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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
2
Vara probes Dale about his plan to fund a risky play while Devora’s fate looms. Dale agrees to pay and leave Vara to manage the girl, reflecting pressures of parental ambition, financial strain, and artistic temperament as they plot a move toward New York and distant schooling.
Dale and Vara scheme over a costly set for Talbot and discuss hiding Devona. Barnard suggests marrying Devona to Dale to remove her from the scene as Vara contemplates the plan, torn between guardianship and exposure, with tensions rising in the dim garden room.
In a room above Devona dreams and smiles as Dale measures the shadowy garden in long-paced strides. She whispers Dale into the darkness and feels the room answer to her call. This vignette closes with a promise of continuation.
In northwest England the family mourns as Able Seaman Sydney Williams, about to rejoin his ship, learns his newborn baby died in a bombing that struck their home during a raid. He warned his wife and left for the train, only to receive a telegram two hours later confirming the tragedy.
Doctors examining British postal service candidates find 1916 girls lighter and shorter than present ones. Today’s youth are heavier taller and healthier, with more happiness brightness and intelligence. War’s mental uplift helps them endure disease and raid dangers.
Col George Nasmith former overseas commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross commends England’s wartime mobilization and leadership under Winston Churchill, noting the people run the war as never before and doing an excellent job.
An archaeologist states that men drove horses long before they rode them, a finding seen across multiple countries, highlighting how domestication and transportation evolved in ancient societies.
A geographic comparison notes that Australia covers about three and a half times the land area of Greenland, illustrating vast continental size differences.
The North Sea blockade disrupts Norwegian and German fishing and hinders Nazi war production. The Nazi Information Bureau says 120 herrings yield explosive precursors and glycerine, nitrates, and fats after chemical treatment. Herrings also provide cellulose for plastics and high gelatin content for soap.
A model bicycle can be disassembled in fifteen seconds without tools. It lacks a top-cross bar, fitting adults and youths of both sexes. Its compact folded form suits cars, buses, trains, and other conveyances, aiding travel to the country for cycling. The unit uses a slip joint with a single nut under the handlebars, allowing the frame to break at the joint so wheels fold and handlebars swing down for compactness.
A collection of aphorisms from Lytton, Thoreau, Mabie, Brooks, Eddy, and Disraeli. It links will, labor, moral courage, and constancy to happiness, strength, and lasting achievement, urging steadfast adherence to right aims over mere activity. The quotes contrast busy life with purposeful action and sustained effort.
The passage notes poultry's longstanding role in customs and literature. It highlights the hen's maternal image and the cockcrow in Matthew, and explains the rooster as a pre-Christian Gothic war emblem later perched on church steeples to remind the faithful not to deny their Lord.
Women long seeking a diet that cuts bulges find rationing effective. Many regain slim lines once thought lost and become fitter, a view shared by medical men, factory welfare officers, and dietitians. Health levels after the war are reported higher than in the previous conflict, with older people noting improved fitness this time.
German newspapers carry advertisements asking for blotting paper to be used in making leather substitutes. The notices invite readers to donate or supply the needed material as part of a substitution craft effort.
A Winnipeg newspaper promo offers a low calorie plan to lose two pounds weekly using a 32 page booklet with a calorie chart, a 3 day liquid start, and 42 menus. It advertises affordable 15 cent add-ons on topics from dogs to golf and wedding planning.
Abdullah, an Arab demobilized from the French Army twenty times using false papers, collected 1000-franc bonuses each time and bought clothing. Police arrested him during the 21st demobilization while he wore a Croix de Guerre.
The British Broadcasting Corporation reports a photographic record will be made of Scotland’s famous buildings. The photographs are expected to prove valuable if the buildings are damaged in enemy air attacks.
A stark comment warns that greedy figures worldwide eye the dismantling of the British Empire amid an impending famine and social crisis, highlighting international appetite for power and resources during hardship.
In a quirky farming note residents report pigs will not eat beans and researchers confirm beans are not a universal pig staple. The piece pokes fun at common dietary beliefs and highlights surprising animal eating habits.
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