Canadian Red Cross reports four million dollar year 1941 purchases
The national purchasing committee of the Canadian Red Cross frames its 1941 activities at Ottawa. Total purchases reached 4.567 million dollars across 2,309 orders, with major items including hospital supplies, foods, fabrics, and textile materials for divisions and branches. The report notes material shortages prompt rationing and substitutions while detailing extensive prisoner of war parcel efforts and the Ottawa based Red Cross enquiry bureau aiding families.
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Canadian Red Cross
National Purchasing Committee
Ottawa
Wills Maclachian
Pareels Committee
Canada
Newfoundland
Red Cross
Russia
Red Cross Enquiry Bureau
Germany
Geneva
Adelaide M Plumiptre
Norman C. Urquhart
Canadian Red Cross Society
Montreal
Toronto
New Zealand
Coast Artillery Women Serve In South Africa
South African women on active service in coast artillery form specialists attached to batteries in the Cape Peninsula. They handle precision instruments for the big coast guns and have drawn high praise from artillerymen. Authorities plan to recruit hundreds more women for training in this secret, highly important work amid the Japanese threat in the Indian Ocean noted by Prime Minister Smuts.
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Cape Peninsula
South Africa
Indian Ocean
Smuts
Crochet Patterns and Robotic Window Lighting Devices
The text lists a crochet pattern number 7236 with charts and instructions for decorative dress and scarf edges using fine cotton and notes sending 20 cents to the Winnipeg Newspaper Union for details. It also mentions a Cambridge Massachusetts blackout wardens device that automates store window lights and billboards after dark and cites an early third century papyrus fragment of Genesis as the oldest Bible manuscript.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
MacDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Cambridge
Mass
War and unity reshape the small world to a larger cause
Marquis W Childs argues that war enlarges social bonds beyond salary and local ties, creating a shared purpose now and for postwar life. A recruit jokes about avoiding combat and the M O replies with a trenches for the short sighted joke.
Where Britain Leads Still Producing More War Material
The Minneapolis Star Journal notes Britain remains ahead in war material production, with Britain three times greater than just after Dunkirk and ten times higher than 1939 levels. It argues the United States is not yet catching up and predicts Britain will still outpace the U.S. through late spring or summer.
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Canada
United States
Britain
Ocean
British Industries Bulletin
Great Britain
Dunkirk
Minneapolis Star Journal
Donald Duck Deferred From Canadian Draft Helps Farm Work
The Canadian namesake of Walt Disney’s character, a Morpeth Ontario youth on a 100 acre Lake Erie farm, received a military service deferral last week to assist his parents with spring planting. He plans to join the RCMP later and quips he has been Donald Duck for 22 years and intends to stay that way.
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Donald Duck
Walt Disney
Morpeth Ont
Lake Erie
R.C. AL
Dutch Soldiers Stage Bold Jungle Surprise in Borneo Skirmish
A Dutch lieutenant and 15 men, naked and armed with captured revolvers, charged 30 Japanese troops in Borneo after escaping Balik Papan. The melee lasted ten minutes, five Dutch were left unconscious, and the attackers recovered clothes and weapons before marching back to civilization with five prisoners. In other news, Harvard anthropologist Ernest A. Hooton proposed a synthetic German stock postwar to curb militarism, while Canada’s steel controller Fred Kilbourne enforces 100 percent control to conserve metal for war needs, prioritizing essential military use and cutting civilian consumption.
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Borneo
Balik Papan
Wooden tableware becomes popular in Britain
The wood ware industry grows as crockery shortages and cost drive demand. Housewives praise wooden soup plates for durability and ease of care, noting they may replace traditional crockery after the war.
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Britain
Sunflowers to be planted on Dominion farms for seed oil
About 100 acres across 10 Dominion experimental farms in the prairie provinces will grow sunflowers this year for seed to produce vegetable oil. Lethbridge farm head W D Hay expects over 1000 pounds of seed per irrigated acre, while other farms may yield less due to irrigation limits. Also noted is a student essay titled Our Dog about not owning a pet.
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Dominion
Prairie Provinces
W. D. Hay
Lethbridge
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Colossal Ship Program
United Kingdom
Admiralty
Libya
Alice Brooks
Marquis W Childs
Atlantic Monthly
M.O
A.C.A.F
Newsweek
Fort Rhitubi
Jack Williams
Fred B
Fred Kilbourne
Mr. Kilbourne
Steel Control Office
Cameron Falls
Waterton Lakes National Park
Alberta
Jimmy
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