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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 29, 1945
Page
7
In an art gallery a grandmotherly patron recalls Harvey Collinson a wealthy patron who owned a prized painting of a young woman. A tale unfolds about the artist the model and a doomed love, linking fame and love as oil and water while the old woman reflects on happiness.
The applicant complains to a magistrate that neighbors bang walls and shout until two in the morning every night. The problem prevents piano practice though it does not keep him awake. A final remark notes lack of alphabet for many Mexican Indian dialects.
Safeblowing incidents totaled 69 in the three prairie provinces during 1944 45 a jump of 41 from the prior year. Alberta recorded 46 cases Saskatchewan 11 Manitoba 11 with Nova Scotia the only other Canadian report. RCMP Commissioner S T Wood says new measures are in place and expects numbers to fall again.
The Canadian Shield is a vast area of ancient rocks beneath about half of Canada. It formed over roughly two billion to 500 million years, shaped like a low dome with rim rocks. It hosts primitive plant life and mineral-rich rocks, but lacks coal and oil. billions of years of erosion left mountains and volcanoes worn away while the region now has relatively few earthquakes.
The Windsor Star critiques Britain’s long role in colonial conflicts, noting Britain must intervene to quell Indonesian riots after Dutch failures and the murder of Brig. A. W. F. Mallaby, while others criticize imperialism and urge restraint.
The Defence Minister said no more guns will be allocated to communities for display in parks. The Port Arthur News-Chronicle agrees noting the incongruity of guns in parks and that many oppose them, not considering them ornaments.
Weekly effort in Yarrow British Columbia packs meat from cattle into jars labeled for relief. Each jar carries a certificate of wholesomeness and a promise it is donated for relief and not for sale. The volunteers are all men at the Yarrow Grower’s berry plant.
The Port of Bordeaux, a major Atlantic hub, is returning to normal and expects higher traffic than in prewar days when shipments averaged 400 000 tons monthly. German forces scuttled ships and planted mines to block Gironde channels during liberation.
A St. Catharines Standard vision of air speed dangers explains the g factor at 400 mph. It notes a 12 ft pilot could experience g2 up to g7, doubling then weighing over a ton. The piece compares with a water bucket and warns of rare negative g cases where eyes may be forced from sockets.
A pasted collage of light jokes and quips including baby sleep, a man’s advice, a doctor’s reply, wedding shower banter, student humor, a church question, Marilyn’s girlish figure, a business man’s surprise, a pessimist’s doubt, a grocer’s order, and a woman’s view on secrets. The pieces read as brief, punchy vignettes with dated humor and playful exchanges.
Harrison Randall, 31, known as the Fredericton Hill Billy, traveled from Fredericton to Vancouver on harmonicas not a bicycle. He left in May 1942 with 200 pounds of baggage after 785 shows for servicemen. He plans to go to Hollywood in January to pose for pictures, then to Miami and Charleston to visit his fiancée before returning to New Brunswick.
The Roquefort cheese, named after a French cave, is tied to a shepherd boy who left lunch there and found mold veining the barley bread and cheese. Conques monks later refined the cheese using mold from the cave, credited with its development.
The New York Herald Tribune noted Germany labored with militarily effective but mutually blocking ideas such as jet planes high-speed U boats V weapons and super tanks none fully utilized. It argued German strategy was inferior to Allied and Soviet approaches. It also cites Kuwaiti city’s 80 000 relying on 250 mile water shipments from Basra and Egypt’s 16 million people.
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