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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 21, 1951
Page
3
A column from Sports College by Lloyd Percival outlines practical hockey passing and receiving skills. It emphasizes fast, accurate passes, body and arm relaxation, faking, two way passes, nurse handling of the puck, and maintaining calm under pressure. It promotes joining Sports College via Box 99 Toronto and notes a weekly broadcast.
The text presents archaic imagery of speech and birds returning to fill the soul with summer. It references Archibald Poman and a Lyciest Earth concept, with lines invoking a bell calling the weary and sick to prayer and a plea for inward peace.
Regina reports new air ambulance planes colored white with a green trim and a large red cross on both sides of each wing and the fuselage, per a bureau of publications release.
Saskatchewan Welfare Minister J H Sturdy reports that screening films in government jails boosts morale and discipline among inmates and staff. He notes films as a constructive pastime aiding rehabilitation efforts.
A tip suggests adding a few drops of toilet water or cologne to lingerie rinse water. The scented rinse enhances ironing experience and increases the wearer’s sense of being well dressed.
The column muses on elder physicians offering careful diagnosis versus new miracle drugs. It discusses men’s first glance at women, work ethic affecting longevity, and suggests investing in collectibles like stamps and autographs for future value, notingExpert handling matters.
Rev W A Yonge of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph argues the pig is sadly misunderstood. He says the pig contributes much yet is little appreciated, is housebroken as easily as a dog, and is fastidiously clean with proper care. The animal can be taught simple games and responds quickly to training.
Winnie Roach Leuszler, 25, mother of three, has mailed her entry for the London Daily Mail international English Channel swim set for August.
Charles Weir tracked thieves who stole 168 large chrysanthemums from his flower shop. Pack rats beneath a storage area lined their beds with the petals, prompting Weir to call an exterminator.
Rev. J. M. Watts of the Pentecostal Tabernacle leads a community handwritten Bible project in Calgary. Parishioners contribute chapters and notable residents supply verses, with completion expected in about three months. The item notes a North American potato discovery dating to the sixteenth century, and identifies the tuber as native to South America.
A collage of horizontal and vertical crossword entries listing clues for various across and down words including modern professions, mythic figures, and common words. The page also shows grid positions and enumerations, with some theme entries and numbers interspersed.
Liovds of London paid off a 400 indemnity claim to a Kansas City doctor who accidentally shot his right foot last October. E. T F. Kenney forecast that total timber cut in B C in 1850 will be an all time high. Papers filed in court at Omaha showed a soda jerk who played the stock market left an estate of 160000 in stocks. A blacksmith in Guil ie, France. Was asia on a charge of threatening murder after he sent a miniature to the tax collector. Two soldiers who made about 218 in telephone calls mostly to girls at the British army expense were each sentenced to 112 days detention. Belgiums minister of labor ruled poaching must be regarded as a profession. Envoys of 16 countries met in Genoa Italy for the 500th anniversary of Columbus birth. At Ambassadors Day ceremonies was Jean Desy Canadian ambassador. Flowers will bloom in 53 of Britains prisons and reformatories this spring tended by prisoners to lift mood.
Two cougars were shot within Nanaimo British Columbia after two were killed nearby and a third was disturbed while devouring a dog. James Godfrey bagged the other two, while James Dewar trailed one for two miles before his dog lost the scent in fresh snow.
Winnipeg reports a serious shortage of qualified teachers outside the city due to low pay. Thomas A. McMaster, general secretary of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, says Manitoba earned more from liquor sales in 1950 than it spent on education and vows to push for salary schedules and general wage improvements.
Regina reports about one third of Western Canada's 5 000 grain elevators are plugged. Snow blocks rural roads hindering grain movement to elevators. Daily eastward shipments total roughly 200 boxcars of damp grain, or 300 000 to 400 000 bushels. Officials cannot forecast if the situation will worsen before the lake shipping season opens.
STOCKHOLM Sweden The Swedish State Research Board decided to import Canadian radioactive isotopes in the future instead of American ones as hitherto. The quality of the Canadian product is better, the Board reported.
City engineers in Saskatoon warn that many shacks and homes moved from country points are poorly built. They are willing to relocate sound structures but call for improvements on owners' properties before moving.
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