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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 31, 1944
Page
7
In a quiet domestic scene Gramp fights his reluctance to attend the annual Bazaar. He wins the door prize of fifty dollars and purchases hush money for Emma and the children, then slips away to enjoy old familiar faces and the crowd while avoiding reproach.
The piece profiles Dorothy Bernard a Troquoin Indian and CWAC recruit who values a quiet Canadian life after business college and secretary work. It also follows Pte Minnie Howe CWAC in London with two sons in the Canadian Army and daughter June with the CWAAC in Washington, highlighting family devotion and normalcy amid service.
Invermere Canada Corporal Molly Engler of the C W A C is praised as the corps most traveled. She hitchhiked across Europe in 1939 then studied in Holland Belgium Switzerland France and Italy while serving at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. The Robinson family from Como Quebec also contributes to the war effort with Pearse and Bernice as driver and clerk, Margery as a Nursing Sister, W T Robinson in the Merchant Marine, and parents volunteering at home.
The text argues that a disarmed Germany remains a threat requiring strict policing to monitor covert Nazi movements. It cites Clemenceau from 1919 warning to beware of the Junkers who may cheat later.
A starving animal can survive with severe fat and protein loss but a reduction of water by one fifth proves fatal, illustrating water's critical role in sustaining life despite other body reserves.
An experimental platinum wire 13,000,000ths of an inch thick is being tested in General Electric Company's laboratory. About 25,000 strands would equal the cross sectional area of a human hair.
Twenty six volunteers including physicians students and nurses endured drilling and needle injections without anaesthetic to create a pain map of arms and legs. Dr. Verne T Inman and Dr. J B Saunders of San Francisco led the effort to identify deep seated pain origins and how they radiate to nearby areas.
Ottawa explains that each person in a household can obtain 23 pounds of sugar for canning. The 23 pounds include D preserves coupons, old F coupons (10 pounds via five F coupons after May 25 and five after July 6), and B preserves coupons (13 pounds if not used for canned fruits and preserves). If D coupons are used for preserves they cannot be used for sugar. total sugar available remains 23 pounds.
The special products board announces completion of export arrangements for 1944 Canadian white beans destined for Britain. Growers receive 3.00 per bushel for No. 1 beans, about 50 cents above domestic prices, with a hoped 500,000 bushels to be exported. A sunburn relief method uses a tepid cornstarch bath and dry film.
The Empire Digest lists 33 United Nations against nine Axis Nations with Germany at war with all UN members. Australia declares war on Vichy France. Fighting French clash only with Germany and Japan. India and Norway fight only Germany. Brazil, India, Norway, Greece and Russia not at war with Japan. The United States fights Albania but not Finland, while Britain fights Finland but not Albania.
A recipe for scalloped potatoes with butter corn starch milk salt eggs and cheese is followed by a quip about a nerve specialist and a talkative maiden lady. The joke ends with the doctor admitting his boyhood dream was to throw an egg into an electric fan. Archival note also mentions glycerine discovery by K W Scheele in 1779.
General Montgomery, commander of the British invasion armies, received a latest Canadian made pair of binoculars. Lt General Crerar, head of the 1st Canadian Army overseas, reportedly had a similar gift. The binoculars were produced at the government owned Research Enterprises Ltd in Toronto.
The advertisement promotes Pattern 4781 with a slim front panel for various figures. It lists Misses sizes 12 14 16 18 20 and Women sizes 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44. Size 16 uses 3% yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg. Mail delays noted. Russia’s rejection of 40 American ships led to Vancouver for modifications.
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