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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 10, 1945
Page
2
A wartime Q and A explains rental periods up to five months exempt from termination rules, lists recently removed fancy meats from the ration, lifts restrictions on farm machinery while honoring outstanding ration certificates, and instructs how to obtain ration points for travel to the United States.
Britain, the United States and Allied forces saw Hong Kong fall early in the Pacific War. Canadian troops defended the colony. Captain Wallace Creery and Major Kay signed the surrender document. The Ontario and Prince Robert fired 21 guns in salute as Japanese rule ended.
Hong Kong, a Crown Colony at the mouth of the Canton River, comprises Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula with Victoria city along the southern shore. In 1940 its population reached about 1,071,893 with Chinese forming over 1,047,000, and Britain acquired the territory in 1841 after the Canton exchange. The era before 1941 saw steady progress, with hospitals, education facilities, a teacher training college, an evening institute, and the University of Hong Kong established through Chinese cooperation.
Hong Kong, famed harbour city of seventeen square miles water area, houses docks for the largest ships and serves as a major world commerce hub for China and the Far East. It was a key Pacific port in 1939 and reopens peaceful institutions as war ends, resuming normal trade and communications with Americas, Europe, Australia and Africa.
The Scottish Command has pressed for bringing back kilts in Highland regiments. The British War Office places it under active consideration. Major H. M. Douglas Home says kilts are a luxury item and recovery awaits essential European clothing needs. Material shortages and kilt-making labor pose big hurdles.
An English seaport inventor harnesses tidal range of up to 80 feet to generate from 30 to 230 horsepower by capturing seawater in tanks and using its fall to drive a turbine. This innovative setup explores tidal energy potential at coastal facilities.
The Vancouver Province reports 188 repeaters in Canadian prisons have spent 2037 years in confinement costing 1,348,130.76 for maintenance. With conviction costs, the total bill rises to 4,607,090, averaging 25,453.24 per offender to taxpayers.
The water buffalo ranks as the second most dangerous wild animal in India while serving as a common domestic animal across various regions. This contrast highlights its revered yet perilous status in local farming and wildlife contexts.
A collection of short, humorous exchanges and quips. A wife birthday gift joke, a son and father turn on marriage, a convalescent’s hospital bill comment, a neighbor’s take on a husband’s sixth departure with golf clubs, a disarmament quip about bridges and poker, a prison scene over money or days, a judge and prisoner exchange, and a Sunday school anecdote about making one person happy with Junior’s Aunt Mary visit.
Clothing collection aims to reach every home from coast to coast with gifts of usable garments for war displaced people. In rural areas Post Offices will forward bundles to central warehouses while cities use local depot networks. Footwear must be tied in pairs to prevent loss and ensure efficient sorting and shipping.
A compact collection of quotations on temperance and moderation from William Gilmore, Terence, Bicele, Mary Baker Eddy, Cicero, and Timothy Dwight. The excerpts explore enjoying ordinary things, restraint in thought and deed, meekness, and the dominion of reason over passion as core virtues.
In 1935 an automatic SOS alarm was introduced for vessels without a radio operator on constant watch. The system sought to improve distress signaling when crews could not monitor until help arrived.
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In Saskatoon and Regina accounts, CWAC officer Sgt Ellen Chrestenson recalls training and duties from 1942 to 1945. The article highlights CWACs formed auxiliaries across nine districts, postwar life plans with Department of Veteran Affairs support, and a humorous interlude about nurses-in-training.
The note traces the reaper's evolution from an 70 A.D. beast-drawn device in Gaul to Cyrus McCormick’s development of the modern mechanical reaper, highlighting the lineage of agricultural mechanization.
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