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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 06, 1946
Page
7
Luella assists a customer buying a hat as tension rises over money and status. A phone interruption brings on a sudden weakness, and Luella recalls a past romance with Daniel O’Hara as Mrs. Daniel O’Hara watches with wary eyes.
Luella, a Caplan's Hat Shop clerk, persuades a customer toward a blue hat by tailoring a sale to boost her own status. The scene traces Luella’s manipulation of price and the woman’s aspiration to charm her husband, with tension over eyes turned toward blue as a symbol of youth and appeal.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials say a flood of returning servicemen and shortages of shirtings from the United States and Britain, plus a lack of skilled labor, prolong Canada’s shirt shortage into March. Thousands of servicemen require three to four shirts each, sustaining demand even as production climbs above peacetime levels.
Italian authorities grant Donna Rachele Mussolini a monthly pension of 15000 lire after the seizure of over 2000000 lire deposited in her name at the Naples Bank of Italy. She and her two youngest children Romano and Anna-Maria are interned on Ischia near Naples.
E B McCutchan of Portland Oregon handed a tenant a 490 dollar cheque to cover an overcharge. The tenant asked if the payment included a one dollar key deposit. McCutchan promised to address the deposit also.
The word Chicago derives from an Algonquian language term meaning wild onion, reflecting the region’s Native American linguistic roots and the local flora once abundant around the area.
Report notes the original British North America Act of 1867 in the Victoria Tower strong room. The vellum copy bears a March 29 1867 date, bound with red ribbon, and marked la Reyne le veult. The document remains in custody of the clerk of the parliaments with strict access and sworn copies only for court use.
Jo, daughter of immigrants born in Brooklyn, rose from an attic writer to win a $10,000 Harper and Brothers prize among 700 entrants. An anonymous benefactor supported unknown artists with $10 a week, aiding her rise as America pondered its fading frontier era. The Winnipeg Free Press notes her overnight success.
Wartime parachute pioneers are honored for saving tens of thousands of lives with early jumps that set a precedent in aerial rescue. The record highlights the risks and the lasting impact of these first airborne efforts.
A collection of light jokes and quips including an Irish maid and officer joke, a doctor on weight loss by thought, a bowing gag, a London trip hint, a nudist colony remark, an elevator clock gag, a Tennessee woman and a automotive joke, and a satire on civilization funding missionaries.
A recipe for sausage meat loaf combines ground beef and pork sausage with salt pepper and milk. Crushed whole wheat flakes bind the mixture then pressed into a pan and baked about one hour at 400 degrees Yield eight servings.
Pare potatoes and boil until almost tender then drain. Brush with melted fat and roll in corn flakes mixed with paprika and salt. Coat fully and bake in a greased pan at 425 F for about 35 minutes yields 6 servings.
Pattern 4603 features an empire waist with tie back belt and optional lace or bias bound scallops. Available sizes include 12 through 40. size 16 requires 3 yards of fabric at 39 inches. Send 20 cents and writer’s name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union Winnipeg Manitoba.
In Ford Green England residents cope with repeated winter floods that fill homes up to the upper floors. The text also notes that the Chinese celebrate Cheng Dan Jieh the Holy Birth Festival and call their Christmas tree the Tree of Light.
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