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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 09, 1946
Page
5
The article describes future home innovations to ease chores. Automated dust collection, self cleaning shoe mats, touch entry cleaning, mud and stain resistant floors, auto cleaning windows and furniture. Electronic ovens, deep freezers, big screen televisions, remote baby monitoring, and advanced telephony promise faster cooking and safer homes.
A mix of brief facts covers Peter the Great’s literacy delay, a record elephant length, Columbus expedition costs, color effects on student work, a late description of poliomyelitis, a tiny electric motor invention, Key West street layout, and a retina thickness estimate.
The London News Chronicle reports secret printing presses in Germany producing大量 counterfeit travel documents for soldiers seeking illicit leave, displaced persons fleeing Germany, and civilians posing as allied nationals to move abroad.
The Montreal Star reports a British government contract bringing in over two million boxes of British Columbia apples and three hundred thousand barrels of Nova Scotia apples. It marks the biggest prewar scale overseas order since before the war and signals strong profits for Canadian producers as crops come in this fall.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship St. Roch returns from 18 month Arctic patrol near Cambridge Bay. A Eskimo complaint centers on white contact bringing common colds. crew note cold cases rose after Operation Muskox. Sub-Inspector Larsen hints at longing to return north.
In Philadelphia a housewife struck a man trying to buy meat with a leg of lamb, snatching it from a butcher as about 100 customers watched. After a brief struggle she kept the cut and swung it over the man’s head, prompting jeers from other women. He left empty handed.
In Kansas City a jar of regular damson plum preserves with a White House label drew a high bid of 2 dollars at the Woman's City Club annual harvest festival. The preserves were contributed by Mrs. Harry S. Truman. A dustpan tip notes waxed dustpans repel dust and dirt.
John L. Ward of Kamloops has donated a 1615 Breeches Bible copy and a five year earlier King James prayer book to the British Columbia Archives for safekeeping. The Breeches Bible is prized by collectors for Genesis 3 verse 7 noting Adam and Eve sewing fig leaves, the only Bible issue to use the word breeches.
The Division of Entomology led by Alan G. Dustan surveyed the North West Territories visiting Fort Smith Fort Resolution Hay River Yellowknife Port Radium Fort Norman Fort Good Hope Akiavik and the Mackenzie Delta settlements. They found insects were rare due to a wet season and noted grasshoppers red turnip beetle and cabbage pests as occasional issues with potato crops largely unscathed.
Dr. Hans Selye told a Montreal audience that stress from modern living may be countered by dieting and better nutrition. Dr. I M Rabinowitch added that understanding nutrition could extend life toward 110 or 115 years, noting organs are built to function longer than the current average.
Two hundred children from England's industrial Midlands traveled from London to Switzerland for a three month visit with Swiss families. Some aim to learn skiing while a little girl jokes she will eat so much she becomes too fat to fit on the return train.
Expert tea tasters can identify hundreds of varieties and determine the growing region in moments. The skill relies on aroma, flavor, and color cues.
Henry Jackson Moore of Islington Ontario, creator of the International Peace Garden on the Manitoba North Dakota boundary, died in Kingston. A Royal Horticultural Society associate and Kew Gardens graduate, Moore helped start the project after Canada and the United States funded the garden, opening it in 1932 on a border area between Manitoba and North Dakota. He arrived in Canada in 1909 and served as secretary of the international garden committee.
The item describes a Bobby-Sox Doll pattern 7116 with a sweater skirt and date dress for a teen mascot. Instructions include transfer directions for the doll and her outfit. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name address and pattern number.
Representatives from the United States Britain and France form a tripartite body to return gold looted by the Nazis in allied countries. American delegate Russell H. Dorr said the estimated value exceeds 700 million dollars.
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