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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
4
Modern education methods are applied for troops overseas. Linguaphones teach conversational French, while a cinema van donated by the Britannia League serves both entertainment and educational roles. In England mobile tea vans follow manoeuvres for the Canadian Active Service Force, supplying hot drinks and buns at intervals of freedom.
Local items list visitors to Winnipeg and Brandon including Mrs Jack Robertson Norman Young and C G Busby. school reopens for final term. residents return from trips. oil position filled by George Vinnell. Army Navy Ladies Auxiliary meeting planned. events April 5 to 8 include play and dance Red Cross fundraiser and peewee hockey tournament. a letter to charity drives suggests uncollectable accounts as charity. after slow returns Premier Aberhart wins Alberta majority for Social Credit.
In the matter of the estate of George Chittick the elder late of the Municipality of Silver Creek in Manitoba farmer de comand All claims against the above estate must be sent to the under Signed at Russell in Manitoba on or before the twenty seventh day of April A D 1940 Dated at Russell in Manitoba this 23rd day of March A D 1940
In loving memory of our dear mother and father born January 20 1935 and April 4 1936 Deep in our hearts lies a picture worth more than silver or gold A picture of our dear parents whose memory will never grow old Fondly remembered by Polly Maud and Ethel their daughters
Britain maintains 45 lightships guarding coasts while nine spare vessels stand by. The East Dudgeon suffered a Nazi bombing on January 29 as the sole survivor recalled a sudden dive and nine bombs. Lightships are not to blame for the war and their purpose remains warning ships of hazards.
The article notes how fog and North Sea lightships operate with wireless for life saving. Crews endure battering waves yet sustain their work tending the light as a warning beacon. Sailors worldwide condemn the latest Nazi atrocity in ports and ships across the seven seas.
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