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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 20, 1949
Page
3
A brief AP dispatch reports on Simon in a cut context with unclear details and references to Ita writ. The fragment notes a mention of Lomhen and refermh tw as part of an incomplete summary with no clear event or outcome.
Simon the cat receives the Dickin Medal the highest British honor for animals after remaining aboard the crippled Amethyst during Chinese shelling on the Yangtse river. Simon endured shrapnel and fire while helping clear rats and boosting crew morale aboard the ship before it fled to the sea.
A mosaic of wartime notes and opinions from Canadian papers discusses Victoria Cross recipients and a British context, then shifts to views on the atom bomb and the need for broad human insight. It also covers Canadian history interest, evangelists in Britain, and the fate of stewardesses in Britain’s air services.
The excerpts discuss high school football as a distraction from education in Hazelton Pennsylvania, German party mergers in the Weimar era, Ontario road hogging on highways, boxcar travel curiosities, Russian Yugoslavia tensions, Yugoslavia’s fate, and Canada’s need for settlers amid quotas debate. The tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century editorial digest.
John R. MacNicol, former MP, argues a Winnipeg to Edmonton steamship service on the North Saskatchewan River could be restored to 1870s levels. He says proper dams and canals would enable the service and the electric power generated would cover the investment.
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