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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
7
Canadian women have joined the women’s divisions of the armed forces and replaced men in industries and business. Thousands volunteer in many capacities to support the war effort, showing admirable spirit and sacrifice and proving their value to the country in times of need.
The piece extols women's crucial role in World War II, noting Belgian, Russian, British, Canadian, and underground resistance contributions. It cites actions from combat to support roles, warns of capture and hardship, and credits women with enabling Allied forces to fight.
The report discusses sleeping sickness in horses, its limited remedies, and early vaccination as a preventive measure under veterinary guidance. It notes insect protection and selective vaccination for valuable stock, plus a curious scene of firemen uncovering a parrot calling amid rubble, shouting about the war.
A dockyard worker disguise aided a spy who attacked three German vessels at Svendborg ship yards. He damaged a fourth ship by planting bombs aboard, according to the Sendisa radio hag report.
In late August 1939 Sir Nevile Henderson recounted Hitler’s tirade and claim that war was England’s fault, noting Hitler, then fifty five, preferred war now rather than at sixty, a remark the New York Herald Tribune framed as history’s inquiry into his choices.
A compact collection of quoted lines on humility. Tryon Edwards Joseph Roux Flavel Mary Baker Eddy Boileau Oliver Wendell Holmes reflect on self knowledge, pride, and divine strength. The selections contrast true humility with vanity, urging inner truth and reverence before God.
Fruit growers in Britain deploy a modern pest control device, an electric scarecrow powered by a six-volt battery. Wires strung through orchards deliver a brief shock to birds that perch, deterring them from crops and reducing fruit damage.
Questions cover obtaining baby ration books with canning sugar coupons, handling expired coupons, exchanging F coupons for preserves, and purchasing canned grapefruit or juice. Discharged service members can obtain No 4 ration books with discount coupons required, by presenting discharge papers at local ration boards, with pamphlets available through Wartime Prices and Trade Boards.
Walter Callow of Parrisboro Nova Scotia, a blind veteran of the First Great War, proposed a overseas cigarette depot to air mail cards to a tobacco bank, enabling soldiers in Italy to draw from a stock. Defence Minister Ralston supported the plan during his Italian visit, and the scheme has been put into operation, reducing waiting time and danger.
The article notes the world’s largest and smallest flowers come from the arum family. The amorphophallus blossoms reach eight to 10 feet across, while duckweed blooms are invisible to the naked eye. It also mentions box turtles abstain from eating for six months after hatching.
The article catalogs how surnames arose from crafts places and roles, noting over 100000 CN employees and more than 2.4 million paycheques yearly. It highlights common surnames like Smith and Brown, describes occupational and religious name groups, and odd pairings such as a Baker who is a cook and a Porter who is a porter.
British housewives aided the invasion effort by packing more than 375000000 articles for units of the army. Grandmothers and pensioners worked weeks in barns fire halls and schools coating spares with preservative and boxing them in labelled cartons to ensure safe transport to Italy and Sicily trained manufacturers lacked the labor to do the packing to the required standard.
After 3000 British restaurants opened by the Ministry of Food, art adviser Clive Gardiner led a scheme to decorate about 150 eateries with worldwide mural scenes. Bradford walls feature The Good Companions, Beckenham displays Wind in the Willows, and more use Cinderella imagery. The project, praised for lifting meals, has extended to factory canteens.
The Edmonton Journal reports a growing horse surplus across Western Canada with Saskatchewan leading a cooperative marketing effort in Southern Alberta to curb the excess. Authorities estimate about 500,000 horses beyond farm needs strain range forage, with farmers releasing animals due to labor shortages.
A fragmentary note discusses the word robot from Capek and its French pronunciation, plus mentions gold deposits in the Altai mountains of Sinkiang and a claim that each plane contains about 300 pounds of metal.
Wartime gardeners wasted crops last year by buying gear without know how. This season, experts urge more study and discussion to fix mistakes and boost Canadian family food production. Mr and Mrs Wartime Gardener are urged to apply lessons and succeed.
The Washington Bureau of Standards employs a woman to test highly dangerous radium. She has weighed measured and tested 70 grams of radium over 12 years valued at 5 million dollars.
At cruising speed Flying Fort ress burn about 250 gallons of gasoline per hour. At full throttle the rate roughly doubles, indicating a substantial rise in consumption as power increases.
In the dry season Lake Chad in Africa frequently shrinks to about half its normal size, reducing water volume and affecting regional ecosystems and livelihoods dependent on the lake’s resources.
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