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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1942
Page
7
Western Canada has harvested a record wheat crop of about 550 million bushels with a government purchase contract near 229 million. War related market curtailment limits movement, causing storage and labor challenges for harvesting crews. A Bank of Nova Scotia report on Canada's agricultural outlook highlights farmers’ current economic situation and near-term prospects.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics projects a 15 percent rise in Canada’s farmer cash income over 1941, aided by higher wheat prices and expanded dairy and livestock output. Total income would top one billion dollars for the first time since 1929, though higher farm labor costs and feed prices trim the gain. Labor wages have surged since 1941, while farm labor supply has contracted. Farmers increasingly bought machinery, including a million dollars in dairy equipment.
The report notes a serious shortage of skilled farm labor, hopeful that Selective Service may help. It cites recent price adjustments for beef bacon and dairy products as possibly ending market adjustment and boosting incentived production. It highlights agriculture’s key war role through home market needs and large contracts for Britain and the armed forces, sustaining output despite labor gaps.
A guide to planning balanced lunches for children, contrasting high value and low value meals. Emphasizes variety, vitamins, minerals, and digestibility. Encourages contacting Western Division Health League of Canada for a vitamin chart.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin dentist Dr T A Hardgrove reports in the October Journal of the American Dental Association that decayed teeth in babes may reflect inherited glandular mechanisms. He says tooth decay is an endocrine manifestation and that families show decay in the same teeth areas.
Car owners should give attention to tires and gasoline rationing as time goes on. Battery life is crucial. avoid useless starting and inspect the battery weekly during tire checks. Have a reputable service station perform periodic inspection and filling, use only approved water, and monitor the ammeter for discharge to seek prompt service.
A Horning’s Mills widow, Mrs Edward Newton, aged seventy, has spent thirty years hanging paper and painting houses. She began as her husband’s assistant and after his death continued the business. She says the work is as easy as ever and plans to continue indefinitely, often spending days on ladders atop a scaffold or deftly hanging wallpaper.
A compact collection of aphorisms on generosity and virtue from Lessing Shakespeare Eddy Luther James and Rochefoucauld. It contrasts will with gift value and warns that gifts can lose meaning when giver kindness wanes. Each quote highlights moral insight on charitable acts and true giving.
Lt Cmdr Thomas J Brown announces Canada's first basic scientific training school for naval ratings at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Ratings from across Canada will travel to attend the course. A stray note mentions prairie dogs and the Amazon river as curiosities.
The article describes Army Examiners in Ottawa using testing and interviews to place recruits in suitable jobs. Private Mary Smith trains as a dental chair assistant after showing high school education and quick civilian typing work. Jean Brown, with Wrens experience, becomes senior cook and assistant to the messing officer at a large centre.
Mrs. George Morin of Grande-Bea ie Quebec touts Kellogg's All-Bran as a delicious cereal that keeps her regular. The ad endorses Alt-man’s Better Way to aid digestion, notes All-Bran’s slower cathartic effect, and urges regular use with water. Available in two sizes or single servings at restaurants, made by Kellogg's in London Canada.
A government order requires that paper bags for candy and notions millinery laundry wet wash garments and curtain rods be made in fewer sizes and prescribed weights. Effective immediately the change aims to economize skilled labor.
Adelphia reports Sir Ian Fraser, once blinded at 21 in the last war, now guides blinded veterans of this war. He rides, swims, plays bridge, navigates Parliament, presides over St Dunstan's, and serves as a BBC governor, teaching that life can continue despite loss of sight.
A report notes that waves in the sea extend to depths of several hundred feet, indicating remarkable underwater reach and suggesting strong water dynamics beneath the surface.
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