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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
2
In wartime a rapid world change is noted with science medicine and social concepts advancing. The war highlights the value of natural resources and using waste materials wisely to create new products, urging better postwar use of innovations from the lumber industry and other fields.
Shortages of substances have spurred plastics research for war equipment and domestic use. Plastics substitute metals glass and other materials while offering lightness and strength. Experts caution they may not fulfill all future expectations despite many successful applications.
Canada has vast wheat producing Western provinces and rising domestic use. Wheat exports have grown since the war, and post war rehabilitation may benefit from new crops for industrial use. Studies on oats, soybeans, corn stalks, and plant fibers could yield plastics, wall boards, insulation, and waterproof materials.
The Pictou Highlanders have adopted a disabled girl in eastern Canada and are funding expert medical care to treat her leg affliction.
Britain has supplied the United States with two of her newest inventions the radiolocator and the autograph.
Dominion Agricultural Conference in Ottawa proposes a five percent rise in 1944 sales of sheep and lambs versus 1943 to support wartime needs for wool mutton and lamb. Producers may feed lambs to gain up to five pounds more before marketing as part of the plan. The 1944 wool target is 14 million pounds greasy basis, up from 13.6 million in 1943, with looser wool shipping constraints reducing reserve stock worries.
A farmer answers a city girl's question about a hornless cow. He explains cows may lack horns or lose them for various reasons, but notes the hornless animal is not a cow at all because it is a horse. The exchange has a humorous twist and highlights mistaken identity.
A cartoonist keeps up with rapid news by drawing swiftly to capture headlines and moments as they unfold. The phrase quick on the draw reflects the needed speed and agility in depicting current events through illustration.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board provides guidance on evaporated milk coupon rules for children under two, tea ration eligibility, lumber pricing subsidies for farmers, trapper ammunition declarations, extra farm rations for temporary workers, and how to obtain Consumers' News or the Blue Book via the Regina Canada office.
An officer discovers a boy with a propellerless model of a secret jet-propelled plane. He questions the boy's father, who admits making the model while working on Britain's secret weapon. The model is destroyed and the father warned.
A passenger drama aboard a Canadian National Railway train ends with an English sailor offering his ladder to an embarrassed porter. The sailor apologizes for nothing and keeps the ladder, lending it until morning.
A vivid line captures how a single eyelash can ignite strong feelings and spark romantic interest. The phrasing emphasizes the sudden, delicate nature of attraction and its powerful impact on emotions.
The Royal Navy Hydrographic Supplies Department prints millions of charts yearly for ships and mercantile fleets. A factory near its headquarters pumps out 5,000,000 charts annually with rapid updates by skilled young women from art schools, sometimes 4,000 changes weekly, to cover landings and submarine operations.
The Royal Bank of Canada Vice President and General Manager Sydney G. Dobson said assets surpassed 1.5 billion dollars, a record high. He noted banks did not buy government bonds for their own accounts. Victory Loans 2 through 5 were subscribed heavily by the public, with millions backing each issue, and banks urged customers to subscribe to the full extent of their means.
A collection of aphorisms and quotations on humility from diverse sources. The lines praise lowliness as true dignity and call humility essential to leadership and virtue, citing religious and literary figures such as Bond, Hodge, Bulwer-Lytton, Mary Baker Eddy, Quarries, and C. H. Spurgeon.
Harvest time in Argentina and Australia yields a combined 388 million bushels with 225 million ready for export. Carryovers of 153 million in Australia and 122 million in Argentina boost available export surplus to about 500 million. Adding Canada brings total exportable supply in three of four major exporters over one billion bushels.
A collection of short comic exchanges featuring Mary in family life. Jokes cover driving a bargain, a bottle of hair tonic, fights with a magistrate, widows remarrying, a pirate quip about dead men, university medicine, executive credit, table manners, and a new maid learning etiquette.
An old Black laborer on a plantation walks a dusty road speaking to himself. A neighbor asks why and Uncle Henry explains he wants to hear and talk with a smart man, preferring both past wisdom and future discourse.
A lighthearted definition portrays a bachelor as a man who never marries or "Mrs." anyone, framing bachelorhood as a status rather than a choice. The quip reflects social views on marriage and romance in casual humor.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture states that a seed supply for seed potato growers and table stock growers is being held in Canada to meet estimated domestic needs. Export demand for Canadian Foundation A and Certified seed potatoes is strong this season and growers are urged to order 1944 seed requirements promptly.
A Cleveland era style ad urges readers to buy Moone's Emerald Oil from drugstores claiming rapid relief from eczema and itching. It markets the product as a concentrated antiseptic that penetrates without residue and offers complete satisfaction or money back.
Britain recalls December 29 1940 as the date Nazi incendiaries hit inner London city with 350 tons of bombs. Germany marks December 29 1943 as the RAF dropping 2250 tons of bombs on Berlin.
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