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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
2
After Teheran talks leaders hint Germany will lose conquered lands and must have its war industries destroyed. Allied supervision of remaining industries and transportation may continue. Germany likely to relinquish aggression gains and redraw borders to secure European peace. Austria may seek withdrawal postwar.
Official circles oppose partitioning Germany into small units as history shows it fuels nationalism and unrest. Stripping Germany of war capability will affect Europe’s economy, while a European Federation may prevent future threats. Re education of the German people and the destruction of Nazi ideology pose enormous tasks for world stability.
A reader reports relief from constipation by increasing dietary fiber with Kellogg’s All Bran. The ad recommends daily servings with milk or sprinkled on cereals, plus ample water, and notes availability in two sizes from Kellogg’s London Canada.
The article reports an English inventor P. H. Wild and his brother S. O. W. Wild renewing a patent in Britain for a jet propelled ship. A ten foot vessel has undergone tests using ejector propulsion driven by compressed combustion products.
A Moscow exhibit of recently captured German weapons features a self propelled electrically controlled land torpedo used as an anti-tank device. Tass reports the weapon, hidden by Germans as a top secret, was abandoned during the retreat from the Leningrad area. Other displays include a 105mm gun with about 11 miles range and a 150mm gun exceeding 12 miles.
A collage of literary quotes on spring, love, sincerity, and simplicity. Poised reflections from Cicero to Millay praise honest feeling, plain speech, and natural beauty as the highest virtues in life and art.
The total area of Britain’s air fields today exceeds the combined area of London and Middlesex counties. Traveling from London to Liverpool a journey of about 200 miles keeps a traveler within sight of an airfield.
A historical report notes Pony Express riders aimed to travel about 75 miles within a single day marking the grueling pace of early mail service and the endurance required by riders across the expansive routes.
Government guidance explains that sugar value for a preserve coupon remains half a pound. You may combine ra tioned preserves up to the coupon’s total value. Apply to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board for a business entry permit. Tea rations for a child born after Sept 1943 start with new books around April 1 1944.
Before the war about 300000 Canadians filed income tax returns, now the figure nears two million. Tax staff work has surged sevenfold, creating arrears as assessments lag. Many wonder if 1942 returns are correct after a year and 1941 waits for review. Even with extra help, the department plans to level the load across the year to avoid new delays. Glass eyes were used by the Romans and Egyptians.
Cecil Lamont of the Northwest Line Elevators Association said the United States perfected a wheat syrup process with commercial production at about 1,000,000 pounds per month. Revealed at St Louis farm chemurgic conference, the method was developed at Peoria's northern research lab and is being made in a beet sugar plant. With plant tweaks Canadian beet facilities could yield 60,000,000 pounds annually. two Ontario plants, two in Alberta, and one in Winnipeg are involved.
Sergeant Agnes Little and Sergeant Kathleen Monaghan receive promotions in Ottawa CWAC units. Staff Sergeant Catherine Angus, Corporal Daisy Trevelyan, and Sergeant Hazel Neil are also advanced, with enlistment dates from 1942 to 1943. Nancy Carroll visits Halifax CWAC barracks praising the corps and its members. The note closes noting about 2,000 fibre-yielding plants exist.
The article urges Canadians to secure daily orange or grapefruit intake to prevent vitamin C shortages before gardens yield. It advises keeping grapefruit in a warm spot to ripen over a week for better flavor and higher vitamin C, and emphasizes planning ahead. Mortimer Snerd is referenced for flair.
A collection of light jokes and wry observations from a bygone page. Exchanges cover music, home life, vehicles, animal wordplay, school and parenting quips, and fashion trends with quick punchlines and familiar character types. The items aim to entertain with playful, observational humor.
Six year old Nolan Edwards is believed to be Britain's youngest bellringer. Every Sunday he walks 24 miles to Shepshed Parish Church near Loughborough where his parents, both bell ringers, taught him since age five.
Bert F. Wood of Winchester New Hampshire is among few Americans still making old fashioned grand father clocks. He started at 15 repairing and building clocks and now makes the works first then the cabinets from piano wood bought at auctions. It takes about a month to complete one clock.
Describes Moone's Emerald Oil as fast relief for swollen burning feet. Claims two or three applications banish pain and soreness in minutes and urges readers to buy a bottle at drugstores.
After Luftwaffe daylight raids failed to break London and ground defences, Britain fielded a secret 2.7 inch anti aircraft gun. It fired a heavier shell further and more accurately than the 88 mm gun, contributing to repelling the German offensive in 1940.
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