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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1940
Page
2
The Daily Sketch honors Londoners enduring fear and hardship, praising their fortitude and self discipline in facing attacks. It Calls for public gratitude and prayer, saying their sacrifices sustain liberty and tolerance for all. The piece frames London as a united, classless brotherhood bearing a heroic burden for national and imperial freedom.
Official figures show wartime regulations cut Canadian pleasure travel to the U S to a trickle last summer while north bound American tourist traffic slowed overall. August data hint some improvement but overall losses persisted. yet national parks saw a 22 percent rise in foreign visitors aided by new highways and better roads. Publicity delays and road improvements emerge as key factors shaping tourism during wartime.
Dutch fliers aid British intelligence by secretly returning to the Netherlands to observe Nazi invasion fleet movements. They land at hidden airfields and scout the French channel ports to relay valuable German activity details to the RAF. Their German language skills prove essential in supplying facts used by bombing squadrons.
A group of French officers laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under Nazi guard in Paris. Over three days thousands visited, prompting Gestapo scrutiny. A card reading Death to Hitler appeared on the wreath, leading to its removal and a manhunt for the unnamed organizers.
Commuters returning from London are harassed by groups of youths who beg for shrapnel as they alight from trains, prompting concern over safety on evening travel routes.
In 1936 Anna Mary Robertson Moses aged 76 exhibited strawberry jams and paintings at Cambridge New York fairs winning a blue ribbon for jam and a razz berry for her art. By now 34 of her works hang in New York galleries with prices up to 200 dollars each and her Americana style gained museum notice last year.
Mrs. Annie Paton of Rhyle England dies at 93 ending a 20 year chess correspondence with her nephew Hugh Paton Harrison of Hartlepool. They exchanged one move weekly since 1920 with Mrs. Paton consistently winning. She joked she had played chess forty years longer than Hugh.
The piece credits London's monuments to enduring ages while condemning Nazi destruction of irreplaceable gems at the hands of art lovers worldwide.
The London correspondent notes limited chivalry in the current war but praises airmen who cling to a code of honor. German and Allied pilots signal intent to land or salute wreckage after exchanges in dogfights, illustrating a lingering, if fragile, tradition amid mechanized war.
Beat eggs slightly, add brown sugar flour baking powder and nut meats with Kellogg's All Bran. Fill greased marguerite pans two thirds full and bake at 350 F for about 15 minutes. Cool briefly, remove, dust with powdered sugar. Yield 25 dozen. Note use fluted tart pans. Fill depth of a half inch.
A vintage lemon pie method combines granulated sugar, corn starch, salt, boiling water, and egg yolks with lemon juice and rind. The filling thickens in a double boiler, then is folded with butter and cooled before baking in a crust topped by a meringue that browns slowly at 300 degrees F.
Rev Sidney Smith argues in a sermon on Invasion that no wall or sword can deter lawlessness and that mankind must endure suffering while acting nobly. He warns that times will reveal true character and the genuineness Nature has stamped on every soul.
A CN R freight from Dauphin, Manitoba, to Kamsack brought a Scots crew all from Glen Garry Ontario. McKeever and McNabb worked the locomotive, McRae was conductor, and in the caboose were McFarlane, McLear, and McDougall.
The most populous nations are China with 450 million, India with 350 million, Russia with 180 million, and the United States with over 130 million.
In Belgium workers face a grim choice between unemployment or serving the Nazis against their country. Those who accept the latter lose 25 percent of wages to fund a Nazi social system. Local unions are dissolved, leaders exiled or silenced, and freedoms vanish under foreign rule as fear and informers dominate daily life. Max Buset, Belgian Labor Leader, comments on these conditions.
RAF pilots in Scotland laughed at a comrade who bought a new motor car in London. He planned to have it carried home by train and collect it at the station. When the porter opened the van door at the airdrome, a horse stepped out instead of the car, surprising everyone.
Dirty water from laundry tubs is being collected for analysis by a national laundry association to study waste and cleanliness practices.
Lady Stephen presented Carlyle's writing-table to the London Library as a charitable gift. The transfer honors the author and adds a notable historic item to the library's collection.
A North Vancouver graduate of the Royal Military College, Second Lieutenant Sedley Sweeny posts humorous wartime sketches in the English wilderness. His drawings parody night driving under blackout conditions with a Canuck asking directions, a No Entry road, and three way crossroads with obscured township names.
For over six centuries The Bratwurstglocklein in Nuremburg has sold only two foods and two drinks, wine and beer with sauerkraut and sausage.
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