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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 22, 1940
Page
2
The piece surveys competing dietary theories from starch avoidance to fat restriction and multiple proteins per meal. It notes vitamin discovery from A to B1 and B2, calories remaining relevant, and warns the public may need common sense guidance like eat in moderation and listen to hunger.
A Canadian private sends a quirky message from a soldier hostel praising his mother and asking for fifteen dollars, illustrating a blend of diplomacy and wartime instruction amid army life. The note appears in a Beaver Club setting as part of training reflections and morale touches.
A quotation urges women to restrain talking during meals to keep husbands healthy, noting the change must come gradually to avoid shock. The remark reflects period beliefs about domestic roles and dietetics.
The piece notes two life phases, prosperity and adversity, both breeding discontent. It says a prospering person patronizes others, while in trouble he whines and becomes a bore. When down, friends desire his rise, yet those who are high wish him buried to vanish.
Mrs. Vincent Massey wife of the Canadian High Commissioner in London, with a women’s committee, selects and supervises decoration schemes furniture and heating for the Beaver Club to welcome troops. She aims for a cheerful home like atmosphere with gay color harmonies.
In Malaysia bees produce honey yet do not consume it due to warm climate. Since winter is absent there, bees do not need to store food for cold months.
A Manchester Guardian summary notes Hitler’s April 28 1939 Reichstag pledge to grant Czech nationality while detailing bans on Czech literary works and education. It cites Benes describing Prague torture chambers and reports mass Czech and Slovak deportations, villages emptied to house German immigrants, portraying severe oppression worse than past European oppression.
The Ottawa Journal decries German aggression and urges Britain and France to bear the burden of stopping Hitler. It argues Belgium and the Netherlands trusted German promises at their peril and calls for a united effort to destroy German power to safeguard civilization.
A London Daily Sketch report notes a writer who inquired at the London Transport lost property office about a gas mask and learned he is among 1,200 weekly callers leaving gas masks on vehicles. Masks and flashlights remain the most popular items and have boosted the office’s business by nearly 40 percent.
In spring 1940 the Western farmer moves from a national concern to a global one. The Printed Word notes his acre as a world stage as Britain Germany and other nations monitor his crop with hopes fears and strategic interest regarding weather and yield.
Australian composer Percy Grainger arrived in Toronto with unfinished manuscripts and warned that his German peers hated England and desired expansion. He recalled earlier anti‑British sentiment and the rise of aggressive nationalism seen as a threat to smaller nations.
Amid calls to expose Nazi misdeeds, critics condemn a new German tea product as an abominable concoction. English tasters report the blend is too horrible for words, adding to the catalogue of atrocities attributed to the regime.
Major John Blubb, listed in London as the Desert Patrol organizer, is known in Transjordan as Abou Heineth. He commands Bedouin fighters to deter German-backed uprisings threatening Britain's Mediterranean lifeline. Emir Abdullah backs Blubb, vowing blood will be shed to keep Germans from the hills.
In Sarajevo Yugoslavia coffee houses serve coffee in very small cups while the term cattle is traced to chattel meaning property. The note connects linguistic roots to everyday life and social customs.
The National Defence Department expands the matriculation rule for officer commissions in the Canadian Active Service Force. Now a high school leaving certificate or a recognized university certificate, or proof from a provincial education department that the education equals matriculation, will be accepted in lieu of standard matriculation.
A story claims architect Onidus built a Nile lighthouse for a Pharaoh and had the Pharaoh's name engraved on the outer cement. Weather wore away the cement revealing Onidus had secretly carved his own name beneath. A note adds that muscles need oxygen to prepare to contract.
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