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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
7
The war accelerates progress in science and medicine and reshapes economic and social concepts. It highlights the value of natural resources and the need to use them wisely. Scientists note Germans could have exploited lumber waste if they accessed Canadian forests.
Canada faces wartime shortages pushing plastics as substitutes for metals and glass in aircraft and vehicles. Transparent plastics prove tougher than glass, aiding ships and planes. Western wheat production rises with export growth and domestic use. Researchers urge crops like oats soybeans and corn stalks for plastics wall board and insulation, with rubberlike materials from plant gums. Canadian scientists study these ideas for postwar rehabilitation.
The Pictou Highlanders have adopted a crippled girl in eastern Canada and are funding expert medical care to treat her leg affliction.
Britain has supplied the United States with two of her newest inventions the radiolocator and the astograph.
The Dominion Agricultural Conference in Ottawa recommends a 2 five per cent rise in marketing of sheep and lambs for 1944 versus 1943. Wartime wool demand sustains higher projected marketing, with experts suggesting lambs could gain up to 5 lb before sale and wool output seen rising to 140 million lb greasy basis.
A farmer explains to a city girl that a hornless cow may be born hornless or shed horns, but the joke reveals the animal is actually a horse. The dialogue plays on mistaken identity, delivering a playful rural humor moment.
A cartoonist must stay fast with sketches to keep up with unfolding events. The line plays on speed and wit as essential skills in timely illustrative reporting.
Questions and answers detail wartime price controls and rationing rules. Topics include canned milk coupon requirements, tea ration eligibility, lumber discounts for repairs, ammunition declarations for trappers, and extra rations for temporary farm workers. Instructions direct readers to apply for G coupons, medical certificates, Timber Controller approval, and local ration board provisions.
An officer in the Midwest stopped a group of boys playing with model planes. One boy showed a propellerless model, an accurate copy of Britain's secret jet weapon. The father, who had helped develop the secret, admitted making the model for his son. The model was destroyed and the father warned.
A Canadian National Railways passenger on a fast train faced a missing ladder for an upper berth. The porter, with 18 years on the job, admitted losing the ladder as an English sailor offered his own ladder to borrow until morning.
A vivid line captures the spark when a single eyelash rouses many hearts to crush barriers and chase bold desires, a playful note on fleeting romance and magnetic looks.
The Royal Navy Hydrographic Supplies Department prints about 5 million charts yearly at a factory in England. These charts cover landing operations worldwide, with special editions for submarines lifeboats and water conditions. Corrections are rapidly made by skilled girls from art schools, some handling up to 4000 changes weekly.
The Royal Bank of Canada vice-president and general manager Sydney G. Dobson reports assets surpassing 1.5 billion dollars, a record. He explains banks did not buy Government bonds for their own account in 1943 Victory Loans and notes banks urged subscribers to support loans while aiding war financing.
A compact collection of quotes on humility and dignity from Bond to Spurgeon. The passages stress real dignity lies in lowliness of heart, with humility as a bright jewel in a Christian's crown and a guide to rightful self-estimation amid virtue, strength, and reason.
Harvest time in Argentina and Australia brings a combined 388 million bushels of wheat. Exportable surplus tops 225 million bushels, adding to carry-overs of 153 million in Australia and 122 million in Argentina. Canada increases exportable supply, pushing total to over one billion bushels across three of four major exporters.
A lighthearted collage of brief exchanges touches on sisters and siblings, marriages, a bargain on a car, a hair tonic gift, domestic spats, widows remarrying, jokes about dead men, university study, executive credit, cutlery mishaps, maid duties, and a daughter’s critique of a suitor, all in a lively newspaper vignette.
A neighbor warned an Ola Darkey walking a dusty road alone, he laid down his sack and explained he liked to hear and talk to a smart man. The vignette preserves a moment of curiosity and humor in rural life.
A short quip notes that a bachelor is defined as a man who never marries, contrasting formal marriage with perpetual bachelor status.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture urges potato growers to order their 1944 seed potato requirements promptly as Canada holds Certified seed for seed and table stock, with exports allowed after March 1. The Seed Potato Certification Service aims to aid high quality seed production, lists of growers offering Certified, Foundation A, or Foundation seed potatoes are available from the Plant Protection Division in Ottawa.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Moonee Emerald Oil at a drugstore claiming immediate relief for eczema and other skin troubles. It touts high concentration, rapid eruption suppression, and non greasy residue with a money back guarantee.
Britain recalls December 29 1940 when Nazism tried to burn London’s heart and dropped about 350 tons of bombs despite limited destruction. Germany notes December 29 1943 when the RAF released 2 250 tons on Berlin in a contrasting raid.
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