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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 22, 1943
Page
2
The Fifth Victory Loan targets 12 000 000 as a minimum cash objective, with 525 000 000 expected from individuals and the remainder from large firms. It surpasses the prior drive by 100 900 000, reflecting growing armed forces and the need for strong civilian financial support.
Finance Minister Asiy urged vigilance and full support for Canada's Fifth Victory Loan bonds amid favorable war news. He warned of a severe, costly fight ahead and praised Canadian troops for high calibre, crediting home-front funding for training and equipment.
Churchill lauds Canada in a radio speech from Quebec City praising the dominion's wartime output. He highlights population-adjusted efforts, noting heavy taxation and Victory Loans funded by Canadians to back the global fight for peace and order.
A historical style guide outlines dessert staging with protective foods like milk fruit and eggs, and lists desserts from batter puddings to custards. It provides a basic biscuit dough recipe with flour fat milk and optional whole wheat flour and jam rolls, plus instructions for cornstarch puddings and custards in soft and baked forms.
The article explains that each black service chevron on a soldier’s sleeve signifies a full year of service in the current war. A silver stripe denotes enlistment or appointment before September 10, 1940, and notes the City of Montreal known for St. Josephs Shrine on Mount Royal.
Vancouver Province argues that BC druggists who sell magazines should refuse pornographic and sexually suggestive periodicals to protect youth. It notes these titles skirt obscenity laws, harm immature readers, and that removing them would cut contact channels, urging others to follow.
An assortment of quips and vignettes fills a humor page with jokes about maids, parrot talk, car wrecks, golf origins, and misheard church terms. Characters range from Mrs Grimm to a world weary editor and a pilgrim father, delivering light punchlines and sight gags.
Ottawa Observer notes on air force and navy personnel. Stoker Benny Bennard of Timmins shines shoes for port calls, CWACs begin Vision Testing at McGill, Flight Sergeant Hughes’s Sicily flight, mascot fox terrier Skippy on new ship, Leading Airwoman Pat Joslin in London meeting her brother, DFMs Patch and Fast awarded, HMS Cornwallis grads join North Atlantic action, prairie sailors praised, Wrens Reta Clements and Dorothy Hill reach England, morale boosts from industry, and the army link training plan aligning BT centres with advanced schools for selective reinforcements
More than 100 state school teachers spend holidays in York for a special Empire affairs course. The Board of Education plans to run Empire focused schools for teachers nationwide to pass a vital Empire outlook to pupils. Lecturers include L S Amery, Secretary of State for India, who opened the course with a talk on India.
A wartime health warning urges readers to avoid harsh laxatives and fix constipation by daily intake of Kellogg's All-Bran with plenty of water. The ad cites the product made by Kellogg's in London Canada and promotes two package sizes.
Two Soper sisters rise through CWAC ranks earning commissions. Bernice Soper, commissioned in Sherbrooke in March 1943 after Ste. Anne training, serves as Instructional Staff at the Basic Training Centre in Kitchener. Ruby Soper, commissioned June 5, 1943 at Ste. Anne’s, is a Platoon Officer in Montreal. They both began in Edmonton and Calgary.
Post office officials prepare biannual sale of unclaimed parcels piling with cosmetics cigarettes silk stockings and various goods. Proceeds go to the receiver general of Canada. Items ranged from ship anchors razors pens tobaccos and even an imitation mink coat to cosmetics and manicurist sets.
Dr. H. J. Cody, president of the University of Toronto, announced over a year of research on penicillin production at Banting Institute. He said Toronto produced penicillin is currently reserved for use by the armed forces.
A military directive forbids drivers of Army vehicles to exchange greetings or compliments while driving or while teaching a learner. The rule emphasizes discipline and efficiency by limiting speech among mechanized troops.
Sugar shifted from medicine to rare, hard to obtain by mid 18th century. Once easy to take, it became scarce as trade and production constraints altered access. The remark frames sugar’s social and economic transformation during the period.
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