Wartime Victory Garden Tips and CBC Officers
Wartime article urges Dominion and Provincial garden plots with advice on crop choice, planting, and fertilization. It highlights CBC personnel in service, including Major George Alleyne Browne and Lieutenant Antoine Mazon, noting Browne's DSO and Mazon's MC after Dieppe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
W. E. S Briggs
R.C.N.R
George Alleyne Browne
Royal Canadian Artillery
Browne
Ottawa
Dieppe
Antoine Maszon
Sea Fusiliers
England
Frogs Return, Then Silence Amid Farm Seeding Cautions
A spring diary notes marsh frogs, windy warm spells, and risky weather for seeding. It highlights auction sales in the district as farms change hands, with concern over labor shortages and potential wage improvements under new owners. The writer reflects on mending, housekeeping, and upcoming "sale" season as farming pressures mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
John
Partner
Church Basement Raises Chickens at St Elizabeth’s
In St Louis in a parish effort Father George Andrews at St Elizabeth’s Catholic Church raises 4100 chickens in the basement for distribution to the poor. The operation plans to expand with more brooder tiers and a full eight week cycle from shell to skillet.
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ST. Louis,mo
Victory Gardens
George Andrews
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Shell
Skillet
Easter suit by home sewers tips for a ready made look
The piece offers step by step home sewing guidance for an Easter suit. It covers pressing and pre shrinking fabric, pattern matching, cutting, interfacing, basting, and tailoring details for jacket construction, lining, hems, and finally a matching skirt to wear in the Easter parade.
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Wollar
Canada
Siren
Britain Values Wiltshire Bacon In Four Ounce Ration
A Canadian agriculture staffer touring Britain learns Wiltshire bacon is rationed at four ounces per customer with ten percent for bones. But British buyers push for lean Grade A carcasses weighing 140 to 170 pounds to earn premiums and keep lean bacon available.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Wiltshire
Ministry of Food
Pastor Wallace Studies Social Problems for War Workers
Reverend William Wallace, a Methodist superintendent at Victoria Hall in Wiguepo Sheffield, uses his daily duties to study social issues impacting war workers. He visits pubs, cheap dance halls, and cinemas to observe conditions and support workers during wartime.
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Sheffield
England
William Wallace
Victoria Hall
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NEPF
Dorothy Boe
Prees Fashion
Britain
Wiguepo
F ‘Diaw Railway Freight
Canadian Pacific
Renal
United States
Eno
Robin Hood Gace
RTL
Coe Ih
Robin Hood Flour Mills Limited
Barr’s Grocery
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