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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
3
World brief notes Amsterdam sent an invitation to the International Olympic Committee to host the 1952 Games in Amsterdam. A set of varied items follow, including cultural theft, memorial plans, and international trade and diplomacy snippets.
The Canadian National Exhibition marks its Diamond Jubilee of electric lighting with a 1887 programme featuring 200 electric arc lights by the Royal Electric Company of Montreal Bail Electric Light Co Toronto and Toronto Electric Light Co. Chinese lanterns and prismatic fountains adorn nightly illuminations. The CNE pioneered electricity use for lighting and power and has showcased new electrical developments from early direct current to hydro power and even television glimpses.
Chicago police report a mild robbery at Joy Candy Shoppe as a bandit known as Joe asks for money. Clerk Clara Vezina notes the safe holds more and takes seven dollars for change, then records a receipt signed by the robber.
Winnipeg reports D Leo Dolan director of Canadian government travel bureau in Ottawa says the June to September period should be the busiest for Canadian tourism this year. He notes the travel bureau has run an extensive advertising campaign and that tourism is a major export alongside newsprint and possibly gold.
A Scot argued with a train conductor over a 25 or 30 cent fare. Frustrated, the conductor hurled the Scot’s suitcase from the moving train as they crossed a bridge. The Scot cried that the conductor was also trying to drown his child.
A Stoke Newington police officer says he has received 1 600 letters from service men, more than any other officer in Great Britain, since 1939.
Callander Ontario reports the Dionne quintuplets turning 13 at their home on May 28. The sisters are academically focused, musically gifted, and individually distinct with Cecile showing initiative and Annette diligence while Yvonne thinks deeply and Emilie embraces femininity. Their father considers a private pool, and education progresses toward high school entrance in 1948.
Retiring New Zealand high commissioner to Canada David Wilson said in Auckland that with immigration and shipping, many Canadians would consider moving to New Zealand. He noted wartime exchanges and training, while US researchers found mosquitoes bite more people in dark clothing in Seattle.
A compiled set of horizontal and vertical crossword clues covering numbers ages and terms across tenors and objects. Includes items such as sixty sixties Babylonian numerals beverages lands measures gods deities organs cooking vessels and various common nouns and names.
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