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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1943
Page
4
Advertisers urge customers to request and purchase brooms crafted by visually impaired makers. The label on the brooms highlights the craft and suggests selecting the blind producers for quality goods and social support.
Mr and Mrs Jno Adams move to Penny farm Hamiota and new residents Bruce Knight arrive at Adams farm. Red Cross shipments include five quilts and 165 knitted articles with 99 sewn items. Annual meet elects Sunley Cumberland Quinton Decker and others. Decker Poultry Pool to ship December 15.
The Searle ttrain Company sponsored weaving classes across the Prairies, completing 46 sessions with about 600 rural women and girls learning to weave. 150 looms have been purchased, producing 5,000 yards of 45 inch fabric for bedcovers, curtains and garments.
Canadian Pacific Railway at Angus Shops Montreal revived scrap metal to assemble an improved grinder for shaping motion links of main marine engines. Under H R Bowen and works manager H R Naylor, John A Hope led the idea turning discarded bases, locomotive rods, furnace weights, and other salvaged parts into a tool aiding Royal Canadian Navy escort engine production. The project illustrates wartime reuse of materials to accelerate shipyard work.
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