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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
5
A celebrated jade dressing table set from modern China is created by skilled artisans despite wartime disruption. The 14 pieces, valued at 25000 dollars and mounted in 18 karat gold in America, symbolize endurance and beauty amid Burma Road trade and perilous exports.
Six foot Canadian Sergeant W. Y. Searles visited the palatial Halifax YMCA Centre for a cup of tea. Surrounded by workers and officials he chatted with the Princess Royal who noticed his medal ribbons and asked about his World War I service. He complimented democracy by noting the unexpected encounter.
A medieval warning notes noble salt cellars locked to guard against poisoning. A Ontario farmer reports two of his horses shot by pheasant hunters. Marble sidewalks in Marble North Carolina use local marble from nearby quarries once called high Cs.
Army doctors in Egypt treat Lieut K Douglas of Napier New Zealand as a human guinea pig for venom immunity tests. He endures bites from fleas mosquitoes and sandflies with no ill effects while his blood is studied and he offers to endure a scorpion sting to prove stronger immunity.
Transport minister Lord Leathers issues a government order limiting railway movement to economize. Cocoa from one English area won’t reach regions served by a competing maker. Dominion Tariff on coal imports boosts Alberta mine tonnage this year.
The article notes Canadian production of two tank types, the Valentine Infantry Mark II and the M-3 Cruiser, as part of wartime military manufacturing.
The Hamilton Ontario trader Herbert Mills is cited as handling English china while a November 25 26 items letter from Koto Matsudaira first secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Washington ordered shipment before December 7. The text suggests Japan planned the attack long before Pearl Harbor and points to embassy confidence and protracted negotiations with Hull. The Ottawa Journal cites a farewell Ottawa dinner as further indication of Axis strategy.
England's prime minister Winston Spencer Churchill is noted for dropping the Spencer from his name after his father Lord Randolph Churchill deemed it clumsy. The article discusses naming choices and political identity in 20th century Britain.
The London Spectator recounts the Nelson pension saga beginning with Nelson’s wish for a peerage and ending with the current line of Earls Nelson. It notes the viscountcy’s extinction, the barony passing to the elder brother a Norfolk parson, and the grant of £90,000 plus £5,000 yearly in an annuity now totaling £680,000. It mentions the nephew’s line and potential future heirs facing a life with or without endowment.
More than 415000 campers visited public campgrounds in natural parks across Western Canada during July and August 1941, reflecting heavy summer use and growing outdoor recreation.
Embellish a baby cover with lazy daisy flowers in pink or blue or both. Includes motifs, color schemes and materials. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 Mc.
The Royal Post Office handles vast royal mail and telegraph traffic at Buckingham Palace and other royal residences. It preserves secrecy during wartime, operates high pressure during royal events, and details the 1937 coronation and King George V Silver Jubilee mail volume and international messages.
Gardener J G Allaway of the Dominion Experimental Station Scott Saskatchewan explains that a late summer rest helps winter bloom for perennials. Replanting and cutting back mimic nature, with soil mixes and proper drainage aiding growth.
The Dominion bureau of statistics places Canada's principal field crops value this year at 649,058,000 dollars, down 33,308,000 from 1940. Wheat drives the decline, dipping to 160,952,000 from 287,620,000. Other crops rise except buckwheat grain hay and sugar beets. California and Florida orange trees total enough to equal one per U.S. family per the 1940 census.
Admirers of Joseph Stalin send thousands of letters weekly to Great Britain for the Soviet leader. The letters are forwarded to him, but the Ministry of Information would not reveal the route.
Each dish at Frederick the Great's table was prepared by a different cook who had his own private kitchen to craft his special offering.
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