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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
2
Canada prepares for Citizenship Week January 6 to 11 as new Citizenship Act takes effect. Ottawa ceremony will welcome those completing qualifications with speeches, music, and family attendance. Regional events aim to remind both old and new citizens of duties and freedoms and the value of citizenship beyond national identity.
Chief Scout explains the left hand handshake origins after a Baden Powell meeting with an Ashanti chief in Africa. The Ashanti chief declared the bravest shake with the left to cast aside shields, revealing the custom’s true motive beyond hearts.
Vice Admiral A. W. Fitch told Vancouver Island’s United Services Institution that Canada and the United States share deep mutual interests in keeping freedom of the seas, a principle essential to both nations’ existence.
Milan Italy reopened its international fair on a bomber site for the first time since 1942. The sole British exhibit came from a Manchester oil refinery in the chemical section. Some presses can print up to 300000 copies an hour.
Mrs Gordon Conant of Ontario, Girl Guide commissioner, addressed the European Assembly for Moral Rearmament at Caux Switzerland. She urged that Canada offers opportunity and warned against forces opposing Scout and Guide movements while stressing devotion to God and country. Other speakers included George Simmons and Pierre Carteron.
The Queen selects furnishings for the Royal Suite aboard HMS Vanguard for an upcoming South Africa voyage next year. Royal apartments will house Admiral and staff with port and starboard views and direct access to a quarter deck promenade. A private sun deck is planned atop the royal rooms. Cream walls and light carpets to be used with Plate and cutlery from Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. Vanguard, Britain’s largest fast battleship, also offers crew amenities like a cinema soda fountain and cafeteria.
A fragmented report discusses gift parcels to the United Kingdom, noting duty and regulatory hurdles for clothing and food shipments. It cites the Board of Trade and Dominion parcels, mentions import permits, rationing controls, and potential penalties for noncompliant parcels during 1946, with references to maintainers of food and textile parcels under wartime administration.
R C M P history figure Deputy Conner Mead became an authority on the RCMP lore after decades in service and writing. He assisted authors T Morns Longstreth and Murder at fr, guided their Northwest Territories research, and helped develop stories from RCMP records. Now retired, he looks back on his career and memories in Vancouver Province.
Fragmented dialogue captures a classroom and street banter about behavior and lessons. An amused exchange features a door labeled Push to pull and jokes about speed, marriage, and daily life, with a brief nod to a judge and a child’s curiosity about ants and business.
A fragmented reading of quotes on perseverance and purpose from Punshon Montaigne Eddy Addison Munger and Sidney with a stray note on tears from onions and how Diamond dust is used to polish. The text mingles aphorisms with a curious aside about onions triggering tears and a mention of Diamond dust as a polishing agent.
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