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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
7
War correspondent Manry Shepiro notes Stalingrad as a heap of ruins with the Dzershinsky tractor plant among the remains. He recalls Adolf Hitler’s boast of finding only debris and says destruction there rivals the worst in history, surpassing even Mongol devastation.
First contingent of Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division departs for Great Britain to relieve male personnel. Airwoman First Class Nore Botterill from Rocanville Saskatchewan answers questions at the Information Office as part of varied duties supporting overseas operations at Headquarters Overseas for more active service.
Jack Storey and Annette Fournier seize a brief escape from Ismeddin the Lawless and his Kahiri as they flee toward camels. After a brutal ambush and a dash across the sands, Mohammed ibn Mulai and Ibn Zeid are captured, while Ismeddin joins Andre Ribott at Bir Mazoul with new allies.
The Windsor Star reports the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain forming a gun girls detachment. Young women operate telephones range-finders predictors telescopes and other instruments in mixed batteries. Teams of 12 work five day tours sleeping at posts to ensure rapid response during Nazi air raids.
In ancient Rome bakers were called pistores or pounders due to pounding grain with a pestle in a mortar, a common craft term tied to their work.
A crossword puzzle text fragment lists across and down clues with numbers and some stray symbols. The readable items include several clue prompts such as Scent and Peaceful, plus modern shorthand like $2 and $5, indicating a puzzle within a newspaper page.
A fan asked for a lock of Paderewski hair. The pianist’s secretary replied that it pleased him to comply but noted the request lacked a specific person. The letter sent samples of hair from his valet cook waiter and a mattress from a Pullman bed.
Mrs Rex Eaton associate director of national selective service said 68 000 women were in war industries 13 months ago. About 120 000 after six months and now an estimated 225 000 women are in the great industrial army.
A collage of light verse and brief humorous exchanges. Tales include mistaken perceptions about love and marriage, finance, and daily chores with a Cockney pun, a farmer’s milking lesson, and a judge of wit about a jeweller and jailer.
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