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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1941
Page
4
The German 16th Army issued a directive to seize fur clothing and all warm garments for winter occupation troops. Russians resist by hiding or burning clothes. peasants are ready to endure bloodshed to thwart confiscations. Red Army reportedly well supplied for snow and ice fighting.
A Chicago bakery owner began by giving rolls and surplus goods to a home for the friendless. After that institution closed he supported an orphanage, where one child’s cheer sparked a 30 year pattern of regular deliveries two or three times weekly.
The Clyde district sees accelerated shipbuilding and munitions production as air raids focus destruction on non industrial structures. G B Johnson, Canadian trade commissioner in Glasgow, reports bombs mainly harm dwellings and churches, while overall output rises.
Humorist John Kendrick Bangs once told a teller his poems earned $100 each. The next day he deposited ten poems worth $1,000, sliding the bankbook under the cage as proof. The anecdote highlights Bangs’s witty exchange over the value of verse.
A fireman jokes that two people this week have given him five dollars for rescuing them while a fire victim objects that he has not yet been rescued. The fireman retorts that the victim has not been rescued.
The piece asserts that tyrants are dishonored in history while freedom fighters gain lasting immortality. It emphasizes that Nazi plans for world conquest will lead to their undoing as European forces grow stronger than Germany’s legions, and liberty’s lamp will shine after the war ends.
J B Priestley in London Calling argues that Nazi broadcasts fail at home and abroad. He contends Germans resist Nazi messaging, calls Goebbels to lift bans, and notes internal party dissent despite the propaganda machine’s strength.
American radio experts credit the Queen’s natural timbre and resonant tones for her broadcasting success. Her calm delivery, learned in childhood elocution from her mother the late Countess of Strathmore, is noted. The idea to broadcast to the United States came from the Queen herself to thank donors of Bundles for Britain.
A London correspondent notes the lime stone block once at Scone and moved to Westminster Abbey in 1296 has been relocated to a safer place. The piece, linked to Scottish coronations and legends, fuels calls for its return to Scotland amid nationalist sentiment and Irish antiquarian debate.
Researchers at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva announce a new dishwashing method. Dishes must be washed in water above 160 degrees for about two minutes then rinsed in equally hot water for at least ten seconds and air dried without toweling.
A home prepared bread dough is sent to a bakeshop in Morocco where the baker earns ten percent of the dough as his compensation for the baking service. The arrangement splits the product between home preparation and shop execution.
In a country theatre an actor performing for rival John Kemble faced a crying child in the gallery. Kemble halted the performance and addressed the audience in tragic tones, saying the play could not continue while the child remained.
The article lists causes of forest fires with humans as the principal source. It cites figures: lightning about three percent, locomotive sparks five, campers nine, smokers twenty six, debris burners fifteen, incendiaries twenty five, lumbering two, and miscellaneous unknowns fifteen percent.
Lord Cherwell once known as Professor F A Lindemann is described as a close Churchill ally and adviser. He is both philosopher and statistician, a former experimental pilot, and helped develop the balloon barrage while noting limits of air defence before this war.
A rebuilt tram now serves as a complete public library on Edmonton streets. It runs on street railway lines stopping at outlying points and returns to car barns each evening for re-sorting and a fresh supply for the next day.
William Gillette as a youth studied shorthand in a boarding house and copied conversations nightly. He later reviewed his notebooks and said four months of constant talk produced nothing meaningful or remembered by anyone.
A pound of coffee weighs about 454 grams and yields roughly 3 850 beans. This figure helps estimate bean count for bulk roasts and recipe calculations.
The final state lottery in England occurred on October 18 1826 at Cooper's Hall located on Basinghall Street in London.
A single peony can release up to 3,000,000 pollen grains, illustrating the remarkable reproductive capacity of this flowering plant through abundant pollen production.
National Red Cross appeals to Junior Red Cross members across Canada to supply 15,000 blankets for war victims in the British Isles. Saskatchewan's committee voted 5000 for immediate shipment of 2500 blankets at two dollars each, part of the national goal. Saskatchewan has already helped with mobile kitchens and other contributions.
Ottawa Journal notes Hitler claims his war against Russia is a crusade for Christianity while revealing Nazi oppression of churches. Senator Mead presents evidence of Catholic Church persecution in Germany and arrests of church leaders, with Protestant pastors also in camps.
Dr Ernest J Elsbach of Manhattan reports a new hay fever treatment using a salt solution of organic substances from human intestines. The eight to twelve injections aim to calm the sympathetic nervous system and may cure hay fever. In 75 patients, 53 were cured 21 improved and 1 unchanged. The regimen begins with daily injections for five days then every other day.
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