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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 10, 1943
Page
3
Postwar Canada will see parks and recreational areas expand their role in the economy. Canadians value easy access to nature for camping picnicking boating hiking and fishing while wildlife sanctuaries must not be overrun. Parks at all levels will boost health morale and national pride as war ends.
Raymond Gram Swing notes Churchill relies on written records to preserve important conversations rather than memory. He argues Churchill’s secretariat creates richer historical data than Roosevelt’s memoranda. Churchill, a strong speaker, treats writing as basis for future action and history.
Henry J. Kaiser arrived in Washington late for a meeting with newspapermen. He explained he had waited 30 minutes for a taxi, prompting a reporter to quip why he did not build one.
Reports from the Reich frontier reveal extreme price spikes with coffee at 53 per pound butter 18 per pound and Cognac 20. Berlin and Munich restaurants offer meals around 2.20 with thin soup and two standard dishes. Brandon Sun notes Canada’s Beaver market stocking health-building foods and promoting Official Food Rules to aid shoppers.
Regularly cooking potatoes in their skins increases iron, vitamin B and vitamin C in meals. This method preserves most vitamins and minerals found in raw potatoes.
The article notes General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s new school leadership keeping Eighth Army informed of attack objectives. It also reports Doris Lillian Kent of Toronto receiving the Royal Red Cross for overseas nursing service in England, with background on Queen Victoria’s 1883 foundation of the award for nursing and related eligibility.
A Vichy decree reported by the Journal de Geneve said the French Salvation Army was dissolved for conflicting with national relief measures. The action reflects the regime’s wartime controls on humanitarian groups.
Canada maintains a central index register of seamen in the transport department with over 35 000 names. The record includes ships and service details of sailors, many active in dangerous wartime cargo runs through submarine menace.
The notice describes a fabric embroidery pattern 7396 with ten motifs sized from 5 x 14 to 144 x 2 inches and offers it for twenty cents from the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg. It also details a Canadian seamen registry, its central index, and pension provisions for sailors, including Merchant Navy Badges and Memorial Crosses.
A cow yields milk used for cheese butter ice cream and milkshakes and also supplies meat hides and leather goods.
The C.8.T.A. Review states conservation is care for farm equipment, essential as gear must serve longer amid Canada's war effort and UN needs. It warns neglect shortens life more than hard work and urges farmers to store equipment under cover to protect against weather.
The London News Chronicle cites a transport authority critique noting the 19 stone piers of Old London Bridge were built without adequate engineering experience and the bridge functioned only 600 years.
Report notes General Draja Mihailovic of Yugoslavia leads irregular operations against the Nazis. It cites a German troop train diverted into a ravine as an example of the good days work by his guerrilla forces.
Income taxes are paid by 1 500 000 people in Britain, compared with 3 800 000 in 1939. This reflects a long term shift in the tax base and suggests broader taxable income across the population.
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