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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 19, 1941
Page
5
Macdonald Hastings notes London firm Churchill dominates sporting gunmaking through generations of hand crafts. The process spans six to twelve months, with bespoke stock fitting, hand engraving, and exclusive inlay. Prices start at £240 per pair.
Canadian research shows smoked bacon remains satisfactory for about 70 days, while unsmoked bacon becomes rancid after 42 days. Wiltshire bacon is cured two to three weeks before smoking for best flavor, with trials underway to ship smoked bacon to Britain to extend transit preservation.
Berlin newsreel displays diagrams and photos outlining Moscow five point defence system. Barrier sequence includes flame-throwers tank traps barbed wire entanglements bunkers.
Britain dispatches Beaufighter squadrons to Australia as a first line of defence amid Far East tensions. RAF pilots have arrived to train Australian crews and prepare for possible airborne invasion scenarios.
A new film at Denham studios will depict Amy Johnson's life and death in the Thames Estuary. Anna Neagle is expected to star as Amy Johnson with David Niven as her husband Jim Mollison. The project highlights Johnson as a symbol of modern British adventurous women.
A playful 191? advertisement praises a wife who sews buttons, monitors drinks, comforts pain, approves luxuries, and finds exciting activities, promising she will change your mind for you. It contrasts domestic roles with aircraft maintenance notes of 50 hours versus 600 hours without overhaul.
American College of Surgeons hears of gramicidin a soil born drug shown to heal human sores and wounds far beyond sulfanilamide potency. Discovered at Rockefeller Institute New York by Dr Rene Dubose it shows promise in mouse protection and early human trials. Institutions push ahead while risks remain under study and sale is restricted.
On August 9, 1938 Hermann Goering boasted as Reich Minister for Air that he would personally safeguard the Ruhr from air attack. By January 1941 Hamm, the Ruhr rail hub, had suffered 82 RAF bombings, with regular strikes from June to July and thousands of tons of bombs dropped by British aircraft. An acre of farm soil holds about 1.5 tons of weed seed. Bath's mineral springs yield 500000 gallons of medicated water daily.
Charles Riker told American Management Association members that the pronoun we is overused in business letters. Drawing on carbon copies from Westinghouse workers, he urged kinder diplomacy and a friendly tone while cautions about self reference.
An executive visits Washington to discuss a motors related item but receives no clear guidance. In the OPM maze an official directs him to Florida to mail a letter. A coroner questions a witness about a wife shooting her husband with a pistol and powder marks are noted in a terse exchange.
Crochet instructions for gay slippers in afghan yarn offered as Bazaar items. Pattern 7114 provides size illustrations stitches and materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
J. W. Jean in Pasadena has patented a waste to fuel process yielding a 98.7 octane synthetic hydrocarbon from garbage bagasse sawdust and farm by products. His tests claim 25 percent more mileage than petroleum fuel with by products including usable ammonia salts and fertilizer. He envisions full production from 150 tons of waste producing nine thousand seven hundred fifty gallons of fuel.
British scientists unveil a luminous paint to combat blackouts. A treated shelter roof glows softly for about 20 hours after charging, recharging after an hour of daylight or artificial light. Government experts weigh uses on lampposts and street signs as a safe, aircraft-invisible aid up to 100 feet.
The London Daily Mirror reports Germany stole a 1500 year old phial of blood said to be from St. Januarius in Naples Cathedral. The phial, stored through pilgrimages, is now in a Berlin clinic with Nazis promising a return in two weeks but delivering an imitation.
Dr. James Endicott, recently back from China, told Zonta Club members in Toronto that Madam Chiang Kai-shek exerts strong influence among Chinese women through leadership and popular esteem. He recalled war orphans saving dinners to donate to Polish children after her talk on war tragedies. The note adds a mention of Shintoism as Japan’s original religion.
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