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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 11, 1945
Page
2
After five years of war many Canadian soldiers who served overseas since 1939 40 are returning home and resuming civilian occupations. Warm welcomes mark discharge and conditions are more favorable than after the First World War. The piece urges lasting gratitude as uniforms disappear and peace returns.
A British writer recalls Wellington’s remark that the outcome hinges on the common British foot soldier and his Dominion brothers. He argues their humor hides tough military material and notes Germans misjudge Britain's wartime mobilization from peace to full war footing. Canada and Dominions quickly mobilized trained forces.
The piece credits ordinary soldiers with key Allied victories in Europe and Africa. It notes Norway 1940 where 24 000 British defenders killed 37 000 Germans with 1 000 British casualties, Wavell's North Africa force destroying Fascist strength and taking 133 000 prisoners, and Normandy to the Rhine highlighting courage and tenacity. It emphasizes the soldier’s transformation from ordinary to extraordinary in enemy eyes.
The Queen Mary, after delivering 14 500 American troops from Europe, opened to reporters for the first time since March 20 1941. War outfitting removed luxury fittings, pools repurposed, yet grand lounges and paneling remain. rails show heavy troop initials across the vessel.
The Education Committee of the Canadian Youth Commission estimates 500 000 persons will need training or retraining during demobilization. It urges extending vocational guidance and education through secondary schools and continuing the Dominion Provincial youth training program.
The text states that steam from volcanoes is not actual steam but a form of dry substance escaping as clouds.
A collage of light humor and quick wits about family life, work, and school. Jokes include a silver wedding remark, father son banter, a child’s misheard facts, a camouflaged gun mishap, and a professor’s pun about ancient cities amid wartime savings stamps urging readers to buy war bonds.
General Patton described tanks as armored infantry and praised their fatigue reduction and battlefield reach. He contrasted foot soldiers and tank crews, joked about taking two blankets and drying shoes over exhaust, and argued tanks help break enemy lines. He quipped on Americans’ ignorance of animals and recalled Africa’s cavalry.
Fort William Times Journal notes fixed legal weights per bushel for many commodities. Items include alfalfa seed sixty pounds barley forty eight beans sixty bituminous coal seventy blue grass seed eighteen and others such as oats thirty four rye fifty six and wheat sixty. Danish traitors face death trials with mechanical shooting device tested by the justice department.
Visitors from the United States may obtain temporary ration cards after applying to a local ration board if staying five days or more. Delivery restrictions for laundries and dry cleaners have been lifted, though merchants may limit services. Report faulty cotton housedresses by returning to the store. if unsatisfied, send the dress with receipt and label to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Advertisers must include price, make, model, year, serial number, options, spare tire, and contact details. Send questions for Consumers' News or the Blue Book to Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices, citing this paper.
The Windsor Star argues rising heart failure links to the speed and stress of modern life. It calls for drastic social change and individual steps to seek medical advice and adjust daily activities for healthier living.
Dr. Vanner Bush of the office of scientific research and development in Boston predicts a Memex will replace in head memorizing. He writes that the device stores all books records and communications for an individual, redefining personal information management.
Prince ton astronomer Dr Henry Norris Russell says it is reasonable to suppose life exists on distant parts of the universe beyond the solar system. He bases this on discoveries made since the war began.
An advertisement promotes Hem-Roid tablets as an internal treatment for piles. It claims lasting relief arises from correcting the internal cause, offers a five day no risk trial with a money back guarantee, and urges purchase from local drug stores in Canada.
Sgt Josephine Pederson recalls billeting near London with Canadian Military Headquarters and meeting a driver of General Ike. The piece covers CWAC careers, training in Edinburgh, librarians for districts, a near-miss with a Halifax train, and graduations at No 3 CWAC in Kitchener with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta names.
The article explains that cooling milk in air is slow and that water heats up faster, speeding cooling. It notes stirring accelerates cooling when milk or water moves, but stirring water risks bacterial contamination unless rods are sterilized. A safer alternative is stirring water with a wind mill propeller or electric motor.
A collection of brief maxims from Josephus Daniels Mary Baker Eddy Francis Hutcheson William Hazlitt and R A Butler plus Longfellow line about faith and peace. The passages discuss the power of ideals the danger of lack of moral strength universal good and the triumph of the right over wrong.
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