This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
2
The article notes the Merchant Navy often called the Silent Service and highlights its secret wartime operations. It emphasizes the vital part the British Navy plays in the Allied effort and the enormous transport work by Merchant seamen supporting Britain and its allies. Recent English figures shed light on this war at sea.
Figures describe Britain’s Merchant Navy transporting twenty to thirty million tons of materials annually and moving troops to frontlines. In 1942, stores and men were ferried around the Cape, with over one million tons of stores and half a million men for the North Africa campaign before November 1942. Condensed stats show about two thousand ships at sea, with only about 0.5 percent of convoys failing and eighty seven percent of sailors saved when ships are damaged.
Between 1941 and 1942 the Merchant Navy carried vast war materiel to Britain and its allies. Nearly 3,000 tanks and 3,080 airplanes were shipped to Russia, with nineteen large convoys navigating the perilous northern route. Seven hundred officers earned the OBE and 2,551 received gallantry decorations, including 200 foreign nationals serving with the Merchant Navy. A British writer praised the service as essential to Britain’s survival and war effort.
A Royal Ontario Museum spider expert notes two cobweb spiders indoors. The domestic spider, under an inch long and lightly colored, is harmless and preys on flies and clothes moths. Some see it as beneficial, others as a nuisance in a cleaned house.
Charles C. Price of the University of Windsor reported to the American Chemical Society that extracts from shoe polish and photographic developers yield chemicals promising new methods for making plastics including synthetic rubbers.
A brief note states ten feet is recorded as a length in a horse race. The reference includes the number 2515, implying an archival notation or measurement record.
The Huron Expositor notes that despite wartime pressures Britain has kept leisure high in priority. An example is 105,000 fans at the England Scotland football match in Glasgow on Saturday showing the nation’s willingness to enjoy sport amid sacrifice.
A report asserts rheumatic heart disease occurs more often in fair haired people than in dark haired individuals, suggesting a potential link between hair color and disease prevalence.
List of airmen who graduated under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan from No 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon Manitoba including LACs and WO ranks with names and home towns such as Dauphin Portage La Prairie Starbuck Winkler Delisle Quill Lake Muratare and others, noting commissions in Canada announced by Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters.
A Sheffield man, Corporal George Simpson, RAF, caused a stir in a Cairo cafe by offering to teach pancake making in exchange for payment, initiating a busy trade for British troops. National Safety Council studies show stopping a car on ice takes nine times longer than on dry pavement.
The passage argues that prairie youths possess a natural affinity for the sea due to their wide vision and the wind in their blood, making sailors feel at home on waters more readily than youths from Eastern Ontario valleys where horizons are closed by hills and woods. A natural link between prairies and sea is noted.
Record of Paddy Finucane, famed wing commander with D.S.C. and triple D.F.C., who was shot down last July over the English Channel while pilots still study films of his aerial combat taken by cameras fitted into his Spitfire wings.
Eric Stangroom Ottawa chief insurance officer said the federal unemployment insurance fund holds 120 million dollars and grows by five million monthly. Benefits paid total 500 thousand, while bond and investment earnings reach 1 million.
Suburban trains on the Euston to Watford route coast down grades to conserve energy. Signals inform the driver when to cut power, with officials estimating about nine tons of coal saved each day.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.