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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1945
Page
8
Canada must unite diverse origins under shared citizenship. The piece argues pride in Canada and British Commonwealth ties, urges serious reflection on privileges and duties, and links domestic unity to global peace and international cooperation. It stresses eliminating racial barriers and fostering goodwill through united national purpose.
Dr H M Tory former University of Alberta president says many Canadian families still identify by racial origin though they have generations in Canada. He urges a clear sense of Canadian citizenship within the British Commonwealth as basis for fuller empire relations and world impact.
A Canadian Council of Education for Citizenship has been formed to expand education on citizenship meaning, privileges, and responsibilities. It will provide impartial information about national life and institutions, focusing on those obtaining citizenship papers and benefiting native born Canadians.
In 1727 Voltaire faced a hostile London crowd shouting kill the Frenchman. He challenged the mob by asking if not being English was punishment enough, prompting cheers and safe conduct back to his inn by Englishmen.
A compact collection of quotations on individuality, identity, and progress. Henry Van Dyke, Gilea, Mary Baker Eddy, Spurgeon, Emerson, and John Stuart Mill are cited, contrasting crowds with unique personal influence and the power of the single individual over collective progress.
Fragmentary OCR item lists vague claims about skin eruptions and healing tones. No clear entities or event details are readable. The passage mentions cleansing, penetrating agents, and wound treatment language without identifiable people, places, organizations, dates, or outcomes.
The Quarterly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics reports Western Canada shifting from dairying to beef as profitable grain crops of 1944 prompt farmers in the Prairie Provinces to reduce dairy herds. The trend, just emerging, could lower milk production and affect manufactured dairy goods by winter and summer 1945.
A satirical Chicago Daily News item mocks official food supply claims. It notes France supposedly receiving 200 million tons but only 262000 tons sent, then poses arithmetic showing absurd per capita consumption and mocks French eating habits and cooks advice, reflecting wartime wartime discourse.
A very green army recruit on gate duty refused to admit a car without a special tag. A high ranking officer arrived with a passenger and ordered the driver through. The guard apologetically asked guidance, unsure whether to shoot the car or the driver.
A wartime notice answers questions on extending a rent vacate date, changing address on ration books, forwarding syrup coupons, and preserves coupons for canning sugar. It explains landlord authority, notifying Local Ration Boards, how to handle mailing of books, and provides contact for Consumers News and Blue Book via Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
A Chicago Dodge plant that builds engines for B 28 Superfortresses saw two more strikes as workers walked out over foreman supervision and idle-time work. The 124th and 125th strikes at the plant since December 1942 highlight a troubling record, not a source of pride for the facility.
Philologists claim Ancient Greek stands as the most perfect language ever spoken, highlighting its rich structure, expressive range, and enduring influence on Western thought.
A string of lighthearted vignettes and jokes from daily interactions. Bits include a husband and wife banter about hats and ink, a bus driver quip with a child, a waiter duck joke, a boastful note to a father, and a mother’s terse inquiry about Mrs. Brown’s age. The collection closes with a maid’s misheard exchange and a playful etymology note on luxury.
Air Services C D Howe notes Canada is second only to the United States as a major operator of domestic air services. Trans Canada Air Lines runs the only regular non stop passenger and mail service between North America and the United Kingdom with three round trips weekly, plans to go daily. The line uses Canadian built Lancaster aircraft for trans Atlantic flights mainly carrying mail, cargo and military personnel.
Sgt. Rose Mae Mercier of Regina plans to pursue a languages degree after CWAC service aided by gratuities and rehabilitation credits. Her Saskatchewan career includes Dundurn Camp and St Anne de Bellevue courses, with a Prince Albert stint tied to last winter’s Eskimo scheme. Her hobbies include candid camera work, classic literature, Latin American records, tennis and bridge.
A railway expert notes that a locomotive cab contains 57 distinct controls. A man must learn and understand each control’s use before he may operate such engines successfully.
A fragment notes baked elephant foot described as one of Africa’s great food delicacies. The line mentions Afri jean buazhman and includes odd phrasing. Limited readable content lacks clear entities or dates to anchor a fuller summary.
The Owen Sound Sun-Times reports Col Alfred Wise argues Britain should base peacetime training in Germany for 20 to 25 years to free Britain’s grounds, while influencing German youth away from militarism. He suggests international police forces train there as a check on future aggression.
A Birmingham Quarter Sessions prisoner granted free defence picked from counsel with backs to him. Upon hearing Mr Churchill named, the accused said the name was good enough. A. R. Churchill then defended him for a house breaking charge, with a two year bound over period.
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