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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
6
The article notes the pending main task of rehabilitation after victory, with many already discharged or returning to civilian life due to disabilities. It highlights Canadian provisions aiding ex service personnel to establish trades or professions and mentions schools offering special courses to resume interrupted studies or start new ones.
Britain outlines compulsory postwar education for all United Kingdom forces with six to eight hours of study weekly. New courses cover Technology, General Science, Domestic Science, Sociology, Arts and Crafts, Commerce and the Professions. The plan expands the Vocational Corps, adds university entrance exams, and orders over a million text books for veterans.
Army war dogs are trained specialists for sentry duty, attack operations, messenger service, silent scouts, casualty relief, or as pack and sledge dogs.
A collage of light exchanges and sailor humor shows a shipboard crowd trading one liners. A woman overboard and a shark scene adds a splash of danger, while domestic banter from a playful cast covers courtship, marriage plans and everyday patter.
Reader questions cover ration card renewals sugar allotments and cocoa for school lunches. Answers explain both stub and ration book must be presented for evaporated milk card renewal, and sugar may be requested by schools via the principal. civilian ration books issued with release certificates for discharged service members. planned sugar cut from 80 to 70 percent for industrial use in 1945. guidance to obtain pamphlets Consumers' News and Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Frozen foods are a recent luxury and retain nutrients when kept solid. thawing quickly depletes vitamins. The nutrition division notes strawberries provide a third of daily vitamin C, but once thawed these fruits and vegetables lose vitamins faster than ordinary varieties, so cook while frozen and thaw fruits only before use.
About 190 refugee families from Sudetenland arrived in Canada seeking freedom from Nazi domination. They settled on a landblock at Tupper Creek, 27 miles from Dawson Creek near the Alberta boundary. Today they are substantial Canadian citizens with paid farms, neat homes and well-equipped farms for tilling, cultivating and seeding.
A recent test observed a steel rubbish fire rising only two feet above the top while flames from a similar wooden barrel fire climbed nine feet. The Swiss were the first to use nickel for coins.
A cooperative study shows the vaccine against sleeping sickness in horses elicits a weaker and less consistent immune response in humans. While not universally protective, the vaccine could still offer reasonable protection in infected regions and possibly immunity. Also notes Canada’s tobacco production reached 66.9 million pounds of 68.2 million used domestically, signaling strong domestic growth.
A Berlin dispatch reports Germany will strictly ration false teeth from now on. Dental work also needs official permission, with applicants required to prove imperative need and surrender old fillings. Dentistry has been a major problem since Allied bombing in 1943 damaged tooth porcelain factories.
The Agricultural Supplies Board estimates 1945 honey output near 48.56 million pounds if the 506,000 bee colonies across provinces yield average amounts this year, potentially heavier than 1944 when about 36.6 million pounds were produced.
The famous Black Stone of Mecca has been worn smooth by the lips of countless pilgrims since the time of Prophet Muhammad over 1,800 years ago, reflecting its enduring ritual significance and historic reverence.
An advertisement promotes a cocoa concentrated tablet to relieve piles. It claims the medicine promotes bowel movement, reduces itching and soreness, and improves blood circulation to the lower body. The sighted text urges readers to obtain a package from a local dealer with a money back or filler.
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