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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1947
Page
4
Dr Elizabeth Chant Robertson explains how viruses and bacteria cause colds and complications. Keep sick visitors away from infants and avoid crowded places during cold season. Dress babies properly, humidify air, wash hands, wear masks, and sponge bathe when ill.
In St Paul two businessmen unveil a putter with a built in spirit level to detect green curvature. USGA officials doubt approval while local pros split on legality, arguing it could aid play on deceptive courses but challenge remains whether such artificial aid would be sanctioned.
The article discusses chronic fatigue as a common doctor’s concern and stresses that most tiredness is not due to illness but to worry, poor sleep, excessive activities, or lack of relaxation. It advises tracking sleep, reassessing outside activities, and seeking health nurse or doctor guidance, citing the Canadian Medical Association committee. It notes medieval beliefs about peony for protection.
The notes advise etiquette for group interactions such as not whispering to one person in a trio and gifting etiquette for weddings where invited guests may give a gift but announced occasions need not. Separately guidance explains covering milk while heating to preserve vitamins and prevent skin formation, noting milk boils over if not watched.
British pilots report a mysterious illness linked to jet engines while authorities in Britain and the United States study a possible supersonic sickness. A London correspondent noted ear trouble in a man testing engines, suggesting vibration inaudible to humans may affect nearby people.
A poem contrasts easy growth with resilience, arguing that strength and character come from facing wind and storm. It ties the growth of timber to that of a man, noting that those who endure toil, hardship, and adversity become stronger and wiser, alike for trees and people. It enshrines a shared law of life.
While working in their shops two carpenters devised a method by attaching a two inch level to the back of a golf club head. They tested the idea for weeks and found it successful using the tube in the grip and other shaft points.
A half inch nylon rope is shown to lift three tons in a load test. The demonstration emphasizes nylon strength and practical lifting capacity for heavier loads.
Reports from clubs in the prairies show more women taking up curling this season. A Winnipeg Deer Lodge rink will charge a dime per hogged rock, with a bell ringing on each hog. Other items note Joe Louis planning one more title defense in June and the Johannesburg City League growing in South Africa.
An editor praises Kenneth Wells Owl Pen and Rod Kennedy The Road South. Owl Pen traces a wartime survivor rebuilt life on a northern Ontario farm with humor and vivid photos. Road South by Rod Kennedy offers veterans and families emotional soldiering details with interwoven love stories and enduring appeal.
New York Rangers publicist Stan Saplin leads a one man effort to ban the term hat trick from hockey while noting its hockey use is controversial. He questions the phrase origin and cites editors and newspapers using it without confidence as fans debate its meaning.
A customer complains to a dairy man about milk quality and grass feed. The milkman laments cows crying and tears in the milk, while the woman insists the tears should not go into her can.
A survey finds boys know more words than girls by age six, yet girls use their vocabulary more effectively. The results highlight differences in vocabulary size versus usage efficiency between genders.
A needlework pattern offers a framed prayer design for children. Pattern 7251 includes a 16 by 19 inch transfer, clear charts and photos, and complete directions. Send twenty five cents to the Household Arts Depart ment in Winnipeg with name address and pattern number.
Tokyo. Yukio Ozaki, Japan’s leading parliamentarian, called for abandoning the Japanese language in favor of English or Esperanto. He argued students could learn two foreign languages in the time now needed to master kanji and warned that Japanese words, especially abstract ones like democracy, are often ambiguous and romanized writing is unfeasible.
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