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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1956
Page
2
In Bonnie Plaine, a hen embraced three orphaned kittens as her brood during May. The cluck protected the litter with fierce maternal instinct, warding off anyone who approached. Local resident Art Schmidt witnessed the unlikely association between barnyard birds and felines.
A Metropolitan Life Insurance Co report to Health League of Canada finds 1,200 annual drownings by small boats, with most victims aged 20 to 24. Findings cite unsafe acts like overloading, standing, speeding, and lack of swimming ability, plus squalls and currents. The piece also oddly digresses with two animal anecdotes about a cat and a series of skunk incidents at a grain elevator.
Canadian factories shipped nearly twice as many furnace blowers in 1954 than 1953, totaling 60 127 units up from 32 878. The selling value also increased from 814 000 to 1 192 187 dollars.
Provincial fire commissioner R A W Switzer warns fires from chimneys flues stoves and furnaces cost Saskatchewan about 200000 yearly plus 250000 from other causes. He urges annual or semi annual chimney cleaning depending on fuel and space heaters and seasonal cleaning of heat radiators. Regular maintenance can prevent fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Book of Revelation is an apocalypse like Daniel written between the millennia and early Christ era. It uses imagery vision and symbols born from persecutions and danger. Its interpretation suffers from lost historical context yet it remains a remarkable work of language and emotion.
Pattern 4886 offers a molded bodice flare skirt princess dress in Misses' sizes 12 through 20. Size 16 uses 4 1⁄2 yards of 35 inch fabric and includes illustrated instructions. Send 35 cents and provide size name address and style number to order.
Pattern 7057 Jiffy wrap halter available from Anne Adams Pattern Dept at 60 Front Street West Toronto. Sizes Small medium and large with tissue pattern transfer. Send twenty five cents in coins to request this pattern. stamps not accepted.
Household Arts Department offers patterns from the new Alice Brooks Needlecraft book for 1956. Readers can obtain two free patterns and many other designs by mailing 25 cents, with patterns including handy guides and kid friendly projects.
Show off your plants with a tiered stand for African violets. The shadow box hides a pot and frames greenery dramatically. Pattern 366 offers actual size cutting guides and directions, mailed for 35 cents. order from Home Workshop Patterns, 4433 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver, B C.
In the foot hills a colony of beavers rebuilt a dam after deliberately breaching its lower section. Despite drought predictions, heavy rains later restored water levels, validating the beavers’ routine. Forecasters might learn from wildlife when predicting long term weather.
Cities push mandatory installation of kitchen waste disposers in new and existing homes. Several municipalities require disposers, while others ban them in certain districts to protect sewer systems. The trend moves from opposition to permission to compulsion, boosting nationwide sales.
A collection of moral maxims on duty from Kingsley Ruskin Eddy Chapin and Robert E. Lee. The quotes urge constant readiness obedience and moral steadfastness in all tasks and duties.
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