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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1947
Page
7
Douglas Marlowe recalls a blissful marriage with Laura three years after their three week honeymoon. He describes her charm and shared joys from gardening to pets, a tense quarrel over a breakdown, and Laura’s love of sun rituals and Christmas traditions as their days unfold in quiet happiness.
In a fond reminiscence a man recalls last minute shopping and festive preparations for Christmas with Laura and others. The scene shifts to a present filled morning, family visits, and a warm celebration interwoven with memory and longing as a newborn’s cry interrupts daydreams.
The King will loan a portion of the priceless Royal stamp collection for the centenary international philatelic exhibition in New York next May. Two stamps stand out as the collection's most valuable: the Mauritius penny orange red and the two penny blue. The latter is the only perfect specimen in the world and is valued at £10,000 ($40,000).
Sewing pattern notice offers Pattern 4567 Jr Miss sizes 11 13 15 17 with full illustrated instructions. Size 13 requires 3 yards of 39 inch fabric and 20 cents in coins for postage to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man. Oil dug from the earth is one of the oldest materials known.
Canada’s unemployment insurance fund surpassed 50 million dollars in 1946, ending the year with a balance of 357,222,000. Disbursements totaled 51 million, while employer employee contributions reached 64.995 million and regular government inputs rose to 14.187 million. Two wartime subsidies added 5.49 million, and investment earnings stood at 7.207 million.
Austin Craft of Brantford Ontario a sanatorium employee appeared in Hamilton police court facing a Bank of Toronto branch robbery charge. Police say he coerced staff and two customers with a bed crank wrapped in paper as a weapon. Two girl clerks and a third girl alerted police by coughing. the suspect was arrested within a minute after the alarm.
A rink recounts a dramatic 1946 Brier moment in Saskatoon and Edmonton with Howard Palmer of Calgary. A tied end shot to three and an extra end sparked confidence for the team, underscoring curling as a four-man effort and praising Palmer and teammates.
A terse note observes Vladivostok in Siberia lies farther south than Venice, Italy, highlighting surprising latitude comparisons and geographic quirks.
The Pas Manitoba reports Alex Jones a Falls Island district trapper complains of winter mosquitoes despite cold. He shows mosquito bites and says they breed under the cabin muskeg and emerge from the floor near the stove. He notes daily bites and that itching leads to scratching while others doubt winter mosquitoes.
A vintage style recipe for a soft crumb coffee cake. It details ingredients and methods for a crumb topping with cinnamon and bread crumbs or a honey nut topping with butter brown sugar and chopped nuts. Baking at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes.
Frank P. Grant of Wichita Kansas died aged 106 after a long career as a scissors grinder. He did not retire until 1936 when he was seriously injured after being struck by a train and finally quit work at 95.
A reader describes waking with dull headaches until Kruschen Salts changed his mornings. He credits regular daily use with renewed energy and ability to work, linking headaches to constipation. The ad claims a small morning dose relieves headaches, selling 25 cents and 75 cents.
In Cleveland the Magazine Steel reports U S steel output has risen to its highest level since the war and aims at new postwar peaks. A supply demand balance remains months away with excess demand for flat rolled products beyond Q2 1947. Alloy supply is adequate.
George Headley of Toronto, president and general manager of the Health Study Bureau, cites a shortage of 4,000 doctors and 6,000 dentists in Canada, along with innumerable nurses and $176,000,000 in hospital and equipment needs in Canada’s Weekly.
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