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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1945
Page
2
British authorities in Germany accelerate school reopenings and textbook replacement to purge Nazi propaganda. About 6,500 schools resumed by mid October with 1,150,000 pupils. one million new books printed for elementary grades. pre 1933 texts restored. Basic English used for Hamburg teaching. films and broadcasts supplement materials.
Britain seeks an easy method to get sardines from tins after the war. Letters to newspapers question why a simple opener has not been invented as wartime tins often arrived without the key.
The text describes severe school-building shortages during British occupation with destroyed or repurposed facilities. Restorations exist but overcrowding is widespread with multiple schools sharing structures and staggered hours from eight in the morning to eight at night.
A collection of humorous quips and exchanges about optimism and pessimism, courtesy of a playful cafe or social page. The jokes cover workplace misunderstandings, family banter, and light observations on life, cars, and weather, with brief exchanges showing character voice and humor.
An Army captain in Baltimore requests Marguerite Steen’s The Sun is My Undoing to finish after reading to page 735 before going overseas in 1941. He has 441 pages remaining and seeks the book to complete it.
The origins of the global oil industry trace to the mid 19th century when the first oil well was drilled in a pursuit of black gold. This historic breakthrough launched modern petroleum exploration and production.
A list of crossword hints including Fruit seed Conductor's stick lever Mountain range Asia Minor Eaten away Confederate general Cigar shaped explosive projectile To heat excessively Italian river To assist Spanish money Denials Positive pole To interpret Babylonian deity Slang crony Prize Corpulent French conjunction Employs To ascend Breathes Beverages Law things Notwithstanding To jab Bacteriologist's wire Southwest wind Document Growing out To expunge Contract Clays Freedom from constraint Used to be Strainers Preposition To rave To quench Brain passage Wing Male To cut short To decay Affirmative Toward
Q and A on applying for automobile permits at Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices. It explains priority issuance, hotel guest ration book handling after four weeks, and return upon leaving. It covers turkey pricing for farmers, and coupon collection for farm meat sales to other farmers, including monthly forwarding to the local ration board. Readers are urged to request Consumers’ News pamphlet or the Blue Book from the local Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
A collection of quotations praising Christianity as a living life not mere theory. Coleridge, Lander, de Tocqueville, Franklin, and Jesus Christ emphasize wisdom, tranquility, liberty, public virtue, and the promise of greater works through faith.
Montreal shareholders heard George W. Spinney report that government benefits should come from labor and be well designed while he warned against universal high living standards without work. B C Gardner outlined 7-year gains, assets up to 1.716 billion, deposits 1.613 billion, and broad lending aims amid postwar caution.
Collier's notes the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, reentering construction after a four year pause, will surpass the Empire State Building in scale with 260000 tons of steel, 148 elevators, 62 escalators, and 112 storeys capped by a 28‑foot Lenin statue.
A fleet of mobile dispensaries for sick animals is proposed as a war memorial to birds and animals that suffered or died in active service for Britain. A service record of animals will be included in the Imperial War Museum permanent records. Bay War Savings Stamps regularly.
Excavation to begin on the projected site of an atom-smasher building at McGill University will require tearing down a greenhouse that houses the university's only banana tree. Most plants will be moved to other greenhouses but the ground plants including the tree will be sacrificed.
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