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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
2
A Canada and Newfoundland Education Association report surveys postwar needs and adjustments for Canadian schools. It notes education's role in social progress and cites the idea that today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens, urging reforms from outstanding educationalists.
A committee recommends larger school units to improve health services and equalize educational opportunities across rural and urban areas. Canada has 26,610 administrative units, most with one or two teachers. proposals include transportation or hostels for distant pupils, postwar school construction, more supervisors, and teacher aides for primary grades.
A report outlines wide reforms in Canada’s education system. It cites per pupil spending from 31.70 to 83.38 dollars and an average teacher salary of 782 dollars, urging doubling of total annual expenditure to 146,832,642 dollars, abolition of all elementary and secondary fees, scholarships, higher salaries, extended libraries, and a schoolLeaving age of sixteen with part time attendance to eighteen.
An advertisement testifies to finding a better solution for constipation through Kellogg's All-Bran, claiming bulk forming relief when eaten regularly. It promotes muffins and daily intake, with water and purchasing details, and notes production in London and Canada.
The London Daily Sketch notes Lord D'Abernon spent freely in Berlin as Britain’s first ambassador to the Weimar Republic. The embassy front was painted bright yellow, shocking locals, while English royal performances require stagehands in evening dress and white gloves to move scenery.
Newsweek reports Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York predicts a self answering telephone after the war. The device uses a magnetic tape to record messages that can be erased and reused, allowing the caller to talk to the tape if no one answers and the recipient to hear the message when arriving home. A variation records two way conversations for permanent records but requires someone to pick up the receiver.
The Brierley Hill council advertised for a rat catcher at five pounds a week but received no replies. It reissued the ad for a rodent operative and hired one at four pounds ten shillings weekly.
Weather report notes winds veering to a clockwise shift as they change direction. Forecasters track changes and indicate expected patterns for the region. Data suggests a brief period of variable gusts followed by steadier flow.
Hugh Dalton Britain’s Board of Trade president accelerates peacetime factories into war production. He presses staff to relentless pace, sleeps near his office, and rarely visits his wife, while his background as wartime minister and veteran earns respect for his economic battle.
An old advertisement warns that backache and disturbed sleep can signal kidney trouble as wastes build up in the blood. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules with Dutch Drops, claiming fast relief and urging buyers to obtain a 40c package from a druggist in Canada.
A collection of maxims and quotes about trust truth and faith from Samuel Johnson George MacDonald Mary Baker Eddy M Henry Geikie and John Burroughs. The selections urge trust in truth patience with misfortune and steadfast devotion.
A single careless match dropped in pine needles of a national forest could cause more property damage than many incendiary bombs dropped by enemy planes, warning of fire risk.
A Wartime Prices and Trade Board Q and A explains fixed chocolate bar weights from fall 1941 and how to obtain ration books for newborns. It covers handling deceased ration books, rent disputes with Rentals Administration, and how war brides apply, directing readers to local boards and to request Consumers' News or the Blue Book.
The article notes Haile Selassie and his wife enjoying American strawberry tarts brought by Della Hanson of Hutchinson Minnesota. Hanson, a longtime Seventh Day Adventist missionary, served as housekeeper in Addis Ababa and supervised the emperor’s cooks while introducing dishes like potato salad.
Eighth Army sappers built a 1200 ft steel bridge across a river in ten days with 480 workers. Gen Montgomery helped move a girder and the unit nicknamed the span Ponte Monty amid night floodlights and Welsh choir singing.
Three British destroyers bravely attacked the Scharnhorst bringing it within the Duke of York 14 inch guns range while German flotilla mates fled. A captured German miner quips division joke as Russians press the joke. Yukon era gold rush eggs fetched ten dollars each.
British Food Minister Col. John L Llewellyn told an audience in London that rationing would extend for years beyond the war’s end. He argued that removing able young men from farms across Britain and allied nations would reduce agricultural fertility and farm output.
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