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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 09, 1955
Page
7
Mary obsesses over a portrait of a handsome mystery man at Derringer's window while coworkers tease. She imagines fame and romance from a photo and plans a storefront meeting with Edith Lloyd, hoping fortune favors her cardboard lover. The scene traces her longing, fantasies, and social pressures.
Mary, nineteen, contends with a tense morning as her mother scolds her for patience and civility. Mrs. Ewrcond frets over Mary leaving before eight, while Mary notes past times of gentler treatment and prepares to start her day at the office.
In a tense scene Mary Plunkett visits Derringer shop to meet a man from her past. A faded young woman with a baby enters, and Mary flees, realizing the man she admired avoids her. Edith calls out as Mary rushes home to bake chocolate cake for Johnnie’s favorite dinner.
Jim Aberdeen and Ross Bearman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce plan to fly to Honolulu in February as Saskatchewan goodwill ambassadors. They will take a pair of silver spoons gifted by the Swift Current club to the Honolulu chamber as souvenirs. Influenza has been known since about 400 B.C.
Sewing pattern 4691 by Shane Acton offers unisex outfits for children sizes 2 4 6 8 10 including overalls blouse blazer playsuit jumper and Mister Elephant pocket. Simple illustrated instructions require 35 cents, include size name address and style number for ordering.
Saskatchewan announces a special farm licence plate for farmers with at least one regular plate. Effective August 1 1955 to November 30 this season, the plate serves harvest use and will cost about one third the normal rate. The measure, stated by Hon. C. M. Fines, aims to ease licensing for extra harvest trucks.
A nostalgic tribute to the local newspaper as a community friend. The piece recalls how families read every line from personals to editorials, noting church notices and local stories, and praising the editor for kindness and heartful reporting.
Dry holes in Saskatchewan have yielded rich mineral finds. Near Unity a 400 foot salt zone and 11 foot potash layer emerged, spurring plans for large potash operations and potential salt production expansion. A 1951 carbon dioxide gas find at Consul spurred Dry Ice plant plans costing up to 400000 dollars. Potash reserves under southern Saskatchewan are now viewed as North America’s largest.
Thrifty embroidery pattern 7209 offers a telegraphic quilt idea featuring a circus and farm theme with animal motifs. Readers are invited to mail 25 cents to Brimful of thrifty gift ideas for the Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog, which includes 82 patterns and four book patterns.
Bruce Ingram, inventor of a device to curb gas-stove deaths, is developing a remotely controlled bank door operable from any interior point to prevent robberies.
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