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Newspaper

Rivers Gazette

Location

Rivers, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Jul 20, 1939

Page

3

University of the Air To Train Military Pilots For Canada

The Defence Department launches a four year program training RCAF pilots at eight airports including Camp Bonien and Trenton. Recruits receive four dollars daily during initial training then serve three years in the air force with increasing pay and future reserve obligations. British recruits will train alongside Canadians with a separate path for permanent commissions. The plan aims to boost military pilots and civil aviation while providing a retirement gratuity and a reserve option after service.

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Mrs Heal Dialogues on Efficiency and Nagging

A dialogue fragment features Mrs Heal and Ag arguing about efficiency and gender. The exchange touches on stereotypes with Mrs Heal claiming her husband is an efficiency expert and Ag responding with a provocative view about how women would be labeled if they possessed efficiency.

Heal

Exorcism Tale Tells Of Archbishop Thompsons Simple Method

The Manchester Guardian recounts Archbishop Thomson’s joking exorcism method from a haunted country house episode. A host asks if the ghost disturbed him, he replies with an eerie exchange then invites the figure to subscribe to a new four man school house, and the visitor vanishes.

Norfolk Thomson Manchester Guardian Weill

Americans greet kings and queens with familiar, discerning praise

An essay argues Americans casually appraise royal visits with common sense, noting the public’s enthusiastic but restrained reception of King George and Queen Elizabeth. It contrasts American candor with British reserve, praising the crowd’s patience and politeness and warning Europe not to overestimate its own social officials. It closes with a zany line about Antarctic fauna.

United States Great Britain Europe George Elizabeth Limehouse Carlton Club Tony United Kingdom Mary Duchy of Cornwall Duke of Cornwall George VI George HI Canada Toronto Globe and Mail

How To Gather Eggs For Best Grade Quality

Cooling eggs is crucial for Grade A quality. Gather in a wire mesh basket, place in a cool area like a cellar, and avoid packing warm eggs in crates. Proper cooling prevents white thinning and failing to Grade A, as uncooled eggs tend to drop to Grade B by the grader.

Nationwide warning on butter voucher abuses under plan

The Dominion department of agriculture issued a nation wide warning about abuses in the free butter voucher scheme for unemployed and low income families. storekeepers charging higher prices and voucher holders exchanging vouchers for cigarettes are reported though not widespread.

Dominion Department of Agriculture

Exclusive Alice Brooks Pattern Promotes Summer Bolkero Style

An Alice Brooks pattern shows a bolkero-dainty puff sleeve crochet top for summer. Pattern 6149 costs 20 cents or 20 cents in coin and includes directions materials and illustrations. requests should be sent to Housthind Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave EL Winnipeg.

Housthind Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union McDermot Ave Winnipeg Alice Brooks Prislin

Royal Visit Sparks German Press Debate and British Costs

The article contrasts Nazi press reports on the royal US visit with UK Royal costs and the One-sided Canada ties. It argues maintenance costs burden Britain and notes public sentiment in the US supports Britain, while German leaders fear a broader Anglo American unity undermining Hitler.

United States Saya New York Herald Tribune Corifal Hitler Germany

Air Raid Test Draws Chelsea Residents Into Exercise

About 50 000 Chelsea residents took part in a dramatic air raid drill directed by 408 wardens. Traffic halted for 16 minutes as sirens wailed and 126 shelters were used. A 5 900 child withdrawal from 21 schools preceded the drill while wardens directed pedestrians to shelters amid busy city streets.

Chelsea Great Britain Sloane Square

Navajos Name Radio As The Wind That Talks

From Window Rock Arizona a Navajo term for radio is wind-that-tathes. The piece notes the word may suit many broadcasters and spellbinders, while receiving sets remain uncommon. Detroit Free Press.

Price to Leave Ottawa Peace Tower Carillon

Percival Price will resign his post at the Peace Tower Ottawa and depart, with Canada losing a carillon pioneer. The Brockville Recorder and Times notes his leadership made the carillon popular nationally and that his departure will be felt in Ottawa and across Canada.

Percival Price Lo University of Michigan At Ann Arbor Canada Brockville Recorder Times Price Peace Tower Ottawa

Bolivia's Indigenous Majority Stage Political Shift

A report notes that more than half of Bolivia's population identifies as Indigenous or of Indian heritage, signaling a pivotal demographic and political shift within the nation in 2313.

Bolivia

British Columbia Launches Ambitious Summer Forestry Plan

The province announces a 70 camp youth forestry program to employ 2,205 men in a major development scheme. Unemployed and trainees will work under the forest branch and labor department with uniforms modeled after Civilian Conservation Corps crews.

British Columbia National Forestry and Forest Branch Labor Department Civilian Conservation Corps United States

Sky maps miss southern heavens in ancient records

Ancient astronomers could observe the southern sky but left the southern hemisphere blank on their charts. Meanwhile log production is rising quickly in Holland and Belgium.

Delayed Relief Prompts Investigation in Canadian City

A relief investigator checked two cases where applications for aid were stalled by department delays. At the first home a wife complained two weeks passed with no action and the husband took a job to survive. At the second, the husband remained at home, upset by the delay and questioning the service to taxpayers.

Hua‘band

Wealthy American Funds Bermuda Slow Pace Preserve Horse Carriage

A wealthy American with Bermuda estate quietly funds a twenty dollar and ninety cent trust to protect the island’s horse and buggy lifestyle against automobile encroachment. He remains anonymous, valuing the slow pace as a remedy to high pressure elsewhere. The article notes Bermuda’s cautious transportation habits and a peculiar stone lane feature near Cuernavaca for contrast.

Bermuda Islands Bermuda

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