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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
7
Two Polish pilots demonstrated British workmanship on an operational flight. They survived heavy flak that thinned a port wing and strained the controls while maintaining a shallow dive to bomb the target. They then crossed back into France, returned to England, and landed safely.
Lucy Belknap, eldest of nine, overcomes poverty and failed schemes to forge a future. She eludes early prognoses of trivial work, advocates self reliance, builds skills in home economics and business, and pairs with Brad Hart as she crafts a career and a life with purpose in a struggling town.
Canadian Women's Voluntary Services in Ottawa laud W V S workers for round the clock duties during air raids. They drove vans to shelters, organized post raid errands, and endured personal loss while continuing service in Britain’s blitz.
Pattern 4505 offers a jumper with matching jacket and blouse in children's sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Size 6 jumper requires 1 yard 35 inch fabric and jacket or blouse 7s yard 35 inch. Send 20 cents in coins to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 75 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. Mail delay noted.
The Saskatchewan Health Services Survey Commission reports that geography and the economy make a province wide socialized medical system urgent. Rural health services would center on Rural Health Centres and Rural Health Units with minimum salaries for municipal doctors, district hospitals for major care, and full time district surgeons.
Building labor in London doubled to repair bomb damaged houses. Skilled workers from across Britain and Services personnel assist. In mid June 24,000 on general repair work. by July 3 over 30,000. by month end nearly 60,000 employed.
The Windsor Star mocks reports that Nazi planes dropped Colorado beetles on Britain’s potato fields as desperate, ineffectual sabotage. It argues Germany’s limited air capability makes the pests improbable to cause real damage and likens the tactic to a drowning man grasping at a straw.
British records show Bath suffered 1272 casualties and the destruction of 19 000 buildings over three nights ending April 27 1942. Officials called the raids Bae deker aimed at wiping out England’s famed cities per Karl Baedeker guides.
A brief note highlights leopards as India’s top danger among wild animals, stressing their stealth and threat to humans. The fragment suggests ongoing concerns over leopard encounters and safety.
Fire authorities warn that hundreds of farm buildings in Canada and the United States burn due to avoidable causes. Clear rubbish, check smoke pipes, ensure sturdy stove bases, inspect electrical wiring, install lightning rods, ground wire fences, and keep water or sandpails and extinguishers ready and maintained for rapid action.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a new high cattle on farms total at June 1 of 10,346,000 head, up seven percent from June 1, 1943. The record reflects sustained farm livestock expansion across the country.
Only one railway crash last year in Britain caused passenger deaths with four people killed.
Agriculture experts doubt the perennial wheat developed in Russia will be of much use on Canada’s western plains. One expert notes it grows in well watered areas, while much of the prairies lack rainfall. The crop may have useful value in irrigated regions.
Brig Gen R W Bliss says in reporting from the Pacific that Japanese doctors are under orders to kill their own patients if capture seems imminent and that they have bombed their own hospitals with patients inside them.
Simple All-Bran muffins mix apples spice and breakfast energy. Brend shortening and sugar beaten with egg, then combined with All-Bran and milk, folded into dry ingredients with chopped apple, baked in two-thirds full tins at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes yielding nine muffins.
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