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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
2
A persuasive wartime editorial argues global consequences of the conflict and urges full national mobilization. It praises Canada and Britain for moral resolve, stresses the manpower registration as a first step, and calls on every man, woman, and child to cooperate fully to accelerate victory.
The report recalls five British airmen attacking a force of one hundred Germans and driving them off. It cites Leviticus as a reminder of overwhelming odds. Egypt plans to plant high grade American tobacco to test if more leaf can be grown.
War disruption curtails Denmark fodder imports and exports. The agricultural council warned butter output may fall by 100000 tons and pig slaughter drop from 180000 to 40000 tons. Eggs, cattle, and chicken production also shrink as Denmark depends on its own harvests for livestock feed.
Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, directs a special laboratory at the new Canadian Red Cross Hospital in England. He concentrates on identifying the Fifth Columnists of the epidemic world from his headquarters there.
The Yukon placer mining sector remains productive with 1940 year end production of 108678 ounces of gold. Dredges now dominate operations, with 11 dredges moving over 10 million cubic yards of gravel. Dawson Mayo and Whitehorse districts hold 2502 103 and 39 claims respectively as operators rework Klondike diggings.
In London two notable gifts to the National Savings and Red Cross were reported. A poor woman handed in £159 in old treasury notes with a request to share them for the Red Cross and the war effort. A working girl contributed her entire £100 savings to the Government, to be loaned free of interest for the duration of the war.
Argentine scientist Dr A T Cosentino and U S researcher Dr J H Dellinger report a radio channel linking North and South America. They note signals north and south are far stronger in winter and summer, due to ionospheric disturbances and earth magnetic field effects near the north pole and aurora.
Shortening and sugar beaten with egg. flour blended with baking powder and salt. dates folded in. Balls rolled in crushed corn flakes and baked until light. Yield three dozen cookies at 325 degrees F for about 20 minutes.
An exhibit in New York displays a washable house with five rooms fully washable by soap and water. Wallpaper, furniture covers, draperies, and even a knotty pine looking wall cover are designed to withstand laundering. Flat wall paints are also washable.
A Scotsman arrives at Euston at noon and asks a taxi to reach Waterloo by four. The driver takes a long route for nearly four hours. Upon arrival the Scot pays the fare around three shillings and hands the driver the money, saying he will settle once he retrieves his ticket.
A Dominion Apiarist notes that a natural swarm’s absconding wastes the colony’s honey crop. The needle trade traces back to Nuremburg in 1370 with early English use by 1543.
Miss Ann Campbell, recently an exchange teacher in England, recalls English men women and children playing games and holding spelling matches in air raid shelters during bombing. She notes hens lay eggs with thin shells due to a calcium poor diet.
A 500 picture Society of Women Artists show in London largely avoids war topics with only five works addressing the subject. The report notes a bias toward other themes in the selections. Buenos Aires is cited as the largest city south of the equator.
The text lists provincial speed law phrases and limits across Canada, noting BC and others use phrases like careful and prudent or reasonable and proper with specific daytime and nighttime speeds such as Saskatchewan 35 mph when passing, Manitoba 45 mph at night and 50 mph daytime, Prince Edward Island 45 mph, Nova Scotia 40 mph, New Brunswick and Quebec 30 40 mph respectively, Ontario 50 mph, and adds a remark about Danes claiming no illiteracy.
The Admiralty praised Royal Navy seaplanes for covering 8,000,000 square miles over twenty weeks without losing a craft. The statement underscores naval air strength and potential dominance in Europe. Separately, excavations at Olynthos suggest Greeks developed mosaic art independently by the fifth century B.C.
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