Wartime tea and coffee quotas guide homemakers
Wartime Prices and Trade Board sets weekly allowances of one ounce tea or four ounces coffee per person over 12. Tips cover storage, grinding, and brewing methods to stretch the rations. Also noted are substitutions, preparation steps, and a recipe for tomato sandwich filling with corn syrup. Samuel Herszenhoren guest conductor announced for Toronto Philharmonic broadcast.
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Prices and Trade Board
Samuel Wersenhoren
Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra
CBC
iProm
Varsity Arena
Toronto
Samuel Hersenhoren
Jean Dickenson
Beaides
Mendelssohn
Elgar
Rimsky-Korsakoff
Mr. Herszenhoren Willl
Enchanted Hill
John Weinzweig
Ginger Farm Chronicle of a Busy threshing season
The Kinder is away in the driving shed and a crowded threshing period sweeps the neighborhood with three outfits running at once. Partner and John juggle chores, a horse is injured by barbed wire, and a stacked workload tests memory as binder tasks return. A muddy truck, long-distance jitters, and worry for loved ones punctuate days on the farm.
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Partner
John
1942 Crop The Strangest It's Salvage
Western farmers, aiming for a record grain harvest, are harvesting a strange byproduct of war salvage. Scrap metal, old engines, plows, and bone glue material are gathered by local salvage groups, shipped to Calgary and Winnipeg mills, with prices set by government ceilings. A 2244-ton steam engine drew crowds, while bones from prairie fauna head for glue production after government approval.
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HL. Dent Hodgson
Canadien
Winnipeg
Plains
Dominion Salvage
Prairies
Patriotic Salvage Corpé
Calgary
Ontario
Edmonton
Kindersley
Moose Jaw
Regina
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
California
Royal Farmlonds Pedigreed Stock Link War Effort
Windsor scenes show Royal farms pivoting to wartime food supply. King’s Great Park farms three-fifths plowed and sown with wheat oats barley and potatoes while corn crops expand. Pedigree herds of Jerseys Shorthorns and large white pigs are trimmed as feeding limits bite beef stock. Deer herd slashed from 1000 to 100 as Windsor tightens liberty to aid national food policy.
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Foster Barclay
Windsor
England
Royal Windsor
Great Park
Britain
Hairdos Take Too Much Time Reducing Women’s Work
London report quotes Gordon England, chairman of the Engineers' Industries Association, blaming hairdressing delays for absenteeism among women industrial workers. He says many women must waste time seeking the right hair services and cannot stay on skilled jobs.
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London
Icp
Gordon England
Engineers’ Industries Association
Atmy
Homemaking Tips and Tips on Preserving Jars
A homemaking column offers quick guidance on heating peppers and making pastes, using flour mixed with vinegar, and cooling on low heat. Instructions describe bottling into sterilized jars, sealing with paraffin, and storing three pints. Anne Allan invites readers to write with homemaking questions and watch for replies.
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Anne Allan
Eggs In Summer Diets A Nutrient Packed Guide
Egg centered dietary advice notes eggs are highly nutritious and easy to digest for summer meals. It recommends slow heat for boiling, suggests omelets and various dishes, and offers storage tips for unbroken and broken eggs.
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Department of Agriculture
War makes strange bedfellows in mixed menagerie home
In MIXED WAR GUENES HALL England a stray dogs home also houses a monkey a goat parrots budgerigars chickens rabbits and a goldfish made homeless by raids blending species under wartime strain and shelter.
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Hall
England
Polish stamps mark Polish forces mail to Britain
Letters from Polish soldiers, sailors, and airmen in Britain will bear Polish stamps. The Polish Ministry of Finance ordered over a million first issue stamps printed in Britain to frank mail on Polish ships, seen as Polish territory. Denominations depict Warsaw’s ruins, Cracow monuments, Castle Square, Virtuti military honor, Polish infantry, mechanized forces, aviation with Wellington and Hurricane, and the submarine Orzel symbolizing the Polish Navy’s wartime efforts.
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Empire
Britain
Polizh
United States
Warsaw
Baltic Sea
The Procrastinators Endlessly Dream and Die
A verse sketches characters who delay action in fishing, writing, and building. A busy friend, a talkative spinster, and a would be builder all fail to act, ending in death or decay as the refrain condemns perpetual planning without production.
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Jota
Kale
Bread price controls fate of fighter's will in Belfast
Flying Officer Peter Holmes died on war service and left property to his wife with a trust condition. If four pound loaf prices rose above 50 cents she would receive the entire estate. Since the war began the loaf has been pegged at 15 cents, keeping the will's trigger dormant.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Peter Peter Holmes
London girl sponsors warship fund for baby sister
In wartime London a little girl saved 69 farthings to help buy a baby sister. Her father believed a baby would cost too much, yet the child sent the money to a warship week fund as assistance in wartime Britain.
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London
Mary
Make Up Manners Given Check Up
New York writer questions makeup manners in public settings. The piece ponders lipstick imprints on others napkins glasses and cups and urges readers to avoid staring in mirrors disrupting conversations. It blames public powder use and careless removal with towels for Household staff burdens.
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New York
Old Age at 20 Caused Death in English Inquest
In Oldham England an inquest revealed a 20 year old boy died of premature aging. Doctors described dry withered skin brittle nails and a sunken heart with features and gait like a much older person. Medical science offered no treatment to reverse the condition.
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Oldham
England
Hoy T
Nan
Easc
Gondon and Churchill Assess ATS Recruits
In a British ATS briefing Stella Churchill and Mrs G M Hamblin note that 68 girl recruits were evaluated for posture with only one found to stand correctly. They stress modern British girls avoid a slovenly slouch and praise proper bearing.
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