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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1940
Page
2
The text argues the world must choose between a future under Nazi rule or a universal civilization with freedom. It cites Hitler’sims, explains the threat to personal liberty, and urges Britain Canada and the United States to wage total war to defeat fascist oppression.
Pravda reports 1000 plus families relocating from Soviet Russia proper to settlements in the ceded Karelia region now part of the Russian Finnish republic. Rebuilding spreads to towns and villages left devastated and depopulated by the war.
Before the war scientists detonated bombs in the sea off Bermuda to study rock formations in the depths for peaceful purposes.
The United States imported 15,854,552 pounds of raw silk in the first half of the year with 12,322,675 pounds from Japan, 2,000,578 from China, and 1,523,974 from Italy. London elementary schools normally employ 19,201 people, including 16,358 teachers.
To keep tropical fish at comfort levels during cooler spells, the Florida aquarium maintains a steady seventy degree environment using oil furnaces.
A folklore note suggests the fruit got its name from being strung on broomstraw for market. It attributes the practice to merchants who carried berries on stalks for sale.
The article notes that the cantaloupe is a member of the cucumber family. It mentions botanical classification without additional context.
Miss Bourque, the first woman law clerk for the Department of Justice, won over 15 to 20 applicants on qualifications. After Ottawa training and Montreal law school, she topped exams, joined Beaulieu Gouin in Montreal, then the British Columbia bar, and now serves in federal courts. She says prejudice has disappeared and a woman’s opinion carries weight.
Readable recipe for Apple Cobbler Deluxe with apples butter water wafers dry mix and nut meats. Instructions include layering apples dot with butter add water crumble wafers mix dry ingredients beat egg with milk fold in nuts and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve warm with cream or cheese.
Mix gelatin with cold water then soften. Heat pumpkin milk butter and molasses. Stir in sugar ginger cinnamon salt and dissolved gelatin. Cool and fill pie shell. Chill until firm. Also make Rice Krispie crust by melting butter, adding sugar and crumbs, then pressing around pan and chilling. Yield shell 8 to 10 inches.
The report states that over 180000 manuscripts and ancient tomes are secured from air raids in a desert hill cave at a secret site. It mentions Tutankhamun artifacts once buried in Cairo museum vaults and notes Romans kept salt water tanks for oysters. Coal should be kept dark to prevent crumbling and fading.
Argentina has tallied about 1 million pesos in board costs for Graf Spee crewmen since December, with 19 officers and 60 sailors alleged to have escaped or attempted escape. The Hague convention places wartime costs on Germany, while Argentina faced guards, food stocks, and scattered internment.
Britain increases imports from Greece Turkey and the Balkans while the Mediterranean sea lanes are safeguarded by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. After Italy entered the war traffic disrupted, imports of Egyptian cotton seeds onions and phosphate rise, with Cyprus supplying asbestos iron pyrite and locust beans and Palestine boosting potash imports.
Paul Mahon argues in the Minneapolis Star Journal that Hitler misjudged Britain by targeting London to pressure surrender rather than destroying aircraft factories and oil depots. He notes limited German air damage, stronger British bombing focus, and predicts April production will fortify Britain against invasion.
The St. Thomas Times Journal reports a dramatic rise in phonograph use with 4,000,000 records sold last year and an estimated 130,000,000 this year. Cheaper records and idle phonographs in homes fuel the surge as listeners seek preferred tunes beyond radio offerings.
Article notes that homogenized milk is produced by breaking up fat globules through a process that cracks whole milk under a pressure of 2,500 pounds.
Nine major geysers at Yellowstone National Park erupted within an hour breaking a park record. The event drew visitors and prompted officials to note the unusual clustered activity among geysers in the Upper Geyser Basin.
Bishop Golding Bird writes in the London Times about air raid suffering in Southeast London. A hospital visit reveals fathers bereaved by loss of wife and children, yet the survivor says he will join up tomorrow, illustrating a charged national spirit against German brutalities.
Navy Minister Macdonald said gratitude from Italians rescued by the Canadian destroyer St Laurent has been officially conveyed to its officers and men. The leader of the survivors sent the message via the Brazilian ambassador in London, and it reached Commander H G DeWolf. The King also presented London with four motor ambulances and eight mobile canteens.
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