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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 13, 1941
Page
7
An advertisement cites Howeld E. Nichol of Pensz Saskatchewan claiming Kellogg’s All-Bran eased his digestive misery. The copy urges daily intake with ample water, noting gradual results unlike harsh purgatives. Available in London Canada produced Kellogg’s.
The article argues postwar demobilization plans must focus on veterans welfare and job creation. It urges rehabilitating agriculture in the West, using wheat surpluses for Europe, expanding eastern industry, and building new Canadian prosperity through leadership and resource development. It envisions a new social order with fuller employment and economic growth.
Principal R C Wallace of Queen’s University Kingston said in Winnipeg that eastern Canada now understands agriculture’s economic difficulties and that resolving them requires a national effort. He argued the war’s common purpose unites Canadians and fosters a broader view of agricultural problems across the Dominion beyond the prairies.
Mrs. C. L. Fortier, alleged world’s first typist and daughter of C. Latham Sholes, died at her Milwaukee home on her 14th birthday. Born to the Sholes family, she learned the keyboard about 1873 at age 15 on a perfected machine created by Sholes and Glidden.
Report notes that pedestrians account for two of the five fatalities in recent traffic collisions, highlighting higher vulnerability of walkers in urban areas and calls for enhanced roadway safety measures.
The Montreal Gazette reports a more than 50 percent expansion of Wartime Merchant Shipping, Ltd. cargo boatbuilding, with six additional freighters for Canadian Vickers at Montreal costing over 10 million dollars. Additional orders for 13 ships have been or will be placed with two other Quebec yards, six ships for Marine Industries at Sorel, and seven for Davie Shipbuilding at Lauzon. A new plant costing about 1 million dollars for boilers and Allied equipment may be built at Canadian Vickers to serve wartime shipbuilding nationwide.
In a small shipyard exchange a chief engineer scolds a pale young man with an oil can who claims to know the game. The apprentice, nervous, says his usual work is watch repairing while the chief asks for practical help with engines aboard the liner.
From the Czechoslovak Consulate the appeal reports Czechoslovak subjects in Batawa Ontario volunteering for the Czechoslovak Army in England. Many have military training as pilots or tank drivers and would join Allied forces if accepted by the Canadian Government, while others will aid by producing war munitions.
A group of English flyers who boasted of bombing Berlin traveled from London to Newfoundland and then to New York, arriving in a New York nightclub about 24 hours after the raid. The tale underscores rapid postraid movement by Allied airmen through the war period.
The Windsor Star urges that ferry pilots who fly bombing planes from this continent to Britain be honored after the war. These secretive flyers risk their lives daily, many dying in takeoffs and landings at sea, and their heroic service to the Empire deserves public tribute.
A briefing notes that the British Empire controls approximately one fourth of the globe's land area. It highlights the vast reach of colonial holdings and the scale of imperial influence across continents.
Mayo Foundation researchers warn U S military pilots will fly to nearly 8 miles next year and require preflight decompression for bends. Findings stress oxygen delivery methods and masks as planes ascend above 30 000 feet with risks of incapacitation or loss of consciousness if decompression is delayed.
Indian reserves in northern Canada see major savings as women use discarded military outfits to sew garments for their households. With needles and hand powered machines, they convert greatcoats jackets trousers shirts underwear puttees socks and gloves no longer fit for the armed forces into useful apparel, reducing government relief costs.
A comic exchange frames a light moment as a gentleman fills an insurance form asking about family insanity and a woman replies with a practical, witty denial. The snippet ends with a broader remark about the Axis and the peril it poses as time passes.
An old folk belief that frost causes the leaves to change color is challenged. Scientists explain autumn hues arise from leaf chemistry as chlorophyll degrades into plastids and carotenoids while sugars react to cooler nights, not from frost.
The article explains that candies were carried before a person by youths near the end of Edward VI's reign. It notes that candidacy for such service demanded steadiness and tact. Rejection occurred when a new applicant was deemed not fit to hold a candle to the prospective employer.
During the Middle Ages animals were solemnly tried across Europe for crimes such as murder and robbery, reflecting a legal culture that treated animals as respondents in social disputes and moral accountability within earthly courts.
Lord Haw-Haw, broadcasting from Luxembourg, reviewed the British press on Kiev’s fall and cited the Manchester Guardian. The Guardian reportedly calls for invasion, but the piece argues this contradicts its own lead article on War and Russia. The German claim is labeled mendacious propaganda.
Dutch airfield leaders remove aircraft propellers from isolated planes under heavy guard to thwart Dutch seizure and escape to Britain. The measure targets preventing Hollandera from taking planes to reach Britain, reflecting wartime security concerns.
The Flying Spindle, a German long-range bomber succeeding the Flying Pencil, is described as highly maneuverable capable of hedge-hopping.
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