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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1960
Page
4
Local classified notices list items including phone contact 104-165 and address 1410 Searth St Regina Sask. The readable text outlines a classified feature section with contact details for listings.
Classified style notices describe products and services including prescription mail order, beauty training, and business education. Mentions Pepper's Office Store and Phillips Beauty School, along with Reliance School of Commerce in Regina. The ad mix highlights career training and shop offerings in a regional Canadian context.
Fragments advertise a comptometer course with quick start promises and salary hints. Mentions Saskatoon address and nursing notes with vague terms. Includes phrases about no high school required and free booklet for lessons.
Readable fragments show no coherent event, names, or dates. The text lacks identifiable organizations or locations to form a factual summary.
A 76 year old led the way into the water on Christmas Day in Victoria as entrants gathered for the 41st annual Wim Manied 50 yard handicap race. Only three swimmers entered the event with Brasseur entering after the others.
Breeders advertise turkeys and chicks from Breton's Hatchery Regina area with fresh eggs in grade and all feed needs. Full line Shur-Gain feeds are priced by request for farmers seeking greater returns, and poultry goods are available year round. Prices listed include per hundredweight and by cwt with multiple figures.
The Saskatchewan Hide and Fur Co. offers the highest prices for raw fur beet hides horsehair and deerskin. Addressed to Saskatchewan Hide and Fur Co. 1 Avenue A South Saskatoon, Sask.
Ontario and Quebec Apple shipments move McIntosh west as B C harvests a near record low. Federal Plant Protection Division warns eastern fruit must be fumigated under supervision for Oriental fruit moth control and maggot free status before export.
Saskatchewan will issue amateur radio call letter plates in the coming licence year. More than 200 operators have applied. Early application ensures production changes. late applicants miss mid-summer deadline. Plates display four letters and a middle numeral 5, reflecting Saskatchewan’s district. A five dollar surcharge applies per plate set. The note ends with a historical aside about the US Navy’s first hand propelled submarine in 1897.
The piece describes family hobbies including a hooked rug made square by square without a frame, portable hands on work, and basement workshop chairs and tables built with basic tools. Patterns priced 250 chairs 295 tables and 261 rug at 40 cents each or all three for 1.15.
A compact record of major 1959 events across nations and blocs. Fidel Castro toppled Batista in Cuba. Britain’s sterling shift. six nation EEC formation. CPR air service. Luna 1959 rocket. Dulles cancer. Cyprus republic move. Cold War diplomacy. numerous political shifts, strikes, and decolonization moments.
A decade of top Oscar winners is listed with film titles and years from 1950 through 1959. Notable entries include All the Kings Men, All About Eve, An American in Paris, The Greatest Show on Earth, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Marty, Around the World in 80 Days, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Gigi.
A newspaper note claims Eskimos in Canada avoid teeth trouble if they eat the white man’s food. dentists cite the raw meat diet and chewing animal hides to soften them for clothing as factors.
The Heart Foundation of Canada asks parents to vow to protect children from streptococcal throat infections to prevent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. It notes medical advances aid prevention and urges regular physician care, especially for children with prior rheumatic fever, as the 1960 Heart Fund campaigns through February.
The text notes Sir Wilfrid Laurier was sent to live two years with an English-speaking family so his son could grow up bilingual and pursue a political career. This biographical detail highlights early influence on Laurier's future path.
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