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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
2
A collage of humorous quips and lines from a home front setting includes a teacher prompting righteous indignation, a boy named Gerald, a faulty con test joke, family banter about bad reports, a tobacco plant misquote, muddy boot parade mockery, and light doctor punchlines. The repartee covers love, tea, eye trouble, and cake with playful misreadings of prose in a social page snippet.
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia predicted a sudden dramatic collapse of Germany, likening it to the Axis defeat in Tunisia after a desperate defence of Axis Europe’s strongholds.
The text condemns Nazi actions in Poland including church desecration, looting of religious vessels, and destruction. It cites execution or torture of over 700 Polish priests and 3,000 prisoners. It notes fear and hunger denying worship, and oddly adds a remark about Japan repurposing silk.
Miss Alison Jellicoe of the Naval family has cleared 120 acres near Quainton repurposing neglected land for grain. She plans another 230 acre Grade A dairy farm with 20 cows, turning farming from war work into a life job despite local doubts.
A famed educator praised higher education before a crowd of students seeking speaking tips. A boastful youth claimed the Lord opened his mouth without learning, prompting the professor to recall Balaam. The note adds William Morris did not invent the Morris chair, though it bears his name.
A puzzle listing horizontal and vertical clues with numerous garbled and partial entries. It includes themes like riddles for animals, metals, and objects, interleaved with misprints and stray letters, reflecting a damaged OCR feed for the No 4828 crossword puzzle.
The Duisburg inland port, a key Rhine hub for coal coke and iron ore traffic to Rotterdam Cologne Mannheim and Karlsruhe, underlines how water transport supplants rail as German rail capacity falters. RAF and RCAF bombers see it as a seizure of logistics vital to industry.
A vintage bread recipe for four loaves using 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons salt 4 tablespoons sugar 4 tablespoons butter 1 Royal Yeast Cake and warm liquid. It details soaking yeast, mixing with flour, kneading rising overnight then baking at 380 F, with tips for larger batches and richer loaves using milk or potato water.
Jane Adams recalls a mothers meeting moment at Hull House. A girl questioned why a diary is not a livery, turning a gift into a witty reply. The anecdote illustrates children’s fresh minds and humorous takes on daily life.
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