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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
3
The article stresses civilians now act as front line in war, with Canadians supporting a vast war effort. It notes many men in service and industry mobilization, highlighting women's large, perhaps underappreciated, role in national production and support for the United Nations.
In August 1940 census 2,285,370 Canadian women listed as housewives. Many joined war industries or supported home life and morale while others organized salvage drives nutrition health evacuee placement blood donor work and family welfare. Women’s patriotic groups raise several million dollars annually for war services.
In 1942 about 5 500 Canadian women wore official armed services uniforms and 75 000 worked in munitions plants, freeing men for service. Women also held Wartime Prices and Trade Board roles and led in major war industries. Nursing sisters numbered 875 in the Army with services also in Navy and Air Force.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round reports Nazi threats to curb French Atlantic fishing near Gibraltar amid mass desertions to the British. British cutters use loudspeakers to urge enlistment, while Vichy escorts fire over swimmers to deter desertions.
A collection of humorous quips and short gags about family, manners, and everyday situations. Jokes touch on wills, school notes, hot dogs, sales pitches, and misunderstandings, aiming for lighthearted laughs with playful wordplay and social observations.
List of graduates from multiple air observer, navigator and bombing schools across Canada. Names include LACs and locations such as Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Rivers, Macdonald, and Saskatoon regions. Entries cover No. 5 7 and 1 central navigation and gunnery schools with numerous Canadian towns and provinces represented.
A grocer lists Kellogg's All-Bran in two convenient sizes made in London Canada. The note claims: no more dosing constipation, corrected cause.
Wartime shifts in living habits push reliance on quick meals as women join munitions and Civil Defence work. Soda crackers touted for nutrition and long shelf life with low moisture enabling storage. Christie’s crackers claim 109 calories per cent versus beef at 17. Nazis order Slovak farmers to grow rapeseed for oil.
The article advises planning a Victory Garden to supply a family with continuous harvests through summer and early autumn. It recommends staggered sowings for crops like carrots, beets, beans, kohlrabi, spinach, peas and radishes to avoid waste, use pods while tender, and consider canning needs. It also notes Canadians share surplus with others and to request guidance from federal or provincial agriculture departments.
A collection of concise aphorisms stressing firmness of purpose and integrity. Quotes from Mencius Hazlitt Hawthorne and Eddy urge decisive action and direct guidance from God, while Punshon and James 1 8 warn against double mindedness and inconsistency.
The article warns that parcels with flammable substances sent by mail risk heat buildup in ships holds and possible catastrophic explosions on armed merchant vessels. It notes laws prohibit sending matches and lighter fluids through the mails and calls the practice a threat to Canada’s war effort and to postal, railway, and seafaring personnel.
An enormous lathe, the largest machine tool in South Africa, is fitted at Iscor steel works in Pretoria to enable ship repair work including turning large propeller shafts for ships.
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