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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1947
Page
7
Patsy, a sixteen year old with a dreamy plan for Saturday night, waits for Jim Raine to call. After a nervous evening at home and a moment of loneliness, Jim arrives with a late shift apology and offers a movie. Patsy agrees, ending the night with a confirmed outing.
A classic two layer chocolate cake recipe using Swans Down Cake Flour and unsweetened chocolate. Steps include creaming shortening and sugar, beating in eggs, combining with flour and milk, and baking in deep 9 inch pans. Fill with Fluffy Seven Minute Frosting or Mint Frosting for the finishing touch.
Beat eggs with sugar and salt then whisk in milk and vanilla. Bake the custard in a 9 inch pastry shell at 450F for 20 minutes, then 350F 10 to 15 minutes. Prepare chocolate glaze with sugar and hot water, pour over filling, bake 300F 7 to 10 minutes, then cool.
Philippe Matte, 50, of Outremont Quebec, spent over three years and 1 000 spare hours to assemble a 36 by 49 by 14 inch wooden church weighing 45 pounds. He glued 1 200 pieces to form arches altar statues pews and electric lights, turning hobby into a kept project.
The International Children’s Emergency Fund warns 20,000,000 children may lose meals as funds dry up while arms spending rises. Aimed to provide a six cent daily meal with soup bread potato milk and cod liver oil, the plan now can feed 7,000,000 children with 500 calories.
In Houston Texas W F Hubbard official for postal savings informs a former Houston man now a New York millionaire that a one dollar amount left in postal savings over twenty years ago has grown to fourteen dollars. The man plans to claim the funds as one of his first earnings.
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto plans a three-wheeled two-seater bicycle designed for sightless people. The device allows healthful exercise with a sighted companion guiding the machine, expanding access to cycling and transportation for the blind.
In Fergus Ontario a new single storey glass walled c shaped school for 400 pupils replaces the 76 year old structure. Each classroom has an outside exit to cut fire hazards and improve safety for students starting next fall.
The article describes scientists tagging whales for migration research. It notes that in marketing contexts, numbers are placed on stainless steel tubes and fired into a whale’s blubber from a 12 bore gun.
Miss Georgina Murray, a Canadian girl and former W A N S member attached to the Canadian Navy Public Relations branch, owns and edits the Alaska Highway News at Fort St John. Her printing machinery had to be flown in, life in the north is primitive, and a three year old crawled through snowdrifts to fetch help for a sick mother. Bear meat brine ham substitute is noted. Yorkshire bears no longer roam.
British silkworms at Lullingstone Castle Kent raise 4 000 000 cocoons to spin silk for state garments. They previously provided robes for the Queen and two Princesses at the Coronation. Enough raw silk is already set aside for Princess Elizabeth's gown.
The National Union of Seamen conference in London endorsed that women on cargo vessels threaten the future of men’s employment. A Glasgow delegate warned we may face a female sergeant at arms of a Grable-bodied seaman, as the motion protested the introduction of women into catering departments aboard cargo ships.
The Pathfinder describes a chauffeur driven bus that carries the president of a Texas ice company on a 1000 mile plant circuit with two master staterooms, showers, a galley, refrigeration and air conditioning. The Automobile Manufacturers Association praises this luxury home on wheels along with other converted buses used by a Midwest plastic surgeon and a Detroit auto dealer for travel and as a travelling salesroom.
Akron report explains that the soap used to produce 500000 tons of synthetic rubber would form a bar 13000 miles long if unwound. Dr Waldo Semon of B F Goodrich notes the soap aids emulsion enabling butadiene and styrene to join without forming a sticky mixture.
Greenwich dinner party ends in delay when the new maid delivers a Western Union envelope containing a brown wrapped note reading Can’t find fingerbowls. The brief disruption accompanies a tale of a well performed but momentarily confused service.
A note traces the original Punch and Judy show to the early 1600s in England. The reference highlights the longstanding puppetry tradition and its cultural roots in European street entertainment.
The Health and Welfare Department seeks more physicians for its Indian services division to expand health coverage across remote northern communities. Since March the division employed 45 doctors, but a larger pool is needed. postings will soon invite Civil Service Commission examinations for frontiersman physicians.
John J. McGraw, nicknamed Muggsy for his rough style with the New York Giants, loathed umpires and was frequently ejected. In a pregame exchange with umpire Bob Emslie, he jokingly tested limits by muttering insults, then claimed he would stay silent to avoid ejection.
Nauru, once captured by Japan in 1942 and retaken in 1945, is shipping phosphate rock to Australia and New Zealand. Re-equipped by Australian interests, annual shipments may reach 500 000 tons this year. The note also cites vast uranium ore output from the Belgian Congo.
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