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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 14, 1946
Page
6
Australians observed the 158th anniversary of joining the British Crown, celebrating Australia Day after the war. Messages from Canada and the Empire praised progress and war efforts, noting Australia’s Pacific campaigns and pivotal victories in New Guinea and Papua as turning points against Japan.
From a population of 7.9 million Australia fielded about 1 million servicemen with two thirds of eligible men serving. Civilian and defense workers numbered 600,000. 666,000 women served in auxiliary forces. Casualties reached 95,561 with major totals against Japan and Germany. Seventeen Victoria Crosses were awarded. War spending neared 7.6 billion dollars and 21 Royal Australian Navy ships were lost. Australia aided campaigns in Africa and the Middle East before Pearl Harbor era. Canada and Australia deepened ties through training plans and UNO cooperation, signaling postwar goodwill in Pacific and Commonwealth relations.
A department store launched a new pen in New York papers with a two year guarantee. Ads drew phone and mail orders and crowds to the store. Over fifty thousand pens sold in two weeks, as the factory struggled to keep up with demand.
Experiments at Experimental Station Swift Current Sask show community cooperation is key to eradicating sawfly in wheat. Seeding order matters. oats first, barley second, flax third, wheat last. Oats and barley yield profits equal to wheat and reduce damage. Farmers in brown soil area adopt results. Government speaker urged active forest preservation and cooperation. A man in the hall claimed he once shot a woodpecker.
Readers asked about butter coupons, nylon stocking prices, and ration rules. The board confirms blue R coupons cover butter, nylon prices range 5 to 250 cents with gauge stamped, and purchases must surrender correct coupons. A reader recalls lost coupons and explains temporary removal. officials advise obtaining a pamphlet at wartime prices offices. Pepper and Salt anecdote mentioned in passing.
Arturo Pomar, a 19 year old Spanish chess expert, left a cherished plain wood chessmen set behind in a London taxicab, a possession he has owned since age six. The loss occurred after a taxi ride, leaving the young grandmaster seeking the missing pieces.
Lt Col Graham Rowley MBE of Ottawa recalls 13 years living with Eskimos on Baffin Island and Hudson Bay. He praises their kindness and intelligence, notes subsistence on raw meat and simple diets, and discusses two language and religion developments observed during his Arctic years. He will command Baker Lake refueling base for the Muskox expedition reaching Cambridge Bay mid March.
A Salada Tea letter from its leaders credits newspapers as a backbone of advertising in the USA and Canada. It notes last year’s record sales volume, driven by public trust in Salada’s tea quality and the value of sustained newspaper exposure for building brand familiarity and lower per unit costs through higher production.
A collage of quips and vignettes on fashion love money efficiency and mischief. A doctor characterizes a new muscular ailment Italian lumbago while a wife and husband spar over finances. Jokes touch on vocabulary vanity and misunderstandings as a self made man boasts of his work while a daughter claims household wisdom.
A collage of quotes on ethics and the Golden Rule from figures like Matthew, George Lansbury, Mary Baker Eddy, Gardiner Spring, and a stray line on interchangeable lenses for weather conditions aiding pilots. The collection contrasts moral teachings with a stray technical note.
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