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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1942
Page
5
The article explains how ocean waves and air movements influence each other. It details how wind shapes waves, how crests lift air, and how air currents carve wave patterns, creating turbulence or calm depending on wind strength and direction.
The admiralty interviews a trawler skipper noted for knocking down dive bombers. He explains a two name response drill: George and George both say Ay ay sir, then the signal reports a plane, and George shoots.
In London the General Post Office requires all envelopes to be reused at least once for re addressing or inter office messages. Some large envelopes have carried as many as 50 distinct addresses under the save paper campaign.
The number of London taxis has fallen 27 percent since the war as Home Secretary Herbert Morrison notes that nights in the streets feel bleak with the plaintive calls of taxi requests echoing through the capital.
John Michal, a Greek former sergeant with the 11th Greek infantry battalion, has joined the Canadian army at age 49. In Hamilton he works in a downtown restaurant and is daily called Hitler by locals. He served in Greece and hopes to fund his scientific research while serving. his dream is to live privately and continue his elemental research.
The text recalls Kaiser Frederick as a liberal heir to the Hohenzollern throne who died after a brief reign. A war veteran known as Unser Fritz, he opposed bloodshed and urged avoiding war, contrasting with militarist currents. Also mentions the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City taking 49 years to construct.
The National Pickle Packers Association wrestles with a labor shortage as pickers are scarce despite record crop quality and high pickle prices. Einar Gaustad of Holsum Foods notes demand remains strong. A public luncheon followed the meeting with pickles served.
Modern style clogs with suede and calf uppers appear among new women’s wartime footwear in Britain. The wooden soles are rubbered to curb noise and feature leather insoles, weighing about the same as crepe-soled shoes.
Pattern 7221 offers a transfer of 16 motifs from 5 by 5 inches to 3 2 by 3 1 inches with illustrations and color schemes. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7221 with your name address and pattern number. Burma exports teakwood at about twice the rate of other nations.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports June retail sales up 12 percent from June 1941 and 41 percent from June 1939, with first half 1942 up 17.1 percent over 1941. Higher living costs explain part, but purchasing power and wage growth drive most gains, especially in candy, grocery, meat, and restaurant sectors.
The Talk of the Town column in the London Daily Sketch denies claims that Prime Minister Winston Churchill is writing a daily war diary. It notes he is too busy and dislikes diary keeping and whistling, despite high literary output.
The Windsor Star notes the shock in Canada at the government freezing all electric ranges. It contrasts with past times when housewives cooked without electric ranges, suggesting rapid technological change reshapes daily life and food preparation.
An article lists unusual oils aiding wartime supply, naming iucia from its seed, baba cu from babacu, anditcba like almond oil, curicur similar to copra, bankul from nogueira nuts, cumarin oil, plus curua sesame macauba pracaxi corn mustard oils and fats like muru muru and tucum used in margarine.
Archdeacon Frederick George Scott of Quebec writes to the New York Times proposing a United Nations flag. He says the banner would fly with each ally’s own flag and symbolize the democratic powers’ underlying and unbreakable resolve.
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