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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1943
Page
2
The piece notes civilians share the war burden alongside service members. In Canada 1940 registration listed 2,285,370 women as housewives. many later joined war industries or supported home life and morale. Women’s groups organize salvage, nutrition, evacuee support, blood drives, and fundraising.
The article notes 1942 estimates of 5 500 Canadian women in official armed services and 75 000 in munitions, with many released for active duty later. It highlights women in Wartime Prices and Trade Board roles, large war industries, and 875 nursing sisters in the Army.
A Canadian health league promotes low cost meals for boys showing baked potatoes and cheese with lima beans and cabbage meet nearly all daily vitamin and mineral needs at under 16 cents per meal. The thirty club boys reportedly ate the meals without protest, supporting a sales push via a free Vitamin Chart from the Western Division Health League of Canada for more details.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round reports Nazi threats to French fishing boats along the Atlantic coast near Gibraltar. British cutters with loud speakers offer deserters a chance to join the Allies, prompting many men to jump overboard to be rescued. Vichy escorts fire over swimming deserters, but aim proves ineffective.
A collection of light humor and jokes from a period setting. The snippets include a husband contesting his wife’s will, a wife unaware of her supposedly dead spouse, a theater audience dispute, a teacher’s note about Junior and his “girls” friends, a witty hot dog naming joke, a vacuum cleaner sales call, a driving exam quip, a married couple exchange about wealth, a landlord and tenant rent talk, an art shop customer and clerk pun, and a child’s question about ocean fish eating sardines and opening tins.
The list records graduates from No 4 Service Flying Training School Saskatoon and No 5 Air Observer School Winnipeg with ranks LAC and TAC. Names include Almend Camrose Alberta. Browne Parksid Sask. Reynolds Wetaskawin Alta. Swinburnson Wynard Sask. and many others across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta.
Wartime life shifts force many women from homes to munition plants and defense work reducing time for cooking. Soda crackers rise in demand for quick nutritious meals. dehydration aids shelf life with low moisture and high calories per cent. Nazis order Slovak farmers to grow rapeseed for oil.
An advertising notice urges readers to correct constipation at its source using Kellogg’s All-Bran instead of harsh laxatives. It promotes daily consumption with ample water, suggests All-Bran stocks in two sizes, and notes production in London Canada.
Practical guidance on planning Victory Gardens to supply fresh vegetables through summer and early autumn. Advises staggered sowings for crops like carrots beans beets radishes Kohlrabi spinach peas to avoid waste and ensure a steady supply. Suggests estimating needs as a market gardener, canning considerations, and donating surplus to charity.
The article warns that shipping inflammable parcels can cause fires at sea as heat in holds and closed hatches may ignite. It notes armed merchant ships risk catastrophic explosions if fires break out and cites postal rules prohibiting matches and lighter fluids through the mails, stressing national security and worker safety concerns.
A compilation of quotes emphasizing decisive character and steadfast purpose. Mencius and Hazlitt praise firmness, Hawthorne warns against duplicity, Eddy urges divine guidance, Punshon links purpose to success, and James cautions against double mindedness. Each line reinforces moral resolve and steadfast action.
An enormous lathe, the biggest machine tool in South Africa, has been set up at Iscor steel works in Pretoria. It enables heavy work such as turning large propeller shafts for ships, supporting major ship repair tasks.
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