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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1941
Page
7
Devona begins a bid for work in a new city guiding her search with a Help Wanted note. After days of rejections and dwindling funds she pleads for an opportunity at a club, meets manager Macias, and nearly faints as stress and exhaustion overwhelm her.
The Postmaster General urges complete addresses for military mail to Canada and overseas. Include Regimental Number Rank and Name, Unit details, and Regiment name, plus the post office for Canada. Overseas mail requires Canadian Army Overseas and no place-name. Fully prepaid with a return address.
David Stevenson son of W H Stevenson editor turned ministerial official wins honors in German at Oxford after private study. He explains he chose German to join an expected occupation force in Germany by age 18, noting fluency in French Spanish and Italian from living in France.
Government figures are cited saying every fourth married woman in Copenhagen is self supporting. A separate note claims heat softens the bones in canned salmon.
An advertisement touts Fruit-a-tives as a remedy for liver issues and associated symptoms. It promises prompt relief from constipation fatigue and general ill health claiming long track record and quick transformation to feeling well again.
Janet Flanner notes a Free French recruitment push as youths evade Occupied France to join de Gaulle. Aimed at mobilizing resistance energy, youths from both zones seek England via clandestine routes, with Brittany fishers risking sea patrols to aid escape.
An eye witness report, sourced reliably but not quoted, notes increasing German use of forced labor in Poland. Germans conduct raids to seize men for work in factories or farms in Germany, causing widespread terror and mass concealment efforts among Poles and, in some areas, Jewry wearing armbands to avoid deportation.
A London dispatch reports Saville Row tailors frantically search between floorboards for fallen pins as shortages bite. Pins are unobtainable in the city while Western hemlock trees from British Columbia begin to appear in specialty lumber fields and bronze is noted as a copper alloy.
War Services Minister Thorson announced that several thousand women will be enlisted within months to form a pool for the women's auxiliary corps in the army navy and air force. Applications will be received by the War Services Department and the National Defence Department will organize the corps with 2000 to 3000 recruits expected in six months.
A collection of quotes on reform and reforming society from Coleridge Mary Baker Eddy Lavater John Foster and Carlyle. The remarks discuss the burdens and risks of reform efforts and the role of personal reformation in wider social change.
A corps of women carpenters in Croydon will repair bomb blasted homes. Most start at 22 cents an hour, rising to 33 after six months, with extra pay for soap and towels. Supervisor C H Walker notes a big expansion and continued work after the war.
A health set of routines claims to reverse aging signs by chin and neck workouts and overall figure toning. The 32 page booklet outlines postsures to reduce a double chin, tighten hips and tummy, and includes other routines for posture and nerves. Available by mail for 15 cents plus 15 cents postage from Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Several additional booklets cover vocabulary, dogs care, curtains, swimming, golf, guitar, and more.
Australia moves to outlaw strikes and lockouts for the duration of the war. The Prime Minister warns disloyalists and signals possible use of emergency powers to send workers to concentration camps, while also pledging to seize uncooperative plants if needed. Labor holds a strong, but not absolute, majority in Parliament.
The Calgary Herald notes a postwar opportunity for Canada to establish a housing standard aligned with health and education. It argues against safeguarding child health and costly schooling if children are raised in slum conditions, and mocks Mussolini’s bragging as an inferred irony.
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