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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1939
Page
2
The analysis notes wartime effects on unemployment, railways, and public works while forecasting temporary relief of some problems and potential declines in social spending. It urges united citizen effort to end the war quickly to minimize long term sacrifices and keep social progress on a sound course.
E. W. Cleveland known as Pop sells airplane struts and flies his territory across the United States and Canada at 187 mph, cruising 165. He has traveled since 1927 and recalls hitch-hikers for airways, a pilot who will land to fish when schedules allow.
About 100 men sent offers to the Voluntary Service Registration Bureau in Ottawa to serve without remuneration in any capacity required. One retiree from a $50,000-a-year executive post is prepared to serve on a dollar-a-year basis.
The text notes Maine has more than twice the coastline of Florida if small indentations are counted. It also mentions turtle racing in Maidenhead England with a ten yard race lasting about an hour.
Dr. C. H. Best, head of the University of Toronto physiology department, has won the Baly Medal from the Royal College of Physicians of England. The $100 award is given every alternate year for distinguished work in physiology and is presented during the Harveian Oration on October 18. He also received the John Mallett Purser Lectureship from Trinity College Dublin and hopes to deliver the lecture later.
The 83 year old famed founder of psycho analysis died at his Hampstead London home after leaving Vienna last year amid the German annexation. He arrived in London June 6 1938 seeking peace study and work and planned to continue his Bible influenced manuscript. He was survived by his wife a daughter Anna a son Ernst and a nephew Harry. Freud had just left Austria as the first prominent Jew permitted to leave after the Anschluss. His work on sex and behavior brought him worldwide fame and he was still writing a book on how the Bible reflects subconscious yearnings and fears of ancient peoples.
Neville Chamberlain appears healthier and more vigorous under wartime strain. He reportedly works at least 16 hours daily, maintains a peace-time routine, enjoys garden flowers and birds before breakfast, and strolls with Mrs. Chamberlain in a nearby park. His friends note his gout has vanished.
Canada enforces licenses for export of copper and nickel under a wartime order in council. Hon J L Asley, minister of revenue, announced licenses are required with the system already in effect. US shipments are being allowed freely, and officials expect little disruption to business. The measure aims to curb enemy trade and conserve domestic metal supplies.
An Englishman named George Martin from Copthorn demonstrates remarkable skills using a wheelbarrow and motor mower for digging turf pruning hedges and felling trees. He also handles a three horse team and can catch four bricks at once while playing golf cricket and billiards and is noted as a good shot.
In a curious note the article states only death can arrest the homing flight of a foaming pigeon while Albania plans 750 miles of centuries-old roads rebuilt as part of a major public works program.
A Marlborough House message from Queen Mary expresses admiration for British women aiding in wartime emergencies. She sends special greetings to nurses in Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and Territorial Army Nursing Service, and to Princess Mary's Air Force Nursing Service.
Postmaster-General Norman L. McLarty announced a cut in air mail rates for newspapers and periodicals to distant northern points. The changes apply to Northwest Territories and western provinces with Telegraph Creek B C eligible in winter. Public second class mail will cost one cent per four ounces, or four cents per pound when sent from publishers or newsdealers, versus six cents for the first ounce and five cents for each extra ounce air mail.
A witty exchange questions how one earns a baronetcy via tobacco. A roadside note cites tire wear facts, a 1-ton dolphin is found in a creek near Leigh on Sea, England, and a Florida coast proximity fact notes no point is over 100 miles from the shore.
The Winnipeg Free Press notes that World War I accelerated chemistry in Germany, and spurred radio and aviation progress in Britain and France, while American scientists kept aligned with peaceful research. The piece suggests future wars may boost European advances at human cost, with America leading in pure research.
No white man ever saw one of New Zealand's strange big birds, the moas, which died out centuries ago. Rust and corrosion cause an annual direct loss exceeding that caused by fire and flood combined.
George A. Stevenson of Rosthern Saskatchewan recounts how the weeping willow reached Canada from the east via the English poet Alexander Pope. A British officer during the American Revolution is said to have brought a slip of Pope's tree to North America, sparking the lineage of North American willows named Salix Babylonica by Linnaeus for the biblical reference to harps by rivers.
Mr. H. E. Wimperis, former Air Ministry director of scientific research, told the British Association meeting in Dundee that a 600 mile an hour ceiling applies to military aircraft by natural law. He added that rapid manoeuvre requires speed control and civil services should settle around 200 to 300 miles an hour for economic reasons.
A new amusement device creates the sensation of plunging over Niagara Falls for riders. A contrasting crowd seeks the same thrill by questioning bank managers during interviews.
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