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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
9
The passage recalls Winston Churchill as the Allied symbol of courage and determination in winning the war. It notes his early warnings about Nazi danger and his leadership starting in May 1940 when Germany neared invasion of Britain.
When he took office the prime minister refused to halt the war despite the Dunkirk evacuation. He pledged to wage war by sea land and air with all our might and with God's help. His stirring wartime speeches inspired the Empire and free nations, and many lines may be remembered as immortal in English history.
The tribute hails Sir Winston Churchill for inspiring Britain and the Empire during a dark hour. It credits his international leadership strengthening Anglo American ties and fostering unity with Russia and the United States to secure unconditional surrender.
The London Daily Mail reports Britain is unearthing art treasures hidden during the war and will place them back in their old homes. Sir Kenneth Clark has seen the caverns in a Welsh mountainside where Rembrandt’s Jewish Rabbi Velazquez’s Rokeby Venus Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne and more than five years undisturbed. The caves also hold Turner's Bridge of Sighs and watercolors, plus works by Van Gogh Gauguin and Manet among hundreds of priceless pieces now to be displayed again across the country.
Sir James Dunn of Algoma Steel Corporation has transferred Cedarhurst in Sault Ste. Marie to be converted into a convalescent home for returning soldiers. The estate sits on a hill overlooking the St. Marys River.
A humorous New Yorker piece recalls two Germantown schools, one white and one colored. Children form a game called Race Riot and the equal solution arrives when white boys switch to colored to achieve balanced teams, avoiding adult delays or conflicts.
German prisoners of war in Britain clear blitzed areas to prepare housing sites. Expected to employ over 500,000 prisoners in coming months. Unions agree pay and hours. ministry says British workers remain employed. Also notes 1989 TB toll among Canadians: over 30,000 victims and at least 75,000 affected.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board explains rent increase rules for improvements. Ten percent of a property’s value may justify a rent rise with board approval. Meat buyers should see displayed price charts. notify the board if absent. Long gowns for graduation are restricted to brides or religious orders. U S visitors may obtain temporary ration cards after five days in Canada. For the pamphlet Consumers News or the Blue Book, contact the nearest board office.
Edythe Shuter, Montreal interior decorator, tells McGill University audience that paint is a cheap, effective way to change a room’s feel. Color can alter perceived space and height, but there are no universal rules. Confidence comes from understanding each shade’s effect and how to use it with other colors.
A compilation of quotes on the gospel's reach through Jesus Galilee teaching, universal moral truth, divine reality, unchanging gospel, love one another, and the gospel's rejection of hatred and tyranny. Notable voices include Warren Cuyler Daniel Webster Mary Baker Eddy Beattie.
Max and Minnie Greenbaum of Green field Ave Greendale Wisconsin cultivate giant and dwarf Chrysanthemums. They label the large blooms Maxy Mums and the smaller varieties Minnie Mums. The story highlights their garden hobby and unique naming.
Canada's forests span over 12.7 million square miles with 430000 square miles productive and accessible for sawlogs pulpwood and fuelwood. A large portion remains a future reserve 346000 square miles. Major softwood supplies include spruces Douglas fir western hemlock western red cedar and pines with eastern hardwoods like birch maple and elm for special uses.
Pte Gladys Frew of North Battleford Sask stands four foot eight and a half, claiming four foot nine with shoes. A CWAC dancer and trained as a psychiatrist stenographer, she recalls enlisting in 1943 and overcoming a small uniform issue to parade in a smart outfit. The piece notes graduations from CWAC (B) training in Kitchener and lists Western Canada graduates, with names and hometowns, plus a shell joke about VE Day and going active.
A collection of quick jokes and quips about family life and social awkwardness. Highlights include a shoemaker father and dentist brother, jokes about X ray photos and moving pictures, dinner with the upper set, and playful misunderstandings about time, fashion, and manners. The tone is light and old fashioned with rapid one liners.
Since the war began Canada shifted from importer to sizable exporter of vegetable seeds. The Dominion Department of Agriculture backed growers with assurances the Agricultural Supplies Board would buy surplus. In the 12 months ended March 31, 1945, production met domestic needs and allowed two million pounds of 13 kinds to be exported worth $1.6 million to Britain, Russia, Holland and U.N.R.R.A. or Military Relief.
A drugstore ad offers Hem-Roid tablets as an internal cure for sore itchy piles. It claims rapid relief from itching and pain, shrinking swelling and healing piles, with a refund if not satisfied. The sponsor notes a Canadian dosing business of over 20 years.
Iodine is presented as a key healer, food preservative and germicide prompting a special bureau to spread new findings. The article notes iodine as the only perfect germicide and explains that its absence harms animals while its uses expand across industry, agriculture and medicine.
The term thug derives from a confederacy of professional assassins who traveled in gangs through India in the early 1800s, shaping later usage in English to describe violent criminals and criminal networks.
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