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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1963
Page
4
Pattern 308 provides an actual size cutting and painting guide for a family of lawn cut outs with a KEEP OFF sign. It appears in Packet No 71 Novelties to Make the Neighbours Smile priced at $1.75, from Home Workshop Patterns Vancouver.
Advertisement for a girls knit suit pattern 7457 with directions and coin stamp limitation. Includes Payable address to Household Arts Department PPL 0 Front Street Toronto.
The quiz reveals the first law court was established at Trinity, Newfoundland in 1615. It notes deficits in eight of the last ten years, with the federal government spending more than it took in. It cites Lt. A. R. Dunn of Toronto as Canada’s first V C recipient for 1856 Balaclava charge. About 47 percent of 1962 farm income went to the Prairie provinces. Immigrant figures show over 51,000 women and children among 74,586 arrivals in 1962.
In Milledgeville Georgia Barbara Powers the divorced wife of Francis Gary Powers plans to sell her life story for as much as 250000 The project announced with her lawyer and a Detroit writer photographer calls for a serial The Ordeal of Barbara Powers to run under Barbara Powers byline in a Chicago tabloid Allied Publications Powers served 21 months of a 10 year Moscow jail term after being convicted on spy charges Their divorce followed after eight years of marriage and is dated January The U 2 incident occurred May 1 1960 over the Soviet Union.
University of California experiments place hogs on hind legs to improve feed intake. Cleats on the wall support fore feet, enabling heavier carcasses with ham size increasing by over five percent as a share of the total.
Sir John A. MacDonald appears as a wax figure in Winnipeg aboard the Canadian Pacific Railway’s The Canadian with three other Fathers of Confederation. He greets his great grandson Hugh A. Gainsford and his children Nancy and Ronald, while George Etienne Cartier, Charles Tupper, and George Brown ride in state toward Banff Springs Hotel. The scene blends history and railway travel with a light, humorous tone.
Dr. H. H. Walsh of McGill argues in the Christian Outlook that Canada’s trajectory has long resisted American influence. He traces anti-American sentiment from New France through Confederation, citing the Quebec Act of 1774, postwar fervor after 1812, and reliance on tariffs, railways, and broadcasting to preserve a distinct culture.
Researcher R M Adamson of the federal experimental farm at Saanichton B C reports that 2 MCPP and silver herbicides outperform 2,4,5 T for white clover in fine lawns. Spring spraying at two five tenths ounces per 1000 square feet or one pound per acre is advised with care to avoid drift.
Lewis Willick of Willoughby Township Niagara Falls Ontario received his pension cheque by air mail after a blackbird flew off with it. Bert Hawkins and his wife spotted the bird on a township road, honked, and clapped until the envelope dropped. The cheque was addressed to Willick and had been taken from his mailbox a mile away.
An editorial argues for Canada maintaining independence while balancing with the United States amid global ideological tensions. It stresses moderation, the value of nonalignment, and the worth of being not American as Canada navigates east–west influences. Correspondence is directed to Prairie Publishers Co-operative in Regina.
A subsalesman asks to refund an irate customer who found his lot underwater. The boss retorts with a plan to sell the man a motor boat, turning a failed sale into an aquatic workaround.
Trudy Tavares a 23 year old San Francisco waitress left a leading Bay area restaurant after refusing to reveal more of her legs. She wore a slip to protect modesty from rising slit in her Chinese uniform. The restaurant said either she or the slip would have to go and she appealed to the San Francisco Labor Commission.
Sir John Thompson, the Canadian prime minister, died at Windsor Castle during a royal visit to Queen Victoria in 1894. The sudden death occurred while the Canadian leader was abroad, leaving his tenure and party in mourning as details of the illness were reported by observers on the ground.
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