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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1946
Page
2
The article notes widespread postwar privation with Canada among the few fortunate nations. It cites crop failures, transportation breakdowns, and limited shipping as causes of severe world food shortages. Wheat and cereals are most urgent, with demand expected through the next four to five months until the 1946 crops are harvested.
Officials say only four countries can export wheat Canada United States Australia and Argentina Aims to maximize export during coming months with 10 percent cut for domestic milling 50 percent cut for distilling and rail priority for export to relieve urgent global needs.
Britain converts nearly a hundred factories from war production to making alarm clocks to seize a three hundred million dollar annual export market once dominated by Germany and Japan. British clocks are promised to work, unlike much of the junk once dumped on the market.
The article highlights Chinese officials speaking flawless English at the United Nations second session in New York. Dr Quo Tai Chi chairs the session and many Chinese ambassadors write letters in English. Dr Hsieh uses a Scottish accent learned from a boyhood tutor, drawing a parallel to a Chinese Harry Lauder.
American Army engineers rebuilt three Budd hist pagodas in a Seoul park in three days after they had rested on the ground for 34 years. Thousands of Koreans watched as the battalion reassembled the national treasure dismantled in 1512.
First half of the ten pounds of canning sugar will be available on May 2 with coupons SS to $12 valid. The balance May 2? or July 4 with coupons S17 to S21 valid. Butter coupons worth 8 ounces. Dairy butter producers must register with local ration board. Contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board for room rental ceilings and the pamphlet Consumers' News or Blue Book.
A London firm that makes linen marking machines expanded to meet wartime needs. It enlisted 1300 part time workers, processed 28 million aircraft component parts, and shifted back to laundry marking machines after the war. The manager credited the volunteer workers with completing prewar output in decades.
When Chopin died in 1849 his coffin was sprinkled with Polish earth to honor his deep love for Poland. The gesture reflected national pride and enduring connection to his homeland amid his burial ceremony.
American Airlines graduated ninety stewardesses in the sixteen year span of the program, the largest class to date. They learned meal service baby care and aerodynamics but the airline laments that stews rarely stay long, averaging a year and a half. a five year stay earns a gold pin.
In East Chicago Riley grade school about one hundred pupils walked out saying they want young and pretty teachers. The strike leader blamed old teachers and schools’s ugliness. After persuasion the superintendent urged the pupils to return, noting Riley teachers compare favorably with those in other East Chicago schools.
A dense crossword puzzle with numbered horizontal and vertical clues covering a wide range of words from chance to mineral. The list includes animal names, elements, Greek letters, geographical terms, and common nouns, forming a complete puzzle grid.
Experiments show yeast can replace part of wheat in diets during shortages. Barnett Sure outlines yeast and soy beans as rich protein sources that enrich corn bread soups and baked goods without altering flavor, boosting vitamin E content and nutrition for low income families.
Garden planning helps when space is tight with row widths from 12 to 18 inches for lettuce radish carrots beets beans spinach corn tomatoes and potatoes. Gardeners stagger sowing about ten days to two weeks apart and avoid rushing tender crops while Canada’s growing season allows planting into July in some areas.
Miss Ellen Wilkinson announced aims to triple prewar training of building apprentices and craftsmen. The plan targets 90 000 trainees at once in technical colleges and institutes, with junior schools rising from 400 to 5 000–6 000 annually, via work and study integrated during daytime releases. County Colleges will support these “sandwich” arrangements for pupils beyond compulsory schooling up to eighteen.
An antiseptic oil claims rapid relief for Fezema Itching Toes and Peet rashes and skin troubles. It promises quick healing of open sores boils and ulcers and stops eczema itching while allowing eruptions to dry up in days.
Residents of Wimborn Minster England recall shelter drills from bombs when two swans fought in the town center. The birds collided with a chimney and crashed through a plate glass window, shattering glass over shopping queues.
A curated note of quotes on conversation manners culture and social equality from Cowper Cicero Mary Baker Eddy Richard Steele and Johnson plus a historical aside about Greece peacock fans circa 500 BC.
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