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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
2
The article notes weather’s crucial role in farming and aviation. It discusses how forecasting advances, accelerated by wartime needs, now aid farmers and individuals by reducing crop risk and aviation hazards.
Meteorologists predict new weather forecasting methods will greatly help farming. Farmers may learn weather for days and even a year ahead. Sir Hubert Wilkins foresees possible daily consulting forecasts, while Dr. John Patterson envisions consulting meteorologists and widespread radio reports and up-to-date weather maps for all citizens.
During the war, rapid trans oceanic flying and long flights over hostile lands made accurate weather forecasting essential. Allied and conquered nations linked efforts while new forecasting facilities expand to unknown Pacific regions. Canadian scientists contribute to this global program expected to save lives by predicting tornadoes hurricanes heat and cold and aid aviation and food preservation.
Persuasive ad urges readers to choose Moone’s Emerald Oil from drugstores. Claims rapid relief from itching and eruptions, with quick drying and scaliness reduction for eczema, toes and feet, Barber’s Itch, and Salt Rheum. Promises antiseptic action without greasiness and a money back guarantee.
Sixteen year old Philip B. Clark built a basement radio studio in Schenectady to combine music and engineering. He supplies Faith Lutheran Church with organ and turntable music and also provides canned music to his family and live organ performances. Clark crafted an organ from a vacuum cleaner and toothpicks, driven by talent from his mother a former singer and his GE engineer father.
Dominion spyarist B Gooderham told the Ontario Beekeepers Association that beekeeping has thrived in the three prairie provinces, a region once thought uninhabitable for bees. He noted the industry now produces millions of pounds of honey and called for new fundamental research to support growth.
A shoe shine parlor on fashionable Park Avenue in New York City features bootblacks dressed in formal evening attire, highlighting a stylish grooming scene.
An Ottawa patent firm Ramsay Patent Attorneys advertises an offer to inventors detailing a list of inventions and full information. The notice presents contact at Bank Bees Ottawa.
A collection of quick quips and one liners about seafaring language shop talk a concert hall watch jokes and family notes. The humor centers on misunderstandings word play and daily social scenes with punch lines about aging etiquette and stubborn delays.
Wartime notes explain coupon expiry for preserves and sugar, with orange P coupons expiring January 31, 1946. After January 1 pink sugar coupons convert to new values covering sugar and preserves, after which S coupons cover the consolidated plan. Dentists’ fees remain outside Wartime Prices and Trade Board control. Applications for business licenses go to the local office.
The Kitchener Daily Record notes Sweden treats forestry as a perpetual crop guided by science and nature, sustaining high living standards with robust timber output. It contrasts Sweden’s 173,000 square mile area yielding 1.6 billion cubic feet annually to Canada’s 2,003,000 square miles yielding about 3.825 trillion cubic feet, highlighting dense population at 40.77 per square mile.
The article traces the origin of referring to ships as she from Greek mariners to biblical times. It notes 17th and 18th century terms for ships and cites historical lines showing early gendered language. The piece suggests ships’ feminine naming derives from honoring the sea goddess Athene and notes ancient Greeks used feminine terms for vessels.
Business Week reports a forthcoming electric alarm clock that flashes a bedside light on and off for ten minutes. If the sleeper remains asleep, a continuous alarm bell sounds until a hand presses a button to stop it.
An old advertisement touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache headaches rheumatic pain and tired feeling caused by supposed kidney imbalance. It stresses time tested safety and urges demand for the blue package.
Puzzle list of across and down clues spanning numbers 1 through 86 with items such as Tree of the olive family pronoun earth goddess chalice group of singers Moorish drum inflection vehicle and more. The vertical clues include to perform digging implement sharpen Greek letter leakage bulbous perennial and others.
Wan chese, a chief of a North Carolina tribe, became "Lord of Manteo" after visiting England with Raleigh's colonists, marking the first English title bestowed upon an American Indian.
The Hague traction company presented a two million guilder bill to conquered Germany for street car fares of occupying troops. Conductors tallied noses to count soldiers and officers who rode free. post liberation the bill was added to the Netherlands’ reparations claim, though payment remains uncertain.
Capt Beatrice D Munroe C W A C Dundurn Sask named officer commanding No 112 Det C W A C replacing Major Mary McKvena. Munroe enlisting 1941 in Toronto has served in Toronto Estorol Regina and Dundurn born in London England previously acted on English stage for seven years. She has done broadcasting lecturing and sales promotion work including trips to Egypt and the West Indies. In 1945 her play Heroine's of War won a Regina Saskatchewan award for best play by a Saskatchewan writer.
A Texas study shows redecorating 21 classrooms with light colors increased natural light and cut eye defects and other ailments among 396 children. Refractive problems dropped from 53.3% to 22.8% and non refractive from 39.5% to 3.8% while nutritional issues fell from 71.3% to 39.5% and chronic infections from 75.2% to 51.2%.
Paul Clarke head of the information department at the Aluminum Company of Canada told the Electrical Club in Toronto that electric power enabled Canada to raise aluminum production fifteenfold from 35 000 to over 500 000 tons annually during the war years. Canada supplied 40 percent of the aluminum used by the United Nations.
A compact collection of aphorisms from Ford Hawthorne Carlyle and others on persistence adversity and progress. The piece pairs maxims about business life golf resilience virtue and timing with a light health tip about vitamin C. It ends with a numeral reference 2651.
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