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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
7
The article notes a paper shortage in Canada and globally, with newspapers shrinking and goods scarce. It stresses pulp and paper as Canada’s leading peacetime industry, employing about half a million people and yielding substantial foreign exchange, while supporting power, transport, machinery, chemicals, and agriculture sectors.
Paul Kellogg urges that paper plays a vital role in national economy and war effort. He notes pulp and paper supply shortages due to manpower limits and war uses for ammunition containers and supplies. Kellogg argues for strong postwar growth of the pulp and paper industry.
The article notes Chinese inventions and goods including silk paper printing compass gunpowder tea porcelain and soybeans. It also reports Lt-Gen Sir Thomas R Eastwood named governor and commander in chief of Gibraltar succeeding Lt-Gen Sir F. Mason MacFarlane in a London announcement.
An advertisement urges readers to stop dosing harsh purgatives and try Kellogg's All Bran as a gentler remedy for constipation caused by low dietary fiber. It recommends an ounce daily or several muffins with plenty of water, and notes Kellogg's makes the product in London Canada in two sizes.
The Canadian Junior Red Cross sent a shipload of vitamin tablets to Britain to fight rising coeliac cases among children who cannot assimilate certain foods in their diet.
The council and the Ministry of Health regional service, plus the Army Blood Transfusion Service, collect voluntary blood. Since 1939 Britain began drying blood for transfusion and by 1942 had 26 000 bottles ready, with production at 3 500 bottles weekly. Germans relied on whole blood before the Libyan campaign.
Ducks Unlimited reports a serious drop in prairie chicken and Hungarian partridge populations across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta based on observer surveys. Excessive mortality among broods from cold wet weather last summer is blamed with varied local results in each province.
An old advertisement discusses backache as a sign of kidney trouble and promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem capsules, claiming a fast diuretic action with Dutch Drops. It urges readers to obtain the genuine product through their druggist in Canada. The piece also oddly interjects a note about the First Great War air combat.
A dubious advertisement touts a home treatment for itchy scalp and claims a money back promise if results are not achieved after four weeks. It promotes applying a product with finger tips to the roots and suggests widespread selling.
Gerald Lake of Victoria chosen official organizer and business representative for a new Canadian insurance agents union. Vancouver meetings announced the organization and planned metropolitan expansion and affiliation with an international body of its kind.
Questions about wartime price control in Saskatchewan address delivery minimums, shortages, and butter pat sizes. Officials note no delivery obligation for dealers, but urge economies. bans on selling in short supply only if tied to other purchases are being enforced. butter pats must weigh one third of an ounce. Consumers are invited to send questions for the pamphlet Consumers News or the Blue Book to Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Regina.
The Stalingrad sword gift to the city was handed to a citizen delegation. Marshal Budyenny presented it to D. M. Pigalev, Stalin grad executive committee chairman and delegation leader, after being sent by Churchill to Stalin at Teheran in the king's name.
Mrs. Lily McGaughie, a Scottish village paper store owner, suspected a Canadian accent from a handsome stranger who claimed to need a district map. She confirmed her suspicion after she contacted police. the man was an escaped Luftwaffe officer posing as a Canadian.
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