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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1947
Page
2
The Arctic regions of Canada, long sparsely inhabited, attract growing attention for potential exploitation of furs fish lumber metals oil and coal. Explorations have been coastal or aerial so far, but mineral deposits similar to those found near Great Bear Lake are suspected. Development could bring broad national gains.
Dr. O M Solandt, director general of Canada's three armed services, calls for a long term research and development program to map the Arctic and study its geology mineralogy flora and fauna as essential to regional defence and peaceful development. Dr A L Washburn of the Arctic Institute of North America backs detailed Far North research for eventual settlement and continental benefit.
Dr. Solandt and Dr. Washburn argue Canada lags Russia in Arctic development. Russia formed a North Arctic research body years ago, showing progress through study and practical effort. The piece hopes Canada may push frontiers for peaceful resource use and national prosperity.
A vintage recipe for an everyday sponge cake using Swans Down cake flour, eggs, sugar, butter, hot milk, lemon juice and vanilla. It provides methods for a 8x12 inch pan and two 9-inch rounds, with baking at 350 degrees F and times from 20 to 50 minutes, plus finishing with powdered sugar.
If the Earth stopped traveling around the sun it would begin to fall inward and in about two months would crash into the sun and burn.
Five hundred years before Christ Greek physicians taught wellness emphasizing diet exercise and care of the body. Wealthy patrons devoted much of their time to maintaining health and fitness through structured routines and discipline.
Alberta launches a public campaign offering prizes worth over $900 to create a province national dish. First prize is $500, second $200, third $100 with twelve $10 prizes. dish should feature a meat main rate Alberta vegetables and be sold at $1 per plate.
A collection of light jokes and quips involving teachers students and common scenes. Includes punny exchanges about plurals, allergies to work, tramps and pies, seasons, and everyday manners. The humor rests on mistaken grammar in the classroom and everyday social misfires.
Rheumatic pains stem from excess uric acid in the blood and kidney malfunction. Maintaining kidney health is urged, and Dodd's Kidney Pills are recommended to help kidneys remove poisons and acids so you may feel better. The ad suggests trying Dodd's to see improvements.
A compact collection of aphorisms from Emerson Bacon Eddy and Hume praising hospitality and magnanimity. It emphasizes warmth to strangers, global citizenship, unselfish conduct, and humble service in social settings. The page presents brief maxims attributed to notable thinkers, reflecting timeless social virtues.
Pattern 4719 features a dainty dirndl frock with lace edged scalloped sleeves and a bertha yoke. Beading at waist, complete illustrated instructions, sizes 2 to 10, size 6 uses 1% yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Union for details.
The Manchester Guardian notes the Labour party’s silver wedding gift to Mr and Mrs Attlee a Dutch porringer from the eighteenth century. It may recall Charles II’s rhyme prize related to the betrothal of his niece to William of Orange. The piece suggests a playful link between royal history and the current gift.
Nelson British Columbia gears up for a August 4 jubilee celebration as an incorporated city. The program features old time customs and fashions, beard growing contests, torchlight processions, street dances, fireworks, ice shows and log sawing, plus a history portrayal from mining camp days to present prosperity.
More than 300 Toronto men’s wear retailers at a clothing fair heard manufacturers warn of scarce shirt supplies for at least six months due to labor and material shortages. One producer doubted public tolerance for higher prices after subsidies end as James Cameron of the Ontario Retail Men’s Wear Association criticized manufacturers for not recognizing a decade of consumer adaptation.
A humorous exchange contrasts a mistress and maid over coal and foreknowledge. The quip notes sauerkraut’s origin in China over 2,200 years ago, highlighting a playful misattribution of a culinary lineage.
Sulphur Oklahoma reports the eighth annual Hereford cattle sale where 50 animals grossed $125,105. E. B. Shawver of Wichita Kansas paid the top price of $25,000 for a bull, with George Rodenz of Toronto paying $23,000 for another.
Benjamin Franklin held that electricity behaved as a fluid with positive matter carrying an excess of it while negative matter lacked it. The concept framed early explanations of electric charge and influenced later experiments in electrical science.
A narrator extols Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes praising energy from carbohydrates proteins for muscles phosphorus for teeth and bones iron for blood and other essentials. They joke about wheat malted barley needed to produce vast quantities and packing them loose in box cars.
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