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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1947
Page
3
Marguerite Weston fears second-date repeat failures until Joe Martin arrives. The pair visit Riverview where he impresses with shooting skills and she receives a prize teddy bear, ending with Marguerite keeping a first-prize pin from a season Sharp Shooting Meet.
In Bristol a four-year-old, Eric Stock, was found beside the track after a train halted a short distance away. Driver Fred Western shouted a cry misheard as a threat, then searched the line. The child escaped with only a bump on the head and a miracle noted by onlookers. Porter William Kelly called the incident miraculous as the train was likely traveling about 40 miles per hour.
The page presents a dense crossword with across and down clues spanning topics from geography and history to language, clothing, and tools. Readers confront terms like Great Lake, Turkish hat, and Hawaiian bird while encountering cryptic cues such as border, quiver, and heraldry.
Falls City youth Larry Smith placed a clever note in The Falls City Daily Journal offering a coat return reward of no punishment. The theater coat was found and returned, and no one faced any penalty.
A set of inspirational lines by David Starr Jordan Hamilton Mabie L H Talbot Mary Baker Eddy Bulwer Lytton and Bovee. The messages emphasize direction courage persistence and earnestness as keys to achievement and growth. Each quote offers advice on facing opposition and building strength through effort.
New York reports that flying fire departments may soon deploy water bombs with proximity fuses to combat forest fires. National Bureau of Standards scientists, adapting wartime proximity fuses, plan tests at Great Falls Montana with 4000 pound light case bombs and smaller devices.
A mackerel caught near New Harbor Nova Scotia carried a corked perfume bottle containing a note naming Private A Hutchinson of Headquarters Company Seventh Battalion Parachute Regiment. The message, linked to WWII airborne units, supposedly drifted from Africa to Canada via currents.
In Albany a four year old boy named Marcello Basco was found alive in an old icebox at the rear of his home after hiding from playmates for 18 hours. He was treated for exhaustion and minor injuries from attempts to free himself. He sobbed to his father at the hospital, saying I cried and cried for you daddy. The report notes a separate historical line about Gottlieb Daimler and the first gasoline powered bicycle.
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