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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1940
Page
7
Ellenbury and Ellenburg remain entangled with Harlow the Splendid as police close in on Park Lane. The tension centers on a planned disguise, a warning to avoid arrest, and a race to outsmart authorities in a perilous Dublin-like intrigue.
A family dinner at a prominent local resident’s home ends with Tommy’s awkward apology. While cutting meat the piece fell to the floor and, under his mother’s tense whisper, he mumbled a quick joke about tough meat. Mrs Ayres reaction is also described.
Saskatchewan Indians have gained in the schools such mastery of the English language that the Department of Indian Affairs has released nine interpreters formerly employed in the province. Canada is learning what Britain has long known that mastery of the sea is won and held only at a heavy cost in human lives. A soap company is producing 17 varieties to fit regions with varying water hardness.
Edwin A. Robertson an 84 year old Maine born Alaskan pioneer died on November 14 while traveling toward Eagle Alaska Yukon border. Found encased in glacier ice beside a stream with a rifle wolves tracks and a small fire attempt. United States Commissioner R E Steel believes he deliberately entombed himself in ice to spare his body from wolves.
Koritza, recently captured by Greeks, lacks railways and is connected by a thrice weekly airplane service and telegraph lines to Tirana. The city boasts paved boulevards, hotels, cafes, and modern shops with 24 000 residents, one third Muslim, reflecting Albania under Turkish rule before 1912.
Dr Sverdrup from California explains evaporation requires cooler air than water. He notes warming begins in March with cooling by late August. Bay of Biscay shows high evaporation and the Eurosia current brings warm water north where Siberian winds drive strong evaporation. He also mentions brakes as a key car innovation.
An October 15 letter from England describes workers continuing operations during air raids with minimal time lost. Foremen faced bombed homes, signals on rooftops guide safety, and last week only one hour twenty minutes were lost across fifty hours of work. The writer expresses resolve to endure until Nazi defeat.
A collection of brief quotations praising peace and inner calm from Woodrow Wilson William Collins Romans 12 18 Mary Baker Eddy James Thomson and others. The lines emphasize peace as healing elevating and essential to good will and humane conduct.
Britain’s Queen acts as commander-in-chief of three women’s units the Auxiliary Territorial Service the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and the Women’s Royal Naval Service and as president of the British Red Cross. She rifle practice with royal women at Buckingham Palace and the King and Queen share the national ration plan with officials and 200 royal servants, clip coupons weekly.
Biggs, inventor of the honey pasteurizer, told the Ontario Beekeepers Association convention in Toronto that poor quality honey reduces trade and consumption and urged channeling more honey profits into organization work. A Pusey of Owen Sound noted rising English demand and orders that could push exports to at least 1,500,000 pounds if shipping space is found.
Four doctors operate in central Australia providing aerial medical aid to homesteads hundreds of miles away. They respond to calls by telephone or telegram, then fly to remote settlements to deliver care.
An advertisement promotes a "Popular Cowboy Songs" booklet with 19 cowboy songs including Goodbye Old Paint and The Dying Cowboy with words music and piano accompaniments. It invites readers to send 15 cents to Winnipeg Newspaper Union for home service publications and lists additional 15 cent booklets on piano playing cardy making decor subjects and crafts.
Berlin protests as Nazi claims say nineteen German soldiers were wounded by British bombs at an Amsterdam hospital. The report prompts questions about why German troops were in an Amsterdam hospital. The text notes that insects average eight generations annually.
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