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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1940
Page
2
Town of Russell readers face a vote to join the Provincial Hydro System. The piece weighs costs, potential savings, and the impact on households, urging careful study and inviting short, signed letters for publication as the discussion continues in coming weeks.
Home front mobilization urges Russell residents to back Red Cross Salvation Army Y M C A and Legion efforts with funds and time. Despite past strong commitments, meeting attendance was low and another gathering will be scheduled to rally unity and sustain wartime aid.
Apple juice, not cider, is highlighted as a new Canadian beverage from fresh apples. The piece notes a 1939 bumper crop, with nearly 1.5 million gallons sold during 1939-40, and predicts growth to several million gallons. It contrasts juice with fermented cider and describes pasteurized, liquid fruit juice.
A Naval Eye Witness recalls a week aboard an aging destroyer in the Atlantic convoy escort. Crew of about 140, varied backgrounds, faced cold dawns, heavy seas, and fog as they guarded a convoy, practiced depth-charge readiness, and shared rough weather and long seas with merchants.
Knox United Church marks the 4M am Centenary of Canadian missionary inventor James Evans with a tale of Birch Bark Chimney Soot Fish Oil and a Fur Press. At 12 G'clock the Sunday School Session features a discussion on the Middle Years Of Life and whether life begins anew at forty.
Matins and sermon at eleven AM followed by Holy Baptism at noon and Sunday School at twelve thirty PM.
The ship's cook keeps a hot meal going amid cold wet conditions as merchant seamen feed the crew. Convoy destroyers endure tough, unglamorous duties, while the overall success stems from close cooperation among the merchant navy, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force.
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