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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
3
The article reflects on wartime food regulations in Canada, noting rationing causes inconvenience but ensures a sufficient, satisfactory diet. It contrasts Canada’s food security with liberated Europe, emphasizing gratitude for current supplies and resilience amid restrictions.
It should be remembered that sacrifices will provide food for the starving people of Europe. We share in this undertaking with Great Britain, the United States, and other Allied nations able to help. Food from Allies is not sent to Germany. they must manage their own food production with no outside aid. Europe’s prewar malnutrition demands nourishment to restore health, and we can aid by making necessary sacrifices.
The piece notes global shortages during the rehabilitation period. Britain faced ongoing rationing with reduced meat, sugar, fats, and oils since Europe’s end of war. It mentions US meat shortages and stresses no return to peace and plenty until worldwide conditions improve.
The Admiralty disclosed the costly, little publicized struggle of British minesweepers in Europe. About 237 vessels were lost and 16 000 mines cleared as German mining and air attacks sought to paralyze ports such as Sunderland Hartlepool Middlesbrough Blyth Dunkirk Calais Boulogne.
A quirk of avian anatomy lists four feather types: fight feathers used in defense, clothing feathers for display, t owny feathers for insulation, and thread feathers for lining.
Workmen dismantle Curzon House flat prepared in 1942 as a backup for the King and Queen. The 30 room Royal residence housed furniture from Buckingham Palace and included a bomb and gas proof shelter. The only permanent resident was a formidable housekeeper identified as Mrs Freeman.
GE research notes that a cigarette end reaches temperatures just above the melting points of aluminum or magnesium, yet the tobacco acts as an insulator preventing burns to the smoker’s lips.
Britain plans a peace-time bill totaling about 50 million pounds to end the blackout in Europe. Much of the money will go toward clearing grass and plants on thousands of acres to restore industrial activity.
Questions answer how wartime price controls affect rural labor, meals, and rentals. It covers transient labor meals, summer cottages rental limits, hotel coupon values, and sugar coupon worth, plus where to obtain the Consumers News pamphlet.
A collection of brief humorous lines features a grocer praising samples, a bride joking about long time favorites, a driving lesson miscue with Grandma and Mrs Johnson, a judge and tramp quip about prior appearances, and quick gags on shopping, court, and parade delays.
A battleship draws in and expels air at a rate that, over a day, matches roughly half the volume of the owster 48,000 ton ship. The description emphasizes the massive scale of the vessel’s ventilation needs and propulsion-related airflow.
During the height of V attack fears last year a man promised to donate £5 weekly to war charities as long as his home and staff remained safe. A V-2 damaged his house near the end of the ordeal, but he kept the pledge. He sent his cheque to the SSAFA for education of a service man's child or to aid a war widow.
Marine Lieut George Thompson and four Marines encountered 350 Japanese in an Okinawa clearing. While signaling from a command post via walkie talkie he used psychological tactics by offering four packs of cigarettes to the Nips. The Japanese then began a mass suicide, with over 150 killing themselves and their women.
About 75 geese died near Devil's Lake North Dakota prompting questions on lightning effects. North Dakota Outdoors cites bafflement by officials while GE Research Lab notes geese could be struck and killed by lightning even if they were in metal body flight.
Wealthy Birmingham merchant William Keep who avoided sports travel and swimming left most of his £168,113 fortune to Birmingham Corporation. The gift funds playing fields tram and bus shelters and swimming and paddling pools after he observed commuters standing in rain, prompting the act.
A German POW working on a sugar beet farm near Nampa Idaho said Hitler promised a march across North America but not on hands and knees, a remark reflecting captivity and forced labor during wartime.
Shortening and sugar beat with egg, then add sifted flour salt baking powder All Bran and milk. Fold in cherries and bake muffins two thirds full in a hot oven about 25 minutes. Clip and buy Kellogg's All Bran for two convenient sizes and regularity.
Oakville Ontario hosts a service women’s health centre opened last January for Wrens CWACs and WDs offering rest and relaxation. Capt Betty Anderson oversees fitness classes while patients enjoy crafts dance swimming films and outings. Several CWACs from Saskatchewan joined, including Bernadette Gervais Irene Picard and Rebecca Fetterley.
Oliver E. Ebel of the Kansas medical society cites a chlorophyll based drug showing healing miracles at an army hospital in Topeka Kansas. He says it stops wound drainage and is among the most potent wound healers discovered.
A collection of maxims from figures like David Lloyd George John Galsworthy Tennyson Channing Eddy and Madame Chiang Kai Shek. They advocate justice over force universal peace love forgiving foes and living by spiritual truth. The voice emphasizes forgiveness and learning from suffering.
The Windsor Star notes a 96 year old Michigan woman stays strong and busy. The piece downplays grandiose claims of high activity, pointing out she never engaged in social duties or demanding labor, yet still reflects on her quiet resilience.
Among the Romans fire-towers and signal lights served an important role in military campaigns, enabling rapid communication across distant positions and coordinating marches and engagements.
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