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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 28, 1948
Page
2
Canada reports employment in nine leading industries at an index of 124.3 with total weekly wages $80.26 million and 2,038,803 workers. Unplaced applicants peak at 184,000 on March 15 before easing. cost of living outpaced wage gains yet industrial wages rose 74 percent since 1939.
Advertisement for pattern 4769 by Anne Adams, Winnipeg. Describes a house frock, sizes 36 through 54, with sewing instructions and fabric guidance. States 4 yards of 35 inch fabric for size 36 and requests 25 cents by mail to the pattern department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, Man.
In Peoria Illinois a 12 year old boy named John Dickerson climbed a fence to feed a 250 pound black Himalayan bear. A bystander A B Eads used a cane to pry the animal's jaws apart and free the boy. The arm was amputated at the shoulder after the bear severed it above the elbow.
A collection of brief jokes and vignettes with puns and anecdotes. Examples include a Greek scholar translating a college motto, a railway station quip about a platform ticket, vulgar fractions explained by a schoolmaster, a hunter’s pajama shot, a caller and host exchange, and a pun about debtors and creditors.
The article describes rain water filtration for cisterns using two oil drums packed with sand charcoal and pebbles and a tipping bucket to split flow. It notes winter freezing limits and suggests a double brick wall with sand between as another filtration system feeding water through a sand bed before reaching the pump.
Gen Omar Bradley, U S Army chief of staff, says creating more terrible weapons could prevent war. He argues nations would refrain from conflict if they fear the devastation such arms could unleash.
Despite its northern position 120 miles from the Arctic Circle Fairbanks Alaska records extreme heat with readings near 100 degrees in the shade. The phenomenon highlights unusual summer warmth affecting residents and daily life.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture reports a Canadian breed herd at a Basking Ridge farm in Somerset County owned by John Astor. The rare, small dairy beef dual-purpose cattle originate from France and are hardy, thriving on scant pasture and rugged conditions, with the first Canadian herd in the state and third in the country.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board extended ceiling prices for canned tomatoes tomato juice peas corn green and wax beans peaches pears and plums. The maximums fixed November 27 under order A-2459 as amended by A-2461 apply to imported canned goods except pre July 19 peaches pears and plums which stay under markup control. Removal of sales tax is expected to reduce consumer prices.
Alvarez Rudolph Habbsburg claims a 114 year life recipe: eat pie, take long walks, and remain a bachelor. He was born July 8, 1834 in Halifax, though his birth church records were destroyed by fire. Now living in a rest home in Vancouver.
The Saskatchewan Resources Department reports new high grade uranium samples coated in yellow oxide showing five times the earlier lac la Ronge discovery. Two additional high grade showings exist along a fault shear with vast unrecorded outcrops. Government geologists estimate multitudes of square feet of ore, and planes have entered the area as prospectors stake nearby claims within a mile of major occurrences.
In Fort Worth Texas a man reports a missing $41 from his purse and sees a shadowy figure on the next door roof. Police arrest a 17 year old youth who is later released to his parents who explain he was on the roof playing hide and seek with his bride. The article notes the color yellow as highly luminous.
Joe Simms a 51 year old railroad worker walked from Chelsea embankment to Battersea Park about 220 yards across the Thames in 17 minutes. He weighs 185 pounds and says he perfected a water progress method after 18 years of research with arms folded and only head above water. A spectator who followed in a boat noted he stayed upright throughout. Simms claimed the movement is a slow cycle action and quipped that the Yanks cannot do it.
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