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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
7
The article contrasts German shock troops in isolated offensives with Red Army guerrilla warfare training. It notes the Red Army builds autonomous small units with pre located bases, capable of continuing battles after encirclement, and using mobile tanks and artillery to sustain resistance.
Campaigns for recruiting war charities Red Cross salvage conservation and war savings continue. Price controls rentals gasoline and other restrictions are expected to extend next year. Government relies on voluntary support education suasion and self sacrifice with limited enforcement. Public opinion backs war effort but profiteering will trigger tighter controls. The piece urges Canadians to act voluntarily to combat Nazism and open the door to sacrifice.
King Charles IT visited Dr Busby head master of Westminster School. The doctor walked with hat on, the king followed with hat under his arm. At departure the doctor humbly asked the king to excuse any lack of respect and said if boys saw a greater man than him he could not rule them.
A giant mammoth, trapped and frozen for about 30,000 years, resurfaced in northern Siberia’s Indigirka river due to unusually warm weather and melting permafrost in 1846. The discovery highlights ancient life preserved by ancient ice and recent thaw.
A 1900 catalog from Myers Co London lists celebrity letters with fixed prices. Winston Churchill early political letters fetch ten dollars, Charles Dickens commands twenty nine dollars and forty cents, Edward VIII as Duke of Windsor signed documents go twelve dollars and sixty cents. Wagner leads in music letters at seventy dollars, Verdi six, Puccini three sixty, Offenbach two, Nelson eighty for a pension note, while Florence Nightingale is priced at six dollars.
Tom recounted a Merseyside resident invited to shelter a child whose home had been bombed. He telegrammed a refusal saying no bed available. The next day the child arrived with bed and bedding sent in the guard's van on the train, to stay with him.
Drumheller RCMP veteran James Somers recalls a 1911 Arctic operation with Dr. C. W. Wilson at Fort McPherson N W T in which ice froze flesh to graft burned areas. Somers says more than 30 skin strips were taken with a razor graft to cover burns, an operation lasting three weeks with full recovery six months later.
The Ottawa Journal discusses Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's full name and lineage. It traces the Spencer Churchill family history from the Marlborough line to the American Jerome connection through his mother’s father, Leonard Jerome, noting the significance of the initial S in the Atlantic statement signed with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
W L Clark notes England uses linen and silk sheets to skirt clothing coupons and people order kilts to obtain cloth. A kilt needs eight coupons while a suit requires 26. He recalls earlier wartime uses of flour sacks and potato sacks for dresses and children’s garments amid hardship.
A reference notes the present global population is about two billion people. The figure appears in a historical context and reflects demographic estimates of the era. Strong entities include Earth and two billion. The tone resembles a concise census-like fact from the period.
Dissolve orange Jell-O in hot water then chill until thickened fold in halved grapes and diced pears turn into a mold and chill until firm unmold and serve with plain or whipped cream garnish with grapes yields six portions
In London it was revealed that Canadian destroyers played a major role in escorting Prime Minister Churchill to and from his Atlantic meeting with President Roosevelt. The ships also helped guard the battleship Prince of Wales when Churchill and Roosevelt conferred at sea, both during and after the Atlantic voyage.
Saskatchewan Red Cross workers report 427299 articles filed and 2288 cases shipped overseas since Oct 1 1939. Breakdown includes 196433 for armed forces, 1096 for ATS, 83990 for military hospitals, 135780 for civilian relief plus 125746 socks 12063 sweaters 39000 mitts for men, 39750 pyjamas 22487 bed gowns 4206 bandages and 23704 pyjamas for civilians. Since war began 10417 articles supplied to military units and local hospitals in province.
A brief remark highlights travel salesmen as skilled communicators due to their itinerant lifestyle. The note suggests adaptability and social ease gained from frequent movement and distance from home.
New Orleans inventor E J Serpas, with roots in homemade flight, works on an improvised airplane motor he claims will halve weight without reducing horsepower. He has submitted specifications to the war department, asserting a 90 pound model can deliver 95 horsepower.
The quote suggests that opportunity exists broadly but individuals must seek and identify their own path. It emphasizes self initiative, discovery, and personal responsibility in seizing chances presented by life.
The Chicago Daily News notes Japan’s rapid retreat from its earlier industrial ascent. Once a world leader in cotton textiles and bulk cloth exports, Japan’s outbound trade halved after 1936 37 due to the China incident and the war. Indian mills and rivals reorganized to challenge Nipponese dominance.
Three Englishmen started the auction bridge game in India, introducing a card pastime to a regional audience. Football teams of Texas Christian University are known as the Horned Frogs.
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