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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 12, 1949
Page
2
The article notes Canadian readers following Britain's postwar economic recovery with keen interest. It contrasts dire American and British pessimism about bankruptcy with more hopeful views rooted in the wartime spirit and resilience as Britain works to overcome harsh postwar conditions.
The text reports steady production gains in 1948 with output at 150 percent of 1938 and the year’s target met in eleven months. It notes a improved trade balance, steel output at 300000 tons weekly, and shipbuilding progress toward restoring Britain’s prewar merchant fleet by 1950. It highlights government investment in agriculture and colonial resources, empire-era self governance gains, Western Europe financial aid, and forecasts full recovery by 1952 without outside aid.
A Christmas card from the Toronto Convention and Tourist Association proclaims Tor onto the birthplace of standard time. It recalls Sir Sanford Fleming's 1879 Time Reckoning address, whose ideas shaped an international standard time conference. A seven-year-old boy complains on being dried after a bath, asking to be blotted instead.
Manitoba officials report 50 municipalities approve the anti grasshopper campaign and tenders will be invited for the new chemical. Agriculture official H E Wood says American firms are ready to supply and discuss prices guided use. Manitoba faces its worst infestation since 1935 with about 10800 farms in hot spots needing control measures.
A 25 year old railway worker Leslie Willis was admitted to Wolverhampton hospital after being struck in the stomach by a light locomotive. He spent 90 minutes in hospital and returned to work the next day, noting the locomotive was only a small 40 ton engine.
A sales pitch for Hem-Roid internal tablets claiming to treat internal causes of pile pain. The offer guarantees a money back refund if not satisfied after 10 days, noting a long refund history and drugstore availability.
Ottawa report says Canada may see lower food prices in late 1949 due to good harvests and improved world food position. Adult foods rose through 1948 with November showing easing, while baby foods stayed steady. Officials forecast a generally stable or falling price level for vegetables and potatoes, with fruit prices also likely to decline.
A funny collection of brief vignettes features a tobacconist selling a pungent brand and a customer buying ten to light inside the shop. A fruit market clerk is asked about poison on grapes, while Grandmother Green resists telephone dial changes. Catherine baths a kitten and answers about towels, and a sleepwalking joke closes the set. The dated tone and sharp one liners echo a humorous urban miscellany.
British Columbia highway regulations mandate safety signals for large vehicles. Trucks and buses must display two flares or red lanterns, two red flags, and place them 100 feet from the vehicle in breakdowns. Limits also set speeds for rubber tire vehicles and semi-trailer logging trucks, impacting operations statewide.
In HALLONQUIST Saskatchewan a sinking hill 40 miles southeast of Swift Current is vanishing rapidly. An elderly resident recalls a normal hill in 1909, cracking in 1911 with sections sinking six to eight inches. Currently a valley three quarters of a mile long and 50 feet deep sits there, with experts citing quicksand or underground water erosion as possible causes.
Andra McLaughlin, 15, says she is the only girl in North America registered with a boys' hockey team. The Cheyenne high school forward appeared at a skating club carnival in Winnipeg and plays for the Cheyenne, Wyoming team.
Canadian Railways moved 4.069.952 freight cars in 1948, the peak for peacetime history, surpassing 1947’s 3.944.788 cars and the 1928 prewar record of 3.695.415 cars. A stray line notes the male mosquito is vegetarian and does not bite.
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