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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1944
Page
5
Polish women face dangerous missions across forests trains and hidden schools as part of the underground. They overcome prejudices, handle communications with high command, and serve as couriers sustaining ties to London through covert channels.
Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco Van Kleffens warns in Foreign Affairs that if German defensive flooding continues, up to 45 percent of the Netherlands including major towns and fertile areas could be submerged. He notes security prevents revealing the exact flooded area.
This item promotes a crochet chair set pattern number 7146 for summer decor. It explains材料, stitches, and a list of materials with a 20 cent request, directing readers to send to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg and noting mailing delays. A brief aside mentions pre modern anesthesia using alcohol before surgery.
A Department of Labor official states nurses are urgently needed for general hospitals sanatoria and rental hospitals across Canada. The campaign seeks graduate nurses to return to practice amid a critical food shortage and calls on housewives from Nova Scotia to British Columbia to resume nursing duties part or full time. Details are available at local Nurses Registries and Employment and Selective Service offices.
The Ottawa Journal notes diverse impressions of French feelings after liberation. Many are prisoners or forced labor victims under German control, leaving towns filled with children and the elderly, while others show courage and dignity. Some residents appear dazed or compliant under four years of oppression, complicating the true mood of a liberated France.
The Bailey bridge engineered by Donald Coleman Bailey proved crucial in North Africa and Italy, enabling rapid spans across gaps up to 240 feet without pontoon support. Its modular 10 foot sections, 17 parts each, could be assembled by soldiers with a handbook, exemplified by a 300 foot Trigno river crossing in 36 hours.
A veteran glass technician predicts war era developments in anti reflective glass will end postwar reflections. He cites impact on store windows lenses and camera speed and expects windows to admit more light and windshields to reduce glare. Dutch astronomer William de Sitter notes planetary formation from solar star collision. Italy’s leaning towers Garisenda and Asinelli in Bologna are mentioned.
Will take time to replace 200000 lost books with many still missing while search in second hand shops for titles continues. The corporations libraries committee proceeds with post war plans and rebuilding the central lending library after 150000 books were lost.
Military experts credit Canadian forests with boosting UN power through lumber for planes skins and training buildings. Cellulose is nitrated for smokeless gun powder and wood products replace metals in electrical components. Pulpwood shipments support shell casings food packaging medical kits and blood plasma for Canadian and Allied forces. Canada and Newfoundland lead UN wood pulp and newsprint exports aiding the war effort.
Cpl. E. A. Thomas of Collingwood Ont. walked onto an Italian box mine and stepped off unharmed due to a detonator peg not being connected. The 52 year old veteran, last in Sicily and Italy with a Canadian Infantry Regiment, credits luck and a forgotten peg by a German who laid the mine. He earned the Military Medal and Bar in France and served as a stretcher bearer in two wars. Next of kin is his sister Mrs. Lucinda Parrish of Collingwood.
In an odd reminiscence, the piece notes many elders among Canadian Indigenous communities in British Columbia while recounting Lazarus Moody claimed as the oldest Naas river valley resident at 105. It contrasts long lifespans with shifting property boundaries as generations pass, touching on inheritance and farm sizes.
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