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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1946
Page
7
An elderly man and a hitchhiking youth share a prolonged journey through a scenic river valley. The youth’s vivid rainstorm description moves the older man to emotional reminiscence as they reach the hilltop home, where the master notes the hills are clearer than ever.
Winnipeg buyers paid average 3.75 dollars for 285000 muskrat pelts with some furs reaching 5.65. Most pelts, 233000, came from Manitoba’s Summerberry area from The Pas east to Moose Lake, with remaining from Netleymarsh Fisher River and the Delta at Lake Winnipeg.
Health Minister Hon. B. Claxton calls for three doctors to pioneer work in the Eastern Arctic. Two doctors are needed to head hospitals at Chesterfield on Hudson Bay and Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, each with a two-nurse staff. A third doctor is needed from July 15 to Oct. 15 for settlements along Hudson Strait.
The Empire State Building in New York contains seven miles of elevator shafts illustrating the building's complex vertical transportation network.
Two Canadian archivists Robert Larocque de Roquebrun and Victor Biegue will sail for Paris to resume documenting Canada's history under French tenure. Four Canadians were already working on the project in a Paris office opened by the Dominion Public Archives in 1904. They escaped German invaders and aim to collect historical material for Canadian historians and store it in Ottawa public archives.
A humorous exchange sketches couples, casual pride, and minor miscommunications. Jokes cover marriage dynamics, clothes, poetry, and everyday work worries, with light banter about self preservation, hats, car care, and speed of light.
A London Free Press quotation emphasizes education as a training system that builds judgment through life experience. It argues books and schools lay the foundation, but growth comes from learning from experience and time.
The commons veterans committee approved a pension commission recommendation extending full benefits of the Canadian Pension act to veterans who served with British or Allied forces in the First Great War, held ranks below warrant officer, lived in Canada before enlisting, and returned home. Second Great War veterans already have similar protection and higher ranking officers have long had protection via Britain.
A new, record breaking weed killing machine is in use on United Kingdom farms. It features a 500 gallon tank with two openings for simultaneous filling, a 60 foot spray boom with 86 nozzles, and a spray rate of 50 gallons per minute at 300 psi. The unit sprays over large acreages daily with a one hundred thirty six acre single day record.
Warm weather sewing pattern 4536 offers overalls playsuit and jaunty jacket in sizes 12 through 40. Send 20 cents for pattern 4536 to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address size and style number.
An early morning broadcast on BBC program Bright and Early was interrupted when the recorded chimes played for seven minutes and a female announcer apologized saying she slept in.
The word private, tied to army rank, originated as the designation for soldiers hired by feudal barons for their private wars.
The paper notes readers in many towns pass it along and mail it to relatives abroad. It mentions an order for Pattern No. 4811 for a pinafore frock from Miss A B in Amsterdam. It highlights continued demand for Home Service Booklets despite 1943 stopping ads due to paper shortages and costs.
Simple meat patties use 2 cups corn flakes 1 pound hamburger 1 cup water 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper. Crush flakes, mix with ingredients, form patties, fry or broil 7-10 minutes per side until browned. Yield about 6 patties. add onion or seasonings as desired.
Alberta offers a five cent bounty per pair of feet on predatory birds as a summer campaign to curb crow and magpie numbers threatening migratory and upland birds. The Alberta Fish and Game Association administers payments from government funds. The piece also notes the ancient Hebrew betrothal custom of three rings for the girl the man and the witness.
An old advertisement explains that poor sleep may stem from kidney trouble. It claims healthy kidneys filter poisons and acids, and that Dodd's Kidney Pills help the kidneys and improve rest and well being.
Savings deposits of chartered Canadian banks rose to 3 479 million on March 31 up 305 million in two months from 2 865 million after the Ninth Victory Loan. Public time and demand deposits total 5 155 million, more than double the prewar level of 2 407 million.
Hundreds of victory bells weighing from half a ton to twenty tons are being cast in England for churches across the United Kingdom and the empire. Most bear the inscription Victory 1939 1945. Great George, for Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, weighs fifteen tons and measures 9 feet 6 inches in diameter. Pasteurized milk is stated as the only safe milk.
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