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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1939
Page
5
A Manchester Guardian observer visits an anti aircraft battery protecting a key railway station in France. He describes the routine alarm to identify planes, the skilled work of observers and gunners, and the harsh conditions in mud dugouts as they stand ready to fire at hostile aircraft, while their own alerts have yielded only false alarms.
Fordham University seismologist Rev Joseph Lynch links recent North American earthquakes to distinct processes. He notes western tremors arise from ongoing mountain building while eastern quakes reflect crust readjustment after ice age pressures. Fordham’s eight seismographs record daily quakes across Eastern Canada New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware and the Far West.
The Civil Service Association of Ottawa urged salary increases for civil servants to keep pace with living costs. The executive's annual report recalled wartime cost of living spikes and a partial relief via a bonus, hoping such gaps do not recur.
The cavalry subaltern dances awkwardly with a haughty woman. He apologizes that polo has him stiff and admits poor dancing. She replies coldly that it is indifferent to her where he was born.
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland, touts four of the world’s largest industrial undertakings. Its shipyard is the biggest on earth for merchantmen, with a history dating to 1790. The city also hosts the world’s largest linen mill, rope works, and flax and fibre machinery makers known for full vertical production from raw material to finished weaving and finishing equipment.
Ready for anything women of Horsefly British Columbia step into wartime leadership. They run gas stations general store post office telephone office and hotel while men serve in war effort prospecting road work trail breaking and guiding hunting parties into the hills.
The Hamilton Spectator notes a dining experiment where lighting made steaks look grey celery pink and coffee yellow, turning guests fleg some ill despite a claimed scientific dinner success. Red toothbrushes sell fastest, green pens are favored, and colors allegedly reveal taste and habits with patterns by personality types.
Lieut Col Ralph H Webble of Winnipeg and general manager of Canadian Legion War Services during a Toronto visit said soldiers in Canada’s new army buy large amounts of milk in dry canteens. Milk is favored in RCAF messes by all ranks for nerves. Officers support the claim.
A young Swiss inventor showcases a metallic box behind the screen capable of releasing and neutralizing about 4000 odors. At a test, a rose garden and narcissus field scent the theater while scenes show a carpenter shop with the scent of fresh shavings, hinting at a future in color cinema.
A self-proclaimed Prince of Guelph, 76, who claimed to be the first son of King Edward VII, was found dead in a St. Petersburg Florida hotel room. He spent years visiting European courts to press his royal claim, alleging his Quaker mother was wed to the prince in 1862 and that Queen Victoria later forced a divorce. His mother then married George Corpus, a Civil War veteran.
Quick simple stitchery patterns for monograming gifts with two 2% inch and two 1% inch alphabets. Pattern 6529 includes transfer designs, stitch illustrations and color schemes. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg for the pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
Two million five hundred thousand cows are now working in German agriculture replacing horses drafted by the army. The measure follows the broader shift in Germany to substitute animals for military labor amid wartime demands.
A playwright asks if their work will be produced and a manager replies with “Yes here it is” as artists use stainless steel backdrops for oil portraits to create long lasting works potentially enduring a thousand years.
Eye witness reports detail a German U boat attack and surrender as British destroyers rescue the entire crew after depth charge ferocity. The piece then explains how prize money was distributed historically, citing 1799 treasure from Thetis and Santa Brigada and Captain Anson’s 1744 Manila galleon haul of 2.5 million.
William van Dusen of Pan-American Airways cites a German Lufthansa contact claiming twin engined flight craft scout south Atlantic waters for whales. The source notes catapult ships aiding a whaling fleet to boost oil output, while jokes about butter from whales and a jab about Der Fuehrer.
Finnish place names often have Finnish and Swedish spellings due to historic official use of Swedish. Both languages are now official, with Finnish preferred by most Finns. Russian language efforts in the early 20th century to establish Russian in Finland failed.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Freehold New Jersey has paid an annual peppercorn tribute of one pepper seed for each year of its existence under a colonial charter granted more than two centuries ago. John Howard Payne wrote Home Sweet Home in Paris in 1822.
A brief note asserts that singing in the bathtub was an old Roman custom, mentioning antiquity and daily life practices without further context.
The War Department and Douglas officials veil the construction of an immense Army bomber in California. The landplane will surpass the Atlantic Clippers with a 220+ foot wingspan, about 125000 pounds, four 2000 horsepower engines, tri cycle gear, a 37 mm cannon, multiple machine guns, and roughly 20 tons of bombs, aiming for a 6000 mile cruise range. Speed remains undisclosed.
A girl and an elderly woman wait for others in a party. The girl offers a cigarette from her case. The older woman refuses, scolding the idea, while the pair exchange wry remarks about preferring a kiss to pass the wait.
The ancient Spartans played football on a larger field with no limit on players while the teams had to be equal in number. The description notes differences from modern practice where field size and player limits are regulated.
A compact note claims all diamonds globally would fit inside a box of eight cubic feet. The statement presents a hypothetical packing idea without detailing sources or feasibility.
The fragment states that more than half of the world’s inhabitants live on the continent of Agia. It identifies Agia as a major population center and implies a large regional share without specifying countries or cities.
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