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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 06, 1946
Page
2
Hon. J. L. Lisley states that Canada may establish an organized peacetime saving program modeled after Victory Loan campaigns and War Savings Certificates. He notes small investors and payroll deduction plans funded much of wartime saving and suggests adapting those methods for peace.
Nine Victory Loan drives since 1939 were heavily oversubscribed. In his year-2 statement Mr. Isley announced Canadians invested 13.301 billion dollars in war loans victory bonds and war savings stamps and certificates with 6.596 billion from individuals. The plan provided funds for the war and offered sound investments across income levels while helping curb inflation.
After the war Canadians show willingness to invest in government bonds in peacetime to improve living conditions and develop national potential. The public recalls wartime savings were key to security and now seeks continued growth for Canada in peace.
An advertisement promoting Hem-Roid claims fast relief for piles internal causes and urges readers to order a five day trial from a drugstore. It promises money back refund if not satisfied and asserts decades of use in Canada.
Richard Clitherow a 43 year old former R C M P corporal from Southern Saskatchewan completed his medical exams in London and will sit as a Labour MP for Edge Hill Liverpool. He is a pharmacist by training and will not practice medicine, saying he studied to understand doctors. He plans to visit Canada again as the country runs in his blood.
The sunflower once seen as decorative is a food source for humans and animals. Sunflower seed has long been planted in Russia South America and Canada as a farm crop. It provides fat and protein as seed oil and meal for bread shortening soap cooking oil and livestock cake meal.
A cautionary washing note explains wool socks need similar tender care as sweaters. Use lukewarm water for washing and rinsing, avoid wringing or artificial heat, and dry flat on a towel with an outline traced on paper. When top dries, flip and finish drying on a coat hanger rod with circulating air.
Q and A on meat meatless days sugar coupons and ration books. Meatless Tuesdays and Fridays ban meat even if rationed. Poultry not rationed so no coupons required for sale. Meat coupons needed at one per four pounds. Use Green S coupons from ration book five for sugar and preserves with first S valid in February. Present ration book remains valid until replacement issued. Send questions or request pamphlet Consumers News or Blue Book to Wartime Prices and Trade Board office.
Ottawa outlines plans to spend over 500 million dollars through Veterans Affairs on gratuities, training, medical services, housing, and farm settlements for veterans. Five policy fronts include pension acts, living allowances, medical regulations, civil service preference, and broader civilian groups, as Parliament reopens in 1946.
United States troops discovered 100 cases of military supplies stored near Nara's Great Buddha, the world’s largest bronze statue in Japan’s ancient capital. The find came as authorities planned to remove militarized elements, amid pre war tourism interest in the shrine.
Orson Welles comments on Army radar contact with the moon suggesting space play and research could ease housing shortages. He warns Earth’s fate may force future generations to seek life on other planets and envisions real estate subdivisions beyond Mars.
The 3 000 ton HMS Pollux steam ed battles through fog on the Thames estuary using an experimental radar nicknamed the magic eye. A former Russian ice breaker, it steered past ships by instructions telephoned from a radar control cabin. The navigator viewed coastlines and obstructions on a three mile circular radar screen.
A Hollywood executive of short stature outfits his office and home to his proportions. His low ceilings, doorways, mantels, tables, chairs, and bookshelves create a scaled environment and he even employs a short secretary.
Horizontal and vertical entries from a dated crossword puzzle feature many items including To slide Nineths and Bacteriologist's wire alongside classic terms such as Silkworm Future existence and Saintly. The grid references and clue numbering indicate puzzle fill guidance with multiple language roots and cross references.
In Brantford Ontario and at Two-Axe on Six Nations reserve, the waning cash reduces practice of witch doctors like De-Wa- Se-La-Ke. Yet some Indians still value sacred masks songs and rattles, while Two-Axe reports healing powers in herbs and roots that even inspire ideas behind patent medicines.
The United States Navy outlines an experiment to test an atomic bomb on a guinea pig fleet of 97 vessels. The operation targets a wide array of ships including carriers battleships submarines and transports and is set to begin in May.
A Moroccan bride remains motionless with eyes and mouth closed for five days following her wedding as onlookers, mostly women, pass by to view her.
A compact collection of quotations on love and faith from Washington Irving Martin Luther Spencer Mary Baker Eddy Eleanor L Hervey and Leighton praising love as selfless pure and enduring and faith as simple and unbending. The passages urge forgiveness sacrifice and universal benevolence across religious and secular voices.
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