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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1947
Page
2
The article surveys long interest in turning waste farm products into industrial materials. It notes processes such as fermenting cereal grains to produce industrial alcohol, making plastics from milk protein, and extracting oils from flax and sunflowers for paints and fats, but highlights financial viability as a crucial constraint.
Dr. R. K. Larmour notes that enthusiasm for industrial uses of surplus or waste farm products must stay grounded in sound economics. He cites Western Canada and the Saskatoon Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council as sites to study new uses for surpluses, including straw, sunflowers, and flax, while stressing careful financial consideration.
Official estimates from across Australia raise the harvest to 260 million bushels with a possible export total of 180 million bushels if collected. The note closes with a puzzling aside about Jules Verne predicting planes submarines and television before his 1905 death.
Col H C Osborne reports from Ottawa that Canadian war graves in central Europe are in excellent condition and well sited. He returned after two months abroad inspecting Second World War graves and noting strong allied interest. eight main cemeteries were visited in France, Holland, and Belgium.
Grand hot gingerbread with butter or sauce for dessert. Sift flour with baking powder soda salt and spices. Cream shortening with sugar, beat in eggs, then alternate adding dry and liquid ingredients. Bake in greased pan at 350 for 45 minutes. Serve warm or cold with butter cottage cheese or apple sauce.
Measure juice and sugar into a two-quart saucepan. Boil over high heat while stirring constantly. Add Certo and return to a full rolling boil, boil hard for a minute while stirring. Remove from heat, skim, and pour quickly into glasses. Parafin at once.
Former U S Secretary of State James F Byrnes asserted that lasting world peace hinges on inner virtue more than treaty language. He emphasized moral resolve as essential to international stability and security beyond formal agreements.
A string of light quips and puns depicts domestic life and social dialogue. A wife questions marriage after death, a chorus girl and typist discuss nails, and a schoolmaster explains why round earth travel is impossible. The jokes showcase playful banter about marriage, vanity, and everyday situations.
The text notes that Canada’s wartime sunflower production rose due to improved varieties. Semi dwarf strains like Mennonite and Sunrise allowed easier harvesting with standard combines, yielding higher outputs and simplifying harvest.
The Ottawa Citizen reports Canada’s first insect resistant wheat named Rescue. Developed at the Dominion Experimental Farm Swift Current by A W Platt, it aims to increase harvests and farmer profits. Commercial release is planned for next year.
John S. Pirie aged 71 in Port Coquitlam British Columbia built a 40 by 22 foot home from hand hewn cedar timbers. He split all timbers by hand including window frames and installed a panelled wall and insulating ceiling. A table inside holds wood from every country in the British Empire. Pirie a former minister and newspaper man now retired lives with his wife in a quiet home with doors that slide on felt padded hinges.
Mrs. D. Hoffman of Gray Creek has no gun but uses a loud horn to repel a prowling bear invading her orchard at Kootenay Cottages. The bear dropped from a tree and fled into the woods after the blast.
Edmonton bus driver R. E. Lisson shot a sand colored mallard near Wetaskiwin. The bird was of fair size with feathers from head to tail blending white and sand, adding to the list of ornithological curiosities.
A crafted collection of aphorisms exploring pride from diverse voices. Dillon Samuel Johnson John Gay Mary Baker Eddy Shenstone and Sterne reflect on pride as a fault of sense, a lack of wisdom, and a vice that undermines genuine virtue.
The note records the start of fox farming on Prince Edward Island in 1894. It also mentions a claim about 2,796 languages across 2,749 world regions.
Canada has two Arctic weather stations now delivering four daily reports. The Eureka Sound station on Ellesmere Island near the North Pole was started by aircraft, and the Resolute Bay station on Cornwallis Island was established by a waterborne expedition. Both are located around 75 degrees north.
Seattle Superior Judge Clay Allen sentenced Raymond Scott, 28, to up to 20 years in the state reformatory for abandonment and non support of his wife and twin children. He called it the only remedy for the growing number of lazy husbands.
The letter m shows only slight variation in design from early Phoenician forms to modern usage, indicating a stable core shape through the centuries. The note traces its graphical shifts while preserving the recognizable m across eras.
Alberta RCMP Sgt James Muir warns drivers on the Edmonton Calgary highway to stay over their side and not crowd the white center line. He says misusing the line causes avoidable accidents and correct use, visible at night, could reduce highway injuries. The article also notes the moon's orbital period around Earth.
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