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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 07, 1947
Page
6
The craft of writing can be taught through practice and criticism. Training won’t make every student a literary artist but it will produce competent craftsmen. Many college graduates lack writing skill not from intelligence but from neglect of writing criticism and low standards in courses.
Industrial building contracts in Canada rose by 3 percent over two years to more than 183 million dollars in 1946. Britain still faces 230000 acres of land with unexploded bombs and ammunition. Gen. MacArthur says Japanese elections show decisive rejection of Communist leadership. Ethiopia asks Australia for 180 chargers for guards at Addis Ababa. French miners cut holidays to 12 days to sustain coal output. A century old chestnut tree in Bexley Heath faced felling but protests stopped it. A bottle message found nine years after it was cast into the sea near Massachusetts. Ecuador is named for its position on the equator.
A quick dessert from a vintage recipe: Ginger Flake Cake blends shortening sugar and molasses with crushed corn flakes and spices. Mix beat pour bake 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes yields nine servings from an 8x8 inch pan.
A crossword grid lists many clues across horizontal and vertical entries. Items include common words such as a citrus fruit a cooking vessel and a planet plus complex phrases like goddess of dawn and the main artery.
Garden notes advise delaying warm weather crops like gladiolus dahlias corn tomatoes melons squash cucumbers until soil and air are frost free. Use hills with manure mulch for heat and root growth thin to three per hill, keep weeds down and nip vines for early fruiting.
The article stresses proper sleep for health, noting eight hours suits most people while five to six may suffice for some. It recommends a relaxed prebed routine, light reading, pleasant thoughts, light clothing, a tepid bath, and a cool, ventilated room to help fall asleep and stay rested.
About 1,000 Soviet families are settling in the new Soviet province of Kaliningrad formerly Königsberg in East Prussia. They are establishing collective farms with state aid over an area of 140,000 acres.
An advertisement touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache and rheumatic pains caused by unsettled kidney action. It claims the pills are time tested, popular, safe, and non habit forming and instructs readers to demand the blue box with a red band sold everywhere.
A small town chief constable who is also a veterinary surgeon is called when a burglar is inside a bulldog. His wife answers the phone and the caller asks for both roles. The voice says they cannot get the bulldog to open its mouth.
The Wall Street Journal notes the term worsted traces to William the Conqueror in 1066 after he observed Britons working with long combed wool. Worst ed yarn yields a hard smooth cloth like serge, durable and well pressed for men's suits, while woollen cloth uses shorter fibers for tweeds and flannels with a softer look and less resistence to creasing. The article oddly asserts the Brooklyn Bridge took 13 years to build.
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