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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 25, 1943
Page
6
The Malifax Herald recounts a Royal visit to Glasgow where the King and Queen met a Merchant Navy stoker Hugh McCutcheon. When asked how soon he’d voyage again, the stoker replied I canna tell ye that it would be careless talk. The exchange ended with a royal handshake and a gracious apology.
More than 5000 pounds of Mant tote honey sent to Great Britain for civilian use. Over 25 percent of Sweden’s prewar merchant fleet lost due to the war, says Swedish consul in Eire. The film Desert Victory drew 70,000 Moscow viewers in two days. German rationing grows intricate. a four person family may hold 50 to 100 cards. Malta’s briar pipe industry kept running through air raids. Eskimo families in Canada taxed on trapping incomes up to 35,000 dollars yearly. Radio-telephone tests in Britain enable engine crews and conductors to converse. A memorial gate will honor Netherlands victims who died escaping to Britain or in the war.
A Home Service notice describes a 32 page booklet on dream symbolism under psychoanalytic theory. It explains dreams reveal suppressed emotions and urges using symbols like trains and attractions. Send 15 cents to the Winnipeg Newspaper Union for a copy with reader name and address.
A Sunday school lesson outlines the Eighth Commandment Thou shalt not steal, tracing honesty in wages and trade from Leviticus to Luke. It recounts Zacchaeus in Jericho reforming his dishonest tax practice and Jesus cleansing the temple market as a den of robbers, exposing greed and deceit.
Refugees from Rome say Nazi sappers have mined all major public and private buildings including ministries bridges hotels and the aqueduct. The broadcast notes the intention to erase memory of Rome and US monitors recorded the statements with warnings of extensive explosive placement. The report mentions vast underground water estimates.
A historical line states that in the 1916 Battle of Jutland there were 252 ships combined, outlining a compact tally of warships involved in the engagement.
St. Catharines Standard notes a Hereford boy, age 11, received a seven year reformatory sentence without due process. The King's Bench reviewed the case and criticized two magistrates, both women, for the penalty during wartime.
At Winnipeg Manitoba the Canadian Pacific Weston Shops received the Victory Loan pennant from W S Hall general superintendent Manitoba District and loan committee chairman. Weston subscribed 133 000 for 1 709 employees, over 50 000 above the fourth loan. L B George works manager accepted the pennant and passed it to W Holland federated trades chairman. Since the war began 176 Weston apprentices have enlisted in the navy army or air force, boosting Canada’s trained mechanical manpower with 94 officers and ratings in ships and 59 pilots navigators and engine mechanics in air force blue. Two have been reported missing in action.
More than 25 000 names appear on wartime lists in London identifying quislings and occupational offenders. The texts note that the first parlors were monastery rooms used for conversations with outsiders.
A lieutenant at a US Army Air Force navigation school notes his secretary receives a daily 11:45 call for the correct time. After inquiry, the caller is identified as the post fire department seeking to set the noon siren. The secretary admits she has been using the noon siren to check their clock.
Crowds gathered as drums rolled and pipes sounded on Barce streets but instead of a Scottish regiment they witnessed the newly formed Senoussi Arab band marching past.
The four toed eohippus is noted as the earliest known stage in the evolutionary line leading to the modern horse. It marks the initial divergence in a long lineage of equine development.
The text notes that the letters e t and a are the most used in English. It adds that Borneo has no railroads and few roads, implying limited infrastructure.
A large block of crossword clues and partial entries includes numbers and scattered phrases such as God of love, Baseball team, Evil, To boast, Existed, Solar disc, Indian weight, Jason's ship, Prison, Testament, and other scattered terms. Many lines are jumbled or incomplete with missing definitions and irregular capitalization.
The author contemplates how Paris and other French towns will fare if the Germans withdraw, noting past conquests and pondering Copenhagen. The piece reflects on the enduring spirit of vandals and huns in invading peoples and cites Saint John Telegraph-Journal. A brief line mentions cotton grown on Russian experimental farms in natural colors.
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