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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1947
Page
2
After wartime travel restrictions ease, Canada and the United States see a surge in tourism. In 1946 Canada hosted 21.1 million visitors bringing 221 million dollars into the U S. The 1929 prewar high was 154.9 million and 1942 saw 82 million. An all time record may be reached this year as transport improves.
Canada’s tourist industry expands with highway upgrades and better facilities. Prairie Provinces received about 58 percent of last year’s 221 million visitor spending, as parks and lakes draw vacationers, boosting revenue for merchants and services.
Dr W A Rosen bach, Philadelphia collector, paid 13600 for the only perfect copy of Three Kings of Cologne printed at Westminster in 1499. The book was auctioned by Sotheby’s in London and has been in Dyson Perrins library.
In Riceville Iowa a price war over ice cream left many residents with stomach aches. Walter McCoy offered 20 cents a pint, rival retailers slashed prices, and finally Mrs Martha Timmerman posted one cent paid for taking a pint from the store.
Florence M. Edwards surveys farm families in Alberta Saskatchewan and housing and living standards. The study draws on interviews with over 620 prairie housewives and farm homes in Central Alberta and Central and Northern Saskatchewan during 1942 43.
Pittsburgh report profiles Rev. W. W. Ritter who has spent 37 years in a six month pastorate at Mt. Nebo United Presbyterian Church and remains the substitute teacher in a one room Mt. Nebo school after a WWI shortage. He never left either post.
A collage of light dialogue and jokes featuring a sympathetic magistrate, a henpecked husband, a boastful thief, a forgetful traveler, a slovenly man, a polite elder, a boy at the zoo, a prisoner and judge, a boastful suitor, and a remark on the Taj Mahal. The snippets reveal social foibles with irony and humor.
A Toronto Daily Star item notes a federal vacancy for a nurse with the Department of National Health and Welfare at Port Harrison Hudson Bay coast. The role offers full maintenance and a yearly salary of 1644 dollars, with 1704 dollars for public health trained nurses, plus a prefabricated palace and a sea voyage to Winnipeg. Applications go to Dr P E Moore Ottawa. The piece adds a cranberry craneberry etymology.
In Montreal, United Kingdom trade commissioner R. Keith Jopson warned Canada risks price outsizing essential foreign markets if production costs stay high. He said world dislocations strain Canadian manufacturers and Britain may limit orders unless prices fall and deliveries improve.
The Winnipeg Free Press reports that most automobile accidents are not caused by driver skill deficits or car failures but by ill temper coarse manners or poor judgment, highlighting behavioral factors over mechanical or physical causes.
The vacation trend this year leans to the western United States and Canada with most travelers using private motor. Train tours are booked, charter-plane trips rise, and all carriers are pressed into service for what officials expect to be the largest domestic travel season yet. Rail lines report a 15 percent increase over last year.
Royal household chef Ronald Aubrey revealed at a food ministry display that the Queen favors herring cooked in mustard sauce. King George also expressed appreciation for the dish.
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