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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 02, 1946
Page
2
The article notes renewed interest since the bomb’s reveal focusing on destruction and peace, with prospects of atomic energy for heat and power. Scientists say industrial use will take years, while bomb research yields radioactive materials valuable for medicine at low cost.
Canada helped share the atomic bomb secret and hosted the project after Britain. At Chalk River, 110 miles northwest of Ottawa, the government plant will soon produce radioactive elements for disease treatment similar to radium but cheaper and in larger quantities.
Dr. Leo Yaffe of Chalk River urges sustained backing for research after WWII. He insists Canada has moved to the scientific front and warns against becoming a fourth‑rate nation. He frames research as a nation’s backbone and highlights military and medical imperatives guiding ongoing work.
Dr. L. B. Pett of the national research council reports seven essential diet components. Water is most critical, followed by salt, calories fats and carbohydrates, vitamins R and C, proteins, and vitamin A. Deficiencies yield rapid fatigue, reduced work capacity, and long term health effects.
Reported collection of brief moral lines from diverse authors including Rev. Benjamin L. DuVal H. W. Beecher Mary Baker Eddy Caird and J. G. Whittier noting that true wealth lies in virtue sacrifice and humility rather than material riches and that goodness acts like fire transforming its surroundings.
The SS Pipiriki recently sailed from Vancouver with 231 163 boxes of British Columbia apples for Britain in refrigerated holds. It marks Canada’s largest single apple shipment to Britain, routing through the Panama Canal.
The Ramsay Company Ottawa Canada invites inventors to patent their ideas. Full information and forms are offered free of charge. The notice lists invention types and emphasizes accessible patent assistance from 273 Bank Street.
A dense OCR style list of crossword clues and answers including references to animals places and objects. The fragment shows numbered clues with definitions and some scrambled phrases and partial entries suggesting a magazine style puzzle page from a newspaper.
Canada reports 1945 egg output at a record 395 million dozen, 34 million above 1944, with 1946 projected 17 million dozen lower. Exports during 1946 expected at 88 million dozen to meet British Ministry of Food contracts, plus 11.2 million pounds dried egg powder. Poultry exports depend on meat rationing with possible high demand or surplus if rationing ends.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers common questions on price ceilings for vehicles and wearables, mail options to obtain ceilings, and rules on rent in advance. It explains requesting ceilings by mail, tagging apparel, automatic second ration cards for extended military leave, and rent limitations to one month in advance. Citizens are urged to contact their local office or request pamphlets from the board.
The government announced a new pay scale to attract personnel and align military remuneration with civilian wages. From July 1, 1946 trained men in all three services will earn a minimum 42 shillings weekly, with allowances potentially reaching about 22.50 dollars in civilian terms. Canadian army pay figures are noted as 10.50 dollars for a private, 15.40 for a sergeant, and 54.25 for a major.
Historic notes recount the Klondike gold rush peaking in 1898 as prospectors descended on Alaska and the Yukon. Immense migration, stampedes, and new settlements sprung from the search for fortune.
An expert from a rubber company touts a new plastic coating for draperies that could halve stain-removal time and reduce ironing effort. He predicts men’s suits could later be treated with a thin plastic solution to resist wrinkles, though full adoption may take about five years. The piece notes potential benefits for pleated skirts as well.
In Berlin's Kurfurstendamm the exchange notices replace luxury goods with barter pitches. Watches for Russians, cameras for Brits and Americans, cigarettes for food define a new currency as morsels of bread replace shoes and any English books sell fast while a few shops display scarce goods.
British occupation authorities announce civilians and military personnel in Berlin must carry arms and ammunition after 9 p.m. Women drivers require armed escorts and those on streets after midnight must carry arms. The directive follows a spate of shooting incidents causing Allied concern.
The Kirby cemetery stone for St. Francis of Paula (1416 1508) in Essex England bears a prophecy about living pictures ships as fishes men chasing the sky and half the world dying in blood when these things occur.
The article credits China with the earliest banknotes dated 2697 B C, describing notes that bore the bank name, note number, issue date, and an official signature, similar in concept to modern currency.
The new perfume factory in Khartoum is the first of its kind in Sudan. It is owned by Hassam Eif Saleh Khidr and will be managed by an Egyptian technician with Sudanese workers assisting the operation.
The CWAC Auxiliary in Regina formed by mothers and interested citizens with Lt Mary Nixon as liaison. They furnished the CWAC Summer Cottage at Regina Beach, sewed curtains, sent over 130 parcels to overseas service girls, and sent flowers to hospitals and festive venues. They meet returning troops and raise funds by teas and tag days.
Jeanne Demers aged 11, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Demers of Vancouver formerly Montreal, receives a Hollywood contract calmly. She dances, studies piano Classics and can sing or reach high notes. An earlier offer at age three was declined and she toured theatres across Canada winning a New York contest and visiting President Roosevelt at the White House.
Foot pain relief claim for swollen burning feet with Moon's Emerald Oil. Advertises two to three applications to quickly vanish pain and soreness. Encourages buyers to purchase at druggists today.
The text traces cotton as the oldest commercially important product from sub tropical climates, noting its first mention in Indian texts over 800 years before Christ and Herodotus as the first European to reference it in the 5th century BC. It also mentions a box of army rations marked with a crescent moon as an international symbol.
A cookie recipe for star shaped cookies using butter sugar eggs milk All bran flour baking powder salt cinnamon cloves mace nutmeg mincemeat or preserve. Blend butter and sugar then eggs, milk, and bran. Sift dry ingredients, combine, chill. Roll to half inch, cut stars, fill with mincemeat, seal, crimp. Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 400F yields about 45 cookies.
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