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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
2
A discussion contrasts country and city living including rural migration, the appeal of small towns, and a defense of rural life. A quoted American piece argues against the term hick town, praising fresh air, neighbors, quiet, and stable community life as virtues.
C E R Sherrington secretary of the British railway research service told the Association of American Railroads in Toronto that pooling competitive traffic has yielded major savings. He noted amalgamation did not diminish competition with many routes still served by two systems and that bus investments are the most remunerative railway activity in Britain. Stockholm plans to replace all trolley cars with motor buses.
Fragmentary ad copy references eczema and skin care promotions. It mentions fund drug stores and a money back or guarantee offer with unclear details. The readable text only hints at promotions without concrete actions or outcomes.
Astronomers predict a longer day as Earth’s rotation slows under tidal friction. A quartz clock at Greenwich aims to improve timekeeping, and seas studies suggest the day length could reach about 47 of present days, locking the Moon’s face to Earth.
The fire chief quizzes actor Jack Osterman in Schenectady after a signal to enter a talent audition. Osterman replies he will start a break or Bre to gauge the actor's skill amidst a tense scene. Italy approves 173 new chemicals for plants in 1938.
The German government announces census results showing population density rising to 552.3 inhabitants per square mile and total Reich population up about four percent since 1993, with notes on excluding Saar Austria Sudetenland Bohemia Moravia Memel for adjusted totals. The Soviet Union population is cited as 163 million from a 1924 estimate.
British children receive dental treatment via mobile dental cars operating in six counties including Norfolk. A 250 pound trailer dentist unit, drawn by a small car, serves the dentist, assistant, patient and guardian with access to school electricity. Last year Norfolk treated 9 000 children.
German government restricts agricultural workers from changing jobs and moving residence to stem a mass exodus. Since 1935 about 650000 labourers left farming, hitting smallholders hardest with 38 percent of workers aged over 15 ailing.
The South African government weighs a scheme to double its area by transferring Bechuanaland Basutoland and Swaziland from British admin to the Union. Negotiations between the British Dominions office and the Union’s external affairs department are under way for this three-territory transfer now governed by British commissioners. The three protectorates total about 1 000 000 people, with 95 percent Black. Also noted: eighty year old W E Hill Hughes of Pa announced four years of study yielded a perpetual motion machine result and plans a patent after building a working model claiming divine aid.
Nearly the entire life of the cicada or common locust is spent beneath the soil.
Canadian Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw formerly of British Columbia has been appointed officer commanding the Egypt Group in the Middle East command of the Royal Air Force with headquarters at Helio polis Cairo. He attained the rank of air commodore on April 1 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service in January 1916. Collishaw became a distinguished Dunkirk era pilot and holds second place among British Empire flyers for enemy planes downed in the Great War. He was mentioned four times in despatches and received the Distinguished Service Cross the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar and French and Russian decorations.
A company of soldiers transfers from the East to California during the rainy season. The commander conducts a night camp tour and is challenged by a sentry who has stood two hours in a driving rain. The sentry replies Friend and welcomes the C.O. to their mist.
The Italian army reportedly pioneered aerial bombing in an 1912 Tripoli campaign with pilots dropping crude hand thrown bombs on enemy troops.
The article recalls Jean Louis Legare a Québec born trader who joined the Canadian frontier in the 1860s. He brokered peace with Sitting Bull after the Little Bighorn massacre and helped secure a boundary fireguard from Willow Bunch to the American side. He died in 1917 while serving as Willow Bunch postmaster. Frank Bellefluer and W J Motherwell are cited as two who knew him well.
To aid foreign athletes, an Olympic map of Helsinki in five languages has been prepared for the 1940 Games. A separate estimate places Arabs in the Near East at more than 35,000,000.
The Brule subdivision roadmaster of Canadian National Railways tried to stop beaver activity by hanging a lantern at a drainage culvert at night. The plan backfired as beavers apparently worked more, doubling their efforts by morning, leading to abandonment of the lantern scheme.
Sweden based telephone manufacturers operate at full capacity but cannot fill new subscriber orders. In Singapore cars left unattended for over 48 hours are to be seized by the police, indicating strict enforcement of vehicle rules.
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