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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1943
Page
2
The article emphasizes secret weapons as obstacles to progress and notes scientists and engineers play a crucial but quiet role. It highlights the wartime focus on research and its link to postwar reconstruction, invoking Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter and the broader fight for freedoms.
The article explains how war spurs medical and nutritional research aimed at saving lives and fighting disease. It discusses new materials and mechanical advances from wartime research that could benefit civilians, and highlights Western Canada’s potential role in industrial uses for farm products and future prosperity through scientific progress.
The Swedish paper Afton Tidningen reports a new German decree permitting executions for children as young as 12, contrasting with 1939 law restricting capital punishment to youths over 16. The decree allegedly cites that children are maturing faster.
In Westminster Palace Yard, a bomb fragment bent Richard the Lion Hearted’s sword in the equestrian statue. The discussion centers on whether the sword should be straightened or kept bent to symbolize Britain's wartime resilience amid the blitz. The piece notes that the letter E is most common, yet more words start with S than with any other letter.
The page lists numbered crossword clues for horizontal and vertical entries. It includes clues for words such as drink, celestial body, Ugrian tribesman, Italian river, and many more, plus endings for down clues like Naut kept with bow toward sea and various doctrinal and nautical terms.
In Special Branch a woman with a colored maid shares a bond through their sons in the army. The employer asks about his branch. Emma explains Sidney is not in infantry artillery or engineers but "in the corporals" implying a rank-based distinction rather than a specific branch.
A British cruiser’s medical party was ashore in southeastern Arabia to combat a smallpox epidemic. On the first day 3,095 residents were vaccinated and a temporary hospital was erected. A surgeon removed a diseased child’s eye to save the other, then local blind men sought treatment but were told healing lay with Allah.
Canada’s sunflowers bred for oil by the Dominion Experimental Farms Service. The program aims to develop suitable oil-seed varieties through targeted breeding efforts and agricultural research.
A collection of light anecdotes and humorous exchanges features Army doctor jokes about a frail recruit asking how he stands, a wife reading a paper about a two heart hen, a dialogue about worn boots and a dentist, a barber and a skeptical customer, and quips about gifts and Providence.
Andre Dugo born Szolnok Hungary is named designer of the 1943 anti tuberculosis Christmas seal now used worldwide including Canada USA Britain Jamaica and British territories. He studied architecture in Budapest and painted in Budapest and Paris before settling in the United States becoming a citizen.
In Utrecht Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart told Dutch figures that if Germany could trust them and victims in other occupied countries to repel an Allied invasion, occupation forces might be withdrawn and sent to the Russian front. The remark drew comparisons to bargaining with a drowning man.
A reflection on the difficulty of replacing happiness in others and the near impossibility of full restitution in such cases.
A Canadian Home Front guidance lists practical gifts for 4000 Wrens and other servicewomen in Ottawa. Suggested items include white broadcloth shirts with detachable collars, sheer black stockings, black ties gloves and tailored lingerie, toiletries, writing kits, clocks, and money orders in pound sterling for overseas troops. It mentions morale efforts in the Mediterranean and recalls stories from the Pacific command and Saskatchewan enlistments.
The National Geographic Society notes a new process removes moisture from sweet potatoes while preserving sugars minerals and vitamins to create a crisp nutritious cereal for breakfast. Sweet potatoes already popular in the South supply candy bars ice cream powders flour and spreads with Georgia leading 1943 production over 70 million bushels.
Allied scientists report experiments using apple syrup as a glycerine substitute for Berlin bombs. The method aims to use millions of failing apples each year. Additional tests show apple syrup also promising for bakery products cosmetics and as a syrup base for drugs.
Dr. E. S. Archibald notes farmers face low labour income on average farms even with family help. He urges consumers and industry to support provinces and governments in finding a permanent solution for prosperous rural life in Canada. He compares farm earnings to those of Grade 1 stenographers to illustrate income gaps.
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