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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1945
Page
2
The article notes housing as a fundamental concern for many Canadians and traces past construction choices to local material access. It argues housing in rural and urban areas is inadequate and urges raising standards by learning from Britain the United States and Sweden where better housing improved health and social outcomes.
Experts say one room per person is the minimum for health privacy and convenience. In Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver 61 percent of lower income residents live in quarters under one room per person. Rural areas likely have high unsuitable dwellings too though less severe. improving farm homes could keep youth on the land and provide suitable housing for married farm workers.
The piece estimates 700,000 new dwellings are needed in Canada’s urban centres in the first ten years after the war, with a suggested twenty year building span. It notes interest in housing plans, simple luxuries of space and privacy, prefabrication saving only about fifteen percent, and urges timely focus on housing to fix conditions.
The piece recounts Alexander Bell seeking funding for the telephone, demonstrating the piano singing to prove the harmonic transmission idea. It also notes a Brisbane Telegraph editorial praising Canada’s veteran rehabilitation measures as lessons for Australia and mentions Yale owns a Gutenberg Bible kept in an underground vault since the war began.
The Royal Ontario Museum presents footprints of two amphibian ancestors from a coal swamp near Parrsboro Nova Scotia dated 200 to 000 million years ago. The prints lie in ripple marked sands left by tides and baked by sun fixing them for posterity as tides reburied layers over time.
A $50,000 scholarship fund is proposed to honor Maj. John Keefer Mahony and Pte. Ernest Smith V C. The foundation will assist education for children of enlisted servicemen and merchant seamen from New Westminster and the Fraser Valley, with representatives from 22 local organizations backing the plan.
The Ottawa Citizen recounts a wartime tale in which a British airman sent a composition to the New York Philharmonic conductor, who warned he would perform it only after the flyer had shot down five German planes. The composer fulfilled the demand and so did the conductor, and the article notes similar potential conditions for some singers.
The exchange confirms butter coupons 90 and 91 in ration book No 5 have no expiry and remain valid until further notice. Guidance covers obtaining ration books for a new household, how a landlady can receive limited coupons during vacation, and contacting Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for details.
A collage of light jokes and quips about marriage, etiquette, and daily life. A speaker on Iran, a wife with a patch over her eye, and shop banter set a breezy tone. Bits include a henpecked husband, donkey-wives, a woollen mill yarns pun, and domestic arrangements.
The Ramsay Company a registered patent attorney firm based at 273 Bank Street Ottawa offers free full information and a list of inventions to every inventor. The notice promotes patent services and calls for inquiries.
A reader argues that failure to think, especially disarmament, risks another war of murder for future generations. The letter critiques isolationism, calls for public thought and action, and warns that leaders reflect popular will or fail without decisive citizen engagement.
Izvestia notes the Soviet Union's Moscow Radio began in autumn 1942 and now broadcasts daily in 20 foreign languages and 70 Soviet languages. The network runs 2,000 regional stations and 7,000 relays, operates 18 hours daily, with 64 hours of foreign broadcasts across its transmitters.
A Sydney radiologist treats orchids as a hobby and X-rays them to forecast flowering. He claims accuracy of up to nine months for bloom timing and number, noting ancient Greek light signal systems once transmitted messages between cities.
Capt. Guy D Artois home in Montreal expects his English born wife to join him soon. She lived 14 years in France and parachuted into France with him and French Canadian operatives to pave the way for invasion.
Winnipeg City Council asks Vancouver to endorse a resolution amending the National Housing Act of 1944. The plan would let urban municipalities run low rent housing projects with Dominion funds at low interest rates, with the federal government underwriting losses.
The article explains an acid cleaning method for aluminum cookware using boiling water and vinegar to loosen burnt food. It advises salvaging food, adding water to the pan, and scraping with a wooden spoon. It notes enamel pans respond to a pinch of soda in the water. Damascus is praised for ancient damask fabrics.
Winnipeg’s Pte Marjorie Hobson of the CWAC weds Tpr Frederick Goulsbra of Ochre River in a London ceremony at St George’s Church in uniform. Hobson enlisted June 1942 and has served overseas ten months. The report also notes C W A C brides L Cpl Jessie May MacDonald of Hamilton and Lt Joyce Jellett of Vancouver who marry aboard and receive commissions overseas, with Lt Marie Arnott of Mount Forest appointed to command CWAC personnel in England.
Mr and Mrs John Clubb of East Chicago donate 10000 from war risk insurance for their son Pvt Robert Clubbs memorial to a protected boys camp. The couple said they could not touch a cent of the money. The note also mentions strawberries and vitamin C preservation through freezing.
An advertisement claims Hem-Roid provides fast relief from sore painful piles and can be used at home with no outlay if unsatisfied. The offer promises a five day trial with money back via the druggist, supported by a long standing Canadian company.
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