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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1946
Page
2
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announces Canada will distribute a sixth ration book in September. Despite hopes fifth would end rationing, the global food crisis worsens, making continued rationing essential. Donald Gordon stresses Canadians must aid those starving abroad while enjoying relative domestic comfort.
Nationwide mobilization seeks thousands of volunteers to aid the release of new ration books starting September 9 through 600 local boards across Canada. Citizens must collect books at their local distribution centers and verify open hours, as books are issued all week but centers vary in schedule. Cooperation is urged to speed the process and reduce board workload.
The Financial Post notes that Canadians could once retire on 10 000 to 20 000 with 6 percent returns, but declining rates now require far larger investments and higher incomes to cover living costs and rising taxes.
Scientists explain rain begins when dust particles provide surfaces for moisture to condense into droplets, a key step in cloud formation and precipitation processes.
The Niagara Falls Review reports German prisoners of war in Canada are at large and being hunted, with some admitting they prefer internment to returning home. The piece argues POWs should be shipped back and future entrants thoroughly screened before immigration channels reopen.
The wartime guide explains that all meat tokens turned in to Local Ration Boards or voluntary groups are counted to determine export meat supplies. Since 325000 pounds of canned meat were added for shipment, destroying coupons at home would hide consumption from authorities. Ten sugar canning coupons are valid, five each May 2 and July 4, usable for sugar or preserves, and readers are urged to request pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
The author notes H G Wells argued Rome declined due to absence of newspapers and no way to exchange information with distant regions, highlighting information networks as a factor in historical collapse.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture backs a nation-wide Salute to Agriculture with the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. The piece emphasizes farmers as neighbors who fueled wartime food production and must lead in securing peace, urging pride in farming as the best profession and calling for continued support to meet future hunger threats.
The text notes how the propeller noise from one ship can be heard inside another ship's cabin below the water line, illustrating how sound travels through the sea and demonstrates underwater acoustics.
A reminder urges drivers to inspect their headlights once a month to ensure proper alignment and visibility on the road. Properly aimed lights reduce glare and improve safety for all road users.
Puzzle fragments list many clues across horizontal and vertical sections. Entries include dog, music note, delirium tremens abbreviation, part of circle, shallow vessel, observe, Russian city, sea eagle, mollusk, type of soil, correlative of or, to fasten, song of praise, come into sight, tangential words, and various miscellaneous terms. The grid presents numerous crossword prompts with mixed clarity and partial completions.
Francis Campbell Ross Douglas the MP for North Battersea since 1940 is named Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta succeeding Sir Edmond Schreiber. Born in Canada in 1889 and educated at Glasgow University he has held multiple public posts including Parliamentary Private Secretary roles and chairs of committees. His acceptance requires resignation of his House of Commons seat.
The article notes that heating in the sixth century relied on coal and gas as primary energy sources. It discusses early fuel use and technology shaping household heat practices in that era.
Canada becomes the second nation to possess a moderator stabilized uranium pile as Dr. L G Cook of the Atomic Energy Division reveals in a pamphlet for the Chemical Institute of Canada annual conference. The pamphlet details Canadian atomic research and forecasts early experiments with radioactive elements, medical developments, and solving scientific mysteries.
Pattern 4638 features a dress with panels front buttoned scallops and optional pockets. Sizes 34 to 48 require 3 1 2 yards of 39 inch material. Send 20 cents for pattern to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermott Ave E Winnipeg Man with name address and size and style number.
A collection of said quotations praising obedience to divine will as liberty and right thinking. Lydia Maria Child, D'Aubigne, Mary Baker Eddy, Joseph Cook, John Stuart Mill, and Emerson are cited for linking obedience, love, and unity to moral guidance and personal freedom.
Archaeologists note that over 3000 years ago Chinese artisans developed protective coatings using lacquer and diverse materials, highlighting lacquer as a longstanding Chinese specialty.
The Liberty Cap cone of an extinct Yellowstone hot spring is dated at about 3200 years old by measuring trace radium. Scientists used minute radiochemical quantities to determine its age.
N. N. Bentley principal Vermilion School of Agriculture reports that veterans in attendance have been outstanding academically and active in athletics social events and literary activities under the Students Union.
Rheumatic pains arise from excess uric acid that the kidneys must remove. When kidneys fail this impurity builds up causing discomfort. Keep kidneys healthy and consider Dodd's Kidney Pills to aid toxin and acid elimination. See what Dodd's can do for you.
The Free Press notes farmers gamble with weather and markets and that when the turn of the dice goes against the farmer, many others may go hungry. The piece argues the entire community shares in farmers' problems and should recognize their broader impact.
Radium remains highly radioactive for centuries with roughly half of its activity still present after 2 000 years, indicating long lasting hazards and decay patterns in natural samples.
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