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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1940
Page
2
The government favors no central news bureau and plans to keep access to information wide. Editors warn centralization could bias reporting, suppress facts, and cost the treasury while stressing direct source access to inform public opinion during wartime.
A Romanian man carried a permanent chart tattooed on his arm serving as a walking national registration card. When questioned about birth, marriage dates, arrival in Canada, and naturalization details, he consulted the tattoo for all his vital statistics.
Able Seaman Bill Churchman on leave spent most of his time riding a Birmingham bus where his wife serves as conductor. In peacetime Bill works as a bus driver.
In Omaha 110 workers painted a house in four minutes and 14 seconds, breaking the world speed painting record.
Walter P. Chrysler, despite his vast wealth, wore a single ring on his right hand and bought three suits at a time in blue brown and gray. He favored reading mystery stories, mostly in bed, and limited his non scientific reading to these tales.
A Stoke Newington milkman who earned no more than 16 dollars weekly over four decades left assets exceeding 53 thousand dollars upon his death. He steadily saved from wages to purchase multiple houses, securing unexpected wealth later in life.
An elderly bootblack in New York, long regarded as poor, amassed a fortune totaling $33,000 stored in four banks. Details indicate a quiet accumulation and eventual reveal of the funds.
Jessie Gillespie daughter of W Gillespie Massey Harris executive in Toronto joins the British Broadcasting Company records department. Her French and Spanish serve to summarize reports from other countries. She earned a French Government scholarship last year. She fled Europe after the war began, leaving France from Montpellier and reuniting with her Nantes based brother and his family aboard a liner. She plans a doctorate on Julien Green.
Hon Duncan Marshall notes a English farmer who fashioned a bomb proof family shelter from an old large motor car. Hay stacks dense all around form thick walls while a large stack overhead provides cover and ventilation with a side entrance. A lookout guards against fire as a major risk of war entering Canada.
The Dominion government set higher penalties for non registration of rifles and shotguns in Canada in the Canada Gazette. Indictable convictions face a $500 fine, two years imprisonment, or both, plus the existing $50 fine or 30 days on summary conviction. Registration of all firearms is currently required.
The Lethbridge Herald notes Canadians are natural at flying due to self reliance and familiarity with vehicles. It argues Canada should continue emphasizing air training for the war effort, praising confident young men as world class flyers.
A man who followed His Majesty's example became an expert knitter and earned the only perfect pair of socks in the special hospitals fancy class at the Toronto C N E exhibition. Judges noted sixteen entries, with H Kennedy of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium London scoring 100 points and winning over 15 female contestants.
A college professor argues that think and think related phrases are among the most overused in English and that in most cases such usage amounts to a gross exaggeration.
A peculiar method stores freshly baked loaves by placing them outdoors then freezing in Siberia. A roaf is brought in and heated as needed to serve later.
The small New Brunswick town of Black's Harbour with 1500 residents raised 51000 for interest free Dominion bonds in a notable wartime pledge. Local women contributed aluminum utensils to a British appeal to fund aircraft and war effort, donating kitchen items and mementos from royal sources and wartime relics.
A London Daily Sketch columnist lauds cross channel steamers for brave Dunkirk runs. Skippers completed seven round trips, ships scarred by shrapnel, crewed by bold British and French troops. A wireless operator recalls terror yet credits crew morale and a deck bridge game amid shellfire.
A Kitchener record quotes a claim that poison ivy is a global menace akin to Hitler Mussolini and Stalin, then argues the plant never jumps to infect peaceful vacationers who avoid it. The piece defends ivy as nonaggressive when left alone.
The Dominion plans to call up 300000 men for training within 12 months starting in October, boosting overall fighting strength to well over half a million.
Butter and sugar beaten with egg and melted chocolate then mixed with water. Sour milk and All Bran folded in. Sifted flour with baking powder soda and salt added with chopped nut meats. Drop teaspoons on greased sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes yields 24 dozen cookies.
Sauté diced round steak in fat and layer in a greased casserole with onions and crumbled Christie’s wafers. Repeat meat onions and crackers then cover with Mock Turtle soup and water. Bake at 375 degrees for about one hour. Preparation time about 15 minutes.
A French plane with three crew members crossed into Spanish airspace to evade gun posts at La Luna and landed at Gibraltar to join Britain against Germany. Two more French planes from French Morocco also reached Gibraltar, with crews surrendering and committing to fight for the liberation of France.
Miss Hage Keyes has taught at All Saints Anglican School in Aklavik Northwest Territories for four years. Children from far northern regions travel up to 1000 miles to attend. They begin in Grade I with no English initially and learn to use native arts and skills for northern living. About 100 pupils study there. Miss Keyes led the Brownie pack, part of the world’s northernmost Girl Guide group. The community shows strong interest in the war and worries about her safety when she travels.
Voluntary Service Britain's housewives join air raid precautions to aid casualties and damage relief. Women volunteers, led by the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, pledge hot water tea blankets bandages and wound care while theatres donate ballet skirts to make sterile bandage strips. In Islington volunteers prepare to care for children and stock buckets of water for stirrup pumps.
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