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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1939
Page
4
Harvard astronomer Dr. Harlow Shapley presents a giant new cluster of 400 Milky Way sized galaxies 130000 light years away traveling at 12600 miles per second. The cluster shows red shift implying universe expansion and may have moved 16000000 light years since light began its journey.
The American Institute of Physics symposium cites worldwide warming hints as a major climate shift unseen since geological time. J B Kinger notes historic climate viewed as stable with minor short term swings but no long term trend until the turn of the century. Geological records show ice ages and warm gaps spanning thousands of years.
A Detroit Free Press observation on a British print showing a married couple outdoors, the wife reading fashion, the husband with binoculars, and the caption Germans dear. The piece argues such dry humor reflects a mature mood that reduces U S ferocity and confusion, noting British restraint and resolve.
Since early September all Canadian bacon arriving in the United Kingdom has been requisitioned by Britain's ministry of food. The Dominion agriculture department notes net returns are lower than pre-war levels despite higher prices due to higher ocean freight costs marine insurance and exchange rates.
The London correspondent notes how civilians and service members display gas masks, revealing character and status. He describes carriers from sabreurs to maids, couples sharing masks, and a London Bridge family with seven masks after a Kent hopfields trip, illustrating practical etiquette and social quirks.
A historical note recounts a German scholar visiting Mecca and Medina with Ottoman consent. There he meets a Scotsman, Thomas Keith Thomas, formerly a Black Watch sergeant, who converted to Islam and rose to govern one of Islam’s two holy cities. The tale highlights a Scotsman’s remarkable ascent.
A playful mathematics puzzle circulates in Britain describing a sequence of operations on a person’s phone number. The steps yield two results: the telephone number followed by the person’s age in the current year.
A short hearing reveals the applicant Smythe answering to the comic name Popsy-wopsy after being asked for his commonly used Christian names Ermyntrude Angelina Veronica Georgina. The clerk notes the unusual alias during proceedings.
The article notes that the chemistry of stars and the sun is nearly as familiar as Earth's. It mentions helium was discovered in the sun before on Earth and that the element is named from this fact.
A humorous meditation on beef stew praises its power to lift spirits and extend life. The piece extols a proper two day preparation with browned meat, tomatoes, carrots, onions, thyme, and slow simmering, then chilling overnight to deepen flavor. It dismisses watery stews and advocates a mammoth communal serving.
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes turnips are valued as a delicacy in parts of the United States while not warmly received in Canada. Canadian export growth to Chicago rose from ten carloads in 1934 to 477 in 1938, with Canada supplying Boston’s seven percent of demand. The piece also mentions the western pronghorn antelope shedding horns annually and Germany’s glass industry employing 75,000 workers in 1252 facilities.
The piece argues that stamped scrip, proposed to curb idle money, is a symptom not a cure. It traces the idea to Silvio Geseil and warns that relying on velocity of money ignores credit, character, and confidence as foundations of stable business and government.
The passage links wartime ship zigzag tactics to dictionary definitions of zigzag and its parts. It recalls a World War I soldier told to zig when crossing no man's land who later explained he zagged instead. It underscores the need to distinguish zig from zag accurately.
The Guelph Mercury notes a shift in farming routines with a night school for farmers in Columbus. It recalls how chores delayed evening plans and milkings began at dawn, highlighting changing work rhythms.
The article notes tree frogs can shift from dark blue to light in about twenty minutes. It also reports the Mauretania will become the largest ship to use the Port of London, signaling a major maritime milestone.
Labor Minister McLarty outlines expansion of the Dominion provincial youth training program to over 400 centres across all provinces. The initiative covers physical training health first aid citizenship and other activities with over 20 000 youths enrolled last year and expected to double. Industrial and rural training aim to meet war demand by surveying labor supply in skilled trades and guiding training to metalworking forestry mining and agriculture.
Millions of buttons and 1500,000 regimental badges are being produced by about 85 Birmingham firms as jewelers convert to military accessories. Die cutters and tool makers rush to equip the shift. Civilians seek identity discs and gift jewelry bearing navy, army or air force badges. Export inquiries from Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa arrive for service unit badges.
In wartime London Soho haunts report 75 percent drop in dinner trade. One famous restaurant lacks snails and frogs as ships cross oceans with other cargo and supplies from abroad. Piccadilly Chinese restaurant faces delays as Far Eastern delicacies remain mid ocean. Mexico tamales Italy cheese olive oil macaroni imports delayed due to war and blackout.
Adelaide residents rushed to Mount Lofty after a snowfall reported there. Snow was the first in years in South Australia and quickly melted, with people wrapping drift snow in newspapers.
The autograph draft of Earl Haig's April 11 1918 order of the day has been acquired by the British Museum via Sir Philip Sassoon's bequest. Haig penned five paragraphs with 24 lines and made several textual corrections showing fatigue and resolve as Allied forces faced renewed German pressure.
The article urges a period of physical rest away from contact and stimuli to restore nervous energy. It notes that a fatigued nervous system also tires the digestive system and that reduced food intake is needed during rest, with solitude as essential for recovery.
The fragment notes a statement about the human body surface area roughly 16 square feet. It resembles a casual or erroneous line about human anatomy and does not present a clear event or人物.
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