Dehydration of Food and Tin Salvage Warned
War era report emphasizes dehydration of foods for efficiency and long-term sustenance. It notes dehydrated butter, egg logistics, and the potential to carry vegetables in a vest pocket. Also urges returning used collapsible tubes for tin salvage to aid war needs and aircraft production.
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United States
Egypt
Bolingbroke
Prices and Trade Board
Canada
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Hitler
Color Linens For Bride's Trousseau
Pattern 7349 offers a transfer design for a guest room bed set with two 5 by 14 inch motifs and one 6 by 16 inch motif. Includes stitch directions and edging, with materials list. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7349.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Avenue
Early American theatres repurposed venues for small crowds
Early American theatres were often converted spaces seating about 300 with no heat except a large foyer stove. Patrons were told to bring foot warming devices. The note adds that Kansas leads US wheat production.
Destroyer Wild Swan shoots down four German bombers in one attack
The destroyer Wild Swan is credited with destroying four German bombers in a single attack, possibly a naval record. The blast killed three enemy planes, while the collision of two others is blamed on the vessel’s anti aircraft fire. Built in 1918, she remains a veteran among aging destroyers. Naval honors persist for reserve fleet ships past their expected life, amid praise for British shipyards and engine-room crews. Baseball's rise in Central and South America rivals bullfighting, while surveying traces to ancient Egypt around 2475 BCE.
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Wild Swan
Manchester Guardian
North Sea
Holland
Holbrooke Mahn
Denver
Royal Canadian Air Force
Mahn
Canada
Disease fears from war era garden clinic warn of food shortage
Paul H. Jones, Victory Garden chairman in Dearborn Michigan, warned at a Detroit clinic that by 19 percent there will be a desperate food shortage due to plant diseases and insecticide scarcity. He cited air-borne germs from war centers and urged hygienic gardens, minimal sprays, and insecticide alternatives while noting progress in disease resistant cabbage.
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Paul H. Jones
Victory Garden
Wayne County
Dearborn
Michigan
Horace J. Rackham
Detroit
Jones
Africa
Brazil
Rockefeller Foundation
Curb Noise Reduction Aids Air Raid Warning Effectiveness
H A Leedy of the Greater Chicago Noise Research Council notes that reducing city noise by five decibels can double air raid siren effectiveness. He cites London cutting 20 decibels during blackouts and urges stricter enforcement of anti noise laws to quiet autos horns and street motions as Chicago studies proceed.
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H A Leedy
Greater Chicago
Noise Research Council
Leedy
Illinois Institute of Technology
London
Chicago
Salvage Drives Grow Across Canada For Scrap Materials
The Dominion salvage program expands through cities like Montreal and Kingston with local committees aiding collection of scrap rubber iron and steel. Households are urged to participate as junk dealers sort and sell salvaged material under Crown controls with profits funding armed services recreation.
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Dominion Salvage Organization
LaFerle
Montreal
Kingston
Canada
Perilous flight ends with brave rescue by snake bite
Lieut. Robert Vaught of the United States Army reports a perilous 3000 foot flight in which a snake near his left foot struck him twice as he tried to slide it away. He forced a landing in a swamp, treated the bite with a tourniquet and mud pack, radioed for help, fought off buffaloes, improvised a hand steering solution, and returned safely after hospital care.
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Robert Vaught
United States Army
Vaught
Diamonds recovered from Australian consignment find
Connie, an aborigine woman near Broome, Australia, returned a tube containing diamonds worth 32000 to authorities. The gems were from a large consignment lost when a Netherlands plane wrecked en route from Java to Australia. A beachcomber later found much of the diamonds nearby, about 60 miles north of Broome.
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Connie
Broome
Australia
Netherlands
Java
Carnot Bay
Coal Needs for Battleship Power and Miner Output
The item notes that 40 000 tons of coal are required to generate the power for constructing a 35 000 ton battleship and for a full day of output from over 6 700 coal miners.
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Dairy Research Institute
New Zealand
England
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Alice Brooks
Kansas
Ancient
Bay War Savings Certificates
By Thurston Topham
Jeep
CNR
National Railways System
Hamilton Ont
Kingston Ont
Sperry
Leeds Yorkshire Post
R.C.A.F. Flier
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