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Hamiota Echo

Location

Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Jun 06, 1945

Page

2

Inflation Dangers Warned Across Canadian War Effort

The article cautions Canadians that inflation remains a risk during and after World War II. It notes price controls and wage stabilization kept living costs modest despite global pressures, praises public cooperation, and warns that Pacific theater involvement and postwar reconstruction could revive inflation and threaten gains.

Public support and vigilance urged as war ends

Finance Minister Sisley warns that without price controls and care during demobilization and reconversion, rising prices could lead to inflation and unemployment after the war. He recalls Canada’s prewar unemployment and urges public restraint in spending and wage and price stability to ensure future security.

Sisley Canada

Quick relief for piles through internal treatment Hem-Roid

The ad argues that internal treatment is required for lasting relief from piles and promotes Hem-Roid tablets. It claims the medicine targets the internal cause, improves blood flow in the lower bowel, and speeds healing of pile tumors. A five day home test is offered with a money back guarantee from a Canadian firm.

Directo Ts Canada

Canada’s wartime food surplus and strong domestic supply

The article notes Canada’s food production has risen sharply during wartime despite labor shortages. It asserts that beyond exports, sufficient food remains for national needs and Canada stands among the least likely to complain about food position globally. It ends with a brief nod to Canada’s long history of metal usage.

Canada Brockville

Gems of Thought on Mind and Courage

A collection of quotations extolling the power of thoughts and inner resolve. Marcus Aurelius, Chesterfield, Stevenson, Mary Baker Eddy, Phillips Brooks, and George Herbert emphasize quiet minds, restrained speech, steadfast purpose, and simple living as paths to happiness and personal strength.

Mary Baker Eddy

Distinctive Chinese Fans Mark Class and Province Styles

The passage notes that nearly every Chinese city or district has its own fan type, colored and ornamented to suit all social classes from mandarins to peasants, reflecting regional identity and status.

China

Price Control And Rationing Q and A Summary

Citizens inquire about June ration coupons for butter preserves sugar and their dates. Answers list June 1 starts and specific coupon ranges for each item. Additional guidance covers returning ration books for workers who live elsewhere and when to surrender books, plus moving rules and where to write for more pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.

Princess Juliana Lives Quiet Canadian Life After Return

Heir to the House of Orange, Princess Juliana, settled in Rockcliffe Ottawa. She walks unpretentiously with neighbors and children, rejects private schooling for her daughters, helps with housework, volunteers at the Red Cross shop, and buys items for Dutch war refugees including an overcoat for tall men.

Juliana House of Orange Canada Rockcliffe Morris McDougall Ladies of Ottawa Red Cross

Not Good Mine Layers

Capt. L. B. Publicover of Edmonton and Montreal, who served with the Canadian Engineers in Sicily and Italy, has spent months in the Pacific observing American and Japanese engineering methods. He notes the Japanese use standard mines but concealment is weak, and they often rely on grenades shells bombs or torpedo heads instead. They do not employ mines with thoroughness.

Europe L. B. Publicover Edmonton Montreal Sicily Italy Pacific

Comet lore and Mesquite roots in old writings

A historical note explains comets once called hairy stars or stellae cometae and tied to bad omens. It also mentions the large portion of a mesquite tree lies underground, hinting at hidden roots and ancient knowledge.

War Souvenir: Canadian Olympian Discovers Photo in German Ruins

Vancouver sprinter Mush Simon, 30, touring a shell shocked Gladbach estate, finds a framed Berlin 1936 Olympic relay photo of himself atop a small table. The image shows him receiving the baton from Phil Edwards, now a treasured war keepsake.

Joe Goebells Simon Vancouver Gladbach Germany Phil Edwards Berlin Limon City of Ottawa Nindhoven Marshall Limon West Vancouver

Smile Awhile Jokes and Wartime Quips

A collection of short humorous exchanges and light anecdotes. From private mishaps to civilian quips, the sketches capture everyday wit and small misadventures with a wartime flavor.

Underground power pickup vehicle from Russia outlined

A new commercial electric vehicle in Russia stores power without wires by drawing high-frequency current from an underground electromagnetic field around buried conductors. Emeralds were believed by ancient sages to sharpen daily sight for wearers of the stones.

Russia

Paris department stores profit from junked prewar stock

Paris shops rebound with profits as Bon Marche swings from a 21 million franc loss in 1938 to a 23 million franc gain in 1944 by selling off broken and outmoded merchandise. In Britain a bombed alert disrupts two American soldiers who mistook a store button for a signal.

Paris Britain

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