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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
2
A wartime editorial argues the war is to defend freedom against Nazi trickery and terrorism. It asserts Britain leads the struggle, Canada awakens, and the United States must join fully, fighting to the finish to prevent a world ruled by dictators.
Pravda reports more than 1,000 families leave collective farms in Soviet Russia proper for settlements in the newly created Karelia Finnish republic ceded to Russia after the war. Towns and villages wrecked by conflict are being rebuilt and repopulated.
Before the war scientists detonated bombs in the Atlantic near Bermuda to study rock formations in deep waters for peaceful purposes.
In the first half of the year the United States imported 15,854,552 pounds of raw silk. Japan supplied 12,322,675 pounds, China 2,000,578 pounds, and Italy 1,523,974 pounds. London elementary schools employ 19,101 people including 16,358 teachers. Oil furnaces keep a Florida aquarium at 70 degrees during cooler weather.
Strawberries reputedly got their name from being strung on broomstraw for market. Cantaloupes are described as members of the cucumber family.
Henriette Bourque, trained in law and culture, wins a justice department clerk post after leading law school exams at Montreal. She became the first female bar member in British Columbia to practice in federal courts, asserting prejudice has faded in her era.
A dessert bake uses three cups apples two tablespoons butter water Christies Graham Wafer crumbs baking powder salt sugar milk eggs and chopped nuts. Layer apples in a greased dish dot with butter pour water. crumble wafers and mix with dry ingredients. add beaten egg and milk then fold in nuts. Bake forty minutes in moderate oven and serve warm with cream or cheese as accompaniment.
A two layer dessert recipe uses pumpkin filling set with gelatin and a Rice Krispie crust. It combines pumpkin milk butter sugar molasses and spices poured into a prepared crust and chilled until firm.
More than 180000 manuscripts and ancient tomes are secured in a desert hill cave to protect Egypt's literary treasures. Earlier, Tutankhamun and other pharaohs' artifacts were hidden in stone vaults of the Cairo museum for safety.
Argentina has tallied a 1,000,000 peso bill against Germany for hosting 1,900 or more Graf Spee crewmen since December. Despite hospitality, 19 officers and 60 sailors have escaped or attempted escape, increasing guard costs and searches. Under Hague rules Germany bears wartime costs, to be settled after the war.
Trade routes open as Royal Navy and Royal Air Force secure sea lanes to the eastern Mediterranean. After an initial war interruption due to Italy's entry, traffic improves daily. Britain buys dried fruit from Greece and Turkey and sources hemp flax from the Balkans. Egypt supplies cotton seed cake salt and onions, Cyprus provides asbestos iron pyrite and locust beans, and Palestine increases potash imports.
Paul Mallon argues in the Minneapolis Star Journal that Hitler erred by aiming a morale campaign at London instead of targeting RAF airfields and factories. He says Allied bombing of oil depots and plants has been more effective, and predicts British air production will rise in spring to deter invasion.
The phonograph is making a remarkable comeback with record sales in the United States rising from 4,000,000 last year to an estimated 130,000,000 this year. Cheaper records and neglected phonographs in homes are cited as causes, while radio forces consumers to accept what is offered rather than what they want.
Homogenized milk involves breaking up fat into tiny particles by cracking whole milk under a 2,500 pound pressure to create a uniform product. The description notes fat droplets are dispersed to prevent separation and create a smooth texture.
Nine major geysers at Yellowstone National Park spouted within a single hour, setting a new record for simultaneous eruptions and drawing visitors and researchers to observe the dramatic display.
Bishop Golding Bird quotes the London Times describing air raid victims in a Southeast London hospital. A bereaved father learns his wife and three children are dead and vows to join up the next day, illustrating the communal spirit stirred by German bombardment.
Italy’s internees aboard the Arandova Star, sunk by a submarine en route to Canada, expressed gratitude to the Canadian destroyer St Laurent’s crew. The message, conveyed via the Brazilian ambassador in London, reached Commander H G DeWolf. The King also presented London with four motor ambulances and eight mobile canteens.
Some Romans of 100 B.C. stored oysters in salt water tanks at their villas for banquets. The text notes that coal burns better when kept in darkness and sunlight hastens crumbling and dimmer flame.
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