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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1948
Page
6
Dwight D. Eisenhower has been installed as Columbia University's 13th president. Barbara Ann Scott, Canada’s queen of the ice, will debut professionally at New York's Roxy Theatre, headlining the holiday stage show starting Dec. 22.
Canadian farmers spent about 50 percent more on new farm machinery in 1947 than in 1946. Retail machinery expenditures reached 146.589 million dollars, with repair parts adding 30.042 million. Domestic equipment sales rose 48 percent to 120.65 million, while repair parts at wholesale totaled 22.88 million. The Prairie provinces led with 61.1 percent of national sales, Manitoba up 53 percent, Saskatchewan 62 percent, Alberta 64 percent, Ontario 37 percent, Quebec 26 percent, BC 14 percent, and the Maritimes trailing.
A Montreal woman visits Churchill on a sub arctic tour and notes the town’s rough, busy rebuilding scene. She highlights colorful houses, hammering by lantern light, frost ground, and a busy harbor with grain loading and ships including the Empire Beatrice and Regina Polaris. Nearby coastal rocks glisten like satin from ice and tide action.
A mixed crossword puzzle grid lists clues across horizontal and vertical with varied hints. It includes animal names like killer whale and archaic words, plus geographic and linguistic terms, inviting solvers to map answers to a 15 by 15 style grid.
A poet recalls the first snowfall after a night of wind and darkness. The sun returns and invites play as the world shifts to a bright white landscape, ending with a calm promise that the snow is here to stay.
A collection of quotable lines about forging character through effort faith and work. It highlights religion morality knowledge aim and perseverance as core factors shaping personal strength amid life’s trials. It includes thoughts from Froude Pickard Goethe Hawes Smailes and Mary Baker Eddy.
Vancouver based composer Al Hoffman, creator of Mairzy Doats, shows interest in the name Saskatoon. He speculates a future Canadian hit could be Saskatoon Moon or Moon Over Saskatoon reflecting a potential new song inspired by the city.
Boost linoleum gloss by adding a splash of clothes starch to mop water. A simple home tip from the periodics column offering a quick finish for flooring.
Victoria BC The Provincial works department expects prices to peak soon and has revised its contract policy. Long term awards will end and big projects split into seasonal sections. Bids will no longer gamble on multi year price trends and may become more reasonable. If prices fall next year, the department may save on final sections.
Near Medum Egypt on the Nile’s western edge lies the pyramid of Snefru the first king of the fourth dynasty and immediate predecessor of Cheops.
Health authorities warn sun exposure cannot supply all the vitamin D a child needs. Children require 400 IU daily, available via drops, liquids, or tablets, at under two cents a day. Dairy, sardines, and salmon supply some D but not enough for growth, and rickets remains a danger.
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