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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 18, 1942
Page
2
The piece urges Canadians to recognize war’s seriousness with Japan’s entry and subs attacks near our shores. It highlights Victory Loan support by small investors, calls for continued sacrifice, conservation of necessities, and total effort to defend democracy and freedom.
Charles A. Shupe of Simcoe Ontario, a former Rural Hydro Office staffer, will be long remembered for his envelope sealing machine. Preliminary tests showed effectiveness with some alterations needed. The staff sealed several thousand envelopes, 40 per minute, using the machine. Tarakan Island in Borneo, now under Japanese control, was a key area in the Netherlands Indies petroleum context.
The Brockville Recorder and Times argues that private citizens face mail scrutiny, so M P s should not complain about similar scrutiny of their mail. The editorial urges equal treatment of all mail regardless of status.
The text notes that women perform about 193 tasks in rifle steel body manufacture with 63 on the barrel and in one plant all but three operations are done by women. It also mentions “plus fours” as golf knickers named for a tailor who added four inches to standard width, and that one inch of rain over an acre equals 100,993 tons of water.
Western Canada based air trainees are listed as graduates from No 4 Service Flying Training School Saskatoon February 27 and No 5 Bombing and Gunnery School Dafoe No 3 and No 7 at MacDonald Paulson and other localities with LAC ranks and home towns across Saskatchewan Manitoba Alberta and Crystal City Manitiba.
A glossy home service notice offers a 32 page booklet with step by step instructions to cover sofas. It describes pinning fabric to cushions back and seat, trimming seams, and finishing with gathered or stiff flounces and corner kick-pleats. Send 15 cents to Winnipeg News paper Union for the booklet and lists other inexpensive titles.
In British war factories the kitchens serving factory canteens wash dishes with hot and cold water sprays and dry with a hot spray. Dishes then dry in cold air, creating a cleaner, faster drying process than cloth methods.
A humorous kitchen exchange has a new bride offering her first pie. Her husband complains it lacks ducks, while she defends the recipe quoting a cookery book that claims the pie is tasty and delicious.
A playful exchange with a storekeeper who denies keeping writing pads for sale and jokes about selling them instead. The inquirer quips that the keeper can keep the pad they were about to buy, highlighting wit over stock.
Brief note advises treating generator and starting motor bearings with a few drops of good oil at regular intervals to reduce wear and noise. The guidance emphasizes simple maintenance to extend life and performance.
Alan Irwin recounts a visit to a Tank Corps unit and a ride in a 30 ton tank. The writer describes the tank crews as confident, skilled, and disciplined, noting the sense of safety and power they gain from armored mobility while maintaining responsibility on civilian roads. He contrasts the tankers’ boldness with prudent behavior off duty.
A mirrored view contrasts youthful vigor with middle aged reporters as they endure bruises and climb down after a raid. Marshal Petain labels the Paris raid a national catastrophe, while France faces betrayal and hidden fifth columnists. Canada notes fifteen thousand basic gauge sizes for munitions. The leopard and gorilla metaphor hints at lone defense.
Lord Woolton says he cannot cook and that people ask him to. He explains a sausage-shop joke about lending money and notes the Bank of England and he will not make sausages. He says the British housewives will handle cooking while experts do it. The Mount Wilson 100 inch reflector weighs 100 tons and is the world’s largest telescope in use today.
The 18th century fashion leader Beau Brummel died in 1840 while confined in an insane asylum, ending a life marked by courtly style. he is noted for his influence on menswear and social wit.
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