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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 30, 1946
Page
4
The quinquennial census of the prairie provinces will be taken this year beginning in June. Alberta population rises by about 41 000 largely from discharged servicemen returning home.
Bedbugs, usually pests to humans, also trouble poultry by feeding at night. They hide in cracks and crevices laying up to 200 white eggs. Nymphs resemble adults but paler and feed on blood. life cycle can be six weeks or longer. Spray cracks and roosts with creosote oil or crude petroleum and repeat after ten days if needed.
Crochet squares measure 12 inches in cotton and 16 inches in string. Twenty cents buys Pattern 7432 from Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue East, Winnipeg, Canada. Include name and address and pattern number clearly.
Several British whaling voyages will be fitted with radar equipment to take bearings on whales above and below the surface. The addition aims to improve navigation and safety during long Arctic hunts.
London exhibition displays air operated multiple gauges and cam milling machines that enable high speed testing and precise shaping. The Coventry gauge tool co and other British firms exhibit devices achieving accuracies down to one millionth inch and automatic readouts, highlighting wartime gains now ready for peace production.
The Canadian Writers' Foundation seeks an adequate capital endowment to aid Canadian authors in need due to age or infirmity. Organized in 1931 and incorporated last year, it is chaired by Dr. Pelham Edgar of Toronto. Beneficiaries include Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and other writers facing illness and disability.
England now has 240 oil wells producing about five hundred thousand barrels of crude oil annually. The wells were drilled during the war by an Oklahoma contractor for the British government.
Since 1696 Japan has endured 21 major quakes, each causing more than 1,000 fatalities. This pattern highlights the country’s seismic risk and historical toll across regions and periods.
A memorandum from Ontario industry safety head R B Morley notes accidents occur in “the place nobody goes.” He cites a painter snagged by a projecting set screw on a rotating shaft as an example and warns against complacency with safety set screws. He warns that “unloaded” guns have killed too many people.
The article states that the human body functions best at 60 to 70 degrees for clothed individuals and at somewhat higher temperatures for unclothed people. It emphasizes the impact of clothing on thermal comfort and performance.
The Dominion Council of Health and the Parliamentary Voluntary Committee on Health urge universal pasteurization. Ontario already enforces compulsory pasteurization, with federal and provincial health officials supporting nationwide adoption. The committees urge provincial action to enact legislation enforcing pasteurization nationwide.
A St Marys resident expresses relief after holiday feasting while noting disparities in the district and across the Atlantic. The piece highlights abundant fowl and good things at home, gratitude for Canada’s food and fuel wealth, and references wartime rationing and postwar hardships.
Ancient oil fields are fossil graveyards where millions of years of heat and pressure transformed animals and plants buried underground into crude. This geologic process preserves a record of life and Earth’s history.
The text outlines a seven day menu featuring lamb shoulder for Sunday, lamb curry for Monday, luncheon sandwiches, a vegetable egg scallop for meatless Tuesday, layered vegetable and egg dishes with cheese sauce, hot scones and cabbage salad, steak and kidney pie for Wednesday, frankfurters with sauerkraut and jacket potatoes for Thursday, unrationed fish for Friday, flank steak with dressing for Saturday, and options to store leftovers or stretch meat into Sunday supper.
The Piobaireachd Society of Scotland trained 93 Canadian army pipers during wartime courses at Edinburgh Castle. Pipe Major William Ross MBE taught 713 pipers from British Dominions and Polish forces over six years, with Canadians including Pipe Majors Esson and Sutherland and Sgt Armstrong among attendees. There are more than 130 species of trees in Canada.
A Kitchener Record note reflects on how a Russian husband and wife bought and operated a tank used in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany to kill 160 enemy soldiers, with the husband driving and the wife bossing, suggesting a distant but possible sense of global kinship. The piece recalls Britain’s 1878 Cyprus transfer from Turkey as part of reforms in Asia Minor.
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