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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 01, 1941
Page
7
Devona flees Vara's grip after overheard betrayal and a planned farewell note. She hides in a cheap Brownstone Hotel in Palm Springs, then reaches Los Angeles with little money and no clear plan, hoping to find work and independence.
Miss Fern Blodgett, 20 McMaster Avenue Toronto, leaves Montreal to take over radio duties aboard a merchant ship. She earned second class radio operator’s certificate from the Canadian Electronic Institute and says the move is the most thrilling of her life as she joins the empire’s lifeline.
A Scottish doctor discussed whether the letter L influences surname charisma. Noting Churchill Dill and Wavell end with L, De Gaulle Welles Hull also show L near the end. Other figures such as Laval Stalin Mussolini Hitler and Darlan are cited as examples, illustrating L's prevalence in names.
A secret Belgian patriotic newspaper claims Germany is removing 8,000 cattle and 4,000 pigs monthly from Belgium. It reports in Holland fodder shortages have led to mass slaughter of cattle and poultry, with the meat sent to Germany.
Raymond Jenkins of Perth Amboy New Jersey rushed to a fire alarm box after seeing a blaze from bed. Fire crews arrived and he apologized, learning the apparent fire was only the rising sun.
The current wartime projection calls for 18 workers at home for each soldier overseas, up from the previous ratio of seven to one. The figure underscores intensified factory demand as the conflict continues.
The article reviews what a monitor is and its distinctive design and use. It notes monitors like the Terror and British and German actions in World War I and II, highlighting their shallow draft, heavy armor, and massive guns.
Ronald Orme a bugler in the Boys Brigade and ARP messenger in Manchester faced a savage 11 hour blitz. He dragged out older men and shielded others under debris, then helped babies to safety and climbed a 45 foot drainpipe to fight a roof fire. Next morning he returned to work assembling submarine switchboards.
Upwards of 2,500 Canadians in Canadian universities train in radio mechanics for operation of equipment used to locate enemy bombing planes at night in Britain. They will be ready to go overseas this fall as they enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Lord Beaverbrook announced a similar program to North America and younger men are also being trained under the youth plan.
London realty agents note many displaced residents convert rubble heaps to house boats on the Thames. Derelict properties are being repurposed and restored for new use. The statistic highlights seventy-nine million motor vehicles produced in the United States and Canada over four decades.
Scientists note that monkeys lack the facial muscles needed for a smile, suggesting facial expressions differ from humans and may influence social signaling and interpretation among primates.
Miss Sheila MacDonald arrived in Ottawa to act as hostess for her brother Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald High Commissioner for the United Kingdom. She spoke of England during raids as a stimulating experience and noted 800 refugees from occupied countries were housed in Hampstead. She plans further war work in Ottawa and previously did prison and labor activities in England.
Australian minister Richard G. Casey told Bates College graduates in Lewiston that the world must be remade and they will be the craftsmen. He received an honorary LLD and warned against cynicism and irresponsibility harming democracy.
A collection of quotes on law from Blackstone Beecher Eddy Wilson Froude and Burke. The passages reflect on law as morale justice obedience and natural law guiding human governance and universal standards.
The National Gallery of Victoria loses a rare fourth state etching The Three Crosses by Rembrandt as its transport ship is sunk by enemy action. Bought in England in October for £680 with Felton Bequest funds on Sir Lionel Lindsay’s recommendation. Chicago introduces the first automotive taxicab in 1915.
The report notes 700 to 800 graves in the dog and cat cemetery at Columbus Ohio and records that grasshoppers can travel more than 200 miles in two weeks.
A Winnipeg newspaper Home Service notice promotes a 82 page booklet How To Weave Useful Novelties with purse weaving steps using candlewick and crochet silk. It invites readers to send 15 cents to obtain the manual and lists additional 15 cent booklets on vocabulary dogs golf guitar swimming curtains and draperies.
Dean Charles L. Raper at Syracuse University finally awards Drew Middleton a Bachelor of Science in Journalism, acknowledging he met the program’s typing requirement as a war correspondent for the Associated Press. Middleton, 21, had previously failed the 40 words per minute standard, but his frontline reporting in France, Belgium, and England satisfied the degree criteria from 3,000 miles away in London.
Britain's famed snack shifts from fish and chips to fish and mashed potatoes as frying oil and dripping run short. Fishermen and fryers report supply problems limiting chip availability across outlets.
The notes mention Heywood using the phrase a broom sweeps clean in 1546 and state about 60 percent of Egypt’s agricultural population holds less than an acre. Other points note Greyhound racing began in 1917 and that there are more than 450 kinds of woodpeckers worldwide.
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