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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1944
Page
3
A long report from the C I L Oval extols a chemical treatment using methylolurea to convert soft wood into a harder denser material. Poplar can surpass maple, pine can resemble oak, with improved strength, stability, and dyeable finish. The method suits veneers, furniture, flooring, millwork, and many large or small wooden items.
Brazil's Cave Peak in Minas Gerais will be mined for three years starting this year to yield about 1.5 million tons annually for the Allied powers. Geologists estimate the region holds up to 15 billion tons of high grade ore for steel. Canada ranks fourth among nations producing war supplies behind the United States Russia and Britain. Constantine the Great established the seven day week as a calendar division.
The text notes that 7 percent of wear in gasoline and oil engines occurs before lubrication during warm up, varying with engine type and oil temperature and requiring 10 to 50 thousand crank revolutions, or 10 to 30 minutes for cars and 10 to 15 minutes for tractors. It also mentions the East African mud skipper fish living on land but needing a moist tail to breathe.
A visitor in the White House argued reading is unnecessary for strong men, but Lincoln insisted reading keeps original thoughts from seeming new. Britain pursues Jewish relief while Germany and Hungary escalate persecution with deportations and killings. The Montreal Gazette notes Hitler halted a grand victory memorial project as odd reveals emerge about his situation.
The article recalls Canadian nursing sisters serving in Canada and overseas including Italy and South Africa, noting their uniforms and endurance. It laments Germany’s regime, cites Nazi crimes from Lidice to Treblinka, and insists there must be accountability before peace.
A diner jokes that the boiled eggs are exceptionally small and not fresh. The waiter agrees and quips that being small is lucky, as the customer points out the eggs’ condition. The exchange reads as a light humor moment from a dining room.
A reflective column argues money and power fail to satisfy. It asserts being needed gives a glow to the eye and warmth to the heart, claiming the mere act of being needed holds the riddle of life.
Pattern 7139 offers a sunsuit with a bib and embroidery touches for sizes 1 to 4. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg with name address and pattern number and allow extra mail time. The note includes a joke from Collier's about bankruptcy and corporations.
Peter Hermann Goering of Pottery Road Warley Birmingham a natural born British citizen serving in the British forces gives notice in the London Gazette that he has changed his name to Peter Howard Curling.
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