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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
7
A Canadian general visits a rural farmer to request use of her grove for army maneuvers. The farm woman insists she opposes war yet serves bread and hospitality, offering a ride in an armored car if the rules permit. The exchange reveals tensions between military needs and individual dignity.
A woman, allowed limited petrol for national work, bought distilled water for car batteries. The two gin bottles labeled from a known brand were left on her back seat while she shopped. On return a note, “Sorry but we really do need it,” and a one treasury note were left in their place.
The crew's workload includes starting engines and adjusting propeller pitch, raising and lowering landing gear, opening and closing bomb bay doors, operating flaps and brakes, running bombsights, releasing bombs, turning gun turrets, computing gunners sights, firing guns, radar detection and identification of ground units, and providing light and heat for the crew.
The biggest damage from forest fires is not mature trees but the ruin of young growth and the charred forest floor, which leaves much of the cooler timber useless even when salvageable.
The article outlines low effort gardening in Canada using cosmos giant marigolds zinnias petunias portulaca nicotine alyssum and tall flowers to simulate shrubs. It advises ready started bedding plants pre planting cultivation weekly light cultivation for weed control soil moisture and staking for tall plants and trained tomatoes.
Asparagus can grow up to six inches in a single day and must be harvested daily in warm weather. Stalks near daybreak should be picked by noon to maintain quality, or they become tough. The text notes that wise people change their minds while fools persist in error.
The Ottawa Citizen argues Hitlerism as an evil doctrine must be eradicated beyond battlefield defeat. It stresses Prussian militarism endures and calls for a drastic purge of Germany to prevent future world conquest. The piece condemns Aryanism and lebensraum as false ideologies that fueled Nazi power.
The Times remarks that Nazi rule arose from a corrupt state born in a beer hall and built on loot and murder. It asserts the regime’s disintegration is irredeemable and warns history must remember the beginning as a warning and the end as a lesson.
War correspondent H R Knickerbocker recalls dining with an Italian nobleman in Italy who jokes that locals know more about the war because they have been on both sides. The anecdote appears in the Wall Street Journal.
Blackburn Aircraft Company outlines a six engine flying boat weighing 138 tons with a 202 foot wingspan. It would carry up to 160 passengers or 90 960 pounds of freight and cruise at 269 miles per hour at 15000 feet. A pressurized cabin would serve passenger comfort with top speed over 300 mph.
Anne Adams Pattern 4811 offers a pinafore frock with optional sleeves and embroidery transfer. Available sizes 12 through 42. size 16 uses 3 1/4 yards of 35 inch material. Send 20 cents and address to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg for processing, noting mail delays.
In these war days when conserving light matters, use light paint to reflect more light. Dark woodwork and trim require light colored nails to suit the brighter environment.
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