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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1943
Page
2
Across the empire wartime changes in living standards have reshaped supply, shipping, and goods. The text notes acceptance of restrictions, potential postwar continuations, and gains in nutrition public health and cooperation between nations arising from wartime efforts.
During the war years a closer Empire alliance and greater cooperation have developed. Colonies expanded production of raw materials and food to aid Britain and Allies. Ceylon rubber output rose and supplies from Africa increased. Trinidad supplies petroleum. British Guiana provides bauxite for aluminum.
The British Empire lifts food output in colonies to sustain Middle East forces with wheat maize tinned meat and dried vegetables. Kenya Colony led in dehydrating vegetables and tea and sugar production rose to meet wartime needs, with long term gains for colonial welfare and empire prosperity.
Clement Attlee told Dominions Secretary that Canada will gain from wartime airfields enabling swift postwar air travel. He stressed vast distances make air routes crucial for administration and trade and forecast the Alaska Highway could become a major international traffic artery.
A collection of light exchanges and gags about cooking poetry golf love and family life with a wartime backdrop. The humor touches on hens shells flights and miscommunications plus a line about American industry meeting war needs thanks to prior British orders.
List of graduates from No. 5 Air Observer School Winnipeg and No. 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon and others across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta including Dafoe Cupar Laird Peace River and Redpath. Names span air navigators pilots wireless air gunners and air bombers with home towns across Canada.
An officer later a wing commander baled out from a burning fighter at 25 000 feet during the Battle of Britain. Fire trapped him as he fell but a misfitted harness saved him by releasing and keeping him head down by one buckle. He landed without a broken neck, a near miraculous survival.
Instructions list ingredients for muffins using soy bean flour and white flour with baking powder salt sugar milk egg and melted butter. Method says mix sift dry ingredients add milk and egg then butter bake 25 minutes in greased tins. Note mentions fresh green edible soy beans as a possible menu addition and their tender cooking similar to peas.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture outlines simple pest control for Victory gardens using spraying or dusting. Sprays cover both leaf surfaces and are usually more effective. apply on warm calm days. Nicotine sulphate should be used only above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. repeat weekly until outbreaks are checked.
A wartime update notes domestic products and scents permeating shop floors. The piece contrasts feminine supplies left in workplaces with the harsh realities of war, ending with the phrase war is hell and a note about Pure Oil News.
The Royal Navy has sunk or captured more than 8,000,000 tons of enemy merchant shipping and lost fewer than one in 200 ships in convoy. This reflects substantial wartime success in preserving fleet and denying freight to adversaries.
The article explains the term Reich as a German label for realms from the 1871 empire to the postwar republic and the Nazi era. It notes the First Reich as the Empire, the Second Reich as the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich as the Nazi regime centered under Hitler.
In Untick Massachusetts Sumner Hersey and family avoided meat for three weeks to save a birthday roast. Just as the 7 pound roast was carved their setter devoured it.
War conditions drive higher winter wheat prices in prairie provinces says W D Hay at Lethbridge experimental station. Increased demand has boosted prices above spring wheat. early ripening shortens harvest and mitigates labour shortages. Selecting hardy Kharkov M C 22 reduces winter kill. Winter wheat shows 27.3 bushels per acre average yield vs 25 for spring.
The London Free Press notes the trans-Canada highway is finished but motorists still face gaps in gas, tires, and car supplies. It emphasizes the need for time and money to make a west coast drive feasible.
About 140 lizard species inhabit North America and only the Gila Monster is known to be poisonous.
A collection of crossword style clues and partial entries including multiple numbered hints for across and down answers. The list features items such as Crude metal, The sun, River in Italy, Goading instrument, Tree-snake, White wine, Indian pillar, and several others with varied numbering and gaps.
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