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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1956
Page
2
Larger lots give gardeners room for bold displays as breeders produce showy annuals. Plant very large beds of petunias zinnias spider plants cosmos and many others either from seed outdoors or transplanted from warm beds. Summer cottages can also create large flower beds by sowing seeds in flats then transplanting later.
Canada’s gross national product reached a record 26.6 billion in 1955 up from 24.1 billion in 1954 with a 2.5 billion rise led by consumer spending and residential construction. Net national income rose about 11 percent.
In 1949 North Carolina State College planted 60 000 seeds exposed to atomic radiation and tracked generation to generation. Some lines resisted leaf spot, others yielded pods suited to mechanical harvesting, and one variety produced a third more pods.
Saskatchewan Power sponsor premieres a new half hour square dancing program titled Square Dance Note Book. It will air March 21 and 22 on most Saskatchewan stations featuring recordings from six major labels and updates from the square dancing world. Noreen Wilson will MC and Saskatchewan clubs are invited to send event details for future broadcasts.
Paris milliner Madame Claude St. Cyr describes private fittings for Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen wears hair longer for state crown needs and avoids public hat choices. The Duke of Edinburgh has no say. Christine, the designer’s daughter, may wear future models.
A sharp-eyed rookie answers a sergeant with a joke about cleaning rifles. He says the first step is to check the serial number to ensure he is cleaning his own rifle. The sergeant reacts with a roar, highlighting the humor of the moment.
The Pattern Shop offers Pattern 7186 in children's sizes 2 4 6 and 8 with a reversible look using a separate collar. Includes pattern embroidery transfer and directions. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain this pattern. stamps not accepted.
Household Arts Department of the Toronto PPL promotes an Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue. It features knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelties with pages of new designs. Send 25 cents to receive a copy and order multiple designs.
Pattern 4649 offers a scooped neck empire dress with a matching bolero in gay plaid cotton pique or fine linen for a Sunday outfit. Sizes 6 through 14, dress and bolero require 35% yards of 35 inch fabric. complete illustrated instructions included. Send 35 cents in coins with size name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept.
Do it yourself patterns for four trellises and three flower box designs to enhance porches doors and garages. Includes tracing methods for color realism silk screen framing pattern numbers 308 and 400 35 cents each and a Lawn and Garden Figures Packet for 1.50 postpaid. Order to Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
Regina reports the largest lake trout ever taken in North America is exhibited in the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History lower gallery. The 80 pounds 8 ounces fish measured 49 inches long with a 40 inch girth and is estimated 50 to 60 years old. The female Cristivomer namaycush was caught by Mc Ginnis Products Ltd in Lake Athabasca on September 11, 1955.
Guidance for using selective lawn weed killers cautions against mixing stronger solutions than directions, flooding the lawn, contacting ornamentals, applying immediately after mowing, and failing to rinse sprayers after use. The advice stresses careful, targeted application and thorough equipment cleaning.
A collection of jokes and quips by Bennett Cerf and others. The items include a Paris street anecdote about a taxi horn, a wry take on picnic season, a deflation of radio ads, a hunter trek with a wary cook Mose, and a Sunday school soap joke.
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