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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 10, 1945
Page
2
In a vacation scene Martha and Owen discuss Jane's uncle Blake who vanished with a large estate. Blake spoke of bank tricks and hid funds, while Jane's teaching salary barely covers living costs. Owen, a former investigator, investigates possible clues to locate the money and unwind the family financial puzzle.
Two tiny savings boxes elude discovery as Uncle Blake’s fear of banks hints at a cryptic scheme. A letter to Jane’s father reveals a plan built on no interest accounts and a hollow tree on the river bank near the thyme patch. Martha races to contact Jane while Owen contemplates a clever bankless hoard.
Weekly menu idea introduces chop suey as a complete meal with salad. Ingredients include pork bouillon soy sauce rice cereal mushrooms onion celery and butter. Prepare stock simmer meat with flour then add mushrooms onion and celery, finish with buttered oven popped rice for serving. Yield five servings.
A Kitchener Ontario housewife ten years ago began saving half-dollar coins. This week she and her family bought a house with an $870 down payment all in those coins. The collection filled three large pails and weighed about 45 pounds, much to her husband’s surprise.
Quotations from the New York Times praise books as life savers and mind savers during lonely wartime days. They describe books as a shield against ills, the surest relief in melancholy moments, and steadfast friends offering silent soothing companionship.
Pattern 4614 offers a flat slip over design with a front wrap bow and optional dirndl skirt. Sizes 12 through 20 available with fabric estimates and a 20 cent pattern order. mail orders to Winnipeg pattern dept with name address style number.
A frustrated Royal Mint notes more than 480 million Canadian farthings issued since 1860 remain scarce. The text also claims the first ironclad war vessel was built by Admiral Yi Sun Sin of Korea in 1594. The item dates to 2019.
The piece recalls the early spring ritual of boys taking their initial fishing trip. It describes boys growing into fishermen, collecting tackle, bragging about catches, sharing fish with friends, and enduring lifelong passion, sparked by a simple first trip with a willow wand, a nickel for hooks, and a worm-filled can from the garden.
In a "now it can be told" speech Oliver Lyttelton disclosed that Britain, amid early war shock, had only one drop hammer capable of forging the crankshaft of a Spitfire engine, despite pride in the RAF and its Spitfires.
Garden tips advise doubling peas in interleaved rows to save space and allow mutual support, with early planting and succession by pairing with beets beans carrots or turnips. Tomatoes need staking and spacing, while vigilant disease and insect protection relies on healthy soil, good seed, and proper sprays or dusts to control pests.
An eminent astronomer estimates about 75 million star systems resemble the Milky Way within reach of current telescopes. The claim highlights vast numbers of distant suns and potential realms for planetary systems.
Temperature range for dangerous ice formation on aircraft jets lies between 20 and 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pte Meta Englund of Bradwell Sask is promoted to lance corporal after basic training in Kitchener and steno work at National Defence Headquarters Ottawa. The piece also notes CWAC graduates at Kitchener and Capt Vera Leckie Saskatoon groundbreaking posts at Kingston, plus a Monastery visit by Capt Gillian Hessey-White and other Saskatchewan CWACs in lab roles with Betty McCusker of Lloydminster.
A letter received by P S Chalmers, Winnipeg regional treasurer, offered ten dollars as conscience money for service by the C N R not paid by the writer. Signed only Praise The Lord, it requested acknowledgment in a local newspaper and bore a Winnipeg postmark dated April 24 at 1 p m.
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