Canadian Legion War Services Runs World Largest Educational Plan
The Legion operates the world’s largest educational program for armed forces with 23,263 students in Canada and overseas. It funds over 20 courses, trains personnel for RCAF and naval units, and supports 34 recreation huts, 167 clubhouses, 25 dry canteens, and 47 libraries. A national drive raises 5.5 million dollars, uniting six organizations for war service support.
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Canadian Legion War Services
Canada
Fighting Man’s University
Navy
Air Force
Department of National Defence
A. G. L. McNaughton
Legion
U.S
RCAF
Army
The
London
United Kingdom
Canadian War Services Fund
Canadian Legion
Lo.d.e
Western Provinces
Knights of Columbus
Salvation Army
YMCA
Y W.C.A
Oslo School Strike Sparks Citywide Walkout
A Norway school strike spreads from Oslo after pupils refuse to attend a Hitler Youth event. Police response was delayed as 150 storm troopers attacked Vestheim School students with clubs. The incident triggers a weeklong citywide walkout amid Nazi tensions. An earlier 1894 Paris Rouen car race had 102 entrants aiming to meet a speed threshold TX mph.
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Norway
Oslo
Vestheim
Paris
Rouen
France
Electric heater production hits 900000 yearly
The United States Census Bureau reports that about 900,000 electric heaters are produced each year. This figure represents annual output across the industry, reflecting demand for home heating devices in the market.
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United States Census Bureau
Reverend Coleman Describes Life After All Hallows Bombing
London clergyman Rev. Michael Coleman told reporters in Ottawa he slept in a bed for the first time since September during a North American lecture tour on The Church Under the Blitz. He spoke of helping recover 300 bodies and comforting firemen and ARP workers, noting Londoners still attend church as All Hallows lies in ruins with only the crypt and Roman remains left.
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Michael Coleman
All Hallows Church
London
Ottawa
North America
A.R.P
All Hallows
Tower Hill
Mr. Coleman
T. B. Clayton
Tubby
Reviving Cavalry Spirit In The Tank Corps Era
London correspondent for the Ottawa Journal notes cavalry morale shifts as mechanization is seen not as doom but a revival. He cites King George V amused, and argues modern tanks replace horses yet keep cavalry spirit alive in Tank Corps and mechanized units, likening history to infantry overtaking armored power. The piece hints at future potential changes in warfare dynamics.
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London
Ottawa Journal
George V
Jeremiahs
Young bellhops from Richmond and Golder's Green down Nazi bomber
Robert Frame and David Miller, both fourteen, worked as errand boys on the Aquitania and Empress of Britain. On a British cargo boat they fired machine guns at a dive bomber, destroying it in flames and avenging the Empress of Britain's sinking.
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Robert Frame
Richmond
Surrey
David Miller
Golder’s Green
London
Rockefeller Plaza
Frame
Miller
Britain
Steel for War Materials Recovered From Montreal Vault
One hundred sixty tons of steel to be forged into weapons of war have been secured from a single Montreal firm. Maj R J Waterous, director of the government salvage campaign, announced the find. The company, an insurance outfit, uncovered a 60 year old vault unused for two decades and estimated it would yield 100 tons of steel.
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Montreal
R. J. Waterous
Pepper outlines cooperative democracy for world peace
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida told a Toronto audience that democracies must first unite at home to resist aggression. He stressed cooperation with neighbors and outlined the good neighbor principles as the foundation for a peaceful, expanding hemispheric alliance.
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Claude Pepper
Florida
Canadian and Empire Club of
Toronto
Pepper
Roosevelt
Britain
Western Hemisphere
Egyptian Divorce Practice Promptly Alters Marital Ties
A woman seeking separation must remarry and divorce another man, often an ugly or blind man, to return to her former husband. The process, repeated to be absolvable, can be completed in two or three hours, enabling a swift restoration of the original marriage.
New Casein Based Transparent Wrap Debuts
A film like cellophane made from casein derived from wood pulp or cotton now yields a strong transparent wrapping that remains effective when wet.
Three Deadly Isms Then and Now
War correspondent Leland Stowe compares Communism Nazism and fascism to poisons, noting all erode parliamentary government and freedom of press. He cites Red Bolshevism as inefficient and Nazi brown Bolshevism as efficient, urging Americans to study differences to protect their system.
