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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1941
Page
2
Devona flees Vara's mansion after a devastating revelation about Dale and her mother. She writes a goodbye note, packs her things, and escapes to Los Angeles by bus, seeking work with little money and limited guidance while risking an uncertain future.
Miss Fern Blodgett, 20 McMaster Avenue Toronto, left Montreal to take a radio operator post on a merchant marine ship. She earned a second class certificate from the Canadian Electronic Institute after shifting from nursing and business studies. She feels the move is the empire’s lifeline and calls it the most thrilling experience of her life.
An overseas Daily Mail note recalls how many notable names end with or contain L. Churchill Dill Wavell De Gaulle Sumner Welles Cordell Hull Keitel Laval Stalin Mussolini and Hitler are cited as examples, illustrating the letter L’s prevalence in surnames and given names.
A secret Belgian patriots newspaper reports German forces are removing 8000 cattle and 4000 pigs monthly from Belgium. In Holland fodder shortages cause heavy slaughter of cattle and poultry, with most meat seized and sent to Germany.
Raymond Jenkins of Perth Amboy New Jersey sprang from bed and rushed to a fire alarm box reporting a blaze. Fire wagons arrived only to learn the “fire” was the rising sun and Jenkins apologized for the scare.
The article notes wartime labor estimates showing seven workers at home were needed per soldier joined the front. It amplifies with a contemporary figure of 18 home workers per Geld in the ongoing conflict, reflecting production needs and manpower strain.
The article explains monitors as flat-bottomed steel warships designed for inshore operations and shallow waters. It notes their Civil War origin, British use in the Great War, and examples like the Terror and the Konigsberg pursued by Mersey and Severn.
Ronald Arme a Manchester based bugler in the Boys Brigade and ARP messenger, aided evacuees during an 11 hour blitz. He dragged out seniors, sheltered children, shielded others with his helmet, and helped extinguish a roof fire before returning to work assembling submarine switchboards at his factory. He is to receive the Boys Brigade Cross for bravery.
Upwards of 2500 Canadians study radio mechanics in Canadian universities to operate equipment locating enemy bombers at night for Britain. They will be ready to go overseas this fall after enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Lord Beaverbrook spoke in North America about many new recruits, and younger men are also being trained under the youth program for the same work.
Realty agents report London residents displaced by raids have converted rubble into house boats on the Thames. In contrast, 79 million motor vehicles were produced in the United States and Canada over the last four decades. Monkeys lack facial muscles to smile.
Miss Sheila MacDonald arrives in Ottawa to host for her brother Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald High Commissioner. She reflects on life in England amid alarms and raids while recounting year assisting Hampstead war refugees and prior prison and labor union work.
Australian minister to the United States Richard G Casey told Bates College graduates in Lewiston Maine that the world must be remade and they would be the craftsmen. He received an honorary LLD and urged active political responsibility. He warned against cynicism toward war and warned that choosing democracy requires accepting its disabilities and obligations.
Quotes from Blackstone Beecher Eddy Wilson and others reflect on law as moral and eternal, stressing obedience justice and universal principles. The collection frames law as a reflection of higher standards guiding human society.
The National Gallery of Victoria reports the loss of Rembrandt's largest etching The Three Crosses fourth state. The artwork was lost when the transport ship was sunk by enemy action en route to Australia. The piece was bought in England in October for £680 with Felton Bequest funds on Sir Lionel Lindsay's recommendation.
A Winnipeg newspaper Home Service offer promotes a purse weaving project using a loom on cardboard with candlewick and crochet threads. Instructions outline warp setup, weaving steps, and finishing, plus a 32 page booklet and other 15c booklets on vocabulary dogs golf guitar swimming curtains and draperies.
Dean Charles L. Raper of the Syracuse University College of Business Administration relents after six years and awards Drew Middleton a Bachelor of Science in Journalism while he serves as a war correspondent for the Associated Press in London. Middleton had previously failed the 40 words per minute typing standard, but his war reporting work convinces the dean to honor the degree.
Britons are shifting from traditional fish and chips to fish and mashed potatoes as shortages of dripping and oil hit fryers. The supply problems limit chip production at many outlets, altering a long standing national favorite.
The note cites Heywood using a broom sweeps clean by 1546, claims about 60 percent of Egypt's agricultural population owning under an acre, notes Greyhound racing starting in 1917 in America, and states there are more than 450 woodpecker species worldwide.
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