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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1942
Page
4
A scanned quiz asks about personal wartime finances and duty including investing in War Savings Certificates and Bonds, supporting War Finance committees, and opinions on inflation control. It links responses to point values and emphasizes patriotic participation and saving to defeat Hitler.
Lifeboats built across the British Empire use English oak Canadian elm white deal and Honduras mahogany with a teak keel to enable self righting and rapid water drainage. The design by William Woodhave earned a guinea and allows vessels to right themselves and continue work after capsizing. Lifeboats have saved thousands since Dunkirk and WWII began.
Rt. Hon William Grant of the Northern Ireland House of Commons expressed gratitude for Canadian relief gifts. He thanked donors for clothing and cooking utensils which greatly aided air raid victims in Northern Ireland.
A joyful young man entering a jeweler’s shop asks the price of a diamond ring. The jeweler names one hundred guineas. The man, surprised, whistles and then points to another ring. The jeweler answers in the same gentle manner that the second ring costs two whistles.
Two hundred fifty mothers and children evacuated from London's East End to Windsor enjoyed a Thames boat ride. They shouted three cheers for the kind lady who gave them a happy way, not knowing the benefactress was Queen Elizabeth.
McDonnell Aircraft Corp reports successful experiments using laminated paper plastics for wing tips rudders elevators and other parts to counter aluminum and steel shortages. A wing tip tested at 2,800 pounds held strong with lighter weight and no coatings needed. The process uses zinc alloy dies and partners with a plastics maker a paper firm and the forest products laboratory for production readiness.
A new narrative drawn from survivor testimony portrays merchant sailors facing deadly peril in wartime. It recalls the Jervis Bay's doomed attack on the German battleship and a tanker crew's daring to board a blazing ship to save a convoy.
A Nazi mother sends boots to her son fighting in Russia. He replies Dear Mama that the boots were delicious as he endures the Russian mud. The exchange highlights grim wartime morale and propaganda in a smuggled German story.
A Royal Army Medical Corps prisoner repatriated from Sidi Rezegh shared a camp story from Sercigliano in Northern Italy. Guards forbidden to play the national anthem unknowingly sang it as if it were a popular song, prompting an orderly officer to nearly faint.
D. P. Cruickshank of the wartime prices and trade board tightened metal tool production and advises mild soap and fine abrasive for aluminum pans. For stubborn stains use boiling water and vinegar, never alkaline solutions like soda. treat with care as kitchen utensils become irreplaceable.
Six people stood close together and threw stones. Albert, allowed to sniff one hand, identified the correct stone after a brief sniff, proving his exceptional sense of smell in the test.
The Winnipeg Free Press laments many people cashing war savings certificates for nonessential purchases such as coats suits or vacations. Redeeming certificates burdens the government finance and increases war effort costs, tying up clerks in needless work.
Canada’s first wartime official health diet lists half a pint of milk for adults and more than a pint for children as the first essential, followed by one daily serving of tomatoes to supply vitamin C that cannot be stored by the body.
A bull escaped a slaughterhouse and hid in an antique china shop near Windsor Castle. Drovers captured the animal after a chaotic quarter hour that left many pieces of china damaged. Store manageress Mrs. Maude Crutchley recalled the bombed London home as less eventful than the escape.
Bendigo engineer H. A. Abbott develops fixed barb wire with individually locked wires and 110 ton tensile strength capable of stopping tanks. Melbourne innovator A. G. Michell, creator of the Michell Thrust Block, is highlighted as a leading naval and maritime instrument inventor.
In Canada northern communities contribute to the salvage effort by turning in old rubbers when buying new footwear. The Hudson's Bay Company assists. A Manitoba Game and Fisheries representative recently returned with 300 pounds of old rubbers from northern Manitoba.
In a humorous vignette a new worker Brown measures a steel plate using a two foot rule, his hand span and brick as guides. The foreman asks for size and Brown replies with a quirky composite of body measures. The Rhine Falls are described as Europe’s Niagara at Schaffhausen.
Food Minister Lord Woolton urged vigilance over shortages at a London bread baking competition. He warned gains could vanish, pointed to shipping losses, and urged facing facts about future supplies, noting wartime rationing and restructuring of Vitamin A and C provisions.
The article recalls Wing Commander Lawrence Wackett of Australia and Captain Wackett of the Australian Flying Corps who pioneered air dropped ammunition in the Battle of Hamel 1918. Pilots learned to drop 1000 foot altitudes near targets, delivering over 100000 rounds with reduced casualties, a method that spread in later months. It notes armored vehicle air lifting and Junkers involvement in early planning.
The British army revealed a lighter, more accurate rifle during a royal inspection. The King examined the weapon and spoke with a renowned marksman from a famous regiment who praised its precision saying it felt impossible to miss.
John Wagner 80 famed for the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike gold rush died recently in a Juneau hospital after a stay since last October. He earned renown as the only packer able to carry a cook stove on the trail.
The three‑month‑old daughter of Lieut. Peter S. W. Roberts, a young British VC recipient, was christened in the forward torpedo compartment of a submarine with the ship's bell inverted as a baptismal font.
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