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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 29, 1943
Page
7
Eskimos welcomed refrigerators brought to eastern Arctic trading posts by white traders as wives began importing them for frame houses. Maj. D. L. McKeand notes cold, not heat, was the foe, freezing canned milk and produce outdoors and causing spoilage and occasional food poisoning. Refrigerators keep food at proper temperatures year round.
Cheerful frock pattern 4559 and 4588 offered with varying sizes from 12 to 42. Instructions claim quick assembly with contrast trimming and two fabric options. Send twenty cents with size, name, address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg. Delivery caveat noted due to slow mail.
Fred and Laurel drive a sporty roadster through the country facing money woes and hunger. A violent Mr Banghart accuses them of stealing after they help patch his four flats, leading to arrest as they seek a job in Carterville.
An ad touts Dr. Miles Nervine to ease nervousness sleeplessness and irritability, with Nervine tablets and liquid listed alongside prices. The narrative scene shows Fred and Laurel hired by Mr. Banghart after an innocent misunderstanding, as he explains he needs a sensible helper for his hardware business and omelet-making expectations.
A Promeranian named Pete travels from Norfolk Virginia to Patchogue Long Island 385 miles in a little over three weeks. The New York Sun notes it as a big tale for such a small dog. Three days after an eight night blitz on the docks at Liverpool England every shift was working.
Henry M. Spelman Jr chief of the leather and shoe section of the Office of Civilian Requirements predicts old tire car casings will be used for shoe soles. He suggests pedestrians may be glad to walk on remnants of used autos that once tried to run them down.
The Western Canadian hard red spring wheat average protein in 1943 stood at 13.5 percent, up 0.7 points from 1942 and 0.2 below the 17 year mean. A board of grain commissioners lab report based on 5,645 samples from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta shows Manitoba 13.1, Saskatchewan 13.8, Alberta 13.1 percent with 1942 brackets.
Recipe notes describe a two part dessert with orange raisin cake and orange lemon filling. Includes ingredients such as shortening butter brown sugar corn syrup raisins orange and spices. Provides instructions to bake two 9 inch layers then assemble with orange filling and optional icing. Also suggests bake in a larger pan and top with orange rind or sugar dust. War Savings Stamps is encouraged.
Seventeen year old Thelma Parker of London Ontario writes to Mrs J H Harris president of the Women's Division Health League of Canada advocating a Junior Nursing Aides Corps. She urges official or voluntary support to give adolescent girls a chance to contribute to the war effort and support frontline soldiers.
The News Bulletin of the National Geographic Society reports quinine may be produced again in South America. It cites 700 000 forgotten quinine bearing acres in Colombia and notes the drug is not native to the Netherlands Indies. Seeds carried from Peru left a foreign doorstep about a century ago.
The third Canadian National Railways hospital car, completed in CN shops, features continuous construction beds with shared posts, individual bed lamps, and drop side safety guards. Interior colors match modern hospitals, with improved admitting room kitchen and dispensary.
An old advertisement touts Moone’s foot relief product claiming rapid relief from tender, aching burning feet. It promises dramatic changes in minutes and urges purchase at all drugstores.
Teacar No 1052 of the Canadian YMCA war services operated overseas from Minne dosa Manitoba. In October Tpr Montgomery reports serving 8210 men over 621 miles on North Sea ranges during four day schemes dispensing free tea and biscuits and selling Canadian chocolate bars and peanuts.
A collage of jokes and vignettes on romance work life and social quirks. Conversational quips about marriage bakery business hotel life and family finances mingle with comic one liners and a motorist versus pugilist mishap.
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