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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
7
A penniless year forces Ben to choose between misusing an eight dollar find or returning the purse that restores Christmas joy. He returns the lost money and sees his family receive a real holiday, funded by another’s honesty as Nan reveals their gifts were saved all year.
Thirteen years ago William Macey of Faversham England won 135000 in the Irish sweepstake. He quit his timber yard job, drew weekly bank interest, bought a modest house, and left a 153000 estate to his wife in trust. He died last July, preserving a frugal, steady life.
Dr F W Clements of the Commonwealth Health Department told an Ottawa audience that child health clinics in Australia reach 98 percent of babies in their first year and that three in four attend regularly. He said rural regions are served by clinics in railway cars and motor vans, with Well Baby Centre models familiar to Canadian mothers.
A 9 inch pie crust is baked briefly at 425 degrees for the shell. Filling combines milk corn starch sugar salt eggs and vanilla then bakes at 325 degrees until custard firms. Chocolate topping melts with sugar and butter then is blended with milk and cooled for finishing.
Experts state seven eclipses is the yearly cap with five solar and two lunar or four solar and three lunar. The rule constrains how many eclipses can be observed across sun and moon in a single year.
The Stratford Beacon Herald extols Winston Churchill as a wartime leader and moral compass of the Allied cause. It lauds his vigor and courage, compares him with Smuts Roosevelt and Stalin, and prays for his health as he enters a new year and decade.
In Bahadarpur Patiala India the town granted a tax holiday for one year in gratitude for a local soldier earning the Victoria Cross. The move underlines community pride in the recipient and marks a rare civic gesture tied to a national honor.
A Dutch laborer showed British troops a pocket size radio receiver made to German specifications during the occupation. The three tube set, packed in a field dressing box marked Red Cross, powered by battery or hand dynamo, carried BBC broadcasts to listeners awaiting Allied action.
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Allies plan to prevent Germany from conducting secret postwar weapons research. He cited many regular workers and noted American and Allied collaboration. He declined to disclose British and American casual ties in the war against Japan to avoid aiding the enemy.
Adorable jumper with embroidery pairs with a simple blouse in Pattern 4825 for girls sizes 6 through 14. Includes yardage for size 10 jumper and blouse, orders sent with twenty cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg, reminding mail delays may occur.
A collage of wartime items and oddities, including Baz O’Meara’s radio remark about Montreal’s Maroons, American gum for troops, cigarette stats, and a Toronto Telegram note on air raids. It also covers mail instructions, a Montreal horse ambulance, and a nine year old Globe and Mail carrier sharing a morning greeting.
Mrs. W. E. West, director of Canada's Women's Voluntary Services in Ottawa, lauds UK W V S efforts. She notes 38 500 socks weekly mended for service men, with signs like Soldiers' Repair Shop and Repairs while you Wait. They teach men to mend, patch towels and sew stripes, boosting thrift and awareness of preventive care.
For Her Cats The British Women's Voluntary Service reports serving 766000 meals to bombed-out residents in London during the first ten weeks of relief duty. Workers recall tragedies and humor, including an elderly woman asking for milk to feed her cats after her apartment block was blasted. The note adds a historical aside that the first English Channel air crossing occurred in 1909.
You may suffer swollen feet and sharp pain from shoes cutting in. Two or three applications of Moone's Emerald Oil bring quick relief, ending soreness in minutes. If you have not tried Emerald Oil, you have something to learn. Get a bottle today at all drugstores.
Ottawa nutrition division reports potatoes provide vitamin C and energy, noting one medium potato has fewer calories than common desserts. It urges daily servings, advises boiling or baking with jackets, and contrasts potato intake with other foods as Canadians average 196 pounds yearly versus 78 pounds of alternatives.
A reflective note asserts that roughly a quarter of a man’s life is spent on development and mental labor, implying time devoted to growth and study. The statement frames life as a balance between effort and intellectual cultivation.
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