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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1945
Page
2
Farmers from the Prairie Provinces and Ontario exchanged help during harvests with Western farmers going to Ontario for about a month in mid July. The plan aims to ease labour shortages worsened since 1939 as war reduced farm manpower by about a quarter.
An article urges broader nationwide cooperation to ease labour shortages by exchanging skilled harvest help between East and West farmers. It argues unity across vast geography will break down regional barriers and foster national growth through practical farmer collaboration.
A Western farmer's stint on Ontario farms and an Ontario farmer's time on Prairie lands are proposed as practical steps to deepen understanding of regional issues. The text argues labour exchanges foster better cooperation and national unity amid debates over subsidies and bonuses in farm policy.
Lt. Robert Morgan a British Air Arm pilot and associates describe a jet propelled auto with a 12 foot diameter single wheel 23 feet long and 15 feet high. The vehicle would run on oil bearings and Morgan would pilot from a seat inside the wheel aiming for about 520 miles per hour.
Subscribers on a North Bay Ontario party line complained of eavesdropping. A trouble shooter found the culprit was an elderly woman in one home using the phone receiver as a darning egg to mend stockings, causing the line to pick up conversations.
Major W I McFarlane of the Dominion Water and Power Bureau visited the Alpine Club of Canada camp in the Eremite Valley to consult with the glacier committee. For over two decades the club has recorded glacier movements at its annual camps, aiding Ottawa authorities.
Field Marshal Montgomery specifies three essentials for future world security spiritual values preparedness in case of war and a strong British Empire.
British war brides seek price ceilings and regulations details. Q and A cover pork spare ribs not rationed and where to exchange short leave ration cards. Eight Emergency Shelter Areas include Winnipeg. Readers are urged to request pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices with paper reference.
A collage of jokes and quips opens with a grocer praising a delivery boy named Scott Walter Scott who has worked locally for two years. The piece moves through brief exchanges about singing voices, a snake dance at a military ball, work focus vs self, accidental sleep talk, and language mishaps among workers and students. It notes roughly 40 to 50 percent of professional Japanese soldiers studying English.
Captain H. R. Weekes of the Sudan Defence Force guards a remote outpost 1000 miles from civilization for 18 months. He hunts butterflies for the British Museum and drinks gazelle with Congo beer. He and Capt. Geoffrey Edwards, a former journalist, discover they live on the same street in Ferring on Sea, Sussex.
A vivid London reminiscence notes a chalked slogan on a bus reading The Bus That Hitler Missed. It also recalls a Traffalgar Square newsboy chalking There’ll always be an England Beaten them three times with football scores.
Dr Robert B Black of Corpus Christi Texas reports a new drilling technique using a fine pin point stream of compressed air with a fine abrasive. The device has no moving parts and avoids grinding sound heat and vibration. Patients show preference for the instrument.
A brief compilation presents quotes from Beecher Disraeli Young Story Eddy and Shelley on work effort, learning, experience, aging, and the changing seasons. The verses urge active living, practical ingenuity, and the quiet nobility of autumn skies.
Disclosure describes a Soviet helicopter with two rotor assemblies two propellers and two motors. It purportedly achieves 106 miles per hour with a landing speed near zero. Photos show it hovering six feet above ground and the pilot stepping from a ladder.
Britannica Year Book notes parrots do not know what they are talking about, raising questions about avian cognition and language use in birds. The remark spotlights parrot speech as mimicry rather than true understanding.
Pte Gladys Hannah recounts enlistment in 1842 and service across Regina Farnham and Belgium. CWAC troops convert Nissen huts with quilts and home mementos while Belgian locals donate items. Military wedding in England links Sgt Margaret Glover and CQMS John Johnson as badges of service.
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