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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1949
Page
2
A Dominion Department of External Affairs report notes Canada’s wartime strength and resources contributed to the Allied effort and that its postwar prestige and influence in economic and diplomatic affairs extend far beyond its population and borders.
The Department of External Affairs runs twenty-nine diplomatic posts abroad, eleven consular offices, and four special missions with seven new appointments in 1948. Canada represented at ninety international conferences, aided Europe with 225 million dollars, and sent millions of tons of goods for recovery. The report notes Canada’s strong UN involvement, Newfoundland’s confederation entrance, and growth in international representation versus foreign missions.
Mrs Lois Markle head of the hairdressing and beauty culture program at Danforth Technical Institute in Toronto argues men excel in the trade. She says young men pursue it as a lifelong career for bread and butter, while women often seek marriage.
A box of gold coins more than 800 years old was unearthed in a Toulouse cave. Some coins date to 1130, suggesting they were hidden during the Albigensian Crusade. The article notes veneering as a separate craft history.
A mother and child misread time as the organ plays on. A doctor jokes about ghosts on fence posts at dusk. A servant story ends with a quip about breakfast, while other vignettes lampoon courtship, diving rescues, and reverse directions at the station.
Dominion entomological laboratory Saskatoon reports seeding practices to curb wireworms. Use firm moist seed beds, shallow planting no deeper than three inches, heavy district-appropriate seeding rates, and packing for quick germination. flax oats barley resist more than wheat rye. reseed after damage, but wait for 1.5 inch cutworms. Summer fallow annually or biennially keeps fields weed free to cut infestations.
A party of 47 Mennonites from Manitoba traveling back to Winnipeg passed through New York en route home. They lament that Paraguay’s government, amid three regime changes, did not keep promises to migrant farmers and that tropical jungle clearing proved too difficult for their wheat farming skills.
London reports an electric housemaid that can peel potatoes scour pots clean shoes polish buttons mince meat grind coffee whisk eggs stir puddings after five years of development the inventors plan further experiments to wash clothes and dishes at the fair slated for May.
Imperial Oil outlines a plan to spend over 50 million dollars in Alberta in 1949 to develop new fields roughly as large as Leduc and Redwater. The article notes Canada’s heavy oil imports and projects consumption rising to about 690 thousand barrels daily by 1955, with pipelines and new refineries needed to expand markets.
PORT ARTHUR Ontario trapper Lillian Plummer proves women can handle bush life. For 15 years she has trapped in Gunflint Lake area on snowshoes or by dog team, bringing 10 beaver pelts three fisher one otter three mink six squirrel and 15 weasel to market. She often works summers at a tourist lodge near the Minnesota Ontario border.
Jack Reddbick of South Fork has undergone four major operations in five years all on the 13th of the month and once on a Friday the 13th. He remains an enthusiastic curler despite the run of luck.
Mrs. Emily Youngman aged 66 a crossing keeper in Blaxhall Suffolk was struck by a train and killed at the same location where her husband who also worked as a crossing keeper was killed twenty five years ago local authorities report.
Nearly four years after the war ended, Canadians continue to seek missing airmen. Of 10 000 plus missing in the Second World War, about 4 000 bodies have been recovered. The remainder are believed lost at sea or scattered in various regions, with ongoing efforts by Royal Air Force teams in Europe.
The practice of using individual racing silks to distinguish horses is nearly two centuries old, reflecting early methods to identify runners in crowded sprints.
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