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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1945
Page
7
The article notes housing as a fundamental public issue across Canada with current inadequacies in rural and urban dwellings. It cites international examples from Britain, the United States, and Sweden where better housing improved health and social outcomes, including a drop in infant mortality and communicable diseases by about 50 percent.
Experts say one room per person is the minimum for health privacy and convenience. A Statistica report from Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver shows 61 percent of lower income residents live in spaces under one room per person. Rural areas likely have high unsuitable dwelling rates too, though less severe. Better homes could keep youths on the land and provide suitable farmworker housing.
The article projects 700,000 new urban dwellings needed in Canada within ten years after the war, suggesting a twenty year program. It notes growing interest in postwar housing plans, simple luxuries of space and privacy, and that prefabrication saves about fifteen percent but is not as economical as hoped. It urges timely focus on housing as conditions permit.
Alexander Bell faced rejection and poverty while pursuing the telephone. He visited Cambridge widow Hubbard, played the piano to prove sound over wires, and explained the harmonic principle of voice transmission to secure funding. Hubbard backed his project after witnessing the demonstration.
In a recent editorial, Compliments praises Canada’s methods for rehabilitating ex servicemen and notes Australia can learn several reasons from what Canada has done. It mentions lasting provisions of the Canadian program and that they are already part of the law. The Gutenberg Bible at Yale has been kept in an underground vault since the war began.
Royal Ontario Museum displays fossil footprints from two amphibian species dating back 200 million years. Discovered near Parrsboro Nova Scotia in a coal swamp, the footprints were left in ripple marked sands by tides and baked by sun to preserve the impressions for posterity.
A $56,000 foundation will memorialize Maj. John Keefer Mahony and Pte. Ernest Smokey Smith V C by creating a scholarship fund. The plan, supported by 22 organizations in New Westminster and the Fraser Valley, aims to aid education for children of enlisted servicemen and merchant seamen.
The Ottawa Citizen recalls a British airman who sent a self written piece to the New York Philharmonic conductor after shooting down five German planes. The anecdote suggests some performers may face similar improbable conditions before performing publicly, highlighting wartime sentiment and artistic ambition.
Inquiries confirm butter coupons and one dollar from ration book No 5 have no expiry date and remain valid until further notice. Other questions cover how to obtain ration books for spouses, vacation lodging, and procedures for stores to access rationed foods through the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
A string of dated quips and marginal jokes unfolds as a speaker at a woman's club in Persia outlines male folly while audience members, shopworkers, a colonel and a traveling salesman share short, punchy exchanges. The snippets mix weddings, hats, ham cuts, ginger ale, and marital misadventures with quick one liners.
A reader’s note from Liberty Magazine urges responsibility to shape policy and public will. It argues disarmament, preparation, and engaged citizenship are essential to prevent another world war, warning that isolationism, lethargy, and blaming leaders shift risk to future generations.
Izvestia says Moscow Radio, the world’s most powerful station, has operated in the east since autumn 1942. It broadcasts daily in 20 foreign languages and 70 Soviet languages, with 14 news segments and 18 music programs, from 2,000 regional stations and 7,000 relays, totaling 64 hours of foreign broadcasts each day.
A Sydney radiologist uses X rays on orchids as a hobby to predict flowering times and bloom counts. He claims he can forecast up to nine months ahead. The text also notes ancient Greek methods for transmitting messages.
Winnipeg city council urges Vancouver to approve a resolution to amend the National Housing Act of 1944. The plan would let urban municipalities administer low rental housing projects with funds from the Dominion government at low interest, with the federal government underwriting losses.
Advice on restoring aluminum pots by boiling with water and vinegar to loosen burned food. Scrape with a wooden spoon and rinse. For enamel pans, a pinch of soda in the water helps. Damascus is cited as an ancient city famed for damask fabrics.
Quiet ceremonies unite CWAC members in uniform abroad as Marjorie Hobson and Jessie May MacDonald wed officers Goulsbra and MacDonald. Promotions announce Joyce Jellett to captain, Marie Arnott to officer commanding CWAC personnel at No 2 Ambulance Motor Convoy in England.
East Chicago couple Mr and Mrs John Chubb parents of Pvt Robert Clubb 26 who was killed on Saipan donated 10000 from his war risk insurance to a projected boys camp saying they could not touch any of the money. The note on strawberries says vitamin C remains intact after freezing.
Advert describes Hem-Hold Hem-Roid tablets as a home remedy for piles internal causes. Claims fast relief, improved bowel movement, reduced irritation, and better circulation. Offers five day trial with money back guarantee and product marketed through drugstores.
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