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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 09, 1960
Page
5
A report describes discovering a hundred dollar bill in a snowbank and the ensuing investigation to locate the rightful owner. Officers, including Fred and Mr Harksey, discuss handling the found money and directing it to the owner. The article notes local travelers and residents noting the incident at Castiogar as the scene of the event.
A salmon tagged by Washington State University turned up in the Kurile islands of the north Pacific. Two boys caught the fish in the Kluch river near Kurilsk. The disk marked 346 requested the fish be returned to the university.
The 3rd Canadian Boy Scout Jamboree will be held in early July 1961 at Connaught Ranges near Ottawa. About 5000 First Class Scouts and Leaders are expected, with provincial quotas guiding attendance. Connaught Ranges hosted the 1st Jamboree in 1949 and the 1953 event.
A reader recalls buying a sweater claiming Canada origin but discovering a second label stating Japan. The piece argues for country of origin markings on mail catalogs as well as in stores, noting Japanese imports and wage concerns and quoting Finance Minister Fleming on disrupted trade.
A two way radio communications system first used on the Royal Train during the Queen's Canada visit has been adopted by Canadian National Railways on all freight and passenger trains in British Columbia and Alberta mountain regions. The system links Vancouver to Edmonton enabling engineers crews despatchers to exchange messages like a phone call, including train to train and yard office communications. The Fraser Valley photo shows the CNR Super Continental near Chilliwack with Mount Cheam. engineer C E Wollands and trainman B K MacRae are pictured in the cab receiving a message.
A verbose guide outlines festive details for St Patrick's Day celebrations including green invitations in shamrock shapes with fortune tokens, shamrock decorations, and games like Going to Old Ireland and Green Shopping. It suggests telegrams with alliterative lines, a chocolate shamrock prize, and rainbow ice cream or a triple jelly cake with green tint.
A portable berviometer valued at 1900 dollars, invented and manufactured by Nuclear Enterprises Ltd of WSUPAE, was shipped via Canadian National Express to Montreal en route to the Society of Mines and Chemical Resources in Paris. The machine uses a nuclear activation process to detect ers areryalogy in minerals, with Bervilium valued at 70 dollars per car, used in jet aircraft and model jet-age production.
The first transmission of hydro electric power in Camida occurred at Georgetown Ontario in 18s8 when power was brought to a paper mill from two miles outside town.
A band festival will be held in Lacombe Alberta on March 27 and 28 with entries from across the province. It is sponsored jointly by the Cultural Activities Branch of the Alberta Provincial Secretary's Department and the Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bandmasters Association.
A poultry companion in Philadelphia earns the nickname as a watching duck near an apartment yard. The bird exhibits liquor tolerance, consuming brandy with a hot toddy of milk in cold weather, and accompanies custodian Johnson to the Baptist Church each Sunday where the bird attends baptisms.
A Kentucky doctor Wilford L. Cooper told the International College of Surgeons about developing a new joint repair method. He cited about 100 patients treated so far and noted the technique often extends to the hip and leg.
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