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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
7
A feature extols the toad as a beneficial farm animal that controls orchard and garden pests. It notes the toad eats mainly animals and that over half its diet consists of harmful insects, aiding in reducing plum and apple curculios, potato beetle, tent caterpillar, cankerworm, and certain moth larvae.
Pat, a field artillery lieutenant, argues with Sally over civilian help at a desert camp. She suggests dandelion greens and wild berries for a Camp menu while Pat builds a paper chicken pen. The general visits, coffee, cake, and a clever paper chicken scheme win a prize for camouflage and a new flag.
Eileen Crouch a 21 year old nurse is praised as a heroine for staying five hours to aid patients after bombs hit her hospital. The blaze and a roof collapse followed as the building was struck twice more in the blitz. She lost both parents earlier in the bombing.
The Ladies and Gentlemen's Manual of Elegance 1850 urges never to cut bread thinner than about an inch and four quarters, deeming thin slices plebeian and inappropriate for proper etiquette.
Ladies sewing pattern 4660 for a smart pinafore with floral print and ruffles. Sizes 12 through 20 with size 16 requiring 3 1 2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents by coin to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for orders.
Revised estimates show Canada produced 39 4921 lb of honey in 1943, up 11 443 400 lb or 40.8 percent from 1942. Beekeepers reached 34 250, up 5 820 from 28 430, while colonies totaled 449 650, up 22 600. Prairie provinces lead growth, Alberta doubling beekeepers and boosting colonies. Prospect for 1944 is cautiously optimistic with weather favorability and potential crop improvement.
Wartime research directed by the Army Quartermaster Corps in New York promises post war comforts. Improvements include pre mixed cereals water proof matches and butter that won t melt except at high temperatures. A survey lists insecticides sprayed from metal bombs to kill mosquitoes cereals pre mixed with sugar and milk and only water needed and unbreakable glassware.
Turkish authorities released two Russian citizens formerly employed by the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. They had been sentenced in 1942 to 16 years and eight months for an attempted bombing aimed at German Ambassador Franz von Papen.
Irene the five year old second daughter of Princess Juliana grows up in Ottawa with sister Beatrix and newborn Margriet Francisco. The Dutch royal children attend a local school speak English fluently and enjoy Canadian playmates as they await a future return to a free Holland. Their stay strengthens ties between Canada and the Netherlands during the war.
Editorial praise from the Evening Standard and London Standard credits Canada with wartime stature and heroism. They note the 1st Canadian army as a historic climax and that sons in Caen carry forward their fathers at Amiens, amid lease-lend generosity and RCAF skill.
The Monthly Review of the Wheat Situation says Canada can maintain export levels near 1943-44 with substantial stocks by July 1945. The season may shift exports overseas, reducing shipments to the United States, while keeping at least 350 million bushels available for export without depleting carryover before the 1945 crop.
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about officers, lovers, newlyweds, students and travelers. It features exchanges on licenses, heredity versus effort, handbags, bank loans, exams logic, aging, travel mishearings, baby names, and courting advice with a light, old timey tone.
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