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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1946
Page
7
Amelia Ames complains the chow mein is too crisp as she and husband George discuss caring for their daughter Judy who recently married. Ted worries Judy is being kept too closely by her mother, while George wonders if Amelia babying her daughter is harming Judy's independence.
Amelia and George chase a plan to distract Judy from a family ranch change. Judy relocates with Ted to a cattle ranch twenty miles from town where she proves capable and self confident in jeans and riding boots, earning praise from Ted and Amelia.
A U S Commerce Department team uncovered a German warp knitting machine that produces runproof reinforced hosiery. It was kept secret during the war and operated in only a few Bavarian and Czechoslovakian mills, with the inspected unit located in Czechoslovakia.
The Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa reminds readers that flies carry germs and urges careful screening to keep flies out of buildings, especially where young children are present, as part of the war against pests.
Newsprint production in Canada for the first six months reached 2,002,935 tons, up 29.7 percent from 1,544,513 tons a year earlier, with shipments at 1,960,134 tons, up 30.4 percent. June production was 334,207 tons. U S output for six months stood at 387,695 tons, up 5.5 percent, with shipments of 387,843 tons.
A two item recipe note gives directions for a Lemon Jell-O cabbage salad with apples and walnuts chilled in molds, and a spiced date loaf style cake with butter sugar creaming, flour and spices, baked in a leaf pan with boiled icing.
A Chinese delegation from the Director General of Posts, traveling since July 1945, examined Canadian and American postal systems in Ottawa Washington New York Chicago and San Francisco. They praised Canada for paper conservation and efficiency and noted China’s similar use of air mail money orders postal savings and equipment.
Sister Myra Blanch, Australia’s first Flying Nurse, travels hundreds of miles through floods and storms to reach patients within a 500 mile radius from the Broken Hill base. The Flying Doctor Service links medicine, aviation, and radio across eight bases to aid settlers in the outback.
A set of six en velopes commemorating the 1939 Royal visit to Canada and the United States sold for 40 dollars as the roosevelt stamp collection reached its third disposal. Canadian envelopes bore postmarks June 7 12 and 13 while American covers were cancelled June 10 and 11. All carried the Royal train postmark and were addressed to President Roosevelt at the White House.
In view of a definite risk of scattered smallpox outbreaks in Canada the journal urges a vaccination and revaccination campaign. Heavy postwar travel is aiding spread into areas previously free of the disease.
A collection of quick quips and exchanges ranging from domestic mischief to restaurant banter. Jokes cover marital miscommunications, gossip, money matters, and social mishaps with punchlines about dinners delays misheard words and humorous misunderstandings.
Pattern 4529 offers a short waister with sleeves for active or spectator wear. Available sizes range from 14 to 42 with specific yardage and 20 cents price. Send size, name, address and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Department of tawa cautions against leaving infants on unguarded high places even briefly. Mothers should pick up and hold the child or return them to the crib to prevent sudden falls as babies squirm rapidly.
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