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Newspaper

Rivers Gazette

Location

Rivers, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Aug 05, 1943

Page

2

Planters Round Up Teveuni Cattle for Food, Island Roster

Planters on Teveuni Island in the Fiji group mobilize 2,000 wild cattle for food supplies. Sir Alexander Hardinge resigns as private secretary to the King for health reasons, to be replaced by Sir Alan Lascelles. Canada releases over 4,000,000 pounds of binder twine to Britain. Major General Browne says no date yet to draft reserve army. Montreal to name a street after General Henri Giraud. War Services Minister LaFleche notes 250,000 set aside for Canadian auxiliary services in the offensive. Fifty French citizens executed in Paris in retaliation for a German lieutenant’s shooting. F B Davis Jr predicts US tire output to reach one tire per second by end of 1944.

Teveuni Fiji Michead United Kingdom Canada B. W. Browne Montreal Henri Giraud General Giraud Caza Morocco Dakar French West Africa War Services LaFleche Commons

Fashion Drawing Made Easy for Aspiring Fashion Artists

Learn to idealize and dramatize figures under garments to sell merchandise. Requires talent, imagination, taste, accuracy, and ambition. Our booklet shows how to draw fashion figures with diagrams. Send 15c for Home Service Dept Winnipeg News paper Union, 175 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg Man to obtain the booklet.

Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union McDermot Ave. E Winnipeg Man

Made History Kept Pace in East African Campaign

In a March 1 to 17, 1941 pursuit under General Cunningham the column covered about 44 miles per day on average. This rapid advance stands as the fastest military pursuit on record, surpassed only by the Eighth Army in 1942 43.

Cunningham Eighth Army

200M FOR EVERYONE

The fragment suggests a discussion of population scale and a wish for harmonious living among Earth's inhabitants. It mentions an estimated three billion people and hints at promoting a peaceful, prosperous life through better conduct. The text is incomplete and lacks clear actors or a concrete event.

Poor Penmanship Leaves a Mark on School Papers

An English teacher laments the decline of handwriting in public and secondary schools and recalls a pupil’s ultimatum to fix writing flaws. He argues legibility matters for exams and letters, noting the danger of unreadable signatures and the trend toward careless penmanship.

Jane

Goebbels Grabs Control of German Theatres

Berlin dispatches report Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels has taken over all German theatres from private operators over dissatisfaction with programs. He reportedly believed shows were not aligned with the Nazi war effort.

Berlin Paul Joseph Goebbels

Lapland Sweden Forests Hold Majority Of Ancient Trees

In Lapland Sweden a survey finds that 82 per cent of the trees are older than 160 years indicating a largely ancient woodland.

Lapland Sweden

Worth The Effort Caledonia Salvage Yields Steel After Fire

The naval training ship Caledonia sank in the Firth of Forth after a fire but British salvage crews led by Captain C. G. Bonner sealed 1800 ports and hull openings before pumping her dry. The operation recovered 40,000 tons of steel, marking one of the era’s most successful salvage runs.

Caledonia Majestic Bismarck Firth of Forth C. G. Bonner Qship V.C Britain Ottawa Citizen

Moon Crater Origins Split Between Meteors and Volcanoes

Scientists remain nearly evenly split on how the moon’s craters formed, with debates centering on meteorite impacts versus volcanic activity as the dominant process.

Moon

Struggle with Pharaoh in Exodus lesson

The article summarizes Exodus 5 about Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh, the Hebrews forced to gather straw for bricks, and the ensuing complaints from Hebrew overseers. It follows Moses questioning God, then God renewing His declarations and promises in Exodus 6.

Pharoah Moses Aaron Pharaoh Israel God Midian

Black Argentine rape crop to appear in Saskatchewan

Fine Marine Oil retains seed from Mi Argentine rape. Five thousand pounds of rape seed available this year sown at ten pounds per acre will yield about five hundred acres of Black Argentine rape in Saskatchewan. Grown by experienced seed growers, mainly in northern regions per Department of Agriculture officials. No Italian warship has been sunk by an Italian surface vessel in two and a half years since Italy joined the war. by March 1943 the Italian Fleet reportedly lost ten cruisers, forty three destroyers, and many submarines.

Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture Italy

New Customers Reward Advertising In Wartime Drive

A War Production Board official urges business leaders to rely on advertising to reach new customers as traditional selling shifts during wartime. The speaker cites that a new customer is born every 24 seconds in the United States and an old one dies every 71.6 seconds, with Canada showing similar rates. The Financial Post notes industry loses about 1,450,000 old customers yearly in the U.S. context and gains 3,020,000 new ones unaware of products.

War Production Board Canada Financial Post

Crossword Puzzle No. 4837 Mixed clues and scrambled text

Puzzle page shows a jumble of crossword clues with mixed language fragments and garbled lines. It lists horizontal entries from Prevaricator to Wessel's curved planking, plus stray terms like Germinated grain and Appellation of Athens. The source exhibits OCR noise and disordered sections without a coherent grid.

Athens Wessel

RAF Bomber Command Uses High Powered Photographic Gear

Military reports describe Bomber Command employing cameras with electric controls and flash bombs of 50 million candle power to photograph targets during night raids on enemy territory.

R.A F. Bomber Command

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