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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1946
Page
2
The Canadian Save the Children Fund has been noticed in the press as part of the International Union, Geneva. Thirty one countries participate. the aim is to rescue children denied fair chances due to want and disease.
The need abroad has been great and a Canadian Save the Children Fund is now incorporated under Lady Alexander of Tunis with Mr Justice A C McRuer as national chairman. Donors may earmark subscriptions for children worldwide and plans for Canadian children in need are hoped to begin soon, reflecting the belief that neighbors’ needs should not exceed ours.
Canada sent 93,381.51 in 1945 for food and medicine for undernourished children and since January 1946 has received 238,899.46 in contributions. The Manitoba Red Cross added 20,000 to the fund as humanitarian efforts build future world citizens. Justice McRuer urged that Canada be known for life giving aid and international brotherhood.
The Bureau of Verification announced the registration of a miraculous healing at Lourdes. Eleven physicians attest to the complete recovery of Francois Pascal, a child who was blind and paralyzed before his pilgrimage in 1938.
A woman hailed as the country’s first female bank teller died in Vancouver at age 60. The piece notes the wartime shift to women in cages and cash handling, a change that persisted after both wars. It adds that women tellers improved efficiency and are often more attractive than their male predecessors, prompting banks to retain them.
A phalarope spins rapidly to feed, stirring the water and driving aquatic life to the surface where the bird catches it.
Dublin workers provided the equivalent of 120000 man-days to harvest efforts in rain soaked fields. Women volunteers impressed farmers by stocking wheat milking cows and helping with chores proving female workers excel, easing farmer antipathy toward volunteers and civil staff joined by st
A collage of dated quips set in England and factory life includes a vicar bragging of two buttons in a collection and a farmer’s son asking about courtship. The humor plays on wordplay and social quirks with light domestic and churchyard settings.
A compilation of public domain aphorisms from Shakespeare Isaiah Jefferson and others. It cites ideals of justice liberty pursuit of happiness and duty to country and faith. The excerpt blends moral maxims from historical figures urging courage progress and public safety.
Ottawa reports 33 914 immigrants in six months, a 147.2 percent rise from 1945. Most new Canadians are spouses and children of service members. Origin groups include 24 909 from English speaking nations, 5 227 from the United States, 1 604 from northern Europe, and 2 174 from others. Ontario takes in 14 325. western provinces total 13 ? (1894). Returnees from the United States numbered 1 737 versus 1 093 in 1945.
A Canadian Postal Corps group once numbering 3000 workers for mail and parcel delivery to armed forces is winding down. Operations were set to end this month but have been extended to year end.
In New York a bold break in at a restaurant ends with thieves rolling the safe, battering it with bars and kitchen tools, then dropping it down marble steps. Police say the safe-cracking was the worst seen by the scientific squad. $3,000 in cash and jewelry were stolen.
An ad promoting Hem-Roid as an internal treatment for sore itching piles. The sponsor claims fast relief from itching and pain, reduced swelling, and healing of tumors, with a refund if unsatisfied. It notes the product is backed by a reliable firm operating in Canada for over 20 years.
The note asserts lithium as the lightest of all pure elements. It frames lithium’s lightness as a defining property without detailing comparisons or experimental context.
Mary Cullen of the Oregon Journal shares a home soap recipe aimed at easing shortages. The method uses softened water heat gently, animal fat, lye, borax, and ammonia with careful handling to create hard soap. A step by step process includes rendering fat, dissolving lye in cold water, and mixing until a light colored thick paste forms then dries into bars.
A Cardigan housewife buying at a sale noticed a hole in a chair she bought. She inserted her thumb, found something hard and pulled out 64 pairs of pre war silk stockings.
A breadboard can be prevented from sliding on a smooth table during dough kneading by attaching rubbers from jars to its underside, providing improved grip and stability.
An air transport command experiment flew a C 54 with all seats reversed facing the tail from Washington to California. The trial tests safety theories and passenger reaction, aiming to distribute deceleration shock over the body during rough landings.
In Brooklyn Queens night court four men were arraigned on a charge they smashed 3,600 eggs during a fight in a butter and egg store. A magistrate quipped about a scrambled mess while lawyers teased that it was the biggest omelette in Brooklyn’s history. They are pending another hearing Tuesday and were paroled.
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