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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
9
In a sunlit hospital ward a blue eyed soldier wooes nurse Miss Gordon and confesses plans to marry her after his discharge. He reveals a planned love tale to his fiancée Virginia, then asks Miss Gordon to marry him as they share a tender moment before he leaves.
A four year old named David Wegelin from Black Diamond Alberta lends a hand to his father in overhauling a tractor. The scene captures a family activity highlighting early interest in mechanics and agriculture.
Pattern 4932 includes a frothy dress bonnet slip and panties for toddlers in sizes 6 months to 5 years. Easy to sew with illustrated instructions. Send 25 cents in coins to Arne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
New York reports four infant abandonments in one week amid a nationwide wave of child desertions. Officials attribute the rise to severe housing shortages and landlords blamed for worsening conditions. Parents told authorities inability to secure shelter drove the acts, with notes pleading for loving homes.
A one year old cat named Fluffy belonging to the Philip Petersen family in Chicago gets into their home without disturbance. The clever cat climbs the brick wall near the front door, opens the mailbox lid with her nose, sits inside as if a parcel, then exits back to the floor.
A recall concerns brushes marketed as camel-hair but not from camels. The product origin traces to a man named Camel, prompting a safety and sourcing clarification for buyers and retailers. The notice urges verification of materials and supplier credentials.
New York reports a 40 storey rectangular skyscraper to house the United Nations secretariat as the world centre plan moves forward. Construction could start next December if plans pass quickly with demolition set for July 1. Wallace Harrison outlines an evolving national plan awaiting General Assembly review in September.
Selected recipe for Picnic Chicken Salad combines mayonnaise lemon juice pimiento pepper salt rice peas and chicken with celery. Toss ingredients, chill briefly, serve in lettuce cups with tomato wedges for 8 to 10 servings. Rice is boiled and rinsed before mixing.
A rich baked pudding uses butter sugar egg yolks melted chocolate Grape-Nuts and milk folded with stiff egg whites. baked in a water bath at 325 degrees for 75 minutes served cold with cream. Mentions Suda Bay Crete a large natural harbor on the Mediterranean.
In Frankfurt a stale joke circulates among British American and German surgeons about miracles of wartime surgery. One tale claims a man with a rebuilt leg can run 100 meters faster, another a man with a new arm becomes a boxing champion, while German officials mocked by saying they reused beheaded victims as governance figures. The piece ends with a stray line defining vanilla as a cured orchid pod.
Ottawa warned Canadians planning to travel to Britain or Europe that without guaranteed return transportation they risk being stranded until after next Christmas. Officials said Canada House in London and other authorities were besieged by aid requests from those without funds or return passage. Thousands more could face the same fate.
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