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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
3
A Canada and Newfoundland Education Association survey argues for postwar reforms focusing on health services for children, equalized opportunities, and larger rural school units. It recommends transportation or hostels for distant pupils, new and repaired buildings, more supervisors, and programs to assist teachers, especially in primary grades.
A government report details wide variance in per pupil spending from $31.70 to $83.38 and an average teacher’s salary of $782. It advocates doubling current annual school expenditure, abolishing fees, scholarships for gifted students, raising average teacher pay to $1,321, expanding libraries, and extending school-leaving age to sixteen with part-time attendance until eighteen.
Readers share relief from constipation after using Kellogg's All-Bran as a bulk forming dietary aid. The ad promotes regular use, muffins as an option, and ample water, listing Kellogg's London Can production and grocer availability.
The London Daily Sketch reports Lord D'Abernon spent large sums to ease Berlin duties as Britain’s first ambassador to the Weimar Republic. The embassy front was painted bright yellow, puzzling Berliners during his tenure after the war.
The royal command performance in England requires stagehands to wear evening dress and white gloves when shifting scenery, ensuring decorum and formal presentation during the event.
A future phone that answers itself and talks back was predicted by Bell Telephone Laboratories. It uses a magnetic tape to record messages that can be erased and reused. If unanswered, the caller can talk to the tape, then the called person hears the message when they arrive home.
The Brierley Hill council advertised for a rat catcher at five pounds weekly but received few bids. It re advertised with a rodent operative at four pounds ten shillings a week and drew some responses.
Augustus Muir lauds Mr. Dalton as the cabinet’s driving force in wartime Britain. Dalton sleeps near his office and returns after dinner, rarely visiting his country house or his wife, while guiding wartime economic and foreign policy and having prior service in France and Italy with honor.
If backaches or disturbed sleep occur the kidneys may not cleanse poisons from blood. Signs include backache dizzy spells puffy eyes and rheumatic pains. Use GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules with Dutch Drops to help. available in Canada as a 40c package from a druggist.
A collection of brief aphorisms and quotes on trust truth and faith. Notable lines reference Samuel Johnson George MacDonald Mary Baker Eddy M Henry Geikie John Burroughs and themes of integrity reliance and divine trust in life and time.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board explains bar weights for chocolate and confectionery. How to obtain ration books for newborns and how to handle books after death. Advice for rent concerns, and how war brides access ration books via local boards and provincial offices.
A single careless match dropped in pine needles risks large property damage in a national forest, potentially more destruction than many incendiary bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.
Cairo reports Mrs. Della Hanson of Hutchinson Minnesota became housekeeper to Haile Selassie after British entry to Addis Ababa. She supervises five cooks and introduces American dishes like strawberry tarts potato salad and planked steaks while also purchasing the Empress's dresses for the Ethiopian court.
The Eighth Army sappers and 100 laborers built a 1,200 foot bridge in 10 days across a river. About 380 sappers from across the Empire worked at night under floodlights and Gen Montgomery helped move a girder. A officer suggested the name Ponte Monty, which the force adopted informally.
Three British destroyers pressed a daring assault within range of Scharnhorst's heavy 14 inch guns. The bold attack achieved the goal and contrasted with Duke of York's gunfire, while Scharnhorst took no part in the action.
A Soviet report recounts a captured German officer answering where his division was with I’m the division a quip referencing subtraction or subtraction like a pun about a unit. The exchange highlights morale and humor amid combat.
During the Yukon gold rush miners paid ten dollars per egg, a high price reflecting scarce supplies. The article notes how eggs became a valued commodity among prospectors and influenced daily camp life.
Colonel John L Llewellyn told London women that food rationing will continue for years beyond the war. He cited the need to keep farm production up by protecting young men on farms in Britain and across Canada the United States Australia and New Zealand.
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