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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1944
Page
11
Polish women undertake dangerous missions for the Home Army including train surveillance, teaching in hidden schools, circulating underground papers, and serving as couriers. They overcome prejudice, handle communications across German frontiers, endure harsh conditions, and maintain linkages to London with courage and ingenuity.
Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco Van Kleffens warns in Foreign Affairs July issue that continued German defensive flooding could force granting Holland an equivalent portion of German territory after the war to allow survival. He notes 45 percent of the Netherlands is at risk of flooding, including major towns and fertile lands. A security footnote prevents revealing the exact area flooded.
This week's needlework offers a summer themed pineapple crochet set suitable for beginners. Pattern 7106 provides chair set instructions stitches and materials. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7106 with name address.
The Ottawa Journal reports a mix of reactions among the French amid liberation notes. Some cheer, others are sullen or cautious as many remain prisoners or coerced workers in German factories. Descriptions portray a devastated populace, with resilience in acts like sheltering children and caring for relatives while life under occupation shapes silent, troubled attitudes.
A Dominion Department of Labor official urged nurses to return to general hospitals sanatoria and mental hospitals as Canada faces a grave nursing shortage. The campaign seeks graduate nurses and calls on those not working in their field to resume nursing duties while selective service directs nurses to higher priority tasks.
The Bailey bridge, designed by Donald Coleman Bailey, is a modular 10 foot section bridge that soldiers can assemble with a handbook. It spans gaps up to 240 feet without pontoons and longer with them, with a 300 foot Italian breakthrough noted as historic.
Liverpool libraries report 200000 books lost in air raids with many still needed. Refurnishing will take time as second hand shops are searched and the central lending library rebuild is prioritized after 150000 volumes were destroyed.
Lightning's fiery threat remains deadly but deaths and injuries can be reduced by quick shelter. Seek sturdy buildings or a car during a storm. avoid trees and fences. stay away from pipes stoves chimneys and attic. center of room is safest. Trees and open areas are dangerous.
A veteran glass technician describes postwar advances that suppress reflections on glass surfaces. He notes wartime secrecy will end and predicts clearer shop windows, brighter house glass, better car windshields, and sharper cameras and projectors. Dutch astronomer William de Sitter cites a solar collision theory for planet formation. Italy’s leaning towers Garisenda and Asinelli in Bologna are mentioned.
Canadian forests are highlighted as a major wartime contribution supplying millions of board feet of lumber for planes ships paper and training. cellulose nitrated for smokeless gunpowder and wood plastics substitute metals in radios and mine parts. Pulpwood ships food medical kits clothing gas masks and plasma to Canadian and Allied forces. Canada and Newfoundland are key wood pulp and newsprint exporters supporting Britain and the United States.
Cpl E A Thomas of Collingwood Ontario walked onto an Italian box mine and walked away uninjured when a German detonator peg was not connected. A former Military Medal and Bar recipient, he served in Sicily and Italy, later returning to Canada with 52 years of age and next of kin sister Mrs Lucinda Parrish.
A Vancouver Sun anecdote notes many elderly Indigenous residents in British Columbia but jokes about exaggerated ages. It cites Lazarus Moody claimed to be 105 and references a man named Dad Quick reputed to 115, with locals boasting of long lifespans and a memory of earlier times.
In Romania the law of inheritance lets farm tracts be divided across generations, splitting large estates into smaller plots that resemble Canadian garden sizes. The trend reduces farm holdings as heirs parcel out land over time.
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