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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
3
British fishing trawlers converted to minesweepers face magnetic and impact mines laid by Germans. Sailors risk death daily under brutal seas, with wires, tethers, and towing gear demanding extreme skill. The author joins a crew to witness their perilous work and the captain recalls a wrecking memory.
Ninety prize winning mink skins from the 1939 Ontario Fur Farmers show were chosen to make a coat presented to Her Excellency Lady Tweedsmuir as a parting tribute. Creed in Toronto made the coat from a design approved in Ottawa by the selections committee. Measurements were taken at Rideau Hall. Ontario honorary chair was Mrs. Albert Matthews with provincial committees represented by wives of lieutenant governors.
Planning for the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair seeks federal approval to temporarily move soldiers from Exhibition Park buildings in November. After last year’s cancellation, the fair aims to combine agriculture with a martial program highlighting Army Navy and air force cooperation to boost recruitment and showcase Canada’s war effort.
A London Times summary reports the Medical Research Council and Industrial Health Research Board finding that younger drivers show higher accident rates. Omnibus, trolley-bus, and seaside resort drivers show curves where accidents decline with age, with a small rise around midlife before falling as age increases. The proposed explanation is gradual risk reduction with aging.
The article profiles Sir James Lithgow, Controller of Merchant Shipping and Repairs, praising him as the leading force in Clyde shipbuilding and a top industry authority, noting his tall frame, blue eyes, and status as a war veteran artillery officer.
The game of chess has ancient roots and was introduced by the Arabs into a distant region, signaling the spread of the game across civilizations.
Canada opens the Big Bend Highway between Revelstoke and Golden on June 29 1940 two days before the Banff Jasper Highway. The 193 mile route follows the Columbia River through the Selkirk Range enhancing a west to east all Canadian motor road from Vancouver to Halifax.
Five hundred Glasgow bus drivers were reported ill from nervous strain while operating buses during blackout conditions. The post oak canoe birch and lodge pole pine trees are named for their uses. The British Ordnance Survey employs 1,100 workers who produce two million maps each year.
A corps of voluntary women called Voluntary Aides works with social service agencies to ease war time life in Canada. Financed by the Junior League, over 250 women volunteer in cities from Montreal to Vancouver to train and serve in hospitals, elderly homes, and on market days providing child care, letters for the aged, and support for a blind organist.
Pattern 6634 offers six motifs about 6 by 8 inches with transfer designs and stitch illustrations. Materials list included. Send 20 cents in coin to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg to obtain pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
The text traces the Karelian Isthmus and Viipuri as historic battlegrounds between Finland and Russia, noting Viipuri's 74 000 residents before WWII, its fortifications, siege devastation, and shifting control from Sweden to Russia and finally Finland in 1919. It also mentions Koivisto and Hanko as key isthmus ports influencing timber, seafood exports, and Baltic access.
The Canadian Legion War Services, with Thomas Cook and Son, launches an overseas parcel service to send food, cigarettes, tobacco, toilet articles and other extras to Canadian active service personnel worldwide. Packing, delivery, insurance and customs declarations are free. Canadian goods will be used where possible, packing done in England. Personal messages allowed. service also for British forces and Royal Navy members. Headquarters in Montreal. orders via the Dutainton Square building.
A gold and silver Saxon pocket sundial was unearthed two feet below the Cloister Garden at Canterbury Cathedral. Found undisturbed for centuries, it features a gold gnomon and animal head motif with jewelled eyes. The piece was studied by T. T. Kendrick of the British Museum and described as more or less accurate by Dr. A. H. Smith.
In Los Angeles Ernest Benson with 110 clocks still asks hotel staff to wake him. Wayc0me devices misbehave by broadcasting via a Meth odist Church organ in Freeport Pennsylvania. A motor truck crash near Winchester Kentucky and a repaired bridge end damage. Mr Hunt of Purcell Oklahoma faces an electric meter error causing a bill spike.
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