Parliament Visit Highlights Historic Hall and Churchill Exchange
Reported trip to Westminster features Westminster Hall built 1087 1100 notes Simon de Montfort 1265 opening parliament and French used for two centuries. Describes House of Commons ruins lunch in parliamentary restaurant and informal meeting with Prime Minister Churchill later.
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Dominicans Gallery
Drummam Shields
Westmolester Hall
William Rufus
Fucharnd ID
Palace of Westminster
PTL
Simon de Montfort
Samon de Montfort
Westminster Hall
Charles I
Thomas Blore
Guy Fawkes
Warren Yastings
Edward VII
George VI
House of Commons
England
London
Parliament
W. Pr. Mullock
Cannada
India
Niles
Churchill
Hynes
Vincent Macey
Hints Worth Noting In Operation of Farm Tractors
Agricultural Engineer W Kaibbiisch from the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa offers tips to save fuel and improve tractor efficiency. He covers carburetor tuning warm up lean mixtures air cleaner service spark plug care ignition timing and load management for belt work and pulling implements.
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Pasoune
Internet
Fio
W. Kaibbiisch
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Farmers face a hundred skills in modern agriculture
A Country Guide quote argues farming demands wide expertise from milking and feeding livestock to machinery, windmill maintenance, plumbing wells, breeding pigs, pest control, and even public duties. It portrays farmers as multitasking professionals balancing work, education, and civic roles.
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Country Guide
Geology Survey Marks 100 Years Of Canadian Science
Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, the nation’s oldest scientific body, marks its centenary with a record of wartime mineral finds and mapping progress. From William Logan’s early Gaspe mapping to apportioning topography and a museum, the survey fostered geography, botany and water power, aiding development and resource extraction across the country.
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Ottawa
Canada
Geological Survey of Canada
Geological Survey
British Columbia
Alberta
The Magic Carpet Returns to Market Whispers
A 1929 crash memory haunts readers as letters about stock gains reappear urging tax free income from shares. The piece notes warning signs, cautions veterans, and a reader who returns mailed deposits unused, while emphasizing lessons from history and the lure of easy profits.
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Canada
Europe
Fairyland
National Revenue
Ireland turmoil and arrests mark 1918 push for conscription
A May 1918 crackdown across Ireland led to the detention of key republican leaders including Eamon de Valera Arthur Griffith Countess Markievicz and John Milroy as Britain’s government pressed conscription and martial reform amid Irish resistance and political upheaval. The dragnet followed government proclamations by Viscount French and shifts in administration with Shortt and Lord French taking posts. Only about 11 000 of 150 000 eligible men had joined by Armistice time.
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Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Irish Republic
Viscount French
Lord Leutenant
Arthur Griffith
Countess Markievicz
Count Plunkett
John Milroy
Herbert Mellowes
de Valera
Dublin
England
Henry Duke
Edward Shortt
Lord French
Lord Wimborne
Lord Leutenancy
Prompt action urged to combat spruce budworm outbreak
Dominion officials urge woodlot owners to remove balsam fir large enough for pulpwood and peel bark during June to August. Cut trees, peel bark, pile and burn slash to prevent spread to spruce, with a good market for peeled pulpwood noted if sold now. If delayed, both species face destruction and loss of value.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Forest Service
Pay During Wartime for Family Men in Britain
A British policy outlines support for married soldiers with dependents. A standard private earns a base weekly wage of 4.20 with 0.70 deducted, while a wife gets 33 weekly. Government supplements total dependents: first child 1.90, second 1.70, third and thereafter 1.50 each, up to ten children potentially yielding 20.60.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Labor
War Office
Wfr
War worker Ruby Loftus stars in Royal Academy painting
Ruby Loftus, 23, of Len, shown cutting a steel thread for a Bofors gun in a Welsh ordnance factory, is the subject of Dame Laura Knight’s Royal Academy painting. The image marks her as a standout example of women in war industry, wearing a green hair-net and leaning over a machine under bright overhead light.
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Denibe Daltroff
London
Jow
Ruby Loftus
Lenis
Laura Knight
Wales
Ruby
Tractors Help Gather Wool for Russian War Aid
A one year old tractor at Gayton in the Marsh collects 65 pounds of wool from village hedgerows. Local Women's Voluntary Service members will knit the wool into garments for Russian soldiers.
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London
Cbr
Gayton-In-the-Marsh
Canteen Meals Scheme For War Effort Hailed
A wartime mobile canteen operates under National Railways with men and women fed in hallways. Meals priced at thirty cents for main plates and butter or milk. extra items like meat courses cost a dime more. The unit, a wood and steel vehicle, delivers rationed menus to troops and workers as part of the national war effort.
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Mandartien
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