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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1940
Page
2
The London Daily Sketch urges quiet gratitude for London's residents enduring unprecedented dangers to uphold liberty and humane life. It lauds their classless solidarity, self discipline, and willingness to sacrifice, calling readers to offer love and prayers as a shield. They offer their lives for liberty, saying greater love has no man.
Analysis from the National Revenue Review shows a sharp drop in American car entries into Canada in July and a decline in August 1940, despite US visitors seeking cheaper holidays due to wartime dollars. Parks saw a rise in foreign visitors aided by the Banff Jasper Highway, yet overall cross border tourism faltered and road improvements are urged to protect the industry.
Dutch airmen provide crucial information to British intelligence by flying at night to secret airfields and gathering coastwise data on German invasion preparations. Their command of German helps bombers target Nazi fleet movements before they depart French ports.
A group of French officers placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under Nazi guard in Paris. For three days thousands visited the tomb, and a Gestapo inspector found a card reading Death to Hitler Down with the scoundrel France will live. The wreath was removed and the Gestapo hunted the true authors.
Commuters returning from London are harassed by groups of young youths who ask for shrapnel as they disembark. The incidents occur nightly on the route to the country, with the attackers targeting returning travelers for money.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses then 76 exhibited strawberry jam and primitive paintings at the Cambridge New York fair in 1936 earning a blue ribbon for jam and a razz berry for paintings. Her works now hang in New York galleries up to $200 each. Discovered last year, her Americana art gained museum space in the modern art museum. She began painting to ease back pain on the Eagle Bridge farm after years of quiet farm life.
Mrs Annie Paton of Rhyle England died at 93 ending a chess duel that spanned 20 years with her nephew Hugh Paton Harrison of Hartlepool. Since 1920 they exchanged weekly moves and their boards showed one move weekly. The matches were hotly contested and Mrs Paton often claimed victory remarking she had played chess 40 years longer than Hugh.
The piece laments the destruction of irreplaceable monuments by the Nazis and asserts art across the world will never forgive that act, underscoring lasting cultural tragedy.
London correspondent notes limited chivalry persists among airmen in modern war. A dog fight signals a crash by tail waggle and opposing pilots may salute or refrain fire to help land. Some German fliers show courtesy, others reject it, yet the ghost of ancient chivalry dies hard.
A recipe for Marguerites uses eggs, brown sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, nuts, Kellogg's All Bran, and margarine. Mix, bake in greased pans at 350 F for about 15 minutes, cool briefly, dust with powdered sugar, yield about 21 pastries from fluted tart pans.
A vintage lemon pie filling and meringue method. It lists sugar corn starch salt boiling water egg yolks lemon juice lemon rind butter and a baked pie shell with a meringue topping. The instructions describe cooking the filling, tempering the yolks, and browning the meringue in a slow oven.
Belgian workers face unemployment or forced collaboration with the Nazis, losing 25 percent of wages to fund a Nazi style social system. Local unions are destroyed, leaders exiled or silenced, freedoms stripped, and fear of spies pervades as collaborators gain protection under the invader.
A Royal Air Force pilot visiting London bought a motor car and asked a porter to load it for return to his Scottish airdrome. When the van door opened at the station a horse emerged instead of the car, leaving colleagues amused and puzzled by the prank.
Dirty water from laundry tubs is being gathered for laboratory analysis by a national laundry association to assess contaminants and quality.
Lady Stephen presents Carlyle's writing-table to the London Library, enriching the collection with a historic literary artifact. The donation underscores enduring ties between Victorian scholars and the institution.
G H Q England's Second Lieutenant Sedley Sweeny, a Royal Military College graduate from North Vancouver, decorates the officers mess with humorous wartime blackout sketches. His series follows a Canuck lost on English roads during blackout conditions, from a directions-seeking traveler to a No Entry sign and a crossroads with erased township names.
For over six centuries the famous Nuremberg restaurant The Bratwurstglocklein offers only two foods and two drinks. The menu features sausage and sauerkraut as the foods with wine and beer as the beverages.
The quoted sermon urges endurance and noble action in troubled times. It argues there will be no protective wall or sword to shield the lawless and praises self examination, endurance, and moral conduct as decisive in hard times.
A CN R freight arriving in Kamsack from Dauphin Manitoba revealed the entire train crew were Scots named Macs. McKeever and McNabb staffed the locomotive cab while McRae was the conductor. In the caboose were McFarlane McLear and McDougall. The crew all originated from Glen Garry Ontario.
The four most populous countries are listed as China India Russia and the United States. Population figures show China at 450 million, India 350 million, Russia 180 million, and the United States more than 12 million.
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