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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1942
Page
4
Oliver Stewart argues air transport can supplement ships but cannot replace them for large scale freight. He notes aircraft could move heavy loads faster and with less exposure to sea routes, yet total wartime air lift remains far below ship capacity.
The Blagston Whig Standart notes Canadians discover that war requires sacrificing comforts once valued. Rationing the less essential has caused anticipation of tougher times ahead, challenging the belief that war cannot reach home.
A London workshop turns out a new stretcher worn on the back to carry wounded Commandos with hands free for rifles. It uses leather webbing and cane. The shop also makes petrol tanks for plane wings and webbing to Army jets at 20,000 weekly. They forge machete scabbards and a few baseball gloves for Canadian troops in Britain.
A Chinese military office spokesman says Japan uses bamboo floating islands in the Pacific as refueling depots and rest stations for planes and pilots. Chinese intelligence agents have photographed the islands, indicating their strategic role.
The Edmonton Journal reports that protests against draining manpower to eastern war industries seem successful. Provincial trade and industry minister Manning explains Ottawa’s reception of Albert delegates and that federal policy aims to move work to workers where possible without harming war production.
More than 325 Maine farmers have doubled garden and field seed acreage to aid national needs. They target 2,000,000 pounds of string beans for government shipment to needy nations, with nearly 30 vegetable seeds grown across 62 towns under government supervision and contract.
Kris A. Mapp of Toronto was elected president at the 40th annual convention in Calgary. He previously served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
Ben Lay and his son Fred found a buried silver coin hoard at Pilgrim’s Beach Plymouth Massachusetts. They unearthed 400 silver half dollars 38 silver dollars 50 in gold coins and 46 foreign pieces in a box wrapped in old Boston news paper dating from 1834 to 1795. The treasure likely dates to the Mexican War era around 1846 47 and Lay has been offered 2000 dollars for the collection.
Dr Margaret Newton of Winnipeg has spent a career advancing wheat rust study at the Dominion Rust Research laboratories. She emphasizes teamwork, notes massive savings to Canada, and recalls early methods to track rust spores in the atmosphere.
A crochet pattern 7379 describes a baby set in double crochet using Shetland Floss with white dainty flower stripes embroidered in lazy-daisy stitches. The pattern includes directions, stitch illustrations, and materials. To obtain, send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Manitoba with name and address and pattern number.
Harold Nicholson MP told the British House that propaganda must be judged by its results not by appearances. He warned of a habit to disparage British actions and cited last war where propaganda seemed effective to Hitler, urging that impact is measured only by outcomes.
Tradition holds that over nine centuries ago Norse explorers reached Nova Scotia by the sea and named the region Markland, a historic footnote in Canada's coastal story.
Article notes that conventional time conventions break at the North Pole where there is no true midnight. It explains how explorers and stations use flexible time references and local solar indicators for scheduling in polar conditions.
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