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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 04, 1942
Page
8
Britain authorizes shipment of 60 tons of wheat to Greece to ease famine risk. London reports note other wartime concerns including food launderies, rationing fines for Lord Bathurst, and soaring aluminum controls.
Pattern 4981 by Anne Adams offers a fast sew dress with four main sections and optional tie belt. Bias waist inserts slim the silhouette while white collar and cuffs provide a fresh note. other options include long sleeves revers ricrac trim and belt variations. Sizes 14 through 42. 3 1/2 yards fabric plus 5 yards contrast for size 16. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
A theatrical note advises careful stage movement and gesture to enhance speaking, emphasizing deliberate actions to be clear to the audience. It covers entering rooms, warming up, coordinating movement with speech, keeping hands visible, and avoiding awkward positions.
The New York Herald Tribune notes a giant tortoise on the grounds of Government House at St Helena as the sole survivor to have witnessed Napoleon’s life, dating back to his 1831 death, and jests the creature awaits a sight of Hitler. The piece also mentions Nauru in the South Seas as a British Empire mandate rich in phosphate rock.
The passage warns that civilization risks worse rulers than Hitler if people fail to think critically. It contrasts educated, independent thought with repeating slogans, urging mental discipline and self-made ideas to avoid future totalitarian figures.
The number of people regularly sleeping in the London underground shelters has declined sharply since the Nazi bombing peak. Only 28,000 now regularly shelter in the tubes, down from 70,000 the night after the last severe raid on May 10.
In Toronto a Coventry man recalled an air raid drill in which children posed as wounded. A girl waited for pickup too long, then left with a note saying she had bled to death. The piece also notes king cobras reaching 18 feet, the world’s longest venomous snake.
In the era when comics were limited to almanac jokes parents found affairs simpler than today as they must follow multiple comic strips to understand their children.
The article states that grapefruit was introduced to the Americas by Spaniards during the 16th century, marking an early transfer of the fruit to new regions.
A Sunday school reflection on Jesus teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum on the Sabbath, his authority unlike scribes, and the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law. It notes healing power as a personal, love powered gift and recounts crowds seeking cures at eventide.
At No. 10 Service Flying Training School Dauphin Manitoba on January 16 1942 Group Captain A H Wilson presented Pilot s Wings to a group of graduates from Western Canada The list includes LAC N A Ash Peace River Alta LAC L Beuchler Denzil Sask LAC J J Boyce Barrhead Alta LAC D M Cornish Scout Lake Sask LAC R W George Rush Lake Sask LAC W M Hays Amisk Alta LAC A F Hildebrandt Hague Sask LAC W A Manyluk Vermilion Alta LAC L W Ottewell Vulcan Alta LAC D r Pearson Pincher Creek Alta LAC G T Phillips Lemans Sask LAC W B Sage Lacombe Alta LAC W L Schofield Rosetown Sask LAC R D Shaw Gainsborough Sask LAC A E Staple Banff Alta LAC W H Tape Longview Alta.
More than eight million letters collected at the British dead letter office in London will no longer be burned. They will be recycled into cartridge wads, ammunition components, and mines to aid wartime efforts.
In Stonehaven Scotland the iron gates of Lord Stonehaven’s estate are missing replaced by a large sign declaring the gates have been taken to make tanks for Russia. The report notes no fur-bearing animals exist within the Antarctic Circle according to Sakas 2449.
Dr Cc M Hincks leads a Canadian delegation to Great Britain to study how Canada can assist Britain's child welfare system. Accompanied by Dr W E Blatz and Dr Stuart Jaffary they will assess needs for personnel to care for bombed and evacuated children and contribute to reconstruction efforts.
Post master general Mulock reported last year’s waste due to carelessness in addressing mail. About 2,100,472 items reached the dead letter office, with wasted postage estimated at no less than 42,009 dollars, urging public cooperation with postal officials.
On a wet afternoon a four year old girl is forbidden by her mother to go out collecting waste paper. The child eyes her mother and asks if she wants to win this war, showing resolve beyond her years.
The article notes the Pilgrims labeled cranberries devil's food due to their mouth puckering taste when eaten raw. It also mentions Native Americans teaching settlers to make cranberry sauce. A separate historical aside mentions Greece's independence era from 1828 to 1940.
Public notice in a home newspaper requests readers to provide guest names by phone card or mail. The item thanks readers for courtesy and updates the contact method for submissions.
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