Ontario voters urged to vote for strong government next Wednesday
Editorial notes Ontario election visuals with three candidates per riding and calls for steadfast turnout. Warns against hollow promises and urges electors to choose leaders who will sustain victory and govern effectively during postwar challenges. Mussolini piece recalls Sicily events and cautions dictators’ fall foreshadowing peace talks.
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Ontario
Liberals
Conservatives
OCF
War effort and education shift in Canada highlights
Wartime needs spur Canadians to boost production while education reforms broaden rural school access and skill testing. The piece notes youth training links to military needs, growing consumer pressures from high prices, and a call for a new consumer voice as inflation bite prompts strategic purchases.
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R.C.A.F
Canada
Editorial Notes on War, Elections and Local Scenes
The piece quotes Frank Knox on continuing naval struggles and calls readers to vote. It notes a possible lack of awareness among district electors and urges participation. It mentions Gallup polls on Ontario, hockey nostalgia, and a mock plan to show liquor evils as weekly local features.
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Frank Knox
U. S
Best of Experts I Do Make Errors In Bomb Telling
A London humorous piece critiques mistakes in identifying aircraft during air raid drills. It contrasts confident boasting with real danger as sirens, gunfire, and aircraft sounds blur, ending with a safety-minded RAF instructor who is fooled into naming a bomb as one of our own.
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Soott Young
Demadian
Wetice London
Jerry
Britain
Royal Air Force
ISAF
Mie
Vacation Wise Make It Worthy All Year
Betty Clark offers a home beauty relaxation plan for a year round stay at home vacation. Create a simple tub bath with warm water, bath salts, a bubble bath, and a long brush to scrub, followed by a cool rinse and a nap to build health and beauty. Stay at home to be a belle all year.
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New York
Waterloo
Woliday
Hone
Fiji Indians fund fighter aircraft for King gift
Within two months of the fund opening Fiji Island Indians subscribed 25000 dollars to purchase fighter aircraft for presentation to the King.
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Sydney
N.S.W
Fiji Island
War Work Tells On U. S. Women
A Y W C A official reports heavy industrial war work is wearing down U S women nationwide. She says many women, worn from long hours in war industries, feel too fatigued to continue.
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U. S
New York
United States
Y.W.C.A
Passa They Meet Again in Canada Rail Mystery
Two Canadian National box cars numbered 471901 and 471902, built in 1937, were spotted at a Winnipeg war industry plant. One came from Welland Ontario loaded with picrite, the other from Vancouver carrying pulp. The piece hints at odds of future arrivals and consecutive numbers on Canadian sidings.
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Harter
Canada
Winnipeg
Welland
Ont
Vancouver
Canadas
Fisherman in Paris Seeks Cooking Fat for Fish
A hungry Frenchman catches a fish in the Seine and jokes with his wife about cooking it in butter margarine oil or dripping. They have nothing to cook with, so he tosses the fish back, ending with a quip about Marshal Petain.
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Paris
Mick
Marechal ‘Petain
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