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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1946
Page
2
Coast to coast Kellogg's claims to be Canada's choice for all meals and snacks. The message highlights cereals like Pep Corn Flakes All Bran Rice Krispies Bran Flakes Krumbles and All Wheat as quick, time saving options for families.
The article argues air travel shrinks the world into a small neighborhood by speeding movement from 10 mph stage coaches to 300 mph airliners and beyond with rockets and jets. It notes air maps lack fixed political boundaries and demonstrate new international routing realities.
The article discusses how modern aviation changes travel and global connection. It notes Halifax to Vancouver by air in under twelve hours and Europe-bound flights in under twenty four hours. It emphasizes reduced distances across oceans and rapid wartime advances in aircraft construction and flying technique.
Fragmentary puzzle clues span numbers and phrases such as weight measure Hindu pillar and viper. The text appears as a torn crossword style list with scattered hints and partial entries.
Q and A on turning in meat coupons and tokens, distribution of ration book 6 during September, and validity of first coupons in ration book 6. Instructions cover presenting existing books and completing RB 191. Local boards highlight voluntary token collection and reallocation to ship overseas.
Edith Sugarman announced the new B'nai B'rith girls chapter named for Section Officer Rose Goodman. Goodman, from New Glasgow Nova Scotia, joined the R.C.A.F. in October 1941 and trained in Toronto as part of the first admin class. She died in January 1942 when a training plane crashed near Claresholm Alberta.
The British Crown is seen as a unifying force during the Empire to international society shift. The Royal Family earns broad respect, and a replacement concept would be hard if Britain adopts republican form. Unlike the U S flag, the Commonwealth currently has several flags and may have more.
A theater producer interviews applicants for a new show. The first candidate admits she cannot dance sing or act well yet she reveals her reason is her looks. He acknowledges possible recruitment but implies no opportunity elsewhere in the venue.
Eric Luxton former member of the Regina Rifles and participant in the European campaign from Caen to the end of hostilities has been appointed executive officer of the Regina Citizens' Rehabilitation Committee succeeding Gordon Bigelow who moves to the Saskatchewan Reconstruction Housing Corporation. Luxton enlisted June 1941 as a lieutenant and was posted to the Regina Rifles on arrival in the U K in April the following year. He commanded the regimental anti tank platoon and after serving in France north of Caen was promoted to captain. He returned to Canada unscathed last June and received a mention in dispatches before joining the Regina Army Counselling service and his discharge last month to undertake new duties. He and his wife have a small daughter and Luxton plans to return to university to complete studies begun before the war.
Full Minister Shinwell told the House of Commons that Britain will raise the basic gasoline ration by 50 percent due to a 3.75 billion dollar loan from the United States. The increase lets pleasure cars travel about 270 miles a month, up from 180, with a larger allowance for essential industrial uses.
Eli Whitney Blake of New Haven, Connecticut, invented a stone crusher in 1858 that enabled economical construction of highways on a large scale.
A survey notes Canada grows diverse crops like tobacco sugar beets hybrid corn soybeans sunflowers rape seed honey and maple products. It details sugar beet regions Ontario Alberta Manitoba Quebec and labor shifts wartime prisoners and mechanization improvements in fields and beets processing plants at Chatham Wallaceburg Fort Garry and St Hilaire with new harvesting and unloading machines reducing manual labor.
A collection of quotable lines on steadfastness and character from Chesterfield Confucius Lavater Swartz Mary Baker Eddy and Scott. The excerpt notes a high death rate among stable hands and hostlers aged 15 to 64 compared with other workers.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Chiang Kai-shek has strained U S relations by resisting UNRRA relief criticism and seeking removal of a China director who criticized relief use. The article ties this to failed Nanking conferences and a weakened Chinese government showing signs of autocratic drift.
London’s beloved Eros statue resumes its perch at Piccadilly Circus after seven years away in Surrey. The winged god of love was unveiled in 1893 to honor the Earl of Shaftesbury and now marks a postwar return amid a city eager for the symbol’s reappearance. Rubies and diamonds are contrasted as rarities in the narrator’s aside.
Ground has been broken for a new 500000 dollar Fleischmanns Yeast plant on 15th Street south of the Calgary Brewing & Malting Company. The facility will be among the world’s most modern yeast plants and serve Western Canada with fresh yeast for bread bakers. Operations expected to begin early in 1947.
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