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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
6
Devona and Dale slip from a quiet dawn ride into a sunlit desert chase when Devona’s horse spooks at a rattlesnake. They wrench through canyons, Dale close behind as the mare tires, wind tearing at her eyes and mane.
Devona clings to her horse as a canyon rim looms behind them in a fast dash. Dale pulls her free from danger, declares love in a powerful kiss, and they vow their happiness must remain unbroken. The romance intensifies as a foreboding doubt shadows their joy, promising trouble ahead.
St Thomas Times Journal describes a Royal Ontario Museum exhibit by T B Kurata showing a fly model magnified 187 200 times its size. The display includes body spines, eyes, and mouth parts, plus a brain heart and stomach model. A single foot part is enlarged to reveal bacteria, with a culture dish of bacterial growth and a dead mouse as maggot nursery. The exhibit emphasizes the fly as an unhygienic house intruder.
The New York Post reflects on American sentiment after the Hood and Bismarck disasters. It argues isolationists like Lindbergh are out of touch and praises British naval prowess as a resilient demonstration of pluck and skill in adversity.
A circular nosepiece from a German bomb crashed through a London apartment window and spun around the four walls before stopping. It struck a corner and crossed the glass doors of a built-in china closet without breaking them.
Insurance companies note farming remains dangerous with the herd bull listed as the leading cause of fatal farm accidents outside the home.
A playful note claims the final test of wing eating is to remove meat without picking up the wing, implying expertise. It adds a claim about salt content, stating sea water contains about a pound of salt per gallon.
A famous New York physician recalls a Durham visit to treat Doris Duke's father. After a day and a half at the Duke estate he billed $14,000 for changing bread to toast. Duke objected, the doctor offered a choice of fees, and Duke paid the $14,000.
A collection of famous reflections on liberty by Cowley Woodrow Wilson Lincoln Mary Baker Eddy Bulwer Lytton and Edmund Burke. The excerpts emphasize government limits, law made by the people, and liberty tied to order and virtue.
Residents of Dingo Australia complain about living in a town named after a dog. Mail mixups to John Jones Din aged 60 frustrate locals who feel the name resembles a person’s name. In contrast Ceratodus and Green Pigeon residents show less resentment toward their place names.
A veteran sergeant addressing new recruits recalls losing wooden soldiers as a boy. He quotes his mother promising a quick return, urging recruits with sharp humor that the day has come when they must locate their missing figures.
A wry remark on a man unable to part with his experience as he refuses to beg or steal. He instead seeks out a grocer willing to trust him, illustrating a precarious moral dilemma.
The Duke of Connaught, nearing 92, may surpass the Duke of Cambridge as the longest serving field marshal in British Army history. Born at Buckingham Palace and once praised by the Duke of Wellington, he was commissioned in 1868 and rose through Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, and Rifle Brigade to reach field marshal in 1902, approaching Cambridge’s 42-year tenure.
In England at brigade headquarters of a western Canada 1st Division infantry unit officers avoid the Order of the Bowler Hat. Instituted by a brigadier, a former Whiteraity of Saskatchewan professor, the award cites oversights and blunders. Two Edmonton lieutenants have won it this year for a night convoy mislead and a failed rum issue delivery. The mantel displays the bowler hat as a reminder.
Phrases such as the apple of his eye and the salt of the earth appear in the Bible. A note mentions India researching vegetable oils for lubricants in internal combustion engines, exploring feasibility and potential applications.
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