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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
4
Article profiles the Volunteer Lifeboat Service of Britain, noting volunteers face constant peril from mines and U boats while rescuing merchant seamen. It cites 3500 lives saved in 18 months, with 71 saved in a single 24 hour day and 19 launches on that day.
Builders and engineers are being prepared for overseas army formations. Royal Canadian Engineers will receive practical instruction in road building under a new arrangement with Ontario firms. A two month course trains sappers to operate gas shovels and heavy equipment. Col J K Lawson says 60 sappers will finish this year. Major W E Denley reports the Ninth Field Company is over half staffed. shortages remain in skilled trades and general labor.
An official from a Scottish exotic perfume factory says wartime limits on perfume storage pushed production toward onion essence for household use. Thousands of pounds of perfume were stored. once sales were capped, onion essence became the alternative. Workers, formerly handling rose and lilac scents, now bottle and label onion essence, likely crying in the process.
Rangoon announces Britain has been supplying Burma with large quantities of modern war materials including fighting vehicles automatic weapons and motorized transport as part of a broader reinforcement of Far East forces centered at Singapore Workers face sacrifice with calls for public aid while Romania restricts voting to certain women.
A murder case hinges on timing as a timid witness recalls meeting the defendant at a quarter to nine. The defense attorney questions the witness about the exact time and whether he spoke to the accused, noting the absence of clocks or a watch and pressing for precision.
Canadian volunteers counted 36 000 birds of 111 kinds at 14 centres from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. Most birds winter along British Columbia coast, southern Maritime provinces, and southern Ontario. Hamilton recorded the largest single report with over 11 000 birds.
A K division RCMP team from Edmonton captured the open revolver championship of Canada with a score of 1041 out of 2000, edging civic and provincial police marksmen including Saskatoon police who scored 1886. Team members included Cat Blair Waters Mighal Eaton and Ford.
A reader notes Gibraltar became an island following a 1940 British canal project to separate it from the mainland. The fragment references a detamas and a date 2420, indicating historical formation rather than current events. The entry preserves the reader’s historical query about the canal’s role.
The article recalls Salmon P. Chase, former U.S. Chief Justice, famed for gallantry. After the Civil War he toured the South and met a Southern loyalist widow who boasted she had not been reconstructed. Chase bowed and replied that reconstruction in her cage would be blasphemous.
Victoria Times reports a Canadian inspired campaign in Minneapolis where women set out bowls of roses in buildings hotels stores and clubs. Passers by take a flower and deposit a donation, funds support soldiers in Canada.
William George of Criccieth Wales nephew of Lloyd George applied for unconditional exemption as a conscientious objector to continue work as a tenant farmer. The text notes a technical definition: a road grade percentage equals the rise as a percentage of horizontal distance.
A London correspondent notes postwar blitz wreckage erases historic sights. No. 10 Nevill's Court, once Keir Hardie’s home and a Labor Party link, is blasted to rubble. Nevill's Court, dating to 1222, housed front garden cottages from 1664, but the original court had vanished by then. certainty about the oldest London houses remains doubtful.
The article notes claims that lunar exposure causes nightmares and headaches in the Middle East, a morning thick head in the Far East, and that in Burma the insane suffer mental storms tied to moon phases. It closes with a proverb urging action over thought.
A Royal Naval Reserve lieutenant known as Andrew keeps a lonely vigil in Dover. He survived Dunkirk with a shattered knee and now volunteers for dangerous Dover patrols while awaiting orders to bring home Britain’s soldiers. He says his mission is to be ready when Britain needs to deploy an invading force to France.
The Simcoe Reformers praise weekly papers from Canada and empire colonies for wartime efforts. They highlight Victory Loan Recruiting Queen's Canadian Fund Red Cross and Salvage drives and note similar actions in Australia New Zealand South Africa and crown colonies. They urge unity to counter Hitler's European victories with a mighty united empire.
Lieut General A G L McNaughton warned that a Nazi invasion of the British Isles could come soon if Hitler gains headway. He cautions against alarmist chatter, noting his warnings are practical and measured rather than sensational.
The Rocky Mountain sheep, once near extinction in Canada, now thrives in national parks where hunting is by camera only. This grand mountaineer with massive curling horns is highly prized by big game hunters, and sanctuary conditions in parks ensure the species’ future as protected reservoirs for permitted hunts.
A new screw end screwdriver matches a recessed head screw with a corresponding recess. The device is designed to fit securely into the fastener, promising simple operation. Business thrives where opportunities are welcomed and well managed by capable owners.
English fashion no longer relies on conventional fibers as seaweed rayon enters Britain. Professor J B Speakman at Leeds University revealed two years of experiments showing seaweed can yield rayon suitable for stockings undergarments and knitted goods. The new textile is also flame resistant.
The record notes that the value of commodities produced on Canadian farms in 1849 is estimated at 1,235,714,008 dollars, compared with 1,224,816,000 dollars in 1880, indicating a growth in farm production over the period.
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