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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1943
Page
3
The article discusses wartime changes across the empire affecting living standards due to shipping cuts and material shortages. It notes general acceptance, possible postwar continuities, and potential benefits from substitutions, improved nutrition, public health, and cooperation among nations.
The article notes intensified imperial cooperation during war, with boosts in colonially produced rubber tea sugar and food. East Africa Kenya and colonies like Ceylon British Guiana Trinidad expand output, supplying Army needs and aiming for lasting prosperity and welfare under the Empire.
Clement Attlee told Dominions Secretary that wartime airfields will enable rapid postwar air transport. He cited Canada as a vast nation where ground travel costs affect administration and commerce, predicting the Alaska Highway could become a major artery for world traffic.
A collage of humorous lines from a playful exchange among a bride and groom and friends. The groom brags about poetry, golf woes, and light domestic foibles, while other characters tease about cooking, fishing, war rationing, and misheard phrases in a lively, unspecified social scene.
A compiled roster lists officers and staff at No. 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon Manitoba No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery Dafoe Saskatchewan No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery Macdonald Manitoba and No. 10 Service Flying Training Dauphin Manitoba along with No. 1 Central Navigation Rivers Manitoba. The document names pilots air gunner instructors and navigation officers with home towns across Saskatchewan Alberta Manitoba and British Columbia.
An officer later made wing commander, bale out from a burning fighter at 25000 feet during the Battle of Britain. With fire burning him, he planned to crash to death after 16 minutes to ground but his misfitted harness saved him. He dangled head-down by one buckle and survived without breaking his neck on landing.
The Victory Garden guidance from Dominion Agriculture compares spraying and dusting to combat pests in small plots. It advises spraying for better lasting results, covering both leaf surfaces, applying on a warm calm day, and repeating weekly until the outbreak is controlled using nicotine sulphate in appropriate weather.
A satirical Pure Oil News item mocks wartime shortages with humorous images like feminine influence jams and cosmetic items replacing lubricants. The brief joke ends with the claim I just picked up a bobby pin and a blunt war is hell remark.
The Royal Navy has lost fewer than one in 200 ships out of thousands in convoy duty, while it has sunk or captured more than 8,000,000 tons of enemy merchant shipping.
Fragmentary instructions describe mixing sugar and butter with dry ingredients then adding milk and malted water. Mentions a 25 minute cooking time and the goal of tender results though several words are garbled.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer article explains the term Reich and its historical use. It outlines the First Reich as the German Empire, the Second Reich as the Weimar Republic under Ebert and Hindenburg, and the Third Reich as the National Socialist regime under Hitler, noting linguistic roots and notices about post abdication beliefs.
In Untick Massachusetts Sumner D Herseys family avoided meat for three weeks to save up for a birthday roast beef. Just before the roast was cut Sumner Herseys setter devoured it.
War conditions boost winter wheat production in prairie provinces as demand raises prices. Expert W. D. Hay notes winter wheat once sold at a premium due to early harvest advantages and labor relief. Delaying seeding to September 1 avoids root rot, while hardy Kharkov M.C.22 varieties reduce winter kill. Experimental Station records show 27.3 bushels per acre for winter versus 23 for spring.
The trans-Canada highway is now complete and allows a motorist to travel to the west coast if gas tires and a new car are available with time and money.
About 140 lizard species inhabit North America and only the Gila Monster is known to be poisonous.
A fragment from a crossword puzzle page lists numerous clues and shuffled letters. The readable entries include horizontal and vertical hints such as Bustle testing crude metal sun river to Italy parent and many others with numbers and garbled segments. The jumbled text suggests a published puzzle, though many entries are incomplete or corrupted.
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