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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
3
Ellen Carroll feeds a tramp blamed by neighbor Mrs Murphy as birds of prey while facing a strike and a flood survivor tale. Ellen’s faith in strangers wavers until Big John’s arrival reveals the day’s moral twist about trust and generosity.
A Buckley Field private rushed to a clock in the War Information room and found Eastern War Time displayed instead of Mountain War Time, triggering confusion over meal schedules and daily routine. The incident highlights a time display mismatch in military facilities during wartime.
A brief reflection notes that understanding instinct and guidance helps youths choose paths in life. It emphasizes curiosity, mentorship, and learning through experience as constants in growing navigation of decisions and directions.
Allied air raids over Paris focused on industrial sites while central Paris remained largely unscathed. Renault works at Villeneuve Saint Georges and Vincennes freight yards bore major destruction, crippling production and scattering thousands of wrecked rail cars, while the Eiffel Tower area and historic landmarks were spared.
Grace Melvin, a Vancouver artist and head of design at the Vancouver Art School, has completed a 2004-name Book of Remembrance for the Military Engineers Association of Canada. The 40 page red morocco volume, bound with a gold cross, will go to Ottawa and then St Pauls Cathedral London where it will be displayed for relatives.
Health League of Canada cites Illinois researchers in JAMA findings on simultaneous diphtheria and whooping cough vaccines. In 649 infants averaging eight months, three doses at three week intervals yielded 97 percent immune to diphtheria and 72 percent high immunity to pertussis, rising to 95 percent after a pertussis booster. reactions were mild and no infant injected in five years contracted either disease.
Wires laid along highways carry an average load of 208 pounds per mile signaling growing rural infrastructure. The figure reflects nationwide telegraph and telephone line deployment and indicates substantial investment in communications networks.
Canada leans toward the Maple Leaf as a universal trade emblem while the Red Ensign fades. Officials expect the leaf to appear on exports and aid goods, signaling Canada and reinforcing the nation’s identity abroad. A universal emblem is urged to maximize postwar advertising value.
The piece contrasts tragic child deaths from a military plane crash with deaths from preventable diphtheria in England and Wales. It argues parental vaccination is crucial, noting 2,420 diphtheria cases in four weeks and about 10 percent fatality, urging Canada and the British Isles to immunize to reduce deaths and injuries.
Cut squash in half and bake, then fill with a meat loaf mix of smoked ham or cottage roll, pork, cracker crumbs, pepper, mustard, and corn syrup. Bake until cooked. Dessert idea layers graham crackers, applesauce, and optional custard with a cherry, a quick wartime time saver.
An alligator can crush almost anything with its powerful jaws, yet a man can hold them shut with one hand when the mouth is closed.
Three Polish soldiers on a tour of Canada and the United States expressed gratitude to the Canadian Red Cross Society for its generous support of Polish relief efforts. The group includes President Edward Lech Dobieski and Tadeusz Kaniewski.
A claim notes that the 21st verse of Ezra chapter seven is a pangram containing every letter of the alphabet. The statement hinges on the verse’s wording and the Hebrew/Greek text alignment in translations.
Mulock says special air letter facilities now used by forces will extend to civilians at a 10 cent rate to many Commonwealth countries. He calls the move a potential start of a new idea in civilian trans ocean air mail communication.
Pattern 4577 features a slick date dress with side front closing and back flounce hat in sizes 11 13 15 and 17. Dress 8 yards 39 inch fabric hat 1 yard. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. mail delays noted.
The earth gradually slows its rotation causing days to lengthen by about one thousandth of a second per century as measured by scientists.
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