J Spalding Test Wednesday Winnipeg Visit
Local notes report J Spalding will test on Wednesday as part of a visit to Winnipeg. A farmer may deliver flax to any elevator in any quantity without a permit. Mr and Mrs Fred Reeves have returned from Winnipeg where Mr Reeves had an operation and is improving. Mr and Mrs W T Bradley have moved to Transcona to start a hardware and lumber business. Miniota High School elected officers for the Students Society President Margaret Bonner Secretary Treasurer Crawford Campbell Sporter Girls Ruth Flierington Boys Eddie Salway. Literary Society committee Donna Douglas Barbara Hurlin Ruth Ellerington with Donna Douglas as chairman.
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Miniota High School
Students’ Society
Margaret Bonner
Crawford Campbell
Sporter-Girls
Ruth Flierington
Eddie Salway
Donna Douglas
Barbara Hurlin
Ruth Ellerington
Milestone Service At Arrow River Church Delights Congregation
The Arrow River church hosted two sermons by Rev. J. E. Stewart of Binsearth United church. Choir offerings and decorations created peace amid wartime turmoil. A Monday fowl supper and a later church concert raised $123 at the door.
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J. E. Stewart
Binsearth United
Public Notice of Miniota Assessment Roll Revision
The Rural Municipality of Miniota deposits its Assessment Roll at the Municipal Office for inspection until October 17, 1942. Complaints must be lodged with the Clerk at least ten days before the Court of Revision sitting. The Council acts as a Court of Revision on November 2, 1942 at 10 am in the Municipal Hall Miniota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miniota
John Spalding
Food rationing and national health during wartime
Lord Woolton explains the rationing system ensuring adequate diets for all households. He notes improved national health during privation, the blitz era deliveries, and increased Canadian imports by 40 percent as home production rises.
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Lord Woolton
Canada
The Fighting Don Men Dieppe Raid Dedication Poem
A war poem honors the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada and the Fighting Don company. It praises the Dieppe raid participants of August 19 1942 and pledges to remember the lads who never returned.
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Queen’s Own
Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Dieppe
France
Beulah social event marks wedding ceremony at Lions Reserve
The Beulah gathering featured Rev Mc Arthur presiding over the marriage of John Bunn and Mary Bunn and Charlie Hanska and Elizabeth Benjmin. Mrs Bunn gave an address on the propriety of the ceremony as couples blended tribal custom with Christian discipline. A parchment bearing the Dominion of Canada imprint was presented to the Rev. after the knot was tied.
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Lions Reserve
McArthur
John Bunn
Mary Bunn
Charley Hanska
Elizabeth Benjamin
Bunn
Genetleman
Dominion of Canada
Birtle
Golden Wedding Honors in Beulah United Service
At the World Communion service held in Beulah United Church on Sunday, Mr Hanska and Mr Gray, long serving elders, passed the Elements. Rev H S Bowman presented Mr and Mrs C Hanska with a purse on their Golden Wedding anniversary. A reception at Mr and Mrs A Haney’s followed with a wedding cake centerpiece and tea hosted by Mrs G L Woods and Mrs T M Shurwell.
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Beulah United Church
Hanska
Presbyterian Church
Gray
H.S. Bowman
C. Hanska
A. Haney
G.L. Woods
T. M. Shurwell
R. R. K. Chalmers
Slip cover pattern 7397 offers home refresh ideas
Alice Brooks presents a step by step guide to making slip covers for chairs and sofas. Pattern 7397 includes directions and information for varied chairs and sofas and requires twenty cents in coins sent to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Small eight stop organ reissued at St Pauls inLondon
The small organ at St Pauls, rebuilt and recommissioned for nave services, is praised for tone quality. Though eight stops and hand blown, it is regarded as one of Henry Willis instruments and resembles the large organ in certain cathedral sections.
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St. Paul's
London Times
Henry Willis
Mover Of The RCAF Tells Of Plane Renaring For Big Raids
Cargoing bombers for night raids to Germany is a delicate task, says George Rennie of Powell River BC. The bomb aimer acts as the piano player, using his device to select each note from 500 to 4000 pounds, with certain loads labeled unsanitaries by the crew.
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R.C.A.F
Germany
George Rennie
Powell River
Arget
Rennie
Midlands
Kenneth van Geun
Montreal
Lac
Ernie Liggins
Winnipeg
George Plumb
London
Ont
Saarbruecken
George
National School Reform Urged to End Old Caste System
The National Association of Schoolmasters in Britain campaigns to remove the old caste bias in elite institutions postwar. A memorandum calls for ending church control of schools and universal opportunities, urging equal access for boys and girls in a reformed national system.
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Britain
National Association of School‘rs
Eton
Har
Board of
Tion
Eduin
National Trades’ Congress
Association
Mystery Waistcoat Tale From Maldon Tomb
In Maldon a tomb for Edward who died in 1750 bears an odd note about a waistcoat that seven men could button after his death. The account describes measurements and a debated question about who he was, as recounted in the London report.
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I. L. Seymour
London
All Saints
Maldon
Edward
Jack Bull
Water drinking tradition marks archbishop’s lineage
A note recalls that the father of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, a teetotaler, was a young Fellow at Queen's College Oxford. It cites Dr Temple who popularized water drinking at Bump Suppers, with Billy's water glass carried into the hall amid cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archbishop of Canterbury
Queen's College
Oxford
Temple
Billy
Wrights Demo Flight Answer Shocks With Simple Reckoning
A reporter asked Wilbur Wright how high Orville was flying. He joked using a broomstick and a beard snippet to gauge altitude, saying in effect it was about 450 feet, underscoring the simplicity of early aviation.
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Wright Brothers
Wilbur Wright
Orville
Wilbur
Nylon for parachutes and wartime nylon trivia
The article notes that the shrouds of one army parachute use as much nylon as three dozen stockings and equals over a year’s supply for an average woman. It also mentions petroleum alcohol being discovered during World War I.
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Fred Reeves
Mr. Reeves
W. T. Bradley
Transcona
Mr. Bradley
Arrow River
Don
England
Foc
Anderson
Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor
Christian Science Publishing Society
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
Miniota Herald
Beulah
Chevrolet
J. McPhail
S. W
J.H. Craig
J.F.M. Johnston
Crsr
Aku Moa
Alice Brooks
Mary
Brandon Sun
Canada Lumberman
R.c.af
Old School Tre
RCAF
Drake
Hitler
Luftwaffe
British Empire
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