toe Hampshire tiptoed to raid a house and boiled eggs before leaving. Durban anglers both hooked the same four pound salmon at once. Theunissen farmer Helm Venter survived a lightning strike via his artificial leg, two Africans died. An Hastings Nebraska electric clock exploded mysteriously in a garage. Monroe Metcalf visited his sister after an appendectomy then was admitted for the same operation a day later.
A historical note states that wood kept completely submerged in water and maintained without exposure to air will not decay. The claim implies that lack of oxygen exposure slows or prevents typical timber decomposition.
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