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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1958
Page
2
Classified fragment lists used oil furnaces and storage items for sale. Includes rough notes on locations, prices, and manufacturers with scattered text about plants, worms, and various filters. Readable details are limited and many terms are garbled.
Large variety of conversion oil burners with controls from Aero Convoy General and Heat Winkler As Simce Heaters. Includes tanker electric heaters and various water heating units. Listings reference used bytes and field equipment, with coverage noted for sale.
Acme Sewage Services offers reasonable septic tank cleaning in Saskatchewan. Contact 2514 Edgar Street Regina at L.A 3-8851 for details.
The Provincial Highway Traffic Board reports July 1958 saw more convictions than July 1957 with 207 total in July 1955 and 200 in July 1957. Walked breakdown shows 134 drinking cases, 10 reckless, 11 careless, 23 judgments, 5 fail to report, 0 driving under suspension, and 24 others. Licences issued totaled 213 blue and 251 red last month, versus 133 blue and 186 red in July 1957.
Frederickson, a Glenboro old-timer and immigrant born in 1859 in Northern Iceland, died recently at age 99. He arrived in Canada in 1879 and worked in Riverton district then known as New Iceland where many Icelandic settlers lived by Lake Winnipeg.
Dr Gordon Godkin and partner bring Canada’s first large animal mobile operating table to Innisfail for treating sick or injured livestock. The device supports elephants and horned animals with electric belt tightening, side doors, three hoists, wheels, and towability to farms, enabling on site surgeries.
An eighteen year old farm boy Terrence Veeman from the Macrorie district Saskatchewan won a 750 dollar 4 H scholarship for agriculture studies. Hon I C Nollet announced the award provided by the Canadian National Exhibition Association. The scholarship aids college or veterinary study and may cover transportation to Toronto.
A compact guide to Fall 1958 styles for home sewists. Hems shorten, skirts loosened, lines fluid and belted often at bust and waist. Jumpers rise in popularity with patch or slit pockets. coordinate jumper with blouse color. Fabrics feature mohair alpaca wools knits prints and colorful cottons. consider washability and easy care for cost efficiency.
In June 1727 the final Scottish witchcraft trial ended with an elderly Norwach woman convicted and sealed in a pitch barrel which was set on fire.
The oldest contemporary portrait of an English sovereign survives as the Richard II depiction in Westminster Abbey. It is cited as the earliest known likeness of a reigning king in English royal iconography.
An advertisement for actual size windmill patterns and weatherc ranes from Home Workshop Patterns urges readers to send $1.75 for Packet No. 11. The offer lists this windmill design and four other large sheets, inviting crafters to request via Department P.P.L., 4432 West Luh Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
An electronics firm with a Manitubs government contract seeks a TV test between Dauphin and Brannon via relay. The firm previously offered to sell its operation to Fir Flon for 100000 dollars. Other firms show interest in taking television north to Dauphin using microwave.
In Rome the present St Peter's Church sits on the site of a prior church erected by Constantine in 324 A.D. Separately an average Hawaiian woman is noted to need about three hours to weave a grass skirt.
Experts note Canada’s sheep population fell from 3.7 million in 1944 to 1.6 million in 1956, with imports covering 80 percent of wool and 30 percent of lamb and mutton. Advocates cite high returns per dollar and idle land suited for sheep, plus guaranteed prices through deficiency payments, as reasons to expand sheep farming. W. H. J. Tisdale promotes sheep-raising to Canadian farmers, aided by agricultural leaders and breeders.
Albert Gerlinsky of a Cavel area farm reports a remarkable crop where onions grow on branches above ground. The perennial plants reach several feet with 41 knotted branches and clusters of onions at their tips. He notes hail damaged this year and mentions the crop keeps producing annually. Modern Grandma from Wilkie, Sask.
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