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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1940
Page
4
Walter Winchell notes air hostess training costs and career details. Most enter from small towns, face strict appearance rules, and marry outside the business. Training costs $480 per hostess. TWA pays student hosts $2.50 daily. Hostesses must be unmarried to apply, though existing workers may wed.
Alan Fraser of the National Dairy Council praises Canada’s farmers for their patriotism and resilience. On a Westward trip he found farmers focused on winning the war, avoiding parades and flags while ensuring food supply and national defense.
The article laments fading handwriting skills due to printing and machines. It notes forefathers wrote more legibly, predicting future generations will write even worse, citing Borace Greeley as a legible exemplar of his era.
In Quebec eel liver oil is identified as a new Canadian source of vitamin rich materials. Large eel consignments ordered for Germany in September are stored and testing shows its oil to be as effective as cod liver oil.
War charities efforts in Canada remain ongoing with 540 organizations registered under the War Charities Act. Early massive responses expanded as Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France mobilized Canadian communities to aid their kinsmen abroad. Racial groups are increasingly coordinated under ministers from France Norway Belgium and the Netherlands.
Board of Transport Commissioners figures show eighty Canadian drivers collided with trains in the prior year, a 17 rise from the year before. In 1939, nineteen were killed and 148 injured, with thirty-one crashes occurring in daytime. The piece urges drivers to stay alert at crossings to prevent tragedies.
Lieut Frederick Roberts A Lewin of the Irish Guards is named as the sole heir to the late Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar. The title, long associated with Britain’s army memory of “Little Bobs,” passed to the Field Marshal’s eldest daughter, wife of Brig. Gen. F Stewart, after his 1914 death. The Lewin heir would have inherited through the sister, ending the direct line.
Private James W. Davis of the veterans home guard in Toronto is on guard duty with a Ross rifle he toted in 1915. He handed out rifles to a platoon and found his initials carved into the wood, a mark he made in 1915 while with the 75th battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Exhibition Park.
A wife asks her husband to pick a silk before he returns home while at a counter staffed by a striking young woman with soulful eyes. He is exhausted from work and she relents, deciding not to bother him after a long day.
A London correspondent reports British military men find Nazi troops inferior in training and adaptability. They note Nazi airmen avoid single combats, and the German army shows weaker fighting spirit and poorer reverses compared with World War I, citing a bayonet encounter near Trondheim where a smaller British detachment routed a larger German force.
A farmer's portly wife forgets her welfare committee badge at the Parish Hall. She gains a smile upon returning home when she discovers the badge reads Feather weight Poultry Show Second Prize Bantam, revealing the mistaken badge identity.
Sir Charles Vyner Brooke visiting England donates 1 000 000 Malayan dollars about 470 000 to the British Government as a contribution toward war expenses.
Prof J C Drummond of London University suggests synthetic vitamin meals for daily sustenance. A sample menu lists tomato cucumber lettuce carrot cheese bread butter milk herring and potatoes totaling a full daily vitamin content but not enough on its own. He notes variability in menus and demonstrates seven tiny vitamin tubes claimed to supply a day's vitamins with easy production.
Great Lakes shipping vessels operate at 98.44 percent capacity, highest since 1929 apart from a peak in the second half of 1937 when full capacity was reached. A total of 291 bulk freighters carry ore, with 45 of 263 ships in other trades last month.
Italy tests three new trains designed to cover 250 miles using 1320 pounds of charcoal. A Genoa to Milan test covered 93% of miles at 45 mph with 440 pounds charcoal. each train seats 76. Trains to enter regular service.
Eight young officers from the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve have been detailed to the Royal Navy for very important and onerous temporary duty in close contact with the enemy. Sixty RCNV R officers are in England for training at Hove to support Royal Navy units. The group, all aged 22 to 23, are sub lieutenants from across the Dominion chosen for their performance in pre training.
A collection of quirky and historical signs from Illinois Missouri and Chicago curbside locations. Signs advertise theatre seating at 20 cents, children 10 cents and pies with old time variations. A Missouri depot warning and a Chicago remodeling notice add local flavor.
A report notes that certain workers rely on personal vehicles to maintain employment, highlighting mobility as a key barrier to job access and economic participation for those without reliable transportation.
Regulation defines amounts and kinds of preservatives for foods and the classes to which they may be added. The Division of Chemistry supports imports and cannery inspections. Harmless preservatives may mask defects but strict meat inspections limit additives in meat. Benzoic and sulphurous acids have label disclosure and defined limits. certain chemicals are prohibited. Saccharine may be used only for disease patients.
Egg quality hinges on clean feed and surroundings and is harmed by heat, manure piles, pig pens, or stagnant water. Hens should be kept away from unsanitary areas, with well bedded nests and clean litter to prevent dirty eggs and preserve freshness. Washing harms the bloom and reduces storage life.
News recorded from Rome via Columbia Broadcasting System reports that Italian civilians have had no coffee since July. Only the armed forces and hospitals will continue to receive imported coffee, making a basic beverage for Italians.
The article argues that personal recklessness, individual negligence, and selfish indifference cause most highway crashes. It emphasizes driver behavior as the primary factor behind traffic-related injuries and deaths.
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