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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
3
A reader advocates daily ALL-BRAN to relieve constipation without harsh purgatives. The plan advises eating Kellogg's ALL-BRAN in London Canada, enjoying it as cereal or in muffins with ample water, claiming it corrects the cause rather than masking symptoms. Grocers stock convenient sizes.
High Commissioner for the United Kingdom Hon Malcolm MacDonald praised Canadian farmers at the Export Food Show opening in Ottawa. He credited them with supplying essential food during 1940 and 1941, noting Britain's reliance on agrarian support and the RAF’s strength in enduring the Nazi onslaught. He lauded Canadian farmers for sustaining body and nation until freedom forces could prevail.
A Dutch Nazi newspaper is quoted by the Office of War Information as commenting on lively trade in Holland. Proverb laden shop windows display lines such as Wind and whirlwind and relief in need. The piece notes the letter M’s design variation from Pharaonic to modern times.
Acting Corporal Melvin J. Tate of Natonal Mills Manitoba earned the Military Medal for carrying out muter operations under fire on August 4 in Italy. He removed locks from guns to disable them, recovered equipment during a four hour forward push, and kept his regiment from being halted by enemy emplacements. Navy officer Lt Commander W D Brown helped rescue survivors from a Nazi U boat in mid ocean. Prairie service members are spread to Labrador and overseas with concerts and furloughs at British homes. A.B. Sewell of Stony Mountain, Manitoba, became a navy barber to supplement shore patrol duty.
Peter meets Anne Bradford a probationer nurse in a hospital and they become friends amid ward duties and a tense moment over a water trial. When a patient nearly dies, Anne faces dismissal, and Peter must decide whether to protect her or admit a mistake, leading to a vow to pursue medicine and love.
Wartime convoys travel in near darkness and pea soup fog as icebergs loom in the Atlantic. The Navy warns that sailing through rough winter seas is hell with ships lost to weather despite no Royal Canadian Navy ship yet colliding, highlighting the deadly fog shroud and nerve wrecking tension.
A reader asks why worry about rationing noting how forebears lacked various goods across centuries from sugar in the 13th to motor cars in the 19th century. The piece traces gradual access to everyday items and asks how current shortages compare to historic deprivations.
A concise quote on German language lacking fair and gentleman as Emil Ludwig notes. The text shifts to a humorous statistic claiming six hundred British naval weasels fare at sea at any given moment.
Major R Shaw of the Salvation Army Corps at Edmonton recounts a tale from Fort St John where workers placed a swear box in an administration office on the Alaska Highway. Each cuss word cost a dime but the box emptied quickly and the $1 collected was sent to the Salvation Army with a note admitting they do not swear enough.
An advertising snippet discusses itchy scalp remedies and cautions about scratching. It promotes a home mixture with equal parts of a lubricant and oil and suggests applying it to the scalp while warning against worsening irritation. The fragmentary text reflects period tone and product naming.
Berlin dispatch from Rome reports the Fascist republican government decreed confiscation of all art objects in Jewish possession within areas it controls in Italy. Jews were told to register their treasures or face confiscation without compensation.
Reports from France reveal Paris faces acute food shortages with up to one million people expected to be evacuated to rural areas this winter to prevent famine. Food packets from distant friends in the countryside sustain some Parisians amid rising scarcity.
A defect in rolled steel described as a transverse crack, named as a choren steeple, arises in the steel industry.
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