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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
3
A Liverpool senior crafts bicycle wheels that self inflate and seal punctures. The item lists varied wartime notes from D-day to 1944 cargo handling, choir plans, domestic cooks for bomb repair crews, a Mun ginde postcard, RCMP promotion, migration stats, and F. W. Lanchester’s award.
A cooperative study finds horse sleeping sickness vaccine induces weaker and slower responses in humans than horses. Blood substances formed in horses are not produced as readily in people, but the vaccine may still offer reasonable protection or even possible immunity in infected regions.
A clever idea notes watermelon seeds are eaten as tidbits in China and many growers cultivate melons mainly for seeds. In North America timber wolves typically avoid attacking humans, unlike their European counterparts.
Gordon M. Hutt, previously assistant development commissioner for Western Canada, becomes development commissioner for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal succeeding G. Ommanney. The Winnipeg native, a geology and chemistry graduate, is recognized for 20 years in industrial development work and has lectured on minerals and clays. Hutt is a Dominion councillor of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. W. G. Cowie named as Hutt’s Western Winnipeg successor, with a background in chemistry and engineering, joining from Montreal after earlier work at Beatty Brothers and Johns Manville.
Windsor Star’s W L Clark defends Montgomery citing his North Africa push from Egypt to Tunisia and Sicily. He notes the shift from defense to offense inspired by Montgomery and Alexander, credited with driving Nazis from Africa and into the sea and across Italy.
City engineer F. J. Forty told The London Society that London is not a city of only ancient buildings. He noted a quarter of the city rebuilt between 1905 and 1935 with taxable value of £4,000,000 while wartime destruction also demands balanced planning preserving heirlooms and new structures.
A city article notes that training of homing pigeons starts when the birds are about four weeks old. The program emphasizes early conditioning and steady progression through basic navigation exercises.
Army war dogs are trained as specialists for sentry duty attack operations messenger service silent scouts casualty relief or as pack and sledge dogs.
A London column recounts the Admiralty Hydrographic Department with a history from 1795. It notes daily Notices to Mariners, wartime chart production for amphibious operations, D-day accuracy, and vast output of over five million charts annually. The department holds a store near a quarter million charts, some nearly 300 years old.
The planet Mars carries two moons named Deimos and Phobos, meaning Dread and Terror, linking mythological warfare to the red world in a concise note about the celestial naming.
Puzzle lines present multiple horizontal and vertical clues with entries like 100000 rupees printer s measure and various definitions. The page shows a dense list of cross references including archaic terms and language hints, indicating a full puzzle grid with theme style and extended clue set.
About 150 Sudetenland refugee families arrived in Canada in 1939 seeking refuge from Nazi domination. They were settled on land at Tupper Creek, 27 miles from Dawson Creek near the Alberta boundary. The immigrants have become substantial Canadian citizens with paid farms, neat homes, farm buildings and ample farming equipment.
Reduction of railroad accidents means that railroad passengers are three times as safe as they were 25 years ago, and railroad men are twice as safe.
The London Daily Mail reports Sir Charles Tagert, famed for suppressing terrorism, now leads a nationwide campaign against Britain's food black market with a secret staff of ex Army intelligence officers. It notes the black market has become a national scandal despite police efforts. Nearby, Far Eastern artists are said to paint from emotion rather than observation.
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