Sponge Cakes Rise With Budget Savvy Homemakers
The Dominion Department of Agriculture promotes sponge cake recipes to help homemakers manage prices this spring. Recipes include Sponge Cake, Chocolate Sponge Roll, Cream Sponge Cake and Ell y Roll with detailed steps, ingredients, and oven settings. A YMCA Camp Borden project prints Wings Over Borden, a small newspaper highlighting recreation for air force personnel.
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Sponge
Alog
Consumer Service Section
Marketing Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Smt
Elly
YMCA
Camp Borden
Air Force
Wings Over
Borden
Wmc.a
Anchonny Ley
Ley
AC. Bann
Fashions in a Cadet Blue Wool Coat for Any Occasion
A versatile self trimming cloth coat balances casual and dressy wear. The cadet blue smooth wool design features a double collar, flap pockets, cuffs, and a waist fit. Two inverted box pleats at the back create shaping with two large wooden buttons for snug closure.
British engineers electrify Gold Coast jungle to spur gold boom
In the Gold Coast Colony West Africa engineers install modern electric amenities including refrigerators fans and radio service to bungalows and camps as seven 1 000 horsepower diesel generators power electrically driven dredges creating a new gold prospect along Ankobra river with a jungle to town conversion drive and a vast power grid extending through camps workshops and homes.
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Gold Coast
West Africa
Ankobra
Declines in Wheat and Flax Prospects in Official Estimate
The second official estimate lowers wheat to 118,019,000 bushels a drop of 28,954,000 and flax to 44,368,000 bushels a decline of 4,342,000. Reduced stocks due to low prices and quality prompt abandonment in northern regions with further threshing doubt.
Winter to Spring in Ginger Farm Chronicle
The writer notes a shift from harsh winter to hints of spring as robins sing and green hints appear. Mugs the horse dominates attention at the barn while Mackenzie King the calf shows promise. a tire blowout adds unexpected expense. Hockey chatter recalls Leafs Rangers and a standout Friday night match, with anticipation for bigger prizes.
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Oiney
Galen
Mackenzie King
Mackenzie
Partner
Mugs Agaim
Internees praise humane treatment in Canadian camps
Letters from German internees in Canada describe kind treatment, decent food, and daily freedom at camps such as Petawawa and Kananaskis. Testimonies contrast with conditions in Germany, noting humane guards and good care, while praising operations and medical attention received.
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Canada
Petawawa
Pelawawa
Uae
Germany
Kananaskis
Y M C A Morale Boosts Canadian Troops Overseas
Arthur Jones notes the Canadian YMCA acts as big brother to troops abroad. The First Division reports YMCA entertainment and sports programs from Aldershot to Lille and Leipsic including Salvoes, Whits Bang, movie shows, and inter-battery football hockey and boxing plans. YMCA counselors provide guidance and morale support praised by officers including Lieut. Col. Salmon.
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Arthur Jones
Canada
Y.M.C.A
3Rd Field Regiment
Lille
Leipsic
Portsmouth
Y.M C.A
H. L. N. Salmon
Hastings and Prince Edward
T. W. Jones
Montreal
Hearts of Oak Minesweeper 1 A new harbor craft of 1923
The HMS Minesweeper 1, a wooden hull vessel built by Thomyernits in 1923, represents a new small minesweeper type. It features 1500 horsepower, 15 knot speed, three propellers via oil-driven reverse reduction drives, a 32 ton displacement, and a crew of 11.
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Omk
H. M Motor
Thomyernits
Nelson
Grany and Plapper Debate Future of the Gramophone
A playful exchange features Granny criticizing young women and Plapper retorting with a joke about creating the gramophone’s music playback. The dialogue highlights intergenerational banter about technology.
Stork Visits Train En Route From East
A stork delivering a baby aboard the Ocean Limited between Halifax and Montreal in stormy eastern weather prompted a nurse from Royal Victoria Hospital to assist after the porter called for a doctor. The mother and infant were taken to hospital on arrival in Montreal.
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Canadian National Railways
Ocean Limited
Halifax
Montreal
Metropolis
Royal Victoria Hospital
Bulance
Farm Skins for Leather Industry in Canada in 1938
The 1938 value of skins and hides used by Canada’s leather industry totaled 10,127,731 dollars. Cattle hides formed the bulk, with about 1.460/110 hides at 45 pounds each and 4.29 dollars per hide on average. Kip skins and Galf skins combined to 1,712,202 with 9 pounds per skin and 1.55 dollars each. Pickled sheep skins reached 123,209 with 4.2 dollars per skin. horse, goat, and sheep hides are noted as also utilized.
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Canada
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Borden Airmen
Sally
Ginger Farm
Loleiemr
Lfe
Son
Benson
Leafs
Rangers
Chamberlain
Churetslll
Steynsud
Ahong Eden
Simons
Hitler
Ribbentrop
Btalin
Goering
Goebbels
Churchill
Aldershot
Hearts OF Oak
Granny
Plapper
STORK
Coca-Coln
Orangeville Bottling Works
Coca-Cola
Orangeville
Ontario
CaCola
May Helen Emma Cambridge
Major Henry Abel Smith
Se Pe
Earliang Countess of Athlone
Brigade of Guards
Wellington—Barracks
London
5.C.O
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