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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1940
Page
4
The Montreal Star argues Canadians should prioritize purchases from Great Britain as a mutual wartime exchange. Buying British supports Britain’s mobilization and helps maintain markets for Canadian products while strengthening postwar economic recovery.
Leo Landseer, awaiting RAF call, leads seven photography crews in a race to copy millions of records. A £4000 railway contract produced nearly one million photos including church birth and death records, museum books, and pawnbrokers ledgers dating to 1830 to safeguard business against bombs.
Wealthy refugees from Austria and Czecho Slovakia brought over a million dollars to British Columbia. About half the funds were used to buy homes and apartment buildings while others invested in lumber mills and plywood factories. Leon Korner leads new hemlock air drying methods transforming the province’s lumber sector. Former Czech industrialists J. G Prentice and L. L. G. Bentley produce plywood for aircraft manufacturing.
A regional report notes that the continent used 78 million dollars for doughnuts despite ongoing losses in mining and oil. It also cites an estimate that one in ten Russians has ties to the Ogpu secret police.
A reprinted 22 year old message from King George V praises the Royal Air Force for its role in victory and thanks officers and men. It notes the RAF expanding since 1918 and compares past and present theaters, while urging continued effort until American planes arrive to bolster Britain against the Nazis.
The article describes London's Regent's Park Zoo enduring bomb damage with 14 high explosives and over 100 incendiaries. keeper Skinny and animals face disruption while monkeys and a zebra escape briefly but return by mealtime.
The Court of St James's is the correct form after American editors debated the proper apostrophe. A Washington official, the British Embassy, and old reference books weighed in before the decision was confirmed, illustrating careful adherence to proper style.
Robert King reported equipment stolen from his motor boat in Green Bay Wisconsin. When asked for the boat name he refused saying Who cares and then the desk sergeant suggested the name Who Cares. Birds fly in rising columns and must flap to continue.
Seven hundred girls employed in a Glasgow laundry halt work daily at noon for two minutes and stand by their machines in silent prayer. A fact notes that about 99 percent of the body's calcium is in the bones and teeth.
Speed flier Col. Roscoe Turner praised the Royal Air Force as the best flying organization at a Hamilton luncheon. He urged Canada and the United States to keep planes in service and noted many more American volunteers would join the RAF and RCAF. An egg auction at Smithfield raised £8 for Red Cross funds.
Abubakr Sultan of Sokoto replies to Hitler denying forced contributions for the Win-the-War Fund. He states Muslims in Sokoto freely gave money and prayers for British victory, with a large spontaneous donation as a token of loyalty.
A wartime notice highlights Nazi officer families in French villas at Bordeaux and Biarritz, mass relocations of women and children from bombed German areas, and claims the Empire Mine in Gran Valley California has produced gold for 90 years with 190 miles of tunnels. It argues every spent dollar supports the Empire cause through Empire products.
A St Thomas Times-Journal report describes Magnetic Hill near Moncton New Brunswick where cars appear to roll uphill. Readers speculate about iron ore deposits or optical illusion with magnetism as possible causes and note the lack of an official local explanation.
The British bicycle export group, with Board of Trade aid, plans to ship 1,250,000 bicycles or parts within 12 months. The focus is on US and Canada markets, with UK models lighter and open frame favored. A trade mission led by Lord Willingdon travels to South America to promote British bikes to cyclists seeking German and Italian alternatives.
Civic officials in India don blue uniforms of various shades on state occasions. The contrasting color use highlights ceremonial attire and official differentiation in public settings.
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