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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
4
The article notes Britain's strict wartime rationing with sugar at half a pound weekly and jam limited to half a pound. It highlights interchanges between sugar and jam, butter and margarine limits, milk and fruit juice for children, and scarce fuel for cars as citizens endure wartime shortages without complaint.
Directions for two heavy upholstery cord bags reveal materials and stitches. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg for Pattern 7129, with name address and pattern number. Include plain handwriting. mail delays possible.
A tiny African elephant brought to New York from the French Congo in 1905 is identified as a true pigmy species previously unknown. The discovery reveals a distinct elephant group in the urban study context.
Royal Ontario Museum scholars note that about 5,000 years ago Egyptians started a 365 day year with 12 months and five festival days. The opening of the year marked inundation on the Nile and a leap-year absence caused drift. The museum owns three glazed flasks inscribed with New Year blessings.
A British information bulletin reports an 8000 foot super factory near a Scottish city completed in four months. Prewar timelines showed nine to twelve months. The project used early site coordination among architects engineers and surveyors with quick bulk orders and a tubular scaffold invention to continue work during rain.
Three Canadian assault sappers at a British Canadian water point in France supply hundreds of gallons daily. Spr Norman Brown from Ontario, Spr Allan Etchells from Ontario, and Spr James Curran from New Brunswick oversee pumping, filtering, and storing clean water. Crews rotate every few days as personnel move from forward mines duties to water service.
A brief quotation extols agriculture as an honorable and high minded occupation that provides the means of living, praising farming as the best of all arts by which men obtain sustenance. The source frames agriculture as a virtuous vocation.
Monsanto of St Louis announces shineless serge wrinkle proof suits and no wilt creases via surface or core fibre treatment. A deposit of submicroscopic silica grains prevents fibres from slipping, preserving feel and texture while enhancing durability.
The King hosts the Duke of Wellington in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber on the 129th anniversary of Waterloo. The Duke presents a small silken Union Jack as annual rent for Strathfield Saye in Berkshire, a gift tied to his wartime victories. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
The New York Times notes railroads test radiophones for engineer crew communication and foresees widespread postwar use in farms and trucking. Advances from wartime research shrink devices to pocket size, enabling distant talk and home connectivity and ending isolation.
Cecil W. Johnston, general passenger traffic manager of Canadian National Railways, retires this month under pension rules after a 50 year career begun in 1879. He served in Boer War, World Wars I and II, supervised troop movements and hospital transport, and advised for Canada and the United States on passenger transport and defense logistics. Johnston counted many rail executives and dignitaries among his friends and led the Canadian Passenger Association.
Re enactment of the last spike completing the coast to coast railway and Confederation was staged at Revelstoke British Columbia on Dominion Day. Col Edward Mallandine recalled the 59 year old moment behind Donald A Smith while Louis Davis received a CPR shop machinist's son praise. Miss Olive Turnross was crowned Queen of the Carnival as W A Mather pinned a Miss CPR ribbon. Revelstoke Kinsmen wore bushy beards and led two nights of carnival parades dances to raise funds for Milk for Britain.
Archaeologists have not traced the origins of the Hottentots of South Africa, described as an individual race whose beginnings remain unclear to researchers.
Readers in Japan report two or three minor tremors each day within the earthquake zone, a frequent but non damaging pattern that continues to unsettle residents and scientists monitoring seismic activity.
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