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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
5
Edna Jaques recounts letters from France showing Canadian home front morale. Soldiers express faith in Allies and home workers, with vast convoys of guns tanks jeeps and munitions. The piece stresses steady home-front prices and citizen duty to sustain war production.
A London letter celebrates how Nature heals war scars with flowers blooming in blitz ruins under St Pauls shadow. It lists uncommon blooms appearing among bricks and ferro concrete, praising nature's resilience and hope beyond fear, noting Rome's raised street levels as contrast.
An Ottawa Citizen report notes Soviet Union wheat research claiming four harvests in two years after one sowing. It contrasts with Canadian progress on frost hardy crops and predicts postwar shared gains in global food production under a unified world effort.
Inspector G B McClellan told a Toronto Rotary Club that enemy agents failed to sabotage Canadian industry since the war began. Separately, in India’s Trivandrum district people build houses high in trees due to fear of elephants.
London Daily Mail reports chimpanzees at the London Zoo are bomb conscious and distinguish bomber engines from other noises. Lions and other animals remain unaware. The text notes humans cannot live long without water, while food lasts weeks.
The text argues that farm homes in Canada have been neglected for modern equipment and urges supplying basic units at affordable prices. It highlights farming as a mass market comprising about 75 percent of Canada's rural population and calls for an end to pioneer like, peasant conditions. It also notes Switzerland’s long history of paper manufacture dating to 1440 at Basel.
A stark analysis argues that Nazi and Junker factions share a goal of dismantling Europe, with Hitler seeking total destruction of Jews and the Junkers aiming to outlast wartime ruin to enable future dominance, citing Otto von Stuelpnagel’s New York Times outline of strategic aims. It also notes Allied resolve to end the conflict swiftly to spare Europe from further devastation.
Wartime staffing shifts in western Canada hotels see women and older or returned workers taking on cleaning and service duties. Seven Chinese Canadian parlormaids at the Empress Hotel Victoria maintain lobby cleanliness while Mary Morrison and Catherine Mymko aid painters at Winnipeg's Royal Alexandra. Regina's Hotel Saskatchewan features Inga Knutson and Betty Bishop as a capable page and valet duo.
Two RAF men who served the King during his Italian visit were awarded the Royal Victorian Order. Sgt J M Duncan prepared all meals the King ate during the flight and AC W T Keates of London served as steward.
While Calv in Ellis Stowe taught religion at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine his wife Mrs Stowe complained of having nothing to do and decided to write a book titled Uncle Tom's Cabin within her spare time.
The Royal Observatory plans a switch from a pendulum clock to a quartz crystal clock for World Time. Sir Harold Spencer notes accuracy will rise from 1-100th to potentially 1-10,000th of a second daily, with the pendulum ticking once per second and the crystal vibrating 190000 times each second.
This Week's Needlework offers two crochet bag patterns, a popcorn stitch corde bag and a 3 inch square bag. Pattern 7213 includes directions, illustrations, materials list, and should be requested by sending twenty cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg. Include name and address and pattern number clearly.
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