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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
7
Pat and Ralph sail along the Florida coast when Lou finds a bottle with a note from a dying sailor promising love. Lou later discovers the message asks for Pat to marry her, and she accepts after hearing Pat confess his love.
The London Daily Sketch notes how Normandy mussels, via byssus threads, bound loosely piled stones to form a strong breakwater mass at Cherbourg. Engineers used thousands of mussels to bind stone, creating a durable structure capable of withstanding violent seas. Also mentions the adage it takes a pound of fat to make half a pound of dynamite.
RCAF Sgt. R. D. Hadwyn of Lindsay Ontario returns to Canada after enlisting at 15. He counts one confirmed Messerschmitt and one probable Focke Wulf, with 18 combat trips in Europe. He will train as a gunnery instructor until he is 18 and eligible to fly again.
Princess Margaret aged 14 visited the Princess Margaret Rose school at Windsor wearing a pink cotton dress and straw hat. She collected purses from 25 current and former pupils for the rebuilding fund, with the Queen observing as the girl announced a total of about 1,000 dollars raised and expressed thanks and good wishes for the school.
Watery-fruit preparation to make a thick clear preserve from tart apples green plums and lemon rind. Boil fruit with water until tender then sieve add sugar and corn syrup boil gently 35 to 40 minutes until thick then cool yields about 2 pints.
A kitchen recipe for macaroni and cheese with uncooked macaroni, butter, corn starch, salt, pepper, milk, grated old cheese, cracker crumbs, and melted butter. It instructs boiling pasta, preparing a cheese sauce, combining with macaroni, and baking at 375 degrees F for a golden crust. The note adds that Japan has recorded 22 000 earthquakes in the last decade.
Prairie farmers weigh postwar saving plans and prudent purchases as Western agriculture reports high income and low debt. They urge price ceilings and floor protections, caution against premature buying, and forecast land prices rising while planning long term security and employment benefits.
An overview of Germany's collapse as Adolf Hitler's regime nears defeat. A Swiss report details widespread ruin from bombings, declassed citizens, shortages, and decayed industry, portraying a country in decline ready to fall into the grave Hitler dug for it.
A Toronto dispatch notes stores and restaurants closing for one to two weeks as wartime staffing difficulties push a new approach to summer holidays. Ottawa mirrors Toronto with full staff vacations, a wartime trend seen in major plants. The idea, though not new, may endure after the war as a progressive change. Ottawa Citizen.
This week highlights Pattern 4826 for youthful sizes 12 through 20. Includes a sundress and jacket in contrasting fabric. total fabric 2½ yards for sundress and 1½ yards for jacket in 35 inch width. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg at 175 McDermot Ave. E for delivery, note mail delays.
Writings claim Marco Polo saw 15,000 boats at a Chinese anchorage and note cotton can be spun so fine that a pound yields 250 miles of yarn.
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