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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
2
A Greater New York Safety Council report describes a two Riass 13 feet wide and four feet high glass mirror bridge device mounted across hill crests to reflect light and reveal oncoming traffic. It argues trial installations on major highways could cut accidents by improving visibility, while stressing driver vigilance remains essential.
A Milwaukee cafe offers musk cheese sandwiches and buttered toast with fresh milk on tap at the Milk Jug. Cows are milked in view in a sanitary parlor as cheese and butter are made on site. Now nearing two years old the Waysite inn reports sales up to 300 dollars daily. A new material mixes wood and plastic for moisture proof interior finishing. European geography is described as highly fluid.
Florida residents glimpse snow in St Petersburg as an air express shipment from Cannon Mountain New Hampshire arrives. The dry ice protected snow is placed in a window display for a local party amid sunshine resort interest.
Henry Ford purchases the 140 foot gaff rig schooner J. T. Wing the largest sailing craft on the Great Lakes. The Wings overhaul will allow summer sailing for Sea Scouts with young men learning the art of navigation aboard the ship.
Australia still dominates medium to superfine wool while producing little coarse blends and importing coarse wools for blending. London February saw Australian wool sales rise to 1 924 019 bales from 1938, amid high output and large national undertakings in wheat timber and minerals.
Shredded Wheat Biscuits with pineapple bananas and light cream create a two layer kit. Fruit Shortcake uses berries peaches or pineapple and a whipped cream frosting with vanilla in a baked cake. Serves six.
The article highlights international weather study and forecasts, noting full cooperation between Canada and the United States. It mentions shared weather reports and amicable relations among meteorological services, reflecting a global effort to study and forecast weather.
Real estate ad notes a London West End mansion with ten bedrooms and five receptions for £17 and guides potential buyers to call the No 29 agency. It warns of annual ground rent about £280 and rates around £154, plus a full repair lease costing about £100 to repaint the front, suggesting annual costs near £700 or £800. The empty No 29 is listed with a 36 year lease for £1 until Christmas.
George G. Wakeman of Trans-Canada Airlines reports a sharp rise in U S passenger totals and air mail revenue despite economic downturn. In 1937 about 1 5 million passengers carried nationwide a 200 percent increase. Canada’s air mail poundage rose from 625 040 to 1 847 221 pounds from 1934 to 1938 reflecting substantial growth. Air freight and express in Canada climbed from 14 441 179 pounds to 26 387 719 pounds in the same period.
Fellowships worth 1.00 each awarded by Reyal to founders endown corporation go to 11 recipients across Canada and the United States. Scholars include Luc Lacourcere George Stephen Vickers Francia E Priesties Florence Shirley Patterson Mackenzie L Keith Harald Bishan and Frederick Stanley Thatcher. Successful graduates may study under supervision for one year at Canadian universities or abroad with research on enzymic factors in hormones.
Dr J B Thomson president of the University of Saskatchewan urged at the Manitoba Educational Association convention that Canada must take the lead in restoring the League of Nations as the only sane basis for world peace. He warned against remaining on the sidelines while Britain France Germany and Italy pursue power and argued more focus on the League could boost wheat prices and global stability.
Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons the number of candidates from overseas Dominions and colonies accepted for commissioned pilots in the Royal Air Force in the past year was 517. In Essex England a flood 40 years ago killed earthworms and they reappeared only after two years.
A fragment notes natives in the Philippines catching climbing perch from cornfield mud and mentions shipyards launching nearly 3,000,000 tons of new merchant vessels. It adds a quip about aging and whistling becoming less common and remarks on perfectly normal or unusual weather.
Vice-Admiral J. I E. T. Harper argues the world faces air funk and warns against overemphasizing air attack while neglecting general and local naval defence. He says commonwealth defence cannot be divided. focal duties like mine protection and raider bombardment must rest with the nation.
Internationally known biologist Dr Charles Stockard died at age 60 after six months with a heart ailment. He headed the anatomy department at Cornell Medical College and led the Rockefeller Institute board. He once spoke at the Old Age Congress about keeping a man at 25 for hundreds of years through science.
Great Britain and the United States together purchase 28 percent of global exports. The first American almanac was published by William Pierce of Cambridge Massachusetts in 1630.
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