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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1944
Page
2
A survey by the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association urges postwar improvements in education. It highlights health services for children, equal opportunity across rural and urban areas, consolidation into larger districts, transportation or hostels for distant students, a postwar building program, more inspectors, and "helping teachers" for primary grades.
A report outlines wide reforms for education in Canada. It calls for doubling yearly school expenditure, abolishing fees, scholarships for gifted students, raising average teacher pay to 1321, expanding libraries, and mandating school-leaving at sixteen with part time attendance to eighteen. aims to better prepare youth for citizenship.
A consumer reports finding lasting relief from constipation by using Kellogg's All-Bran regularly. The ad urges readers to eat All-Bran or muffins daily, drink water, and obtain the product from grocers at two convenient sites, produced by Kellogg's in London and Canada.
The London Daily Sketch notes Lord D Abernon’s term as Britain’s first ambassador to the Weimar Republic after the war. He reportedly spent much to make Berlin comfortable and had the embassy front painted bright yellow, shocking locals. Stagehands in England are required to wear evening dress and white gloves to move scenery during performances.
Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York predicted a postwar telephone that answers itself and talks back. It records messages on a steel tape and erases them later, letting the tape be reused. If no one answers, the caller can speak to the tape, and the recipient hears the message when they return.
Brierley Hill council in England advertised for a rat catcher at five pounds weekly but received no bids. Replacing the term with rodent operative yielded a response offering the job at four pounds ten shillings per week.
A weather note reports winds veering to a clockwise direction as conditions shift. Captured observations indicate a change in wind flow patterns with potential impacts on local weather patterns.
Hugh Dalton, president of Britain's Board of Trade, drives war production while pressuring staff to speed up. He lives at the office, returns after dinner, and rarely visits his country home. Former head of Economic Warfare, Dalton is praised for his expertise in foreign politics and trade relations and earned a valor decoration in the last war.
If backaches or disturbed sleep occur and you feel burning or smarting, it may indicate kidneys failing to rid blood of wastes. Signs include backache dizzy spells puffy eyes and rheumatic pains. The remedy promoted is GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules with Dutch Drops. 40c packages advertised.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes on trust honesty and faith from Johnson Mac Donald Eddy and Henry plus lines by Geikie John Burroughs. The passages urge trusting truth resisting error and maintaining unwavering faith amid life’s trials.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board fixes chocolate bar weights from 1941 levels and explains how to obtain ration books for newborns and war brides. It also covers handling deceased holders’ books and rent disputes through Rentals Administration. Inquiries should go to local ration boards or Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices in the province.
A single dropped match in a national forest can cause property damage far greater than many incendiary bombs. The warning emphasizes forest fire risk due to careless handling and dry conditions.
An address on the importance of a proper breakfast to fuel work and recreation. It argues that skipping breakfast hinders energy and growth, suggests a fourth of daily calories should come from morning meals, and lists components like fruit juice cereal eggs and milk for growing children.
Reports from Journal d'Egypto recount Della Hanson of Hutchinson Minnesota serving Haile Selassie and his family as housekeeper in Addis Ababa. She supervised five cooks and introduced dishes like strawberry tarts potato salad and occasional ice cream while also buying the Empress' dresses.
The Eighth Army sappers and 100 laborers built a 1,20 ft bridge across a river in ten days with floodlit night work. General Montgomery helped move a girder and an officer coined Ponte Monty, though not the official name.
Three British destroyers attacked the Scharnhorst, reaching the 14 inch range of the Duke of Yorks guns while German destroyers with the ship fled. A captured German reportedly claimed division but a quip about subtraction followed. In the Yukon gold rush miners paid ten dollars for eggs.
British Food Minister Colonel John Llewellyn told a London audience that food rationing would persist for years after the war. He argued the need to keep farms productive and valued young men remaining on farms across Britain and allied countries to preserve land fertility.
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