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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
2
The House of Lords discussion argues memorials should be utilitarian, favoring parks open spaces and community buildings over stone monuments. Last war’s monuments sometimes failed in design, and while names may not be carved widely this time, plaques rolls of honor or memorial books could record the fallen.
The article reflects on a historic era marked by world crisis, air and rocket warfare, jet planes, and tank combat. It notes how media—press, radio, and motion pictures—bring the voices and faces of notable figures into public view as events unfold across nations.
The piece compares Hitler's attempted European conquest to Napoleon's earlier campaigns and notes some observers credit the steam engine with a greater impact on history, suggesting a future transformation driven by science and technology with broad economic and social effects.
The article notes swift shifts from natural to synthetic materials like rubber, enabling closer production to industrial centers and reducing transport costs. It warns of upheaval in economies reliant on raw materials and highlights Allied pooling of tech to speed war production, reshaping future global power.
An advertisement promises a free five day home trial of Hem-Roid for sore, painful piles. It claims internal treatment relieves internal causes, improves bowel movement comfort, and urges returning unused portions for a refund if not satisfied. The note cites a Canadian firm backing the offer.
An old woman in a shop, her daughter and nine children travel with the parents on a Canadian National Railway train from Prince Rupert to Alberta. The conductor, during ticket rounds, nearly fainted at the crowded drawing room. No word on sleeping arrangements was reported.
A Providence Journal feature chronicles British wartime clothing optically turning household textiles into attire. It recalls husbands going to work in shirts fashioned from kitchen curtains and a bride radiant in a damask tablecloth repurposed as wedding finery, highlighting improvised fashion amid conflict.
Historical note explains that greenhorns were people in France required to wear green horn shaped hats to signal bankruptcy. The practice served as a public stigma and a reminder of financial failure within communities.
Butter ration increases and coupon changes set in. April 1 yields seven ounces per week with a Friday validity through April. Discharge papers required for new ration books for discharged servicemen. Landlords may issue six months notice to evict for family occupancy. Hotel stay limits nine? fourteen days before surrendering a ration book. Submit questions to Wartime Prices and Trade Board for guidance.
Pierre Bardet of the French City Planning Society says reconstruction will follow American neighborhood unit housing. New homes will be permanent, not temporary, built to last using local techniques and regional styles. France aims for large scale projects and urban planning distinct from four story skyscrapers.
Lord Queensborough president of the Royal Society of St George suggests an Empire war memorial near St Pauls Cathedral. He envisions a temple of remembrance with names of the dead and a surrounding garden to serve as an oasis of peace for all time.
A scale V-2 rocket replica shaped like a pencil stands on display in London drawing curious crowds paying sixpence. Proceeds aid RAF families bereaved in the war. The Commons paused to watch 11 year old William Betty perform Hamlet, mastering heavy roles with ease. A bee typically gathers pollen from a single flower type daily.
Two New York fishermen stranded on a sinking ice floe in Lake Erie were rescued by Bell Aircraft Corp. test pilot Floyd Carlson after an experimental helicopter, described as a windmill in the sky, settled near them and offered a ride aboard. Arthur C. Johnson aged 47 and Walter Gillison aged 39 watched in fear as the craft hovered inches away and a voice invited one man to climb aboard.
Architects design solar houses to trap sunlight reducing heating needs. South facing windows are banked with east and west access while north walls keep openings minimal. Real world use shows heating can be off for hours on sunny days with fuel savings of about 25 to 33 percent. Brandon Sun.
In Rome reports reveal that Britain's 30,600 ton battleship Warspite was hit directly by a German bomb and nearly sank off Salerno in September 1943, a wartime secret disclosed.
The Foreign Commerce Weekly reports 20000 tons of seeds under lease lend delivered to Russia for liberated Ukraine. Seed types include vegetables and field crops. The piece notes seeds save ship space by enabling vast food production, citing tomato carrot and cabbage seed yields.
A collection of light humor lines and cartoons featuring pithy exchanges about school, butter substitutes, a frost remedy, a dean at college, bum $5 generosity, and a SPCA joke with a pack agent in a tree. The bits preserve names and place-like quirks in a dated newspaper voice.
A Kitchener Record bulletin highlights apples as energy sources from natural fruit sugar eaten raw between meals. It notes their high water content, diuretic salts, alkalizing ash, aiding digestion, vitamin provision, and says a single large apple yields 100 calories.
A crude bomb exploded on the doorstep of the British Legation in Stockholm late last January, shattering windows but injuring none of the staff. British authorities disclosed the event after a two month search for the culprit. Java experiences more thunderstorms than any other country.
London circles report formation of an international detective body similar to a global Scotland Yard. Headquarters will be in London with police veterans from several nations and dossiers from the war crimes commission. A single corn stalk could yield about 440 pounds of water from the soil in a single growing season.
Diesel Crawler Tractors RD7 Caterpillar with 8 yard Le Tourneau scraper and RDS with 12 yard scraper TD15 International with bulldozer optional TD40 with bulldozer RD40 International 475 HP RD4 Caterpillar RD4 with Anthony Highlift Bucket inter changeable blade. Lighting plants 1500 watt 32 or 115 volts. Send for folder. Diesel and Gasoline engines 40 to 150 HP. Wire write or phone 8S. H Leventhal & Co Machin ery Agents Winnipeg.
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