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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
2
The City of London is described as the heart of the Empire and a historic seat of Parliament. It is an active industrial center and busy port, contributing a large share of Britain’s prewar imports and industrial output, and longstanding as a global financial center.
The article describes London as a historic city with 677 acres and 9000 residents, surrounded by Greater London’s districts forming a metropolis of over 8 million. It notes the Lord Mayor’s ancient title, postwar housing and transport needs, and extensive prewar construction plans now expanded by wartime bomb damage, with emphasis on reconstruction.
The piece recalls London’s rich history and cultural legacy despite war damage, noting landmarks remain and art treasures endure. It envisions postwar renewal with clearance of slums, new housing, and continued industrial growth, while thanking service members from Canada and the Empire who have visited. London is described as the heart of the Empire.
The onion is found to contain a mysterious bacteria-destroying substance that acts differently from other compounds. Scientists note onions’ health value lies in their dense medicaments rather than vitamins, explaining why onions have long fueled meals like steak with fried onions and why they outshine kale and broccoli in vitamin content.
The report notes two large Burmese cities surpassing half a million residents, with Rangoon leading at about 500,000 and Mandalay reported at roughly 163,000. The figures emphasize urban concentration in Burma.
Werner argues Hitler treated the war as a personal hobby and game. He cites Hitler telling Neville Henderson he preferred war at fifty to fifty five or sixty, portraying Hitler as a playboy rather than a strategic general.
A collection of maxims stressing truthfulness and rectitude in friendship. Quotes from Channing Hell Confucius Puller Mary Baker Eddy and Felt ham urge choosing friends for virtue and sincerity, advise gradual growth in closeness, and warn against overburdening others with time and thought.
More than 600 ancient implements including quartzite segai heads and stone tools are dated from 60,000 to 10,000 B.C. The discovery highlights a rich range of early human tech and toolmaking in the examined collection.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers questions about ration books tea and coffee coupons and price limits for blacksmiths. If a child is 12 by April 13 tea and coffee coupons stay in the book. new issuance applies to those turning 12 after that date. Blacksmith price hikes to 50 and 75 cents require permission or use of 1941 prices as baseline.
In Italy a Shirley soldier riding a truck halted on a road when a fellow soldier stepped to the back and found his brother aboard. Sgt Syd Roberts and Cpl Norman Roberts of Cranmore Road Shirley, serving with the RASC, had not met since the war began. Syd enlisted January 1940, Norman September 1939, with service across France, Iraq, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily, El Alamein, Tobruk and Crete.
The article warns that vitamin C is easily degraded by heat and advises protecting this nutrient. It uses an analogy with a family member named C and instructs to minimize heat when preparing foods like soup with canned tomatoes or tomato juice, suggesting a short waiting period before serving.
Hector C. Hamilton of Worthing England, 40, winner of Premier Stalin's prize, designed the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. The $75 million project covers 30 acres by the Moscow river, will rise over 80 stories with 60 elevators and 16 escalators, and include a 24 000 seat auditorium and a 6000 seat smaller hall.
Women's Army Corps promotes Captain Helen Jessop Hunt of Vancouver to acting major and Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at CWAC Headquarters. She will serve in Col. Margaret Eaton's office after previously heading the Directorate of Accommodation and Fire Prevention at National Defence Headquarters Ottawa. Hunt enlisted January 1942 and earned her commerce degree from the University of Alberta.
Southwark council asks London County Council to declare the recently found 12th century rose window of Winchester Palace Bankside an ancient monument. Preservation aims to protect the stained glass and architectural heritage for future generations.
A long standing farm tool, the wheelbarrow gains new urban relevance as 20 million city and suburban residents join the Victory Garden program. Its simple box and wheel support everyday home projects and even playful rides to the garage after work.
A collection of light military humor and backstage one liners from soldiers and officers. Jokes cover married life, training, food in camp, camouflage mishaps, family finances, courtroom banter, and village life with pithy lines and playful wordplay. Prominent topics include wedding speech from the throne, towels stolen from a Montreal hotel, and camouflage the gun before lunch.
The Ottawa Journal's London Letter suggests leaving a blitzed church as a memorial to German culture. St Clement Danes, a charred Strand church near the Law Courts, is proposed as the ideal memorial with its history and the Johnson effigy in the yard.
Dr Alexander Fleming forecasts penicillin will save more lives than war destroys and will be produced in quantity for civilian use. He expects further breakthroughs beyond the initial discovery and notes it would be odd if the first discovered remained the best.
The quotation from Jan Smuts presents a philosophical view of the world as a friendly whole. It argues that while not all individuals or items are worthy of approval, the world itself possesses a soul and a fundamental relation to each person that transcends other ties.
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