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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1942
Page
2
Canadians note repeated ignorance of Canada in England and the United States, not from indifference but from insufficient promotion. The concern prompts discussion on how to better publicize Canada to foreign audiences and safeguard national pride.
The Dominion government appointed Charles Vining to survey Canadian publicity in the United States. The aim is to expand news services across the border and promote better understanding of Canada’s role in the war.
Canadians consider Canada a young nation with vast resources and potential. The text argues for stronger national expression and international visibility as Canada grows, noting industry and agriculture support during wartime and the need to present Canada at council tables with the United Nations.
Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten recounts a raid behind German lines during the Libyan campaign. Rommel was absent in Rome, while two young commandos stayed on a destroyer in St Nazaire harbor and perished the ship exploded. The raid, March 28, showcased combined Allied force and growing American staff involvement.
Britain’s bank messengers abandon the tall silk hat for a serviceable cap. An official from Lloyd’s Bank explains the change aims to save materials and ease helmet storage should evacuations or civil defense measures require it.
Householders should keep newspapers clean flat and tie in bundles of about 50 pounds. Magazines and books go in 75 pound bundles. corrugated boxes in 50 pound bundles. Use strong twine. flatten boxes. Do not mix in cellophane wax paper glassine carbon paper tar paper.
The Minneapolis Star Journal recounts a young man newly commissioned and visiting his grandmother in uniform, highlighting pride in his service. Leeds launches badge schemes to give war workers priority on buses and trams to ease crowding for working women.
W Clamp of Askern in Yorkshire constructed a greenhouse primarily from 1,000 empty jam jars. He supplemented the structure with fragments of an iron bedstead and bricks sourced from a refuse heap.
A North of England factory once known for cricket bats now makes rifle butts and stocks for Tommy guns. Managers converted machines when war began, and woodwork for four rifle butts takes minutes. After 92 processes, stocks are ammonia mellowed and treated with linseed oil. craftsmen say their bats’ feel remains favored by veterans.
Newsweek reports in 1910 that Britain ceded 170 acre Patos Island off Venezuela after a long dispute arising from the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. A retired Trinidad policeman once cared for the islet and raised the Union Jack daily amid a sparse local population.
A collection of quotations praising Christianity from Landor Franklin Eddy Coleridge Parker De Tocqueville and a prairie editor who humorously prefers a cow to a saxophone for practical milk and quieter presence.
A wartime column urges Canadians to join a Home Guard as submarines threaten the St Lawrence estuary. It highlights a broad mobilization across farms towns and ports, the Royal Canadian Navy needs, and civilian thrift under Wartime Prices and Trade Board rules. It ends with a call to volunteer for further savings and defense.
Government funded haircuts for airmen at a British RAF station appeared in the Auditor General’s report. The disclosure shows about $500 allocated for barbers fees, triggering questions over spending and wartime regulations.
Secretary of State Elihu Root and cabinet members discuss a very wealthy man whose brusque manner makes him disliked. One member notes he never asks for positions for friends, a trait seen as favorable unless he has no friends.
Tires for scrap rubber remain usable even after long exposure, but inner tubes lose value after outdoor storage.
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