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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 16, 1946
Page
2
An ad claims outdoor workers suffer backache from cold dampness or vehicle jolts. It promotes Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as a two organ remedy to stimulate liver and kidneys, purify blood, and relieve pains with a price of 5 dollars a box.
Dr Chase notes Canada along with the United States and South American nations seeks to aid war damaged regions by exporting food, especially wheat, while acknowledging their housing crisis from destroyed prewar homes and the need for reconstruction.
A UN FAO study warns of a global lumber shortage as Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East exit the war with depleted supplies and US stocks at record lows. Britain faces an even more serious outlook, while Canada’s forestry is in fair condition.
Sir John Boyd Orr explains shortages due to deforestation and poor management. The FAO notes wartime cuts raised demand and now large Canadian rehabilitation programs aim to restore forests, improve protection, and provide employment as Canada expands lumber output for peacetime needs.
A Buddhist temple near Peiping reported a newly hatched spider large as an apple with a white face and facial features including eyebrows a nose and a mouth. A priest found it in a pear tree and placed it in a jar for study by scientists.
The passenger pigeon, once the most common North American bird, vanished with the last known specimen dying in Cincinnati's zoo on September 1, 1914 and now mounted in the Smithsonian Institution.
Agricultural observers note that typical ears of corn display an even number of kernel rows, a pattern often cited in crop studies and horticultural guides.
A collection of aphorisms and biblical quotes on wealth temptation and virtue. Tacitus Bacon I Timothy 6 17 Lew Wallace Mary Baker Eddy and others warn that prosperity tests character and that adversity strengthens fortitude. A smooth sea yields no skilled mariner and constant success does not guarantee usefulness.
Q and A style notice explains exchange of Beaver for Buffalo ration coupons, validity of Beaver coupons for evaporated milk, and which meat and butter coupons expire after October 31. It notes price ceilings remain for hairnets though subsidies removed, and turkey Grade A wholesale prices rise to 24 cents per pound from September 3. Readers urged to contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for pamphlets and the Blue Book for ceiling prices.
A collection of humor and quips about weddings, chores, marriage, debt, parenthood, and family life. Jokes include a groom mistaken at a wedding, a moth in school, Irish rock blasting, married wisdom, a child’s weed pulling, and a widow’s seven stepchildren.
Race tracks now rely on cameras to settle finishes, replacing judges and saving bettors. In Ottawa, 93 year old Sgt Daniel Byrd Hoskins Power credits long life to water and eggs, drinking hot water in morning and night.
A 24 year old Connecticut soldier, Sgt. Gerald McGee of Bridgeport, New Jersey, married 21 year old Pia Cossori from Italy. He says she can understand his English but cannot speak it, while he can understand her Italian but cannot speak it.
Aluminum nails up to four inches long are being produced to ease a nail shortage. They reportedly have greater shearing strength than steel nails and are easier to carry. a keg weighs about 34 pounds compared with 130 pounds for steel. Cost difference is minimal. Platinum was not discovered until the 16th century.
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