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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 07, 1956
Page
7
Reader's Digest notes a sweeping shift as 35 years of employment gains push more women into the workforce. Married women now work by choice, spurring demand for consumer goods and part time roles amid full employment and a labor shortage.
Household Arts Department promotes patterns from the new Alice Brooks Needlecraft book for 1956. Readers can order dozens of designs for home and personal projects, with two free patterns and a 25 cent copy price.
A North district reports increases in coyote raids on lambs poultry and calves as populations rise and pups begin roaming. Agriculture officials supply poison pellets to farmers to thin coyotes amid rabies concerns and threats to residents.
The article warns that a persistent blue tint in infants under ten months on formula from well water may require medical attention. It advises testing natural water supplies for high nitrate levels, notes treated municipal water is safer, and recommends testing well water within a month of using it for infant formula.
A car owner learns tire life depends on rotation and alignment. The service manager notes rear tires wear faster, proper balancing and front-end alignment extend tire life, and jolts from potholes or curbs can reduce mileage. The owner now rotates tires and checks balance regularly.
A collection of quotable maxims from Wordsworth Eddy Dickens and Stevenson emphasizing virtue service and friendship. The passages urge doing good lightening burdens serving others and valuing mutual care as the path to personal fulfillment.
The article warns that deformities from ill fitting shoes, especially in children, cannot be solved by renaming the condition. It cautions against letting very young girls imitate dancing without proper training and supportive toe shoes to protect undeveloped bones.
In Pearce Alberta a light soil area infested with leafy spurge was treated by converting the land to crested wheatgrass and grazing with sheep. The approach cut the weed by 91 percent over four years, with sheep readily eating spurge when plants are one to three inches tall, though later stages pose poisoning risks. The method reduced weed species from 11 to 7 and transformed a ruined field into a productive pasture.
Fragmentary text describes a town clock event in Styning England where the clock reportedly struck 300 times at 2 p.m. before someone stopped it. The passage also contains stray lines about a school, a divorce motive, and a student memory of a canoe kiss.
In a title game a young catcher called time out to clean his mask after his bubble gum burst. The umpire questioned the delay as players and crowd watched the humorous mishap unfold during the tense contest.
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