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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
7
An article extols the common toad as a valuable ally on farms and victory gardens. It notes toads prey on harmful insects such as plum and apple curculios, potato beetles, tent caterpillars, cankerworms, and gypsy moth larvae, with the USDA reporting about 98 percent of a toad diet is animal and over 60 percent is harmful insects.
A Lt Pat and farmer's daughter Sally transform a desert camp with chickens and paper craft to win a prize for best camouflage. The general assesses the camp, praises a feminine touch, and the win arrives after a dawn meal reveal. Sally's help proves decisive.
Eileen Crouch a 21 year old nurse is hailed as a heroine for five hours she helped evacuate patients from a hospital repeatedly struck during the blitz and buzz bomb attacks in Britain. She perished as the roof collapsed while shielding others.
From The Ladies and Gentlemen's Manual of Elegance Fashion and True Politeness 1850 an English etiquette guide instructs never cut bread thinner than an inch and a half and declares thin bread as plebeian reflecting class signals of the era.
Dainty floral pinafore pattern 4660 with ruffles in misses sizes 12 to 20. Size 16 requires 35 inch fabric and 3 7 yards. Send 26 cents in coins to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man. Mail delays may extend delivery.
Revised estimates show Canada produced 29,492,100 lb of honey in 1943, up 11,443,400 lb or 40.8 percent from 1942. Beekeepers reached 34,250 with 449,650 colonies, led by the Prairie Provinces especially Alberta where colonies rose to 42,800 from 27,500, signaling strong expansion and optimistic 1944 prospects despite winter losses.
Wartime research directed by the Army Quartermaster Corps in New York will yield postwar living comforts. Improvements include pre mixed cereals water proof matches butter that won t melt except at high temperatures and insecticides sprayed from metal bombs to kill pests in seconds.
Turkish authorities released two Russian citizens once employed by the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. They had been sentenced in 1942 to 16 years and eight months for a bomb attempt on German Ambassador Franz von Papen.
Irene five and Margriet Francisco born in Ottawa live with Princess Juliana and Beatrix. The two older girls attend nearby school and speak English fluently while playing with Canadian friends. Though not permanent residents they await Holland’s freedom and return, noting strengthened ties between nations.
A collage of light humor and social gags including a mock driving license exchange with an officer, a fatherly lecture joke, marital quips about handbags and bank loans, classroom banter on genders, an aging man’s rivalries, cultural mispronunciations, a food office name mix, and a salesman joke about a vacuum flask.
An Evening Standard editorial lauds Canada for reaching full stature among great nations. It notes the creation of the 1st Canadian Army as a climax of history and praises Canadian troops, wartime generosity, and the RCAF. It reflects on sons in Caen and the anniversary of Amiens.
The Monthly Review of the Wheat Situation states Canada can export about 350 million bushels in 1944-45 while keeping ample carryover. Exports may shift toward overseas markets with less to the United States, yet reserves should remain substantial by July 1945.
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