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Leland Stowe
Europe
Chicago Daily News
Paris to Expand City Limits Adds Six Suburbs
The prefect of the Seine department announced an imminent extension of Paris city limits to include six suburbs. Observers say the enlarged capital would become the world’s third largest city behind London and New York. Paris population listed as 4,933,855 in latest census figures.
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Seine
Paris
Greater
London
New York
Tokyo
Denmark Imposes Restrictions on Butter and Cream Use
Denmark imposes limits on butter and cream consumption citing supply concerns. Officials urge rationing and tighter controls across kitchens and eateries to stabilize prices and preserve essential fats for needed use.
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Denmark
China Adopts Lancelot Sea Creature as Food Source
China embraces the translucent marine species called the lancelot as a new food product. Local chefs and seafood markets promote its use in specialty dishes while researchers study its biology and potential culinary applications.
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China
Lancelot
Great Spring Tea Cloth Pattern Sold By Winnipeg Union
Colorful tea cloth design features eight to the inch cross stitch that mimics applique. Pattern 6926 includes transfer motifs of various sizes, stitch illustrations, and material lists. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 Mc Dermot Avenue, E Winnipeg for the pattern.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Chief Tool Designer Florence Laing A Naval Instru ments Pioneer
Florence Burnett Laing of Ottawa is described as a young woman holding the post of chief tool designer for a firm making naval precision instruments and gauges. The article highlights her role in drafting tools, sourcing materials, and supervising a team to produce parts for shells and other munitions, while noting her family ties to Grimsby and Canada.
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Florence Burnett Laing
Ottawa
Graf Spee
Florence Laing
Miss Laing
Grimsby
Charles B. Laing
John Laing
R.c.af
Canada
Enviable Record for G S N Company Seafarers
The Port of London Monthly notes the General Steam Navigation Company as the world’s oldest steamship line has built a notable war record. It lists honors awarded to masters officers engineers and crew: four Distinguished Service Orders seven Distinguished Service Crosses two Orders of the British Empire two British Empire Medals two Distinguished Service Medals and 17 Commendations.
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Port of London Monthly
General Steam Navigation Company
Queen Elizabeth Rivets Steel Plate at Scottish Shipyard
The Queen inspected a shipyard in Scotland and operated a hydraulic riveting press to drive three red hot rivets into a steel plate. The King looked on as foreman Bob Thompson demonstrated rivetting and the Queen applied the method herself during work on a merchant ship under construction.
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Elizabeth
Scotland
Bob Thompson
No Fish For Fishermen In Northland Norway
The Northland provinces of Norway, famed for Europe’s richest fisheries, face a crisis as Nazi demands ship nearly all fresh catches to Germany. Fishermen already suffer fuel, bait, and equipment shortages and pay exorbitant prices for what little is available.
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Northland
Norway
Europe
Germany
Nottingham School Master Strapped Over Gas Mask
A Nottingham elementary school master, who warned students that forgetting a gas mask would incur a strap, allowed himself to be strapped by the largest boy when he arrived without his mask. The incident follows prior warnings to the pupils.
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Nottingham
Ragweed Botanical Name Ambrosia Meaning
The text notes Ambrosia as the botanical name for rag weed with Latin meaning delectable and unbelievably sweet beyond imagination.
Green Mouse Bred After Sixty Generations At Sussex College
Dr. Rosslyn Bruce rector of Burst Monceaux Sussex and descendant of Robert Bruce has achieved a life long goal a green mouse. The creature with opalescent eyes comes after 60 generations of breeding. The ex Birmingham zoo director now maintains a private menagerie including jumping fleas pink rats and snakes. In his garden stands an apple tree grown from a pip given by the ex Kaiser in 1912.
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Rosslyn Bruce
Burstmonceaux
Sussex
Robert
Polish priests chained as Gestapo crackdown widens
In occupied Poland the Gestapo escalate arrests of suspected resisters. Two Polish priests were chained to a wall after sermons of patriotism, guards telling them they could bark as much as they liked.
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Poland
Faraday’s 1831 Dynamo Became First Built Dynamo
The earliest dynamo was constructed by Michael Faraday in 1831 marking a foundational moment in electric generation. This device demonstrated the conversion of mechanical energy into electrical current and influenced future dynamo designs.
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Michael Faraday
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