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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
7
London run gasma mer gold leaf reduction to one 290000th inch thick marks a leap beyond ancient leaf. Seven years of research by the world’s largest makers yielded a leaf more evenly produced. Workers strike leaf on marble with an eight pound hammer, though ancient methods still serve sign and interior decorators.
The first of its kind train to tour India has begun a nationwide journey across every section of the country. Over 1,000 feet long, it includes sections for air force army and navy and highlights medical services munitions industry and other war effort branches. Demonstrators include armed forces officers and men. The train features a pipe band and a recruiting office.
The article argues for drastic price controls to curb inflation driven by wartime industrial demand. It cites rising living costs in late 1941, warns of lost purchasing power and hardship for the poor, and notes the price ceiling set by the War Time Prices and Trade Board from September 15 to October 11, 1941. It calls for public support and cooperation to stabilize prices and currency and aid the war effort.
Preliminary estimates from J M Coyne of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics indicate Canada’s 1940 tourist business would show a favorable balance of $85,000,000. Receipts from visitors totalled $128,000,000 against expenditures of $43,000,000, Coyne told a Canadian Association meeting.
Animated cartoons are being prepared to teach the men of the armed forces strategy tactics gunnery and other training subjects.
Britain will switch to a plastic lighter designed by 21 year old Diana Berry as a response to a matches shortage. The lighter costs about 1.50 and 4 000 000 are ready for production with approval from tobacco controllers and standards bodies.
General Sir Alain Francis Brooke, 58, a crack mechanized warfare specialist, is appointed chief of the Imperial General Staff succeeding General Sir John Dill who retires December 25 at age 60. Dill is made field marshal and will become governor of Bombay.
The piece argues that loudspeakers and amplifiers have become essential for political and agricultural meetings. Older speakers may resist, but extended mikes let distant listeners join in. The author likens the mike to enduring technologies like the automobile and radio, urging adaptation.
Experts report encouraging results from testing Ram 1, Canada’s heaviest tank yet, at Camp Borden Ontario. Weighing about 30 tons, it surpasses Valen tine mediums in speed and firepower, features tilters for each track, a cast hull, a radial engine, and uses high octane fuel. Demonstration included U S Army observers.
An aspiring man seeks a partner’s post in a big firm amid obituaries while the Royal Canadian Navy strengthens with the Venetia yacht donated by Port Colborne captain. India recalls a million men for WWI, farm labor pay peaks in Canada, Tahiti aligns with France in a wartime memory.
A Royal Marine recalls 71 days in German hands after Calais capture. He describes brutal treatment by guards with tommy guns and whips, forced marches through Belgian villages, starvation, shootings for seeking bread, and worse abuse of old women, children, and French colonial troops.
The article notes Canadian women embracing bright winter wardrobes despite uniforms from CWAC and CWAAF. It contrasts England where rationing did not cause acute shortages, yet curbs on spending promise fairer distribution. It also mentions Princess Margaret may wear hand me downs from Princess Elizabeth as they grow.
Shortening and sugar creamed. Add egg, then All Bran and milk to soak. Fold in flour with baking powder and chopped prunes. Bake two thirds full in greased pans at 400 F for about 30 minutes yielding eight large or twelve small muffins. If using sour milk replace sweetness with less baking powder and add soda.
Not restricted in Canada, the V for Victory sign remains free to use despite an Order in Council. The government long decided the emblem should not be patentable here as it held symbolic significance. Despite a U.S. patent by Pratho P. Scott, Canadian officials keep the free-and-easy status. The note also mentions South Sea Islanders painting bodies in deep blue with touches of yellow and white.
Huntly R. Drummond warns that democracy requires sacrifice and swift removal of wartime controls after the war. Jackson Dodds reports Bank of Montreal's assets surpassing one billion, with profits near prior year, and cautions against speculative monetary reforms while stressing faith with note-holders and depositors as banks expand credit to support wartime demand.
Japan reduces mulberry orchards that fed silk worms and shifts to grain. Raw silk once underpinned foreign trade, financing food and materials purchases abroad. With imports scarce, self sufficiency rises. Donations from maritime provinces funded Acadia University. A prehistoric animal example is the Indian rhinoceros. In 17th century France peas cost $60 per pint.
The fierce carnivorous skua remains the southernmost bird, often venturing 300 miles inland toward the South Pole and feeding on penguin eggs and chicks. Also notes Peru as a major vanadium source, Kulbyshev’s naming, and a grain beetle thriving on red pepper.
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