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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1946
Page
7
A woman tells of leaving her possessive husband to solo fly across the Pacific. After a wreck she ends up on an uncharted island, living among natives for seven hundred days. She reads an old newspaper found in the wreckage and contemplates rescue or eternal isolation.
The text laments a lost identity and a marriage prospect tied to Henry Blaine. It contrasts a woman’s loneliness with King Tut nicknamed figure, and notes a suitor presenting marriage, while mentioning a man with four wives and thirteen children. It also references Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. following his father’s path after navy service.
A collection of light jokes and wry one liners from a late 19th or early 20th century humor page. The banter covers domestic misadventures and family quips about memory, cars, tonic medicines, and gallery remarks. The tone is playful and mildly pointed.
Under medieval French law, butchers were restricted to a single meat type and could only sell it in natural daylight. Markets were forbidden to use candle or lamp light for sales, reflecting strict daylight-only practices.
The Royal Bank of Canada reports total assets rising to 2 007 546 978 for the year ended November 30 1945 a new Canadian banking peak and the first to surpass two billion dollars. Deposits reach 1 888 757 074 with public deposits at 1 595 389 294 while liquid assets total 1 558 477 086 equal to 82.14 percent of liabilities to the public. Net profit after adjustments stands at 3 828 142 with 998 847 carried to surplus to 5 246 518.
An ad in New York offered a $2,000 travel case for the luckiest man, claiming only one was made. Demand rose as orders for five more were taken swiftly. the handmade case used domestic alligator leather, Scotch pigskin lining, gold hardware, and included brushes, a manicure set, an eight day clock, and lotion bottles with gold tops.
Major J Willox Duncan, army padre, spoke on England gardens and churches with color views. Highlights included Florence Nightingale and Jane Austen sites, wartime estates, Scottish landscapes, and Canadian dead graves. Duncan traveled 10000 miles by motorcycle. Miss Finch, longtime barber in CWAC, led early beauty parlors at Dundurn camp and elsewhere.
Lt Col Joan B Kennedy of Victoria B C retires from the Canadian Women's Army Corps after more than four years service She helped organize CWAC and served as its administering officer before moving to Master General of the Ordnance branch at NDHQ Kennedy also aided formation of British Columbia's Women's Service Corps in 1939 The CWAC grew to over 16000 personnel and served in Canada and overseas Born in England she returned home during 1942 43 after CWAC personnel overseas were stationed there
A fragment reports a penny placed in 1591 atop St. Patrick’s Cathedral spire in New York failing to yield any return. The note riffs on biblical sayings about breadcast upon waters and money in church steeples, presenting a curious historical oddity.
Robert J. Moyse of Winnipeg has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for Manitoba. Born in 1920 he attended United College and the University of Manitoba and served in the Royal Navy before earning a master’s degree in political science at the University of Toronto.
Anne Adams promotes pattern 4508 a versatile shirtwaist frock with front buttoning and a wide size range from 12 to 48. It costs 20 cents and requires 3 1 2 yards of 35 inch fabric for size 36. Orders go to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Manitoba. Ultra violet lamps may purify air for future railway passengers.
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