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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1947
Page
2
An analysis of Canada’s role as interpreter between Britain and the United States. It notes war-era diplomacy changes and the ongoing need for Canadian diplomatic engagement, highlighting Canada’s increasingly important place in world affairs after the war.
Sir Shuktham Redfern argues Canada’s key diplomatic task is to keep close friendship between Great Britain and the United States amid growing anti democratic forces. He says Canada must mobilize skill, conciliation, imagination, and constant vigilance, aided by inexhaustible patience.
The passage stresses learning from past errors by uniting Western nations against aggression. It contends that if Germany’s leaders faced firm, united action from Britain the United States and Western Europe, the outcome of prior conflicts could have differed. It urges Canada to uphold this unity as a critical global role.
A collection of brief maxims on truth, justice, inspiration, and the conscience from Mary Baker Eddy Azel Backus H B Stowe and others. The quotes emphasize truth as divine guidance addressing understanding and spirit rather than fleshly passions, and the power of truth and love in governing humanity and divine order.
Spokane architect and wife start a 100000 model dairy farm at Chat Wash as a memorial to their son killed in Okinawa. The 280 acre project will fund college scholarships from farm profits and will feature modern machinery a six room house a 44 by 80 barn a shop and shed with completion in two years. The couple says the project best perpetuates his memory.
A vintage cake recipe yields a rich chocolate cake with 5 eggs, nuts and melted chocolate. Ingredients include cake flour, butter or shortening, sugar, walnuts, sour milk or buttermilk, vanilla, and leavening soda with salt. Instructions cover creaming, beating eggs, folding in nuts and chocolate, alternating flour and milk, and baking at 325 to 350 degrees in various pan sizes with approximate times.
Combine sugar corn syrup and chocolate with salt and cream. Boil to 234 degrees, then add more cream and reboil to 234 degrees. Cool in a pan, mark into forty squares, and cut once firm. Let dry in a cool place.
Oregon State Highway plans a heated pavement trial in a 510 foot section on the east edge of Klamath Falls. The project would tap local natural hot water wells to pipe hot water through the pavement to prevent icing and improve winter driving conditions.
A national RCMP release details a rise in criminal activity in Canada for 1947 with 34 638 incidents including 6 391 more than the prior year. It notes increases in breaking and entering theft and car robberies, plus a detailed case involving a safe cracking operation, two suspects, scent-tracking dogs, and a $500 cash seizure with an explosive device recovered.
A comic page excerpt presents villagers and neighbors swapping quips about aging, endorsements, equality, weighty bargains, dog bowls with inscriptions, and humorous family sayings. It features a hundred year old man negotiating cereal endorsements, a jealous husband, a sharp wife, a fortune from butter and sugar, job interviews with a wife’s warning, a wife’s shoe size joke, wardrobe clearouts, a quiet boy, dreams of hair, and a charity hat joke ending with a prayerful note of hat luck.
Canada dominates the judging day winning Wheat and Oats championships. Alex M. Stewart of Ailsa Craig, a renowned seed grower, claimed top oat honors with a Beaver sample and earned the title Oat King of North America.
SaskatchewanRCMP constable Bill Brace, while passing through Dagwood, ordered an enormous sandwich with four bread slices, tomatoes, fried eggs, beets, onions, lettuce, ham, two hot dogs, a banana, a potato, beef, pork and cabbage for 35 cents.
The whale shark, the largest fish, has teeth too small to bite and absorbs its food via filter feeding through the gills rather than using its teeth.
University of Alberta student Phil Allan, traveling through the Northwest Territories and Yukon, carried a writer and clarinet in his pack. He paddled a Mackenzie River sternwheeler, visited Fort Yukon, and joined a full dress Indian wedding before planning to write a book about his six month journey and perhaps take the items to the Orient.
Six cows were flown into Yellowknife, 675 air miles north of Edmonton, aboard a commercial aircraft to support a new milk supply. Fresh milk sells for 65 cents a quart in the furthest north mining town.
In Toronto, Gordon Haughton waited months for delivery of his new motorcar and won a car in a lucky draw, while in Los Angeles Mrs. Patricia Wismaningily retired. A reporter noted her baby crawled to the accelerator, praising the originality of the anecdote but fining $25.
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