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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1940
Page
5
The piece explains magnetic and moored impact mines used by Germany to cripple British shipping. It details sweepping methods, counter measures, and the dangerous wire work. It profiles trawler crews as hardy, unassuming mariners who risk wreck and bombardment in North Sea operations.
Ninety prize-winning mink skins from the 1939 Ontario Fur Farmers show were chosen to fashion a coat presented to Her Excellency the Lady Tweedsmuir. Creeds in Toronto made the coat from a design approved in Ottawa, Rideau Hall measured by John Creed, with Ottawan and provincial committee input.
Application to federal authorities seeks temporary removal of soldiers from two Exhibition Park buildings to host the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in November. The fair was cancelled last November for the first time since 1922, causing wide regret. The war themed event will feature Army Navy and Air Force cooperation to boost recruiting and highlight Canada's war effort.
A Medical Research Council report on omnibus and trolley-bus drivers in London, in an industrial town, and at a seaside resort finds younger drivers more prone to accidents. Graphs show accident rates fall with age, with a slight mid life rise before a later decline. The study suggests aging to be gradual, causing continued risk taking until older years reduce it.
The article profiles Sir James Lithgow, Controller of Shipping and Repairs, 56 years at the helm of Clyde shipbuilding, describing him as a leading authority in the industry. It depicts his Scots appearance, wartime service as an artillery officer, and his Argyllshire estate with pheasant shooting.
The Big Bend Highway between Revelstoke and Golden BC opens June 29 1940 ahead of the Banff Jasper route. It completes the western Trans Canada link enabling a 3500 mile all Canadian motor route from Vancouver to Halifax.
A corps of voluntary women called Voluntary Aides works with social service agencies to ease life for Canadian families during wartime. Financed by the Junior League, more than 250 women train in cities including Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver Toronto and Hamilton to provide varied tasks from child care and letter writing for the aged to supervising toddlers on market days and assisting in hospital wards.
A crafts notice advertises Pattern 6634 for six motifs averaging 8 inches. It lists transfer patterns, stitches, and materials and asks readers to send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. for the pattern.
The Karelian Isthmus linking southeast Finland and Russia has long been a strategic cradle for conflict.Viipuri, Koivisto, and Hanko anchor Finland’s eastern defenses and commerce, with Moscow’s siege guns and the Mannerheim line shaping centuries of struggle.
The Canadian Legion War Services announces an overseas parcel service for gifts to Canadians on active service. In collaboration with Thomas Cook and Son, the program provides free packing, delivery, insurance, and customs declarations, using Canadian goods where possible. Parcels may include messages and be sent to British forces as well. Headquarters are in Montreal with orders via Dominion Square. Mountain lenses and leopards note tobacco laws in Morocco.
A gold and silver Saxon pocket sundial, claimed as one of the oldest watches, was unearthed two feet beneath the Cloister Garden at Canterbury Cathedral. Discovered by T. T. Kendrick for the British Museum, it features a detachable gold gnomon with a jewelled animal head, sun-facing time telling, and inscriptions Pax possessor and Salus factors.
In Los Angeles Ernest Benson with 110 clocks still asks hotel staff to wake him, signaling distrust of machinery. Across Pennsylvania an electrical organ at Freeport Methodist Church now transmits radio broadcasts during services. A Kentucky bridge accident damaged by a motor truck, then re damaged again, and an Oklahoma man reports his electric meter running backward, yielding a month’s credit.
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