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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1944
Page
7
Capt. Kerker writes home about buying simple silver earrings for his wife in North Africa. A feast and a misinterpreted gesture lead the Arab chief to accept the gift and bay for pelts, seen by Kerker as a small diplomatic misread that still boosts international relations.
An old style ad touts Cystex as a solution for waking at night and general kidney and bladder discomfort. It claims the product filters wastes more efficiently, relieves pains, and offers a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
The Prices Board ordered uniform delivered prices for horsemeat and horse livers used by fur farmers in Ontario Quebec the Maritimes and Western Provinces. The measure takes effect December 20 and covers multiple regions. Also notes a historical aside on warfare and a refrigerator railway car developed in 1857 for perishables.
Jerry scours the wind torn streets for coins and favors as Ellen works at a factory. A blind man and his dog inspire a moment of mercy that rekindles a spark of hope for two worn souls. The tale ends with a seed of potential revival and a note of show business ambition.
William F McDermott notes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Britain enforces strict weekly rationing for meat eggs sugar butter milk and many other goods. He observes limited purchases per person and the daily struggles of residents and visitors with scarce staples and varying availability.
The article lists Kentucky blue grass as native to most regions outside the tropics including Europe Northern Africa Siberia and parts of America and Australia. It also notes its presence along sea shores glacier basins Greenland and high Sahara mountains. It ponders future gender roles after the war and wives becoming mechanics.
Grant Macdonald presents Henry Gardner of Canadian National Railways as the towerman in a illustration of the vast wartime traffic. The article notes CN passengers freight and equipment moving at record scale and compares total tonnage to a single 1,100 mile long train if lined end to end.
The document lists appropriations including Dividend Nos 222 223 and 2214 at 6 percent per year, Dividend No 225 at 6 percent, and a pension fund contribution. It also notes appropriation for bank premises and the balance of profit and loss carried forward with figures shown.
The San Francisco Argonaut argues against learning from Japan and predicts continued menace to China and the US. It echoes Admiral Gatch, claiming that after the war there should be no main street left in Tokyo to march down.
The National Safety Council selects curious mishaps for interpretation. First prize goes to a soldier welded into his sleeping bag by a lightning bolt striking the zipper. Second prize awarded to a soldier whose left leg was broken by a falling coconut from a stray bullet.
E L Leaming, surveyor for Urmston Lancashire, urged satellite towns in the Empire to tackle reconstruction. He warned they would mar countryside and farmland yet argued colonies need population, proposing towns in Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa as alternatives to Britain. He claimed transport would cost little more than domestic builds. He added a transport plane could deliver dehydrated vegetables to feed a battalion for a week.
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