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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 10, 1944
Page
2
Allied War correspondents report Italy is reorganizing its education system to remove Fascist and Nazi propaganda. After over twenty years of distorted history and biased subjects, textbooks are being rewritten and minds of former students must be rationalized to purge regime influence.
A 1942 British conference outlines plans to reestablish sound schooling after the war. Ministers from Belgium Czechoslovakia Greece Holland Luxembourg Norway Poland Yugoslavia and Yugoslavian factions join R A Butler to discuss postwar education. Committees on books and history will supply libraries and publish guides for teachers.
British flour magnate Joseph Rank who built a windmill origin business left 315000. He gave away millions including about 9 million to the Methodist Church. His creed was get all you can save all you can give away all you can. Estonia history notes three powers contesting the land since medieval times.
The Leeds Yorkshire Post outlines a massive military admin task for an invasion. Each division needs 80 000 tons of shipping to cross and 350 tons of supplies daily. Home dumps must stay full while depots are built on the far side and rail and shipping handle about 10 600 tons daily for 50 divisions, even as a guess.
The Ottawa Citizen cites a U S Bureau of Standards estimate placing the world’s weight at six followed by twenty one zeros in tons or 6 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. The note adds a quip about weighing in the balance. Cotton is used in self sealing gasoline tanks for airplanes.
Salvage crews from the Royal Canadian Navy era were commended by the United States War Shipping Administration for a perilous recovery. A Liberty ship burned after a collision, beached near an eastern Canadian port, and was saved. The notice urges salvage of waste paper fats and bones to support pulp, container production, and military needs in Canada.
A collection of short jokes and quips about marriage, aging, and social norms. Bits include a man boasting of efficiency at home, a rich suitor deemed too eligible, a deaf fiancée and breach of promise joke, crossing-eyed optics from crossword puzzles, and cafe style marriage comparisons.
War Services Minister LaFleche told the Commons that comforts for Canadian troops were carried in the same boats as soldiers and packed in tanks. The tanks, filled with cigarettes and other comforts, were emptied of those items before landing, while the supplies were carried ashore separately.
Readers asked about meat price ceilings and posting of meat charts in stores. Garden plants are exempt from maximum price rules. A ration book for a new baby is obtained via the local ration board with baby cert or baptismal cert. if unavailable an affidavit is allowed. Copies of the Re Make Booklet and Consumers News pamphlets remain available from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
A wellness marketing note urges readers to buy Moore's Emerald Oil at drugstores for eczema and related skin troubles. It promises quick itch relief, drying eruptions, and lasting effect from a highly concentrated antiseptic oil, claiming no staining or greasiness and offering money back satisfaction.
A compact collection of quotes linking beauty to truth, virtue, honesty, and moral harmony. Notable lines from St. Pierre, Shaftesbury, Overstreet, Bovee, Mary Baker Eddy, and Robert Nathan reflect how beauty, goodness, and spirit interrelate in human conduct and perception.
A reader reports relief from constipation by adding Kellogg's All-Bran to daily meals along with water. The cereal supplies bulk to stools and eases elimination, presenting a non medicinal option.
Beginners worry about pests, but experts stress regular cultivation as the core practice. After rains, use a cultivator to loosen soil and improve air. avoid wet soil to prevent hard baking. For tiny plots focus on high yield crops like onions carrots beets lettuce radish spinach beans and a few tomatoes. Consistent thinning watering and fertilizer support three to four meals from a small 10 foot row. Tomatoes need staking and spacing to ripen early.
London surgeons schedule more operations when the moon is up and raids are unlikely. The reasons cited are reduced patient fear and ease for surgeons who worry about lights failing or a building collapsing during bomb danger.
Jean de Vaudreuill, a 78-year-old traveler, has reached Prince George, B.C. on his second global walking tour. He began 24 years ago and has logged 80,042 miles. He now heads toward Alaska.
Britain’s postwar television effort, led by J L Baird, promises rapid employment in a new industry. Demonstrations show color and stereo images, with three sets: a cheap home model, a larger version, and a luxury combo with gramophone and all‑wave radio. The televisor claims clear color shading and realistic portraits, signaling ahead-of-world progress.
A South American headzin fledgling tests a strange adaptation with wing toes that aid water escape from a nest. It dives into the water to flee danger and later climbs back to the nest using its extra feet.
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