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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1947
Page
2
Public health authorities note ongoing preventable illness despite vigorous campaigns by the Dominion and provincial governments, health departments, social welfare groups, insurers, and the Red Cross. Education aims to reduce disease, improve nutrition, and lessen work disruptions on farms and factories.
The article notes Canada loses about 135 million dollars yearly to poor health among workers and a 200 million dollar drop in production. It argues much illness is preventable, driven by accidents and unhealthy work and living conditions, with emphasis on safety, hygiene, and public health leadership in provinces, especially the West, urging citizens to use available services to reduce this national waste.
A reader praises Kruschen Salts for ending rheumatic pains in knees ankles shoulders and back noting night relief and brighter health. The ad explains uric acid deposits cause rheumatic swelling and that Kruschen helps disperse and pass them from the body. It recommends a 25c or 30c dose at drug stores.
Excavation at the Pinkie Mains housing site in Midlothian, Scotland uncovered a late Bronze Age burial ground dating about 3,000 years. Two cairns contained urns with cremated human bones.
An article suggests trying new dishes from distant cuisines to vary meals. It includes a Swedish Meat Balls recipe with Norwegian Salad and a classic meat ball method, detailing ingredients, steps, and yields for 12 balls and 6 servings.
After grating fresh soft cheese, wipe and rub a crust of bread over the grater to collect clingy bits. This technique removes residue and speeds cleanup, leaving the tool ready for next use.
C. R. Fay of the University of Toronto writes from Cambridge England that Canada, with rich mineral resources and strong people, will become the strategic center of the British Empire within fifty years. He argues England must align with Canada while Canada resists imperial attachment to England. Fay warns against appeasing Russia and the United States by surrendering overseas balance.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from daily life. Landlady humor, wedding delays, an after-dinner speaker, a doctor’s homecoming, ministers counting hearts, job interview gags about electricity and punctuation, and playful observations about heaven and bus rides.
A Boyesville Free Methodist Church delegation attempting a conversion visits prisoner Harry F Ball in Cambridge County Jail and discovers Ball is tunneling through a wall into a corridor inside the jail. Sheriff Wilmer O. Oliver remains unfazed by the escape attempt.
References describe the bombard as an early cannon prior to the 15th century capable of hurling stone projectiles weighing from 250 to 500 pounds.
Frank Lilley, 12, attends a meeting of Toronto's new Junior Chess League where membership tops 500 and rising. Jane Applegath, 14, is among the skilled youths. I A Horowitz, a top U S chess player, played 49 simultaneous games with the group.
A collection of aphorisms emphasizing personal growth through choice, discipline, and purpose. Quotes from George Eliot Lamb Pythagoras Mary Baker Eddy Mencius and W. M. Punshon stress deciding values, seeking virtue, embracing hard paths, and maintaining a fixed life aim for success.
An Air France Constellation carrying 11 passengers and 6 crew made a crippled but safe arrival in Casablanca after a fire burned one right motor and the second right motor failed. The plane jettisoned cargo of 40,000 copies of satellite peace treaties, then landed after undercarriage problems.
In Cairo Newfoundland and Labrador a farmer named George E. Kirk age 50 amputated his own hand with a pocket knife to free himself from a corn picker. He hid no bystanders and drove home before collapsing near the hospital.
dainty nightgown pattern 4603 with scalloped detail empire waist cap sleeves or sleeveless sizes 12 to 40 includes illustrated instructions. size 16 requires 34 yards of 35 inch fabric send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for orders with name address and style number.
Lt Col Alexander Patterson a British intelligence officer, served in the German Army during the war and knew many Nazi dispositions. His wife recalled his frequent travels and long absences, and testified in Venice about his double life and ties to Germany. The couple resided at Bourne End, Bucks.
The ancient historian Josephus cites a Jerusalem population surpassing one million residents, noting a vast urban size and notable civic reach during the city’s classical era.
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