11 Feb 1943
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 11, 1943
Page
1
American Storey and captain Lebeau stage a tense escape plan in the Ain Saffa prison. Storey frees himself, retrieves Fournier, and drags Lebeau to safety while Ismeddin presses for release. A midnight bolt trick buys time as guards close in and the next peril looms.
The Prices Board consumer section urges banning dull knives and storing blades separately to prevent edge damage. Use knives only for their designed tasks, wash promptly, and sharpen often with gentle pressure. The piece adds odd notes about Australian desert lizards and Gippsland earthworms.
The Office of War Information reports Axis food conditions based on US data. Germany’s diet is coarse and monotonous with shortages in meat fats and white bread despite extraction from occupied territories. Food production in Axis Europe is projected to fall short of civilian needs but not seriously affect the war effort. The piece notes shortages mainly in fats and livestock. The calendar note adds that the number four is unlucky in Japan due to its phonetic similarity to death.
A crossword puzzle page listing Across and Down clues with numbered entries. Many clues mix straightforward definitions with wordplay and some garbled text from OCR. The puzzle includes entries like Pouch Aria Missile Mongrel and several long clue strings, plus a final list of vertical clues and miscellaneous letter jumble.
William Harris aged 88 of Brantford Ontario died recently. He played the cornet the first musical instrument heard over a telephone in a Bell concert to prove the invention. The Paris, Ontario event featured his solo Then You'll Remember Me with wires stretched seven miles from Brantford to Paris. His daughter Mrs B Morris recalled Bell’s choice of the cornet for its clear notes.
Dominion bureau of statistics reports Saskatchewan’s 1941 population at 895,992 with 477,563 men and 418,429 women. The decade from 1931 saw a 25,793 drop due to drought, and over half the people, 449,182, were 24 years old or younger, indicating a predominantly youthful province.
A collage of jokes and quips from Capper's Weekly style humor features a man named Joe Smith’s widowhood promise, a cook’s eggs complaint about old hens, a comical mispronunciation, a panhandler’s plea, a civil service joke about the sun, a cheese buying miscue, joking exchanges about boats and marriage costs, all in a light punchline cadence.
The Windsor Star notes Canada’s second issue of the 12 sided nickel coins is made of zinc and copper, like the first. The material change may prompt a new name, with “zopper” suggested as a likely coin nickname.
Readers are invited to send 15 cents for a copy of Popular Cowboy Songs from the Home Service Dept of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union. The booklet features 18 Western songs with words and music for piano and some guitar, including The Dreary Black Hills Grapes of Wrath and Git Along Little Dogies. Include name address and booklet name in a plain handwritten request to 175 McDermot Ave. E Winnipeg Man.
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