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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1940
Page
2
The article surveys the common cold as a widespread affliction, noting its high prevalence, contagiousness, and limited curative options. It cites medical opinions on care, isolation, and prevention, and highlights nutrition and sleep as factors in resisting infection, detailing a weekly Canadian food list per person.
Ducks were chased by hunters at Las Cruces New Mexico as the duck season closed at 4 pm on Friday. A few minutes later mallards from the north arrived in the Rio Grande signaling the end of the hunt and the first flight of the evening.
Natives of Wisconsin are called Badgers due to early lead miners living in underground burrows. The text contrasts caution with cowardice, noting fear in different contexts.
A London Listener note claims the cabbage in form and outline resembles a rose. It urges readers to inspect a half grown red cabbage to see the bloom like petals, arguing beauty in the humble vegetable despite jokes.
A wartime factory, once producing radios and televisions, now adapts to make air defense gear. It crafts predictors that compute airplane positions and sound locators linked to searchlights, aided by German-origin components under Britain’s war effort. The plant also makes fuse cases and training planes from British Columbia spruce, with naval radio sets tested for eight hours against rough seas.
Gertrude Wepsala the reigning title holder leaves Vancouver for Jasper to train with Art Coles and coach Peter Vajda. The Tyee ski runners prepare at Maligne Lake and Shovel Pass then plan to train on the Whistier mountain downhill course built to F I S specifications with a 3.5 mile run and 4 500 foot drop from the summit.
Officials from the trade and commerce department say Canadians may mail small gift parcels to relatives in the United Kingdom without the British food ministry handling them. Large quantities are blocked by the ministry, while gifts may include five pounds of butter or sugar and two to three cans of canned meats or fruits.
Postmaster-General Power announces that Canadian soldiers in a theatre of actual war will send letters free of postage. The privilege extends to British, Dominion, colonial and Allied forces in war zones and to officers and men on His Majesty’s or Allied warships. Those not in a war theatre with full mailing facilities are excluded for now.
A simple skillet omelet made from brown turkey gravy minced cooked turkey and chopped cold potatoes. Spread in a hot greased pan browned and folded like an omelet then served with cranberry sauce.
Two cups light brown sugar one cup corn syrup one cup butter one cup water one cup shredded coconut one cup chopped walnuts. Cook the first four ingredients until a firm ball forms in cold water. Add coconut and walnuts and pour into buttered pans. Cut into squares while warm. Stir occasionally to prevent burning.
Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King said Lord Tweedsmuir will depart Canada when his term as Governor General ends next summer. The private life author John Buchan has served since 1935, and King indicated Tweedsmuir’s health prevents any term extension.
Young men appear to favor a single guiding idea of doing the least work for the most pay, despite harboring a variety of modern notions. The outlook centers on maximizing earnings with minimal effort.
The Toronto Telegram cites the Oxford Dictionary noting transpire literally means to breathe through the skin and warns that it is misused for occur or happen. The piece argues that transpired does not mean took place and that many readers treat it as correct usage.
The Toronto Star describes Lake Ladoga as Europe's largest lake with about 7 000 square miles of area nearly matching Lake Ontario. It notes seven feet level changes due to atmospheric shifts and reports that seventy rivers empty into it amid Finn and Russian conflicts nearby.
A Scots inventor creates a bag pipe that sounds only when connected to a light socket, remaining silent without a power source, a quirky gadget amid novelty devices.
The Star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus is noted as the north polar star of Mars according to the astronomical description.
London hospitals set up casualty clearing stations under the Ministry of Health to speed triage. Red tags signal emergency operations, green with red circle mean minor surgery, pink with blue diagonal indicates direct ward dispatch, yellow with red cross marks for X rays, blue tags for resuscitation. If both resuscitation and emergency work are needed, a blue and red tag are used. Tags must be attached to the patient.
A weather observer reports a tornado in Illinois leaving a pine pole impaled through an 18 inch poplar tree. The battered scene captures extreme wind damage and reminds of severe storm danger in the region.
In Alberta supreme court chambers Justice W C Ives distinguished ranching from farming when an applicant for British naturalization declared himself a rancher and said he owned forty head of cattle. His lordship ruled that the figure and occupation equated him to a farmer.
In 1936 India, 1,068 tigers were killed by men and 1,033 men were killed by tigers. The era notes a shift with new devices aiding driving but still requiring turning when the road dictates.
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