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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1958
Page
2
A Canadian classified ad lists used Gil furnaces and water heaters in Alberta style. Prices begin at 1.4 with other items described as like new and in excellent condition. Contact details include a Regina address at Albert St and a phone number.
An advertisement touts a secret service backed investment in a four part scheme. It claims a guaranteed return and a chance to share in a multmillion dollar oil and gas lease boom in Utah and elsewhere. Readers are urged to contact a Canadian American company for details.
Instruction advertisement offering business education by mail in accounting bookkeeping shorthand and rapid arithmetic. Mentions free prospects circular No. 35 from Success Commercial College Winnipeg and Canadian Correspondence Courses at 12% Bay Street Toronto with promises to earn more through lessons in salesmanship shorthand typing and letter writing.
Senator Ross Macdonald laments potential loss of CBC independence and warns a government funded agency could bankrupt the country. The piece argues government responsibility for broadcasting and rail issues, critiques CBC expansion into news, and urges restraint to protect democratic discourse.
A ten year old boy presents his parents with a dreary report card and declares he could pass an exam by asking the teacher practical questions. He lists topics from vehicles to animals, locomotives, tools, and sports, finishing with a confident claim. The Kennedy Times notes the quip in Whitewood Saskatchewan.
A quiet suburb hides a war over a proposed lily pond as neighbors clash over fences and play areas. Mothers worry about safety and property values while sides form, meetings fail, and summer passes with hostility and estrangement. The narrator notes the parallel to international conflicts.
A new $850,000 Provincial Laboratories building officially opened October 17 in Regina on legislative grounds connected to the public health building by a 100‑foot tunnel. Premier T. C. Douglas presided, with Hon. J. Walter Erb as chairman. Dr. Hugh F. E. Robertson leads the lab serving health officials, hospitals, and government, including chemical tests for poisons and gasoline dye analysis.
In the home workshop a reader describes making chairs as an easy project. The chairs are noted as comfortable with seats and backs highlighted.
The notice advertises Home Workshop Patterns Department P.P.L. offering five patterns for $1.75. It lists item 224 padded chair designs and mentions the arm chair being wider than a pull-up. Includes address 4433 West Ltd Avenue Vancouver BC.
An elderly England parishioner offers ten shillings to a profane man to repeat oaths in a graveyard at midnight alone with God. The man cannot utter the oaths, flees in fear, and appeals to God, weighed by the challenge of the Christian’s moral test.
A North Star North Star item notes a parent quip about buying a bicycle for a hyperactive child. The mother claims it won’t improve behavior, just spread it, while the doctor jokes about the patient returning when sober.
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