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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 18, 1945
Page
2
After Canada joined the war, citizens faced lower living standards and wartime shortages. Labour gaps and scarcity of luxury items touched most homes, while spending power shrank yet buying power rose by three billion dollars from 1939. Families redirected more income to food as normal spending channels closed.
Statistics for the year ending November 1944 show wholesale grocers sold twelve percent more groceries and ten percent more fruits and vegetables than the prior year. Meat production reached a historic high, and Canadian flour mills produced thirteen and a half million barrels. Wheat and flour exports rise while domestic demand grows, and nutritionists see this as improved nationally health standards.
Discussion on the Combined Food Board notes Canada has shipped large food consignments to the United Kingdom and other war affected countries. It highlights Canadian farming resilience despite labour shortages and rationing, and foresees expanded relief distribution with Canada playing a key global nutrition role.
Advertising copy promotes Hem-Roid tablets as internal treatment for piles. It claims 40 years of use, eases itching and soreness, improves bowel movements and blood flow, and promises a money back offer after five days if unsatisfied. The offer emphasizes privacy and at home use in Canada.
A Southampton works manager told a Labor exchange official he needed rivet sorters and could do the job with his eyes shut. After initially doubting blind workers, he later employed 37 blind people, saying we have been blind. Monkeys are trained to pick cocoa nuts in Sumatra.
Within two years of its inauguration on February 13 1943 the Indian Air Training Corps Scheme has been extended to cover all 19 Indian universities including three in the Indian States. Students may train for a career in the flying branch while studying, receiving ground instruction and at least three hours of flying to approach service conditions.
The King toured the Houses of Parliament for 75 minutes with Prime Minister Churchill, a visit possible since the Commons was not in session and the sovereign’s access is normally restricted.
A Wartime Prices and Trade Board notice explains three ounce meat and poultry sandwich spreads are back on the market since the year began. Trade stock builds with shipments to grocers expected after April 1.
A playful collage of quick witticisms and miscommunications from daily life. Jokes include a traffic officer, a conductor joke, a police scene, a sign about speed, a professor and student exchange, a fisherman exaggeration, and a lettuce caterpillar joke. The humor hinges on wordplay and social misunderstandings, with a light, newspaper-voiced tone.
Garibaldi while commanding the Commonwealth visited Tyne mouth to take in coal. A public subscription planned a sword and telescope presentation for him. In a letter dated April 12 he declared England a great nation and pledged to defend it if Italy faced need, calling for active alliance.
A cryptic line hints at a matchup between WAC and CHAC teams. The note suggests a campus competition or exchange, drawing attention to a quirky rivalry within a shared space. Further details remain unread.
Features from The Igloo daily at Prince Albert HQ for Eskimo Scheme personnel. Lt. M O D Logan edits with Pte N M Cobbe and Pte Doris Atwood on staff, boosting morale through world events base news and CWAC activity. Also covers a London church wedding, rifle-shooting triumphs by CWACs, and lists of Western recruits and notable marksmen.
A compact assemblage of philosophical maxims and religious reflections. The excerpt cites sentiments by Gee Macdonald Southey Lincoln Eddy Mc Cheyne and Tillotson about turning to God, finding inner worth, and necessitating spiritual resources in life’s storms. Each quote condenses moral guidance on faith and contentment.
The article credits British Columbia Packers Ltd. for aiding wartime food supply. It notes Canadian fishermen and farmers endured hardships, innovated methods, and delivered over seven million cases of salmon and herring to Britain and the fighting fronts over three years.
The piece recalls 1941 to 1942 shortages as Britain and Canada diverted salmon and herring to war needs. Navy requisitions of Pacific boats disrupted production, limiting Canada to about 450 000 cases over three years, well below prewar 600 000 annual output. The author praises fishermen for aiding troops and Britain, and looks forward to normal salmon availability.
After the Royal Norwegian Air Force training school closed in Ontario, Norse airmen sailed overseas in groups. The Maritime Express carried 16 crates of 16 huskie dogs and three Canadian pups in an ice cold car bound for the Atlantic. A harsh, sun scarred stratosphere danger warns of exposure for air crews.
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