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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 01, 1941
Page
5
A wartime drive educates Britons on a balanced diet with reduced meat and increased fish, vegetables, and whole grains. Government health demonstrators promote new cooking methods, while milk, oatmeal, and carrot use rise, supporting national stamina and healthier children.
The obituary recalls Edmund Toft a London osteopath blinded early in WWI who rebuilt his life in London and at St Dunstan's. He mentored others learned to navigate the city with extraordinary senses and married Violette Duche. He died at 46 after guiding blinded soldiers.
British locomotive engineers build 24 engines for Turkey from an order of 68. Engines weigh 106 tons and run 70 kph. In three months Britain shipped 34 locomotives abroad valued around £250000, plus 18 locomotive boilers totaling 56 for half year about £110000. A water additive thiamin boosts growth of large gaffodils. In Russia brides wear wormwood garlands to mark bitter marriage.
Churchill pays tribute to the submarine service noting thirty boats lost since the war began and the high danger of service, with officers and men eager to serve in the perilous but respected branch of the Royal Navy.
Dale the RCMP police dog, regimental No 470, served Calgary and the CB I branch. Put down after a painful growth. famed for tracking gunmen Pete Woy kin and John Kalmakoff in 1935 and for locating a missing 16 month old baby during a rainstorm earning a Dog World medal of honor.
A British radio broadcast picked up by NBC says Japanese parachute troops were used without success in several surprise raids west of Peiping and were mopped up in each raid. The piece notes the United States heel business as the seventh largest industry.
War accelerates reform and collective service, boosting community life and democratic participation. Initiatives like People's Restaurants, factory welfare schemes, evacuee exchanges, nursery centers, and maternity homes expand benefits to more people, while army democratization and shelter life reshape national life.
Gerald Smith of Edwardsville Illinois explains his “W for Win” haircut. He notes that removing parts of the design reveals two Vs meaning double victory. He references Petain’s theme song in a playful wartime comment.
This pattern offers a filet crochet chair set with rose motifs, made in fine mercerized cotton at low cost. It includes charts and directions, illustrations of the set and stitches, and lists materials. Send 2 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
C. H. J. Snider recalls a summer three years earlier in Spitsbergen during a motor mechanics advanced instruction. He describes endless daylight, mild temperatures, and flowers on a brown-green mossy ground. Birds, icebergs, and silence frame Magdalen Bay as 400 men land and roam the shore. Winter brings six months of darkness, limited access, and coal mining near King's Bay. Russians as political exiles work the mines yet Norway leases the mines to them, while Long Year City houses the exiles from Moscow in a stark, enduring setting.
In Devonshire's Beer village lace-making, a 400 year tradition, sustains families as orders from the United States arrive. Many artisans are over 80, with Ida Allen having made lace for Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra. Meanwhile Nottingham mills pursue new designs for overseas demand, while nets and drapery fabrics head to Australia, New Zealand, the Levant, and the Far East.
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