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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1944
Page
6
The article cautions that inflation remains a major threat after war, noting the dangers of rising prices and wages and the need for government controls. It highlights Canada Britain and the United States as examples where price and wage measures helped maintain stability, while urging public patience with restrictions and continued caution in spending war savings.
An old Kellogg advertisement touts All Bran as a bulk solution for constipation and easy elimination. It urges readers to eat Kellogg's cereal and notes two convenient package sizes made in London.
Calgary Herald argues that British war brides of Canadian soldiers should be given priority in immigration, stating no immigrant class should be more welcome than British wives who endured Nazi persecution and supported their soldier husbands. It endorses housing refugees but emphasizes host country needs first.
W A Lowry a Gainesville Texas mail carrier says after 15 years of whistling tunes on his round he grew tired and began composing new songs. He completed a 90 day period and has now sold his first work.
A collection of short humorous lines from a seaside promenade scene and classroom exchanges. One man tests a weight machine with a comical reply, a milkman explains pasture use, and quips about landlords, amputated feet, and hair drafts follow. Various brief exchanges touch on bargains and bakery ambitions with light punchlines.
A Wartime Prices and Trade Board bulletin outlines that price controls forbid conditional sales, confirms coupon values for brown and white sugar are equal at one pound per valid coupon, and notes cranberry sauce and fresh cranberries on ration lists with specific coupon worths. It also states permits are required to start a new business and guides readers to obtain licenses from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and to request the next ration book during mid October.
Refugees from Alderney discuss restoring Channel Islands herds in London. Henry Gauvain urges exporting best stock to preserve Jersey Guernsey traits, noting no bovine tuberculosis and the need for pedigreed cattle from outside if local herds are too thinned.
CWAC artist L-Cpl Molly Lamb of Vancouver, aged twenty two, paints stage scenery for the Canadian Army Show and has had works exhibited in Toronto and Ottawa. Brenda Campbell, CWAC Overseas, a former British Auxiliary Territorial Service member, is noted for her anti aircraft plotting success, while Pte Lucy McCarthy returns home to Winnipeg after enlisting in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.
A humorous note counts surnames in the Canadian Army. It lists 9 115 Smiths with 362 named William Smiths and 44 from Toronto, 3 071 Browns, and 1 693 Joneses, suggesting the Smiths and Browns can keep up with the Joneses in this case.
After a year long trial, square milk bottles in quarts and half pints are a success in Cedar Rapids and other US cities. The change aims to save cold storage space and increase truck loads. About 45 percent more milk can be stored and more milk carried in trucks with newer, compact cases. Grocers note 36 square quarts fit on a refrigerator shelf that held 25 round bottles.
Three Polish soldiers President Edward Lech Thomas Dobieski and Tadeusz Kaniewski on a North American tour expressed gratitude to the Canadian Red Cross Society for its generous support of Polish relief efforts during the ongoing aid campaign.
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