Home front tips and war box packing guidance
Homemaker column offers Santa letters style memo with overseas mailing deadlines. It lists weight limits postage rates and packing suggestions for Allied forces in Canada West Indies Newfoundland and civilians in Great Britain plus sample parcels for Navy Army and nurses. It also answers storage ripening green tomatoes and provides a green tomato pickle recipe and herb dressing idea.
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Mediterranean
C.as.f
West Indies
Newfoundland
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
Navy
Army
Air Force
G. G
Winter Eviction Ban Expanded Under Wartime Rental Order
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board restricts evictions from Sept 30 to Apr 30, effective Oct 1. Tenants in houses duplexes or apartments gain winter protection while landlords may raise rents 10 percent when roomers or boarders occupy more than two rooms. Agricultural property remains exempt.
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Prices and Trade Board
Repairs in a Big Way at Army Camp
The U S Army camp repair shop reports one year totals of mended items. 208,476 pairs of shoes rebuilt 101,900 canvas webbing pieces and 593,245 articles of clothing repaired.
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Washington
United States Army
Old Montreal Farm Story Ties City Rail Yard to 17th Century House
In Montreal the Point St. Charles area sees Canadian National Railway extending tracks along the St. Lawrence foreshore near Nuns Farm or ferme Saint-Gabriel, property of the Congregation de Notre Dame. The two storey stone 1698 farm house, rebuilt after a 1698 fire with 1726 and 1728 wings, remains in daily use as a domestic training school and chapel.
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Montreal
Point St. Charles
Canadian National Railway
Wadson's Bay Company
Canadian National Railways
St. Lawrence
Bulldera
Cat patrol proposed to curb bicycle thefts in Britain
Rev. F H Cooke Vicar of Hooton Cheshire writes in his parish magazine that using a cat would stop bicycle thefts. He argues fines are useless and imprisonment wastes time and money.
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London
F.H. Cooke
Hooton
Cheshire
Britain
Thanksgiving Day Farm Chronicle Seeks Rain for Harvest
Weather woes and drought press on Halton County farms as residents recall prior rains and fear early freeze. A neighbor’s tractor quits, wells dry, cows decline, and ploughing stalls. Community clubs raise funds through Red Cross sale and institute auction to support war work and Navy League aid while planning more efforts.
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Partner
Halton
Anya
Red Cross
Navy League
Canning time spoiled produce blamed on rubber seals
The Kamloops Sentinel notes reports of home processed fruit and vegetable jams spoiling this year due to poor rubber rings. It quotes long time preservers who attribute failures to low quality seals and argues such a situation should not have occurred.
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Kamloops
B.C
Co operation Sought for 1944 Seed Grain Shortages
Ontario Department of Agriculture asks farmers to plan 1944 seed needs and report to county agricultural representatives by November 15. Minister Kennedy urges securing suitable weed varieties and warns to clean and offer 1943 oats and barley seed, with surplus to neighbors, to ensure ample seed grain province wide. Directors and county crop improvement members urged to assist in distributing seed grain.
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Ontario Department of Agriculture
Department
Thomas L. Kennedy
Department of Agriculture
Presence of Mind in Log Scene With Wildcat
An old logger recalls a wildcat approaching a skidder in Oregon. He says a bucket of water in the animal’s face made it retreat. A companion confirms the tale noting the cat’s whiskers became wet when stroked.
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Oregon
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