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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1952
Page
2
Australian drought devastates nearly a trillion square miles north of the Tropic of Capricorn with monsoon failures. Thousands of cattle are being lost and future herds will shrink, while farmers seek better railway connections and well watered stock routes to move stock during dry periods.
Canadian farmers boost wheat output to feed the world while Australians push meat production to meet overseas demand. Weather cannot be controlled yet drought can be mitigated with proper actions. Northern Australia faces a 10000 ton meat loss, prompting sympathy from Canadians.
Canadians continued high retail activity in June with $978.3 million in sales, up from last June and pushing six month totals to $5.27 billion. The year is on track for over ten billion in purchases, though June eased 7.1 percent from May’s record.
In Syracuse, officers used electric timing devices to monitor a busy thoroughfare. Two young drivers were fined after a patrolman on a motorcycle flagged them for speeding despite the general flow of sedate traffic.
Hazelton B C. A rugged road carved through wild terrain to reach the Babine River slide has begun to save sockeye and other salmon. Biologists and engineers plan permanent channels or ladders to assure safe spawning and passage for the five day run, with daily returns exceeding 3000 fish.
A collage of light anecdotes and quips about marriage hats Hollywood farewells and romantic misfires unfolds. Jests involve a film actor a henpecked husband brides and grooms and brides to be. The pieces humorously reflect social foibles and witty exchanges.
A moist loaf flecked with bran and banana. Ingredients include flour, Magic Baking Powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, bran cereal, mashed banana, lemon juice, vanilla, butter, and Brazil nuts. Bake at 325 degrees F for about 65 minutes in a lined pan. Yield: 1 loaf.
Advertisement notes a 1952 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book priced at twenty five cents. It promises ninety one pattern illustrations and six easy patterns. The copy urges readers to request the book by providing name address and pattern number.
Reports from Sand Lake area state a timber wolf roams nightly with a saddle pony, feeding at a garbage dump with two bears. Chief Ranger Byron Smith notes the wolf follows the pony to dawn before parting. The sighting places it about 250 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie.
A Whittier California reader credits Moone's Emerald Oil with curing years of ankle eczema and related skin conditions. The advertised antiseptic claims to heal eczema, salt rheum, and itching feet, noting wide availability in drugstores.
R M Dick Shamp, Norman Thomas, and Howie Martin describe a grueling 25 day trek through the Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories. They carried 75 pound packs, faced injuries and near disaster, logged 150 miles, and survived by building rafts and forging a difficult path back to base at Glacier Lake.
Paul Le Siege and Georges Hooper, teens, finished a 35 day 7000 mile journey through western Canada costing under 50 dollars. They previously toured the Gaspe peninsula for 7.50 dollars. This summer they traveled with minimal shelter in a pup tent or makeshift towns and witnessed the Calgary Stampede. A porcupine cannot shoot its quills.
The 1948 act places no legitimacy on birth registration. A complete record of both parents is kept privately. Parents who later marry may request the birth be registered as if married at the time of birth.
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