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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
3
An unnamed Arab fighter walked 1500 miles from Tunis to join the Free French army in a five month trek. Geoffrey Painting, youngest RAF pilot, is missing believed killed two days before his 18th birthday.
A Winnipeg newspaper Home Service ad promotes a 32-page dog care booklet with tips on housebreaking feeding and health, plus other 15-cent booklets on topics from cartooning to budgeting weddings. It urges sending coins to the Home Service Dept. at 173 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man and lists additional titles with code numbers and prices.
Igor Sikorsky announced a three plane design being built for American export lines that can fly 3000 miles at 200 mph with 40 passengers. The craft, weighing about 29 tons, is set for its first test flight next month and has Navy orders for three military variants.
The pattern offers a two piece frock with a trimmed blouse and belt, plus a skirt with a front center panel. Suggests mixing jacket and skirt with other outfits and using plaid wool for mid season wear. Sizes 14 to 42 with 243 yards 54 inch fabric for size 16 jacket and skirt. Send 26 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
Italian composer Verdi agreed to donate a lock of hair for a charity bazaar and disappeared behind a curtain. The crowd paid high prices as scissors clicked. When he reappeared his hair remained white and his valet appeared shaved, leaving the fundraiser as a humorous ruse with profits for charity.
The combined oil wells of Iraq and Iran are estimated to produce 20 million tons of oil annually or more, signaling substantial regional energy capacity.
Wartime metal shortages push Britain to supply Canada with plush animals and woollen toys and engineering construction sets. The move supports ongoing trade programs to maintain markets for postwar expansion, despite tight shipping and the war effort.
The Ark Royal began as a Tudor era ship renamed from Ark Raleigh during Elizabeth I’s reign to counter Spanish threats. It served as flagship in the Armada era, was a 800 ton vessel with 55 guns and 400 men, bought for £5000. The modern Ark Royal, finished near war, was 22,000 tons with 32 knot speed, 60 aircraft and about 1,600 crew. Windsor Star.
The government urged housewives to economize on coal by not washing dishes or clothes under open hot water faucets. It also called for reducing daytime radio use and heating of bedrooms to stretch fuel supplies during a coal shortage.
Empire Unity urges tuberculosis prevention as total war strains health services. Britain and Canada stock Christmas Seals printed months ago and used overseas. Organizations in both countries mobilize to keep TB under control with the call to action Buy and Use Christmas Seals.
All-Bran's nutty flavor enhances raisin bread with new fillings like cream cheese celery melted chocolate or maple sugar, making tea time tastier for family and friends. The recipe mixes 1 egg 1 cup All-Bran 4 cup sugar 2 12 cups flour molasses 2 teaspoons baking powder cup sour milk or buttermilk 143/ teaspoons salt 13 teaspoons melted shortening 13 teaspoons soda 12 cup chopped raisins. Beat egg, add sugar and liquids, stir in All-Bran and raisins, then flour mixture. bake in greased loaf pan 350 degrees F about one hour yield one loaf.
Sunday School lesson outline references golden text We love because he first loved us from I John 4 19. Includes Leviticus Deuteronomy and Matthew verses plus John 3 16 13 34 35 and 1 Corinthians 13. Fragments highlight love duty and scripture cross references.
The article explains Jesus’ new commandment to love one another as proof of discipleship, contrasting with Leviticus. It cites John 13 34 and 1 Corinthians 13 to show love as the essential motive and measure of true faith, with love rooted in God as its source.
The St. Thomas Times-Journal cites a London Times essay drawing a parallel between extinct birds the dodo and the great auk and Britain’s wartime air power. It notes how flightless birds fell to explorers and how Britain later mobilized aviation to repel threats. A London company now claims a device to limit car speed to the legal limit.
Early Dutch and English settlements in America used wampum as legal tender. The practice reflected colonial trade norms and indigenous exchange patterns influencing currency use in frontier communities.
Frank Chamberlain argues Canada faces widespread malnutrition and sensory and heart ailments among children, with official data showing many youths unfit for service. He urges prenatal care, stronger school health exams, rural health units, full-time medical officers, expanded health clinics, and renewed federal grants to revive public health nationwide.
In Franklin Nebraska a dog near a corn binder slipped in, and moments later emerged uninjured but wrapped in corn stalks. A Roman clockmaker Dante Battarini reportedly pulled a large automobile with six passengers 300 yards uphill using a rope clenched in his teeth.
A Swedish study notes more than 2,500,000 bicycles are in use nationwide, equating to five bicycles for every 12 residents. The finding highlights cycling as a prevalent transportation mode and suggests strong urban mobility patterns across the country.
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