Back-to-school fashions and homemaking tips
The Mixing Bowl column urges mothers to prepare for school by sewing and mending while noting government rules curb frills. It includes recipes for wheat porridge and pies, flower care tips, faucet and pickle questions, and promotion of Dyson Carter's Science In the News series by CSC in Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Allan
Acton Fras Pubss
Dyson Carter
Winnipeg
CSC
Carter
New Brunswick
University of Manitoba
Toronto
Control Imported Cabbage Worm
The Imported Cabbage Worm attacks cabbages and cauliflowers by eating holes and boring into centers. Control includes arsenate of lead with hydrated lime dusted on plants early or late day, two to three applications, and dusting fresh pyrethrum powder before sale. Pyrethrum is non poisonous to humans and available at seed houses and drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan—G
Dustan
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Whyle
Sle
Britain's Women Fight Hitler
A new welding machine sent to Britain from the United States is training women to become electric welders aiding shipbuilding for the Battle of the Oceans. Many women work alongside men in yards on the Tees Tyne Wear Mersey and Clyde performing lighter tasks and riveting while moving into machine shop repetition work and assembling valves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
United States
Tees
Tyne, Wear
Mersey
Clyde
War news and home front after Dieppe cited with prayer
The article reflects mixed emotions on the Dieppe raid and its toll while urging humility for families with loved ones abroad. It discusses war duties on farms threshing sugar rations and tea shortages, stressing gratitude for sailors and the need to conserve scarce goods. It ends noting Rev. T. W. Castle has become rector of Hollbrook Sussex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Dieppe
Canada
England
States
Carunia
Fox
London
T. W. Castle
Hollbrook
Sussex
City Farmerette Sees Rainy Days A Sleep Catcher
Ontario Farm Service Force camp at Oakville hosts 100 farmerettes who work eight hours daily but save time for dances and birthday parties. Rainy days bring extra sleep as staff ensure even labor, wages, and meals while Miss Mary Needler coordinates shifts and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Dean
Toronto
Jill
Lindy’s Lodge
Ontario Farm Service Force
Oakville
Violet Wolfraim
Oakville Camp
Farm Service Force
Plano
Macdonald
Ife
Mary Needler
Jabor
Reduce Food Costs And Improve Health
Advice from Nutrition Services urges cooking potatoes in jackets to save vitamin C and uses potato skins in meals. Include dark green outer leaves of lettuce and cabbage for vitamin A, and shred them into soups or salads. Emphasizes bread from vitamin B rich flour to boost mood and iron levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Nutrition Services
Department of Pensions and National Health
Woman Bosses 6,200 Papago Indians at Sells Agency
In SELLS Arizona a woman in her early 30s, Beulah L Head, becomes superintendent of the Papago Indian Agency after her husband William W Head is sent to Poston as a War Relocation Authority official. The Papago reserve, second largest in the United States, houses about 6,200 tribal members. The only other female agency superintendent known is Mrs Sophie Eberle of the United Pueblos near Albuquerque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra
Sophie Eberte
United Pueblos
Albuquerque
N.M
Britain Starts Harvest Drive With Massive Mobilization
A vast mobilization of harvest machinery and volunteers sweeps Britain as tens of thousands reap crops. Production soars with grain and potato output up 66 percent, vegetables 50 percent, and 12 million extra tons of animal feed substitutes for imports. The effort includes 100000 tractors, over 1000 combine harvesters, and broad participation by the Women's Land Army, volunteers, Italian prisoners, and 10000 schoolboys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Tom Williams
Ministry of Supply
Czech Flier Kuttelwascher Joins Night Fighter Hall of Fame
The Czech ace Karel Kuttelwascher, dubbed Old Kuttel, is hailed by Air Ministry officials as Britain’s best night fighter. He has a string of night kills and a total of 15 destroyed at night, six during the day, with daring tactics that RAF intruders now imitate. He recently married a Welsh girl while in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Karel Kuttelwascher
Ise
Air Ministry
Britain
England
Parden
Kuttel
Luftwaffe
RAF
Wey
Watch Found After 23 Years On Alberta Farm
An open face gold wrist watch owned by Patrick Bowen who died in 1935 was lost in an Alberta farm field. A neighbor found the watch on the Cowen farm after haying, its interior works intact and the case tarnished yet hands bright, winding anew after 23 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rimbley
Alta
Cpa
Alberta
Patrick Bowen
Bowen
Cowen
Guards Platoon of Womens Corps Reassures Parents
Sgt Wendy Lonke leads a Guards platoon of the Auxiliary Territorial Service visiting towns to show parents and potential recruits what service in Ike’s army is like. She answers questions on discipline beds and camp nights as women work in war factories and ministries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Randal
London
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Wendy Lonke
Britain
A.T.S
Ike
Lonke
Black Battledress for Loco Repairs in War Time
Twenty thousand British locomotives are being painted black for the duration to disguise railway insignia. Locomotives entering repair receive a uniform coat, concealing color schemes and emblems. Wagons receive minimal paint and cars are varnished only as weather protection. Interior decoration awaits war’s end.
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Hrinklea
Hitler
Ginger Farm
Czech
Karel’ Kuttelwascher
Womens’ Corps
Old Land
Misa Violet Ball
Midlands
Barnett Janner
Mechanized Transport Corps
British Overseas Airway Corporation
May Goodwin
Leicester Concilation Board
Bootard Shoe Union
Court of Referees and Court of Appeal
Black Battledress
Quesnland
Ig. Ds
BBC
Old South Orange Juice
EBC
Erros Cleanser
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