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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1944
Page
7
Pattern 4599 offers a chic gift apron cut from one yard of cotton fabric in sizes small to large. Order by sending 20 cents, size, name, address, and style number to the Winnipeg address. mail delays noted. Churchill quote and Dickens note appear as asides in the clipping.
In the Berkshires a tough Jamaican neighbor Sarah enforces fairness with a machete when Professor Saunders withholds pay for a child’s firecrackers. After chasing him to retrieve a wallet, she restores order and returns to chores as the narrator contemplates coffee.
Copenhagen reports note Denmark uses cow hair in clothing manufacture and has a hair preparation process for spinning. The country also produces clothes from paper. Flax grows on 17 300 acres, the largest in a century, supplying sewing yarn for shoes and other uses. Louis XIV spent over 40 000 000 dollars on Versailles gardens.
British aviation expert Peter B. Masefield lists the de Havilland Mosquito among the three finest aircraft, along with the Mustang and Consolidated Liberator. He praises its speed firepower range and notes high ratings in multiple categories for day and night reconnaissance and bombing. The Mosquito is produced in Canada by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada near Toronto.
Findings from Health magazine quote Dr A R Riddell of Ontario Health as saying 264 per 100 000 industrial workers may need treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and 346 per 100 000 may have doubt. He promotes photo fluorographic miniature films for mass screening, noting easy storage and examination. The method is already used in Canada, the U K, U S, Australia and Germany for various groups.
A Cairo despatch reports a U S troopship was attacked twice by enemy planes and saved by Royal Air Force fighters who drove off the Germans. The troops then donated 4 000 dollars for the dependents of any RAF casualties, illustrating how small acts of aid foster transatlantic trust beyond words.
A string of light humor captions features a barber shop scene with the old mugs and a soldier, plus a kitchen mishap and family quips. The jokes hinge on marital bliss, memory, and daily life as small-town characters trade witticisms about work, money, and routine.
A reader claims all bran cured constipation by adding bulk to the diet. Avoid harsh purgatives and drink water. Recommend one serving daily with milk or sprinkled on cereals, or several muffins daily, with two convenient sizes available from grocers. Made by Kellogg's in London, Canada.
The Alberta stockyards at Calgary sold livestock valued at 12,861,542.04 dollars in 1943, handling 425,947 head of cattle calves hogs and sheep, surpassing the 1942 record of 385000 head.
German seized church bells in the Netherlands have been supplanted by two railroad steel bars. When struck they emit a hollow tone heard up to a mile, serving as a wartime signal and reminder of occupation.
Wartime pressures loosen rules on transport as a village bus carries a lady with a goat on a wet day. The conductress hesitates, then allows it, noting the goat named Nanny will find downhill walking easier after the uphill climb.
Eight schoolboys in an Illinois domestic science class demonstrate equal ability to girls by cooking, baby care, bedmaking, and house management. Superintendent Pearce notes the boys are earnest and capable, learning homemaking alongside female peers.
London report notes Turkey abandons the Mussolini government and recalls its ambassador and staff from Rome. Ankara shifts recognition to the Badoglio government in southern Italy, signaling a snub to the German backed northern regime and a stance that Allied backed Italian leadership will be recognized.
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