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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
7
Selma and Miss Sumners host a 60 guest luncheon on a hot summer day. A butter shortage and a mystery lobster test lead to Ben the dog’s fatal lunch and a flurry of ambulances and doctors arriving for the aftermath.
In a tense exchange Bess and Selma discuss a mysterious incident. A dog lies mangled near the back gate as Selma suspects hit and run drivers. The dialogue hints at danger and possible medical urgency for a hidden life.
Helen Kirkpatrick catalogs grim acts by German forces and collaborators across France in March to May. Riberac Brantome Tarn et Garonne Montpezat Notre Dames des Dombes houses looted, fires set, hostages shot, monks killed, and villages pillaged amid Maquis suppression.
Pattern 4792 offers a sun dress with cap sleeves and bonnet in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 6 uses 2 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents in coins to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg newspaper union at 175 McDermott Ave. E Winnipeg Man. Allow extra mailing time due to slow mail delivery.
The wartime output of British warships up to the end of January 1944 runs only slightly below that of the previous war while ships today show far greater complexity and detail in equipment.
New sound recorders weighing eight pounds reproduce sound on hair fine steel wire. They carry over two miles of wire and provide 66 minutes of record time. Gab riel Fahrenheit mixed snow and salt to reach zero for his thermometer.
Caen in Normandy sits nine miles from the coast as a historic center of trade and industry supporting 61 000 people. The city, on the Cherbourg Paris railway, was favored by William the Conqueror and later Henry I with a castle later used as barracks. Caen is provincial capital, seat of law courts, a university, and a site of lace making, timber sawing, metal founding, machine construction, cloth weaving, and chemical works. Caen stone decorates buildings in France and England.
The Royal Ontario Museum reports nine out of ten visitors want to see the Egyptian mummies. The exhibit showcases five thousand year old burial customs, mummification, and daily life items from tombs, illustrating a long evolving ritual and society.
A group of Norwegian youths hid underground newspapers in an Oslo office lobby and alerted Gestapo and police to retrieve them, sparking a clash between Gestapo plainclothes agents and city police. The plan aimed to avoid attention and celebrate resistance.
Soviet readers learned of new coal fields north of the Arctic Circle brought into production during the war. A railway from Kovzha to Vorkuta enables exploitation and six more mines are set to begin this year. Coal mainly serves Leningrad with excess output offered as a city gift.
British scientists have found an answer to the glider bomb threat, one of the German secret weapons that recently sank the Italian battleship Roma after Italy’s capitulation. Details of the counter-device remain secret.
Nutrition minded homemakers note fish as a rich source of vitamins minerals and iodine. The article promotes a versatile seafood dish using canned or cooked fish with cracker crumbs milk butter onion lemon and paprika. A pale ice age fact follows about Alaska during the late glacial period 15 000 to 25 000 years ago.
British fashion shifts as Victorian furniture and jewelry rise in price and popularity after the war. Debutantes and Mayfair brides wear early twentieth century keepsakes once hidden in attics, with luxury tax and sentiment driving demand. West End stores report heavy suites sold, curtains piled high, and ornate jewelry priced from six pounds and up.
In the first flash of their assault the Japs seized Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, the world’s main natural rubber regions. Yet shipping shortages limit the supply for Tokyo, which now announces the opening of a synthetic rubber plant. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
The guide explains how to repair large holes by weaving thread as a foundation, starting inch from the hole and building rows to cover it. It covers cross darning, ladder prevention by threading through loops, and lattice darning for woollen stockings and sweaters, noting to work mostly on the wrong side and use tiny stitches.
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