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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 11, 1945
Page
3
The opening of the Finnish parliament election is set for March 17 and 18, amid wartime conditions. Other notes mention civil defense guidance from Washington against robot and rocket attacks, and various recognitions and wartime logistical efforts.
British officials have added women to the canal transport payroll. Bronzed, athletic crews of three women operate 140 mile Grand Union trips carrying 25 tons of war material weekly between London and the Midlands. They work 12 hours daily, seven days a week, and praise canal communities as they persist through rigors of the service.
Officials say the task of removing cargo from a freighter aground in Saint John harbor since November 24 may continue until the end of March. Salvage attempts await cargo removal as operations proceed. The springs at Bath, England, were the center of a Roman resort city developed during the first four centuries A.D.
In a Holland pine forest a stout band of Netherlanders evaded German patrols for over a year. They housed eight pro Nazi prisoners, held sports, and ran a self supplied refuge with a dormitory, lounge, and three wing hut. A Dutch civil servant led escapes and deliveries to the Netherlands administration after liberation.
The Saint John Telegraph Journal notes many locals reach advanced ages, suggesting the climate may help. One citizen began a harbormaster post at 100, celebrated 104 with a fiddle at a dance, and the province boasts the oldest lighthouse keeper and the longest active log driver with 55 years of work.
In early 1943 a Halifax based unit organized to drop supplies to European resistance movements. From May 1943 to November 1944 the squadron flew 2,679 sorties with 1,688 successful. They dropped 5,064 tons of supplies and 705 men. In 1871 rural Canadians outnumbered urban dwellers by over two million.
Sir Ernest Cooper spoke at the Empire Club in Toronto on The Strategic Position of Ulster. The Clinton Ont native and NI government adviser argued Ulster’s ports safeguarded British convoys in 1940 and that its location opposite the Clyde and Mersey made it essential to defend. He warned against partition advocates and urged Canada to influence any such moves and cited Ulster’s priority over Gibraltar or Cape Town among eastward routes.
Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother's Day in 1908, is nearly blind and penniless at 83. An estate left by her brother Claude S Jarvis in 1926, valued at 700000 dollars, has been dissipated by poor administration.
The term grenade derives from the French word for pomegranate, reflecting the weapon’s resemblance to the fruit. This linguistic link highlights how visual similarity influenced naming in historical arms terminology.
A new fibre named Fortisan from British Celanese Limited England is touted as the strongest in the world. It is suited for wartime uses such as parachute canopies and cordage for dropping supplies, offers high insulation for electrical wire, and fabrics from it weigh 0.85 ounces per square yard. The text also notes the 17th century rise of snuff inhalation in England.
The War Office announced 10 decorations for heroism linked to the hospital ship Amsterdam sinking off Cherbourg on August 7. Six officers, three nurses and four enlisted men, British, saved patients as the vessel split and went down in 14 minutes after a German torpedo strike. Nurse Lily McNicholas, rescued by a U.S. cutter, was among those aided.
The Ottawa Citizen quotes a playful line about the Norden bombsight enabling a marksman to drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 10 000 feet and jokingly suggests a hit on a wall at 20 000 feet after practice.
A dense set of crossword clues and scrambled text spanning multiple categories. Contains references to geography ancient capitals and languages alongside garbled fragments and stray numbers. The readable portions suggest a puzzle page with across and down entries plus extra notes.
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