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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1946
Page
7
A passenger chats with the enigmatic tax inventor on the electric eel powered Marigold cruising down Stream. The inventor, known as T I or Masterpiece’s owner, hints at plans for a world wide business while the dog hides behind a bag.
A passenger encounters a bizarre tax authority in a long overcoat and homburg who boasts of world copyright taxes. He envisions a 10 percent levy on all gross revenue from copyrighted taxes like an annual marriage license, claiming governments will pay and the public is punch drunk. A dog tax warrant reveals his trickster defense tactic as the vanishing Masterpiece dog disappears.
The Peterborough Examiner argues fur coats should be normal winter wear for men as well as women in Canada. It contends a tax should be removed, production increased, and Canadian culture embraced instead of importing foreign ideas.
Laughter, like other mental attitudes, should be cultivated as a tonic and a social force. It can heal when used kindly but wounds when deployed as ridicule. Promote happiness by cheering yourself and others in daily duties and observe the world responding with mirth.
Native villagers recall the kindness of Australian troops in Borneo who wore slouch hats, treated locals as equals, shared food and clothing, and won heartfelt good will. Children greet the soldiers as “Hullo George” and proudly wear 9th Division color patches.
An Austrian barber and SS guard Alois Hoellriegel testified that in 1941 at Mauthausen he watched eight prisoners beaten toward a 125 foot quarry cliff and then hurled to their deaths. He said guards called the act playing paratrooper and that the beatings compelled the suicides. Greenland is a possession of Denmark.
Tourism experts forecast about twenty million visitors to Canada in 1946 as peace returns. Banff Winter Carnival opens December 26 and runs weekends through March 3, featuring skiing skating curling hockey tobogganing and other events plus championships and social entertainments.
Doctor E H M Milligan, medical officer of health, compares weights and heights of nine, eleven, and fourteen year old boys in public and elementary schools. Public school boys are heavier and taller by up to 21 pounds and 4 inches. Protein and calorie shortages stunt growth. officer argues for improved school meals.
Members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps reiterate essential duties during demobilization and reorganization at Regina headquarters. Some personnel will serve beyond March 1946 while others may be released under existing regulations. A London stage chance is noted for Pte Adele Chekaluk, with a royal wedding in Regina and a Regina Quota Club Christmas party referenced.
RAF observations from thirty thousand readings across the geographical North Pole show the magnetic pole has moved three hundred miles north-northwest of its accepted Boothia peninsula position. This marks a notable shift in the apparent magnetic reference point used for navigation.
The article notes Bolivia designates Sucre as the legal capital while La Paz functions as the commercial and administrative hub where the national congress sits. This arrangement underscores the tension between historical legitimacy and practical power.
Advert declares a stainless antiseptic that stops itching fast for fiery toes and feet and skin troubles like Barber's Itch Salt Rheum and Eczema. Moone's Emerald Off sold in original bottle at dry stores claims safety and rare failure.
Advertises a Victorian era sewing pattern 4586 for a fitted midriff apron with wide straps. Lists sizes small med large and yardage for 35 inch fabric. Requests twenty cents payment and orders sent to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba.
During the war 27000 public clocks nationwide were destroyed or damaged by air raids. Britain's eight horological societies urge that no public body may Exhibit a clock not accurate to Greenwich time.
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