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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1942
Page
7
The article stresses farmers and agriculture as vital to wartime food security. It highlights Canada’s farm outputs supporting England and Allied needs, and acknowledges soldiers and civilians alike for ensuring steady supplies and transportation, urging recognition of the farmer’s crucial home-front role.
The article notes a large exodus of young Canadian men to the armed services and munitions plants, leaving farmers short of labor and often forcing extended hours, reduced livestock, or curtailed production. It cites government steps to restrict migration to other industries and highlights budget comments on farm prices, urging continued support to keep food production high during wartime.
Wartime officials stated pets such as kittens and horses cannot receive sugar ration cards. Pet owners may only feed animals sugar from their own allowance.
An overhauled 50 year old steam fire engine is prepared for use by the Liverpool Fire Department to aid gasoline rationing. In a demonstration the engine projected four strong water streams nine minutes after a fire began under the boilers amid ongoing wartime precautions.
An underwater interview quotes a codfish colony chairman urging dietary recognition on days beyond Friday. The piece covers fish value, seasonal catches, and a guide to buying, storing, and cooking fish, plus recipe ideas and a vitamin chart offer from the Health League of Canada in Toronto.
The piece argues that explorers and performers often die in ordinary life rather than dramatic feats. It cites William HHS who died at Niagara Falls from natural causes after river exploits, Bobby Leach, Blondin, and a reference to an Ontario man. It notes many wild animal tamers are not killed despite routine danger and quotes Clyde Beatty on risk and mindset.
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan lists graduates from No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School at Dafoe Saskatchewan and No. 11 Service Flying Training School at Yorkton with pilots and air gunners named. Several locations across Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan are represented, including Lac du Ciel, Brandon, Yorkton, Saskatoon, Swift Current, Morden, and Saint Boniface, among others.
A selection of aphorisms on joy, gravity, and lasting happiness from Montaigne, Bovee, Fielding, Mary Baker Eddy, Seneca, and Phineas Fletcher. It cautions that tranquil, faithful joy grows from trust in goodness and ethical living, contrasting fleeting gaiety with enduring inner peace.
An Armed column notes officials warned readers not to reveal gas buy methods or fuel rules to the public. It compares civilian acts to draft evasion and stresses Reserve Army recruitment efforts, with Major-General Brown touring Toronto and Montreal campaigns to raise 10,000 recruits. It ends by noting no cuffs in officer slacks and explains BYOT BYOC on invitations.
A fragment notes that explosive pressure in modern life reaches 19 tons per square inch, mentioning the number 2471 without additional context or details.
Boston grants a first hitching post permit to a hotel amid plans for horse troughs at central gas stations. The Hotel Lennox earlier faced refusal as the board notes changing times and revived hacks and carriages on Boston streets render the proposal feasible and acceptable.
After three and a half centuries since gunpowder's invention, sporting firearms gradually entered general use, marking a shift in leisure arms and hunting practices.
Soviet researchers reject the claim that men have superior brains to women. They argue there is no scientific basis for such a theory and emphasize overlapping cognitive abilities between genders. The finding challenges gender stereotypes in intelligence.
Tiya Ehrenburg, renowned Russian journalist, receives the Stalin Prize for Literature for 1942. He covered the Russian battle fronts and, while in France in the 1940 summer, witnessed the German advance to Paris. his book The Fall of France earned him the prize and 100,000 roubles. The book has not been translated into English.
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