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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1942
Page
2
The text recalls three years of wartime lessons on collective security and unity among nations. It notes the fall of Old World powers and praises free nations for uniting to confront the Axis, highlighting strong Canada United States cooperation in production and defense as a model for breaking barriers in these critical times.
The Joint War Production Committee coordinates Canada and the United States to maximize war material output. Priority orders in the United States automatically apply in Canada, sharing war industries. Edward A. Locke praised the two nations for tying resources into a united effort and proposed a future world order based on collective security.
Two unnamed British and South African sailors blew five tons of torpedoes and oil beneath Tobruk wharves, triggering a massive explosion that devastated the harbor and killed the two rescuing heroes. Eyewitness accounts describe a blinding flash and widespread destruction. The report also notes a separate historical trivia about shorthand and 1872 horse influenza deaths in New York.
To reach a five percent rise in milk output Canada requires, an extra good hay crop is essential. A rule of thumb suggests 2% tons of legume hay per cow, 1 ton per yearling, 0.5 ton per 6-12 month heifer, and 4 tons per calf under six months for next winter.
Postwar steel shortages push hotels and railways to sell thousands of used razor blades at 25 to 50 cents a pound. Firms recondition these blades and resell them as new. A new question arises about managing blades that have been used twice.
The piece warns that flies spread disease on military and civilian fronts. It cites carriers of infantile paralysis typhoid and diarrhoea from manure piles garbage and exposed filth. It promotes Wilson's Fly Pads as a solution to wipe out flies and prevent contamination.
The Detroit Free Press notes that about 500 British internees returned from Canada to England as free men after review found the original evidence insufficient. The piece argues the logistics and cost of moving the group highlight Nazi incomprehension of such procedures. The article also mentions butterfly wing colors arising from minute scales.
A reflective column argues civilians must join the war effort beyond conscription. It cites Paul V. McNutt on doctor shortages, urges voluntary rationing like tea cuts, and shows how small actions save cargo space and aid soldiers, framing citizens as an "Individual Citizen's Army."
The Ministry of Food announced an ice cream ban after September 30 to save fats and sugars. It will free over 1,500 ice cream makers for war work and conserve transport space wrapping paper and paper usage. Colonies of lac insects supply shellac for commercial use.
A compact collection of maxims from Chapin Eddy Thoreau Eliot George Eliot Confucius and Mary E Mizer on virtue effort and determination. The piece extols inward goodness unrealized potential and full commitment as keys to success and personal growth.
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