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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1944
Page
7
Garden notes advise using started plants from seed firms or professionals to secure quicker flowering and harvests in Canada. It covers transplanting, watering, light shade, pinching growth, soil mixes, seed-soil sowing, soaking beans and peas, fertilizing, spacing, thinning, and staggered sowings to sustain fresh vegetables up to mid July before frost.
Thousands of trappers camp in icy marshes as spring arrives to harvest Canada's musk rat crop valued at 2.5 million dollars. Trappers brave wind and cold to provide fur used in many forms including Hudson Seal, with processing shaping fashion demand while weather pressures affect pelts.
Britain has long produced high quality maps aiding the British Army and American forces under Mutual Aid Lend Lease. The Royal Engineers oversee map production with mobile press units printing up to 4,500 copies per hour, even operating 22 hours daily for six weeks during the North African campaign.
Lieut. G. S. Ritchie DSO Royal Navy from Aberdeen landed with invasion troops at Licata on Sicily's southern coast and rode 200 miles to Syracuse as rail traffic failed near the front. He borrowed a train from the stationmaster and used it as a special to reach the front. He said going by train was the simplest way with several ratings accompanying him.
In India the Mosquito fighter and reconnaissance bomber sails over the Burmese rivers striking Japanese barges and small craft. The swift twin engined monoplane has driven mortality rates higher among the targets, heightening the effectiveness of these operations.
The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief sent the Greek Red Cross fourteen thousand dollars most of which purchased cod liver oil for suffering Greek children.
Lola frets as Benny flies to Carlton Field to meet Major Donley. A faulty plane crashes on takeoff. Benny survives but Lola learns the pin she gifted him and the horseshoe motif saddle their fates with fear and relief as Carl’s plane burns.
Ottawa Nutrition Services explains daily vitamin C targets and substitutes. A standard serving of citrus or tomatoes equals 15 points, with vegetables and other fruits assigned values for comparison. Examples include applesauce, bananas, broccoli, kale, cabbage, beans, peas, potatoes, squash, turnips, parsley, and radishes.
Ottawa Journal argues that social security plans require funds from the people, not government own money, and that costs must come from taxpayers whose pockets are already stretched by government overreach.
The Knodishall women in England with a population of 469 challenge Britain to beat their knitting record. They have knitted 7 363 garments for the three services and made 103 garments for hospital patients.
A British Columbia farmer won a 900 bushel per acre potato yield using Netted Gem in 1943, with 83 bushels marketable as Leslie Gilmore of Steveston led the crop. The Columbia Potato Growers Association cites improving yields and quality. In India researchers cut penicillin growth time by using wheat bran, achieving about 30 units per gram versus 3 to 4 on sugar media.
Melt butter with chocolate then add sugar corn syrup and water and heat until blended. Cool add egg and vanilla then alternately beat in dry ingredients with sour milk. Bake in 8 by 8 by 2 inch pan at 350 F for 35 to 40 minutes.
Hon. Charles Daley introduced into the Ontario legislature the Labor Relations Board Act of 1944 to apply the new dominion war industry labor code to all Ontario industry except farming domestic servants police hydro electric power commission and municipal bodies. Spectacles were invented by a monk in Florence in 1135.
A new fashion pattern 4697 offers a willow slim frock with soft back skirt fullness and cap sleeves. Available in junior miss sizes 11 13 15 17 and misses sizes 12 14 16 18 20, the pattern costs 20 cents and must be ordered to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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