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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 30, 1947
Page
6
A roundup of world happenings notes repairs starting on Manchester Cathedral, Callington gains a siren for air alarm, and Richard H. Turk named King’s bargemaster. Also listed is a 131 foot Rossall beacon, Britain divorce rise, Rus sian Academy dictionary project, Wallace’s England visit, 1945 meat totals, and Stansted as London’s first freight airport.
Canadian universities project about 30 million dollars in new construction over the coming decade with receipts possibly rising to 50 million. McGill leads with 9.114 million in plans and major extensions to Redpath Library and Royal Victoria College. Toronto aims for 7.7 million with 11 new buildings and city-like campus expansion, while McMaster Alberta and UBC each target five million. Ottawa, Queen’s Kingston, and New Brunswick also outline large science and engineering projects.
Dr. E W McHenry Toronto professor warns that goitre remains a nutritional disease in Canada and that only half of Ontario salt was iodized last year. He urges limiting salt sales to iodized varieties and notes civilians lack this protection despite wartime compulsory iodized salt in armed forces.
The hymn Abide With Me was written by Rev Henry Francis Lyte after preaching his last sermon at sunset in 1847. Lyte, Vicar of Brixham, Devonshire, died of tuberculosis, and the sermon text echoed the disciples’ plea to Christ on the road to Emmaus.
Dr Thomas Shearer known as the happy doctor began going hatless in 1907 claiming air movement benefits the scalp. The fad spread nationwide during the 1920s collegiate raccoon coat era. He died last December at age 87, leaving a legacy tied to the bareheaded craze.
Paul Hunter argues in Liberty Magazine that a worker's pay is determined by what the ultimate consumer will pay for the product. If wages exceed value, jobs disappear as demand falls, and higher wages only help if the product can be sold at a market price.
Britain's Ministry of Education announces a Nurseries of Friendship linking English and Belgian schools to pair pupils for correspondence exchanges and holiday visits. The plan follows a Franco British scheme started last November linking 250 French and 15 thousand English pupils and 250 English schools with France.
Health authorities in Ottawa warn that meals must be taken at regular, convenient hours. They say the digestive system functions better on a consistent schedule, just as other body parts do.
Canadian demand for British Columbia canned salmon rises with East Coast distribution. In the last months twenty four million pounds moved from West Coast canneries, marking a near prewar level supply. For 1946 a 500000 case Canadian quota of 48 pound tins has begun moving, with at least a third already shipped eastward.
The New Yorker notes a unique advertising quality that complements reading matter. Ads offer rhinestone brilliance and unreal promise, likening them to reader’s dream life beside waking journalism.
The piece compares the nation’s stock-taking with an individual who borrows to spend. It urges returning to work and careful management to avoid ruin and reliance on foreign loans to restart.
A parent recounts sending Michael to his first day with bold guidance. At the bus, peers watchful, Michael clings to the promise of home and a strange quest to skin an elephant. The moment unfolds into shared assistance from classmates and a sense of fatherly achievement.
The Leader Magazine recounts a London station encounter where a clerk received a late night train inquiry from a man seeking sleeper arrangements to rest. The man confessed he had nowhere to live and hoped night trains would provide lodging by morning.
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