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Newspaper

Rivers Gazette

Location

Rivers, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Mar 09, 1944

Page

4

Community Ladies Aid Hosts Honor for Loyal Volunteers

Saadwardine Ladies Aid met at Mrs M Hunter’s home with strong attendance from members and visitors. Mrs Peter Livingstone and Mrs W Dowland served refreshments. A celebration at Mrs Hunter’s Wednesday honored Mr and Mrs W Graham Sr and Mrs M Hunter for long service to Bradwardine United Church. Addresses were given, gifts presented, and singalong and games followed with a light lunch.

Ladies Aid BM. Hunter Wm. Graham Sr M. Hunter United Church Bradwardine R. McKenzie Hunter Clinton English J. G. Cruikshank Graham Peter Livingstone

Aberdeen Cinema Attendant Finds Found Pound Note

A cinema staffer recovered a pound note and handed it to the manager. The notice on screen urged the owner to claim it at the box office by 10 am with identification. Readers are asked to report any missing money to the theatre office.

Aberdeen Quedue SAO Lars NE

Prairie farmers income compared to 1926 29 levels

H G ie Strange director notes that prairie farmers earned an average 469 million dollars annually during 1940 to 1943, 13 percent less than the 538 million dollars yearly average in 1926 to 1929. He cites similar purchasing costs and higher industrial wages, arguing farmers did not profit more from wartime prices.

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Birthday Wishes Parade Through The Gazette

The Gazette sends birthday greetings to multiple readers with dates spanning March 9 to 15. Names include J A Milroy Thor Wilkes Leonard Warner Mrs B Hopewell Mona Crittenden Bob Wood Bradwardine Mrs G R D Lyon Annie E Maneer Fred Taylor Mrs Robt Twigge Tommy Offen Mrs Richard Dyer Mrs Fred Oakley Ellen Bradt Alvin Setter Virlie Crampain and P Luchuck, with locations Ottawa Hamilton Alberta Daly Wawanesa Alberta Edson Alberta Calgary area references.

J.A. Milroy Thor Wilkes Leonard Warner B. Hopewell Mona Crittenden Bob Wood Bradwardine G. R. D. Lyon Ottawa Annie E. Maneer Hamilton Fred Taylor Robt. Twigge Tommy Offen McLennan Alberta Richard Dyer Daly Fred Oakley Edson Ellen Bradt Wawan

The Faith By Which We Live Sunday Sermon

Sunday notices outline services for March 12 with addresses and times for Daly Pettapiece Rivers and the Adult Bible Class. A wartime civic note praises Canadian Victory Loans and venereal disease campaigns led by government and civic groups across Canada.

Canadian Red Cross appeals for ten million dollars

The appeal urges Canada to donate ten million to meet growing wartime relief needs. Victory talk fills the air while little countries seek liberation and peace, yet hunger and pain persist as reminders of the war effort. Citizens are urged to fulfill their obligation and contribute.

Canadian Red Cross Canada

Ottawa Scene: Bench and Bar Welcomes Chief Justice. Ottawa Zoo Idea Stage

A brief roundup notes Chief Justice Rin fret addressing the bench and bar during his first Supreme Court appearance on February 1. It mentions Ottawa hosting a Swedish minister, plans for a national zoological garden in Ottawa, Social Credit MPs attending with wives, a committee to streamline government business, munitions plans to buy 300 buses for resale for 1944 45, and film industry visitors for Madame Curie with Dean C Mackenzie and the National Research Council staff in Ottawa.

Supreme Court Rinfret Canada Ottawa Chateau Ete Zoological Garden Chas. Johnson Robert Fair Social Credit Alberta House Munitions Department United States Dominion Observatory Madame Curie Dean C. J. Mackenzie National Research Council National Research Building

Jeep Quest Through Burma Frontier Road Hoax

A humorous anecdote among the latest Jeeplana batch features two war correspondents who claim they drove a jeep from a Burmese town to the Indian frontier. An officer dismisses the idea of a road over the hills, but the reporters hush the doubt saying their jeep has not yet learned about roads and they won’t spoil the joke.

Burma

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