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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 19, 1945
Page
7
After entering the war Canadians faced shortages and wartime scarcities. Labour shortages and losses of luxury goods rose, affecting almost every household. Spending power shrank in many ways, yet buying power was higher than 1939, with more income going to food as normal channels closed.
Statistics for the year ending in November 1944 show wholesale grocers selling twelve percent more groceries and ten percent more fruits and vegetables than the previous year. Meat production in 1944 was the highest on record, and Canadian flour mills produced thirteen and a half million barrels in 1943 44. Wheat and flour exports rise while domestic demand grows. Nutritionalists view the higher consumption as evidence Canadians are better fed than in prewar years, likely improving national health.
Discussion on world food situation notes Canada’s large wartime shipments to the United Kingdom and other nations, praising farmers for maintaining and increasing production despite labor and equipment shortages. It applauds rationing, highlights Allied efforts through the Combined Food Board, and foresees expanded relief distribution with Canada playing a key part in global nutrition after hostilities.
An advertisement touts Hem-Roid as a simple at home cure for hemorrhoids. It claims fast relief within five days, with a tablet form to ease irritation and improve bowel movements, urging readers to buy at a drug store and follow directions for lasting results.
The London Daily Sketch reports a Southampton works manager doubting blind workers but hiring two for trial. After two weeks he asked for more and later 87 blind people were employed. The remark I could do the job with my eyes shut underscores the shift toward blind labor. Monkeys in Sumatra are trained to pick coconuts. The Indian Air Training Centre Scheme, launched February 13 1943, now extends to 19 Indian universities, offering students ground instruction and at least three hours flying experience for a path into the Indian Air Force flying branch.
The King and Prime Minister Churchill visited the House of Commons when it was not in session. Police were taken by surprise as the royal party spent 75 minutes touring the Houses of Parliament. The event was notable for its secrecy and unusual access to forbidden ground.
A wartime advice item explains meat spread in small three ounce tins returned to shelves from the start of the year. Stores may stock them after April 1st. Licenses needed for starting a business are discussed. Retail deliveries and ammunition permits are covered.
A collection of short, humorous exchanges from a theater of everyday scenes. A traffic officer, a driver, a police chief, professors, students and family moments collide in lighthearted banter about money, speed signs, misheard questions and human foibles. Notable bits include a dead engine, a ten dollar oil handoff, a dancing crowd, a slow speed sign delaying a traveler, and a boy’s misnamed trousers.
In April 1834 Garibaldi commanding the Commonwealth docked at Tyne mouth. A public subscription planned to honor him with a sword and telescope. In a letter to Joseph Cowen he proclaimed Ragland a great nation and pledged to aid England if needed, calling for allyship against oppression.
A World War II era snippet describes The Igloo, a daily morale and information sheet for CWACs at a Northern Saskatchewan base. Editors Lt. M O PD Logan and Pte N M Cobbe led the team from Prince Albert, sharing world events and base activity with the Eskimo scheme participants. The piece also notes a London wedding attended by CWACs, top rifle scores by CWACs including Ida Skinner and Mary Morrison, and lists enlistments in Regina with numerous names.
A compact collection of quotes on faith, God, and happiness from Macdonald Southey Lincoln and others. It reflects on seeking divine guidance, inner worth, and the fleeting nature of earthly joys. It contrasts reliance on God with striving for worldly success and the solace found in spiritual assurance.
After the Royal Norwegian Air Force training school closed in Ontario the Norse airmen began overseas departures. Canadian National Railways’ Maritime Express carried 16 crates each with a husky dog and three Canadian-born puppies in a special ice-cold express car from Montreal toward the Atlantic seaboard to accompany the airmen abroad.
A man in the stratosphere risks freezing without proper covering while Higaki would burn black from the sun’s rays, illustrating extreme exposure dangers.
The piece credits British Columbia Packers Ltd of Vancouver for wartime salmon and herring deliveries to Britain and front lines. It explains Canada’s 1941-1944 ship seizures by the navy and a drop in domestic canned salmon releases to 450,800 cases, far below prewar 600,000. The author praises fishermen for feeding soldiers and Britons and expresses longing for normal salmon availability.
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