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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
2
Tamar Randolph shares an uneasy dance with Ransome after tense talks about oil contracts and past loyalties. Dick’s rumor prompts quiet tension as Ransome wrestles with love, rivalry, and unspoken questions. To Be Continued.
Tamar and Ranny clash over a gold lease as Major Towne and Tamar’s father threaten to miss their shares. Tensions rise during a night out with Dick and Selby as romance and business collide in a 1920s Coxwell set scene at the Randolph estate and Derby plans.
A young British soldier who died at Dunkirk is remembered at a Scottish YMCA hut where his favorite hymn Abide With Me is sung at a set hour each day. The custom, inspired by his letter asking the staff to sing the hymn, links the hut's closing ritual to the wartime sacrifice across the North Sea.
Manitoba's corn growth surged from 145 million bushels in 160 to 25,000 tunnels reported as shelled corn. By 1937 the first large seed corn drier south of Winkler appeared, driving expansion across farms. By 1941 fourteen driers operated in the region, including four large commercial units. Driers remove moisture from 30 to 13 14 percent in about 48 hours, handling 125,000 to 150,000 bushels per season, with capacities and costs outlined.
A World War II vignette shows Hitler pausing to ask a private how things are. The soldier replies I can’t complain, and Hitler quips that he cannot. The exchange highlights a moment of terse humor in a tense era.
A traditional Russian custom was observed at the Shanghai wedding of Miss Olga Sheeligin and Alexander Golovin with large crowns placed on the heads of both bride and groom. Also noted is a six key typewriter built for the blind. An old adage states that eating has the same effect on hunger as study has on ignorance.
In 1942 the Canadian army may introduce a smart khaki parade dress in addition to battle dress. Sample suits are said to be neat and smart, with a finer weave, snug lines, a torn-down collar showing a khaki shirt and tie, and a khaki wedge cap. Off duty wearers may buy regimental wedge caps at their own expense.
A collection of quotations on government and religion from figures like Washington Jefferson Mary Baker Eddy Burke Goethe and Wendell Phillips. The sayings discuss protection of religious rites, the object of government, alignment with divine law, obedience, self-government, and cautions against overgoverning.
The Board of Trade returns show bachelors as the heaviest consumers of clothing coupons during the first 19 weeks of British rationing, with unmarried women close behind. The survey dispels myths of women borrowing from men and parents using coupons for children, noting 11 percent of men and 6 percent of women spent no coupons, and detailing average coupon use by age and marital status.
In Entebbe Uganda the engino leper colony raised £5 for the Empire war effort by selling firewood. Mustard is sold in toothpaste tubes in Germany.
The German authorities in Paris ordered the demolition of the statue to Nurse Edith Cavell in the Tuileries Garden, exposing Nazi spite. The act, though destructive, heightens reverence for Cavell's devotion and heroism as memories endure.
A home sewing guide explains making a self fitted slip cover for chairs and sofas with a cotton twill fabric. Steps include pinning, basting, fitting, and sewing sections armrest front and back, plus trimming and plackets. The booklet costs 15 cents and is available from Winnipeg newspaper union. Additional booklets offered include songs, etiquette, nursing, and phrases for occasions.
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