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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 08, 1942
Page
7
Tamar and Ransome confront a suspected plot as Major Towne and an ally discuss a crime at a secluded picnic ground. Tamar reports overheard plans, while Ransome comforts her and vows to uncover the truth, delaying plans with her mother and taking a restorative afternoon away.
Tamar and Ranny drive to an old Chestatee mill on Whiffle Creek for a picnic. They share quiet talk and playful banter as they settle by a rock lunch setting, while Tamar weighs her feelings for Major and Christopher. The scene ends with a tense aside about fighting for a girl.
The article advises sowing peas spinach lettuce and radish as soil warms while warning medium hardy plants gain nothing from early sowing. It suggests dividing seeds into three parts, using hot beds in March, and spacing shrubs and trees to mature heights with room for annuals.
The article explains that icebergs originate as fresh water from land-based glaciers and become icebergs after calving into the sea. No additional details provided.
Canada’s munitions and supply department reports 250 gauge types are produced by Canadian machine shops for war production. From five shops in 1939 the industry is expected to double basic items this year. Gauges, crafted from bronze, aluminum and steel, serve manufacturers and government inspectors. Since the war began orders total 155000 gauges costing over 4.5 million dollars.
Materials scarce will curb building and repair of roads in Canada this year due to shortages of asphalt petroleum asphalt and steel. New construction will be restricted to vital defence arteries and links to existing roads and new military plants or war camps.
DIY home sewing feature describes making a Southern-belle vanity from a packing box using red dotted Swiss fabric, ruffles, beading, and double-snap tape. It promotes a 32 page booklet with additional craft projects and lists other inexpensive booklets for 15 cents each from Winnipeg News Paper Union.
A fruit bread recipe lists ingredients including corn syrup brown sugar dried apricots milk lemon juice egg and flours with baking powder and soda. The method describes dissolving sugar in heated milk mixture then combining with dried fruit and then adding dry ingredients. The batter is baked in a leaf pan at 350 degrees for about one hour.
The article notes the Alaskan seal herd's annual trek from May off California to Pribilof Islands and back, its 24 million head prior value, Japan's 15 percent stake, and the risk of war forcing a change in migration routes. It calls for scientific input to guide fur administration and potential warnings for October movements.
The article notes that early wheat seeding is less urgent after adopting early ripening varieties. It cites Swift Current Experimental Station findings and recommends sowing oats and barley first to exploit early moisture, with Noted Financier Puzzled His Lawyer Son listed among names.
The department of munitions and supply reported last year contracts and commitments reached 2.1 billion dollars. Equivalently a four thousand dollar contract was issued every minute of the day.
Dr Harold O Whitnall a Colgate University geology professor suggests using aerial bombs to puncture volcano plugs to release pressure and trigger lava flows and quakes in Japan He notes 700 gallons of water are needed to cool one ton of red hot coke in his feasibility remarks.
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