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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1949
Page
2
The article notes rising attention to juvenile delinquency as a major social issue while reporting a decline in Canada’s juvenile crime rate despite wartime influences. It cites a 1942 peak of 11 754 major and minor convictions linked to fathers and mothers serving or working in wartime roles.
Postwar housing shortages drove families into strained living conditions that fed juvenile crime, but nationwide progress includes more recreation facilities, parent education, penal services, and youth protection laws enacted by several provinces to curb youth crime.
The article praises police efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency through a Canada wide program with RCMP lectures on citizenship, school outreach, youth leagues, and visits to Boys' Homes. It notes home life as key to law respect and credits RCMP and other forces for prevention.
Joseph Phillips of Estevan won a hockey pool worth 45 dollars on the Toronto Chicago game in Toronto. Later that evening he received a 1949 Plymouth car at the Rotary carnival. The article notes fur coats increasingly come from fur farms with fox and mink most common.
An old advertisement touts D D D Prescription for itching and skin irritations with promises of fast relief. It claims cooling liquid formula speeds comfort from edema pimples rashes and athlete's itch and offers a money back guarantee.
Weyburn Saskatchewan provincial field crops commissioner W. H. Horner warned that hopper infestations may be worse in 1950 than in the current year. He urged cultural control, noting shallow fall or spring cultivation could destroy about 70 percent of grasshopper eggs. Farmers were advised not to feed stubble on heavily infested fields.
The Illustrated London News is believed to be the first illustrated newspaper, debuting in May 1842. It set a precedent for visual journalism with images accompanying news stories.
Images show top prizes and high bids at Moose Jaw Saskatchewan annual sheep and lamb sale. Ben Brown of Antelope sold 15 whiteface lambs to E. S. Schneider of Kitchener for 23.25 per ewt, Hawkins and McDermid's whiteface pen sold to Schneider for 22.16, and Bill Brown's blackface 15 lambs were bought by Schneider for 22.50 per ewt, all records.
A collection of jokes and quips from shoppers and staff spans a shoe repair shop sign, a fashion gag about America’s top heel, a prescription mix up, a window dressing line, a waiter joke, a crystal gazer tease, and Johnny’s quip about George Washington and his memory. The humor touches on identification, romance, and small misfortunes in everyday scenes.
Calgary based Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co, a major Alberta firm, plans extensive exploration in Saskatchewan. It has secured seven crown permits totaling about 100000 acres each. The 95 mile long strip lies NE-SW with width 25 to 30 miles, centered near Melfort about 100 miles northeast of Saskatoon.
The dominion executive of the Canadian General Council decides to hold national boy scout jamborees every four years, following the Ottawa event last July. The note adds that the chewing gum business traces back to 1860.
At the International Plowing Matches in Burford four Ontario boys won the Salada Tea Inter-County Plowing Match earning all expense tours to the United States to study soil conservation. Winners included Earl Bacher Cayuga and Robert Nixon Hagersville representing Haltonmnd County and E Timbers Milliken and N Watson Woodbridge representing York County. Other prize pairs were Brant County Bill Buck Paris and Carman Porter Ohsweken Wentworth County T Braithwaite Ancaster and G Markel Alberton Waterloo County R Henderich New Hamburg and G Brohman West Montrose Grey County Mac Gamble Chatsworth and Allan Duff Chatsworth Peel County D Cunningham Inglewood and H Cunnington Inglewood Victoria County G Bell Woodville and I Bell Kirkfield Huron County John Clark Goderich and Graham McDonald Brussels Welland County C Warner Port Robinson and A Marr Stevensville.
CALGARY Alta One of the largest shipments of cattle ever to go to a single buyer was made recently to Cherokee Ia Officials of Burns Company said 1 083 cattle representing a value of 131 000 were loaded into 28 box cars They said the cattle had been purchased by E E Beck an American cattle buyer.
Winter's rival in the next weeks will halt initial work on a 1100 mile crude oil pipeline from Edmonton Alberta to Superior Wisconsin until next spring. Next May officials plan to resume and complete the line to Superior by October.
Vancouver, Permanent licence plates double as tail lights and will be offered to the BC government. Inventor L. J. Walshe, 65, says models use perforated glass or plastic with numbers outside and a light inside. By day it resembles a bulkier plate. by night it glows red rear and white front. Renewal plates with year are removable and customizable. Walshe has patents in Canada and the US.
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