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Newspaper

Rivers Gazette

Location

Rivers, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Aug 27, 1942

Page

3

Wartime Updates From Around the World

Reports from West End Italy show waiters accused of Panciate. Ireland bans private cars for nonessential use. Canada fills cattle export quota to the United States. Howe announces Browning 20 mm tank gun production. Edmonton Calgary normal school registrations total 380. Berlin cites Tokyo on power shortages and nonessential shutdowns. Paris radio reports a policeman killing a Frenchman at Versailles. Montreal Deaf and Dumb Institute grounds burglarized stealing wheels tires and spare. Moscow radio says German prisoner casualties near Stettin after forced labor refusal.

Surplice Line Dress Pattern 4134 by Anne Adams

Anne Adams Pattern 4134 offers a slimming surplice line dress with waistline buttons and a contrasting pointed collar. Available in misses and women sizes 16 through 42, 4 yards of 35 inch fabric for size 16. Send 20 cents and order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.

Anne Adams Winnipeg Newspaper Union McDermot Ave. E Winnipeg Man

One on the Captain and the Toothbrush Gaffe

The captain heckles Private Brown who explains he removes his teeth. Brown presents a large scrubbing brush and calmly says he takes his teeth out, prompting disbelief from the captain about fitting the brush in his mouth.

Private Brown Brown

Candle wax method for battery terminal protection

A brief note suggests covering battery terminals with candle wax as corrosion protection. By placing a lighted candle on its side over each terminal, the melted wax is intended to create a protective coating.

Record Of Senses We Make Tra Rationiag Eective Evem For Eskimos

Officials forecast that ration cards will eventually touch the Yukon Mackenzie Arctic, with Mounties Eskimos missionaries and Indians required to record every purchase while tea coffee and sugar are provided. US engineers and workers building the Alaska highway fall under the remote area ruling and do not need ration cards.

Yukon-Mackenzie Arctic United States Alaska

Smile a While Comic Bit and Jokes on Language

A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about language timing and social scenes. One joke ponders why a nautical mile is longer than a land mile while a diner jokes about paying with a pearl. Other bits involve artificial flowers practical jokes, optimists, and family holiday conflicts.

Mrs. Noowedd Noowedd

Finland confiscates barley and ends beer ration

The Finnish government confiscates 2,000,000 kilograms of barley reserved for malting due to food shortages and eliminates the monthly beer ration. Electrical research engineers have developed U shaped ultraviolet ray lamps to sterilize both the outside and inside of milk bottles simultaneously.

Finland

Lesson In Tolerance For Human Survival At Chicago Forum

An interfaith panel at the Pastors Institute of Chicago Theological Seminary urged education in tolerance as essential to civilization. Catholic priest Rev Austin C Schmidt SJ, Rabbi Samuel M Blumenfield, and Rev DeWitt Turpeau Jr affirmed shared humanity while maintaining core beliefs. The event at University Church of the Disciples of Christ stressed that justice is indivisible by race or creed in a shrinking world.

Chicago Pastors’ Institute Chicago Theological Seminary University Church of the Disciples of Christ Austin C Schmidt Samuel M. Blumenfield DeWitt Turpeau Chicago Sun

Jacob Meets Esau After Night at Mahanaim

Sunday school lesson covers Genesis 31 to 33 with focus on Jacob at Mahanaim awaiting Esau who comes with 400 men. Jacob fears attack, divides his livestock, prays to God, and seeks protection, then meets Esau with gifts and ceremonial bowing before both brothers part. Jacob is portrayed as resourceful yet increasingly a God-fearing Israelite.

Mahanalm Jacob Esau God Jehovah Abraham Isaac Peniel Seir

Plan for U S health care urged by Dr Elect and Dr Elliot

Dr Martha M. Elect urges immediate action to stop withdrawal of physicians and nurses from deprived areas and to recognize workers at home. The plan calls for national nutrition and immunization programs, day care centers, emergency mobile health corps, school lunch programs, expanded maternity and child health services, and a nationwide school medical service to ready children for peacetime democracy.

America Martha M. Elect Children's Bureau Survey Graphic England Elliot Elot

Christmas Post Office Might Be Reopened in Arizona

The Bureau of Mines reports a copper mine once supporting a small Christmas post office may reopen. If the mine prospers, the post office once popular for Yuletide mail could be revived.

Arizona Bureau of Mines

Mickie Says Folks The Price You Pay For Your Paper

In rough tone the speaker urges readers to understand the newspaper costs beyond the paper itself. Ads and job printing are essential for a town newspaper to exist and serve the community.

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