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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1956
Page
2
The Canadian Red Cross promotes home nursing training taught by volunteer nurses to laypeople. Courses include 12 two hour sessions teaching illness recognition, patient care, basic treatments, disease control, and improvised home equipment. Local branches organize classes in suitable spaces with practicing graduates as instructors.
Department store sales rose in most provinces the week ending July 14. Ontario and Alberta led gains at 132 percent and 156 percent respectively, while Manitoba fell 45.5 percent. Atlantic provinces up 103 percent, Quebec 18.1 percent, Saskatchewan 7.9 percent, British Columbia 9.9 percent.
A man named B S Pulley dreamed about the number five then bet $500 on entry number five in the fifth race at Santa Anita. The horse finished fifth, matching the omen. The incident highlights luck and chance in horse racing.
A five inch brown or black bullhead catfish from the Sourus river near the Middle Daca is in the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History collection. Collected by J K Frederickson of Weyburn, experts compare it to Amelius Nebulosus with features like a heavy head, whiskers, sharp teeth and spines. Positive ID to be confirmed by Dr. D S Rawson at the University of Saskatchewan.
Winnipeg drivers show fewer deaths in the first half of 1956 while rural Manitoba records climb. R. B. Baillie reports 21 fatal country-area crashes and 537 injury crashes by June, versus only 3 fatals in Winnipeg. He credits the Winnipeg driver improvement program and notes plans to expand to Brandon once space is found.
Creamery butter in nine Canadian cities declined to 66,101,000 pounds as of July 19 from 67,322,000 a year earlier. City figures show Quebec 5,086 thousand, Montreal 35,296, Toronto 6,449, Winnipeg 15,148, Regina 803, Saskatoon 790, Edmonton 992, Calgary 530, Vancouver 1,007 thousand pounds.
Pattern descriptions advertise Girls' dress and bolero sets in Empire styling with options in plaid cotton pique and linen. Patterns 4649 7921 offer dress and embroidery transfers with complete illustrated instructions and mail orders from Toronto. prices range 25 35 cents and up for packets and a figure packet bundle.
The article promotes a bird feed station that helps non wintering birds. It describes easy construction by tracing irregular parts onto wood and cutting with a coping saw. Pattern 208 provides decor instructions. Price 35 cents and a free catalogue available from Home Workshop Patterns, Department P.P.L., 4433 West Sth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
A lighthearted local column mocks a two week vacation boast and a beauty pageant title. meanwhile Mrs Bright scolds her husband for a forgotten mail letter found in his coat pocket. He admits retrieving the coat to sew a button but still waits to mail the note.
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto offers Two FREE patterns printed in the 1956 Alice Brooks Needlecraft book. Stunning designs for home and self with dozens more designs to order. Send 25 cents for the book copy.
Cunard Line announces four Sunshine Cruises for the Mauretania during 1956-57 winter, ranging 14 to 18 days from New York with visits to Nassau St Thomas Martinique Barbados Trinidad La Guaira Curacao Cristobal Kingston Havana Port au Prince Nevis Grenada and St Lucia. Prices begin at 390 to 515 dollars with features including Broadway entertainment and shipboard activities. The season includes a 29-day Rio de Janeiro West Indies voyage beginning December 22 and a Christmas New Year 14-day cruise aboard Corinthia starting December 22.
Canadian hard board production climbed 22 percent in June to 21 523 009 square feet from 17 614 514 a year earlier. Domestic shipments grew 17 percent to 12 844 630 square feet, while six month production jumped 33 percent to 124 333 814 square feet and export shipments stayed nearly flat at 6 894 152 square feet.
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