Warning on Ice Dangers and Safety Tips From Red Cross
The Water Safety Department of the Red Cross urges parents to discuss ice safety with children as spring approaches. Advice covers what to do if someone falls through ice, including staying flat, extending arms, thrashing feet to escape, crawling to thicker ice, rolling to safety, and using reaching assists with a rope or pole. Also stresses not rescuing others unless you can help yourself, and keeping warm blankets for the rescuer. The piece also touches on personal reflections about England and Canada.
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Water Safety Department
The
Red Cross
Spade
Hee
Rake
Jim Jones
Gardening Fever Hurls Spring Labor On Hapless Neighbors
A playful column warns of a contagious gardening fever that pulls people into weeks of digging, seeding, weeding, and spraying. It notes blisters, sun burn, and backache, but promises tastier tomatoes, crisp lettuce, and juicier strawberries as rewards, while recalling autumn harvests and forgotten toil.
Trees as living memorials in Rivers plan a selling campaign
The article notes residents planting trees for shade but many are uprooted or broken by hostile elements. It praises tree culture, urges a local treeseller program by the Truro chamber of commerce, and argues shade trees improve surroundings and future generations. It stresses care, persuasion, and shade as a communal goal.
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Truro
N-5s
Chamber of Commerce
Rivers Chamber of Commerce
Gardener Dreams and War Talk in a Humble Kitchen
A wartime vignette contrasts household routines with memories of Dunkirk and desert battles. A soldier boasts to a new girlfriend about combat exploits while a gardener’s quiet skills and seed catalogues stand as hopeful counters to dashed expectations and daily labor.
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Dunkirk
Monty
Een
Martin Luther Dies at 63 Founder of Protestantism
The passage notes that Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism, died at age 63. It cites a biblical verse from Colossians 3 8 and presents Luther's death as a historical fact.
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Martin Luther
Columnist Says Canada Can Learn From Great Britain
Vancouver Sun columnist Harold Weir answers readers who urged him to leave Canada. He defends criticism as a family duty and argues his view of Canada comes from a brotherly, observant stance, noting both plain and polished aspects of the country.
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Canada
Great Britain
Harold Weir
Vancouver Sur
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Rivers Gazette
Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
G. F. Barker
Goodyear
Rt. W. Decker & Sons
van Heflin
Yvonne DeCarlo
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Dana Andrews
Claude Rains
Brian Donlevy
Virginia Grey
John Derek
Jody Laurence
Mask OF the
Swift
Shaneless
Barn's Square Cottage
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Enghind
Mary Stuart
France
Aml
Elizabeth Tudor
Feingland
Freedomm
England
Canadaoo
Britain
Gazette Azings
By Duval
Vewest
Car-Nu
Johnson's
Lindenberg’s
Scott-Bathgate
Steele Briggs
Philco Refrigerators
Rayon
Green
Marshall- Wells
Forman's Hardware
the Rivers Drug Store
Drene
Fitch
Vitalis
G. M
NYAL
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