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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1940
Page
2
A government proposal to send an official mission to Great Britain to assess needs for Canadian farm products could aid the war effort and long term agriculture. Butter is cited as a potential focus, with possible benefits from diversification and market opportunities beyond the war.
The piece notes the costly purchase of fighter planes Spitfire and Hurricane at 26700 and 20025 dollars, a Blenheim bomber 75650 dollars, a Wellington 111250 dollars, and a Sunderland flying boat 222500 dollars. It adds details on a Wilmington chemical plant producing half the ethyl fluid for gasoline, bromide extraction from seawater, and Merganser ducks nesting in hollow trees.
Farmer William Brown, in England’s west country, invests heavily in finding water for his plum groves. A Nazi raid drops a bomb that taps a first class water source near Brown’s trees. Merchandise shipments from China to other countries in early 1940 rise 24 percent over 1939. A witticism links Adam and Eve to a telephone line in Eden with the number 281 Apple.
An order in council in the Canada Gazette outlines training center establishment staffing and staffing numbers under the National Resources Mobilization Act. It covers medical exams, language accommodation, pay rates, 30 day training periods, and transfer rules while ensuring home defense and discipline under military law post training.
The Bodleian Library at Oxford opened its new building in 1937 with stacks for 5,000,000 volumes. It receives a copy of every English publication. The old Bodleian becomes reading rooms and offices. The 1603 library was re supplied by Sir Thomas Bodley with a valued collection and funds for expansion and maintenance.
The London Gazette reports King Victor Emmanuel of Italy is removed from honorary British orders and foreign decorations. Degradation occurs at night with his banner and shield in St George's Chapel taken down and stored. Mussolini and Sir Aldo Castellani lose their decorations as Leopold’s name may follow.
England’s best fleeces arise from Orkney and Shetland sheep herds that graze on seaweed washed by seas around the islands. Local breeders credit the forage with distinct wool traits and prized softness.
Koene D. Parmingtier, a former KLM chief pilot, conducts solitary raids from Britain against German targets in the Netherlands. He notes future targets with a signed message after each strike, aiming at Rotterdam The Hague and Amsterdam where his family died in the early spring bombardment. A $10,000 Nazi price is rumored. He travelled via France and Lisbon to Britain where the RAF allowed solo raids using Netherlands aircraft with bombs and fuel supplied.
England's only professional woman tattooist Grace Bell works overtime designing ink for sailors and soldiers. She notes sailors remain her best customers and that tattooing is a navy tradition. Her proudest work was tattooing River Plate heroes from the Ajax, with Battle of the Plate 1939 marks. Grace has spurned marriage proposals for a Scots sailor who opposes tattooing. A Stockholm tailor's cutter has invented a measurement machine reducing fittings in men's clothes.
A new national initiative explores canning edible green soy beans, signaling a push to expand processing capacity and diversify crop usage in the food industry.
The Winnipeg Free Press notes many draft cards are returned with addressees listed as having left the district and unknown current addresses. It warns that failing to report a change in address after national registration can lead to penalties and strict action to prevent evasion, urging compliance to avoid trouble.
Turkey doubled its purchases of American airplanes in the last year. The rise reflects growing defense and industrial ties as procurement expands.
Amid severe newsprint shortages the government debates halting daily publishing and issuing a single national sheet the British Gazette as during the 1925 general strike. The Times can publish ten pages by special permission while others may be limited to six.
Two anonymous Montreal lumbermen contributed sawn spruce timber valued at $10,000 to aid the war effort, telling Munitions Minister Howe they feel compelled to do more than pay taxes after London bombings. The piece notes the Matterhorn’s height and its romantic prominence to locals and visitors.
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