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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
4
The notice lists Second Sunday in Lent service at 11 am with Morning Prayer and a Lent Service on Wednesday at 8 pm. It includes a Lent prayer asking for sanctification of Lent events, guidance to remember and honor God, and to do Heavenly will through Jesus Christ.
Tom Gilbert visits Winnipeg on business this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Russell plan a Pacific Coast holiday. RCAF man Bill Hancock returns to Saskatoon for two weeks. Miss B. Ferguson of the Royal Bank staff is back from holidays. Mrs. H. Clee returns home after a Winnipeg visit. Cyril Chipping of the RCAF is on leave at MacDonald. Frank Robertson and D. Vinnell visit Yorkton for business. Elinor and Marnie head to Vancouver for the month. Miss Phyllis Derrick spends holidays near Winnipeg. Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Smellie return home. Community Hospital Aid meets March 3 at 3 p.m. Easter greeting cards on display at The Drug Store.
Classified ad seeks a housework girl with good wages in Russell Manitoba. Apply Mrs G A Nolan by phone 35 Russell 33-2.
The text notes alarm over a Canadian wheat surplus and U S efforts to boost acreage while importing substitutes. It mentions planned wheat imports and a 175 million bushel target from Canada, with a 1943 August meeting of Mrs. BB Thompson and remarks on elevator and farm stocks.
The author projects Canada’s 1844 wheat stocks near 400 million bushels by August, noting farm surpluses nearly exhausted. He credits a large Canadian wheat surplus as a boon to the war effort and argues against artificial wheat cuts, defending global food production.
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