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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
2
Wartime conditions strain civilians with labour shortages, scarce equipment, housing and transit issues. Troop trains and war material shipments take priority on railways while rationing and taxes add to daily burdens. Banks and railways work to ease wartime restrictions and support the war effort.
March 1 marked the launch of ration banking, allowing dealers with monthly rationed sales over 5 000 dollars or those handling many coupons to open ration accounts. Dealers deposit coupons and receive negotiable vouchers for replenishing their supplies of rationed foods.
Royal Bank of Canada review notes banks already use the system in Britain and the United States. It highlights butter rationing requiring about ten million coupons weekly and the repeated transfers through multiple levels, stressing the burden on manpower and the banks’ role in easing the process.
Defence Minister Ralston tabled two orders in council to align the legal status of armed forces members in cars with civilians. One allows civilian injured by a service member’s negligence in duty to sue the Crown if negligence is found before June 13 1943, recalling a recent court ruling about drivers not being “officers or servants” of the crown. The other removes the government's right to claim compensation from owners or drivers for injuries to service members riding as passengers.
With local Turkish authorities, the British Council inaugurated an English lending library in Istanbul. A second library in Ankara shares access to about 20 000 volumes, mostly technical works, supplied by the British Council and reportedly in high demand in Turkey.
The piece notes new English terms like appeasolationist coined in Chicago and Alcanusapanamex proposed for Alaska Canada U S A Panama and Mexico. It comments on deplanement a term for seat loss on a flight and unilateral arbitration as a war substitute. Officials say butter ration remains fixed hoping for no increase this winter.
Lady Montgomery, mother of General Bernard L. Montgomery, speaks at a Donegal manor about her son’s aim to capture Erwin Rommel. She notes his devotion to the army, writes from the desert, and recalls the Montgomery family’s long Irish roots with sons scattered globally.
A collage of light vignettes and jokes from wartime Britain includes a bomb shelter quip about false teeth, a teacher asking why to be kind to the poor, a child’s view of aging, editor remarks on poems, family squabbles, and a Lancashire clock riddle. The Smithsonian note mentions eight specimens of blue sheep among the world’s rare mammals.
The Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters releases a list of newly commissioned airmen including navigators and air crew such as Kenton Atos Sere and Mike Kwirok. The lengthy roster spans multiple bases and provinces, highlighting numerous locations from Saskatchewan to Alberta and Manitoba.
The resources department urged public help to cut fire losses as fewer visitors and staff led to higher damage when fires occurred. Last year’s fire costs reached 3,550,181 dollars with 1,838,471 acres burned, below the 10-year averages, while British Columbia Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia saw above normal losses amid wartime staffing shortages.
Car owners should regularly check storage batteries as neglect shortens life and causes failures. Service staff should record specific gravity readings every two weeks and advise a thorough recharge if discharge appears. Inspect the electrical system to ensure charging keeps the battery fully charged under current driving habits.
In wartime, avoid harsh laxatives and fix constipation by daily Kellogg's All-Bran. Eat it as cereal or in warm muffins, drink plenty of water, and see if daily All-Bran improves regularity. Made by Kellogg's in London, Canada.
Garden notes urge staggered sowings of beans carrots corn beets and other vegetables and using early mid and late varieties to extend harvest. Water hose care mulch and steady cultivation help preserve moisture curb evaporation and keep greens coming through hot dry spells.
A joke gone wrong sparks a feud as one resident retorts by telling the neighbor to use the oil on his wife when she sings, illustrating a quarrel that halted all cordial relations between households.
Frederick J. Fowler of Malmsbury Wiltshire England a farmer was fined about 20 dollars for using his car to visit a farmer's daughter six miles away.
The Pach family produced eight generations of musicians with twenty nine notable members from Wert Bach in 1559 to Johann Sebastian Bach who achieved the greatest fame in music.
The Ramsay Company patent attorneys offer a free list of inventions and full information to every inventor. Located at 273 Bank Street Ottawa Canada, the notice invites inventors to request patent help and guidance from registered professionals.
The United Kingdom Information Office names Hilary A. St. George Saunders as the prolific writer known as the man who outsold Hitler. He authored Bomber Command Battle of Britain Coastal Command and Air Sea Rescue and now pens the official history Combined Operations with a foreword by Lord Mountbatten. Saunders has seen 12 million copies sold in 24 languages, more than twice Germanys Mein Kampf.
A collection of short quotes on conscience from Whewell Adams Channing Mary Baker Eddy H C Trumbull and Daniel Webster. The selections discuss conscience as judgment of right and wrong, the blessing of a tender conscience, and the link between conscience and divine guidance.
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