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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
8
A wartime urging to limit pleasure driving cites 1940 highway tolls in the United States and Canada and argues for a 40 mph speed limit. It links reduced gasoline use to lower accidents, more efficiency, and stronger support for the war effort, urging calm, avoidance of drink, and steady, economical driving.
Miss M Riches won the Gilt Cross the highest Girl Guides award for gallantry for remaining on telephone duty at an A R P post in London for 16 hours after a wall was blown in by a bomb. Ward later found her under the desk still answering the telephone. Elephants like onions just as well as they do peanuts.
In Copenhagen a German soldier sat on a park bench by a pond and spoke with the ducks. Danish passers by watched in astonishment until one passerby returned from a three hour visit and asked why he talked to the birds. The man replied there is no one else in Copenhagen who will talk to him.
In recent years about one third of Britain’s oil consumption has come from Iran, highlighting the country’s role as a significant energy supplier amid shifting geopolitical dynamics and sanctions, with potential impacts on supply security and pricing for the UK.
The official publication Two Years of German Oppression in Czechoslovakia details mass arrests and torture of Catholic priests in Bohemia and Moravia after the 1939 invasion. It notes confiscation of church property, censorship, and forced labor in Dachau, with priests denied prayers and robes. Protestants faced hatred. a Protestant clergyman was arrested after private criticism. In Moravia the church struggled under name change pressure, culminating in a April 9 1940 decree renaming the church to Czechomorayinian.
Arnold Baker of Bolton honored his pledge to pull his weight after 1839 total exemption. Serving in the merchant navy, he stood at the wheel during a brutal attack, saved others by steering until his ship sank, and died bravely.
A Vancouver Province note cites an American scientist showing bees gather pollen rich in vitamins to feed young bees, while suggesting much could go to human nutrition. It explains a device to flick pollen from the bee’s knees and hints at soy bean meal as an alternative.
In unclear notes the author hints at German war coverage and a potential discovery linked to the phrase peete mightier and an object called the sword, as if uncovering a hidden tale within battlefield reporting. The fragment references 24225 as a possible catalog or code marker.
A new two pound portable tool drills two holes at once for nut plates on aircraft. Using a Mighty Atom pneumatic motor, it speeds production by replacing the older process of marking and drilling three rivet holes per nut plate. The Britain designed device is already in wide use across Britain, the Empire, and the United States.
A brief, vintage recipe for cornflake kisses. Shortening sugar and egg are creamed, then flour baking powder and salt folded in with dates. Balls are rolled in crushed corn flakes and baked slowly at 325 degrees for about 20 minutes, yielding about three dozen cookies.
Canadian sailors Alan Shedden and Eddie Badger return from six months of convoy duty in the Atlantic. They report submarines sunk during their last crossing and say Britain is far ahead in the Battle of the Atlantic. They describe detecting subs with earphone echo and soundwave transmission.
A newly perfected device allows firemen to throw an artificial dog around a burning Bre and suffocate it, marking a controversial method for tackling blazes.
Dr. Benge Attlee urged Halifax Rotary Club to safeguard democracy after the war warning that unemployment and despair could spawn another Hitler in North America. He urged Canada to invest in youth and forest conservation, push slum clearance, and establish proper schools, citing 2,000 Halifax houses unfit for Canadians and about 100,000 nationwide.
In 1662 Chief Ora tam, an Indigenous leader, was named a prohibition agent by the Dutch governor of New Netherlands. The brief note records the early and unusual appointment of an Indigenous figure to enforce early temperance law amid Dutch colonial rule.
A joke line describes a man labeled as a financial genius as someone who earns money faster than his family can spend it.
A famous German siege gun used against Paria in the first Great War reportedly had a dummy range of zero miles. Each shell reportedly cost about $8,000 to fire, highlighting the prohibitive expense of its ammunition.
London ships five million yards of musical gut yearly to Iceland Fiji and beyond. Gut comes from Scottish sheep with tough membranes. One sheep yields six violin strings, seven sheep yield one racquet gut. Britain forges strings for tiple aoud mandolin guitar and harp demanding precise single-string choices. Australia leads harp exports, not Ireland.
In early Colonial days Pilgrim fathers hunted to fill empty pots and a successful shot became known as a pot shot, giving rise to the modern expression.
Canada expects output of 23 million dollars in machine tools this year, rising from 10.8 million last year and 1.55 million in 1939, signaling a strong industrial push amid wartime demands. In a separate report, about 4,000 Berlin shopkeepers were fined in one month for breaches of Nazi price regulations.
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