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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1956
Page
2
The article advises staggered planting every one to two weeks through July to extend harvests for beans corn carrots beets lettuce and other quick crops. It urges cultivation and watering in heat, recommends fall protection with light coverings, and discusses soil moisture, lawn and garden watering, garden paths, and choosing appropriate garden tractors and mowers.
A Strictly Fresh Bronze razor dating to the eighth century BC was uncovered in Ancona Italy and deemed in need of sharpening. Our barber claims to own a similar dull blade for comparison. A humorous note about optimistic beliefs and TV announcers contrasts with casual chatter about seasonal parenting and political discussions.
Dr. Margery McKinnon becomes Australia’s first woman flying doctor at Charleville in southwest Queensland. She plans to give medical advice via pedal radio to distant settlers and undertake significant air medical missions, after previously serving as medical superintendent at Norfolk Island. The hospital residence is a historic sandstone house built by Pitcairn Island mutineers’ descendants.
Joe Stepnen Meyers Jr, age 15, serves as chief of the Five Towns Ground Observer post in Pownal Maine directing 25 adult volunteers in sky scanning duties.
Dr J Mitchell Dunn who performed the first Columbus transfusion recalls the 1917 experiment with a coal miner patient. He notes initial acclaim for transfusions but warns current use is sometimes excessive and should be saved for necessary cases.
Mr and Mrs Jim Gray and Mrs Carroll McCrea nearly left their ironing board in Bellevue Idaho. On a trip from Fresno California their car skidded near Wells Nevada and rolled over. The ironing board pinned three Gray and McCrea children in the back seat, protecting them from serious injury.
Dr. George Wright of the University of Toronto Chemistry Department operates a smoking machine that processes 600 pounds of tobacco weekly to extract tar for cancer research. The tar is divided into over 1,000 fractions and sent to Dr. E. L. Wynder in New York for mouse experiments. Wright, Tomlinson, and Robertson report tar not from paper and note no proven link between smoking and lung cancer yet.
The Pattern Shop at 60 Front Street West Toronto offers Pattern 7052 a tissue washable iron on color transfer design in bright blue yellow and green for a medium size. Send twenty five cents in coin to obtain this pattern.
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto advertises an ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue. Readers are urged to write their name address and pattern number and send 25 cents for the copy featuring knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelties. The notice promises many exciting new designs.
Mail for 35 cents with the Packet of patterns ranging from small comic windmills to large barn Weathervanes. The packet costs 1.50 and features heat proof materials for top and bottom designs. The double deck teacart holds dishes beside the table and eases kitchen trips. Pattern shows sawing and assembly steps. Postpaid orders to Seach Home Workshop Patterns Department PLP US 44133 West 5th Avenue Vancouver BC.
Miss Edith Mann, 40, underwent a rare spinal osteotomy at a North Shore hospital, fracturing and resetting her neck to an upright position. Doctors, two Sydney surgeons both specialists, performed the operation to treat ankylosing spondylitis that fixed her head forward and limited her vision to her feet. She had been warned the procedure could be fatal or leave her crippled, but she pursued it for a chance to look up at last.
A Kiel resident slept atop an incendiary bomb for 11 years until moving to a new home revealed the device buried in the floor under the bed. A disposal squad removed the bomb, noting it dated to a 1945 air raid.
Tonawanda New York motorist Richard D Voigt says he runs his 1941 car on liquefied propane and butane stored in two 20 gallon tanks in the trunk. He asserts fuel costs are about a third those of gasoline and that oil stays unusually clean. after 50 000 miles he claims over 50 percent savings in operating costs. He can switch to regular gasoline and spent just under 300 dollars on conversion parts.
The article states that TB germs are common and most people resist infection. It notes disease can go undetected until treatment is needed, but chest X rays can discover it and modern methods can usually cure. Canada offers free chest X rays as a simple snapshot check.
A Cypriot mother, unable to keep her infant, allowed a admirer to take the six month old girl from her arms at a London bus stop. Police and magistrates investigate adoption rights while the child is placed in London County Council care.
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