Can We Prevent Famine
Sir Arthur Salter argues famine threatens vast regions including Europe India and the Far East as of May 1946. A chart lists average daily calories by country with severe shortages in many areas and monsoon failures worsening rice supply, while aid and disrupted communications hinder relief efforts.
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Arthur Salter
Picture Post
London
England
Sir Arthur Salter
U.N.A.R.A
Europe
India
Far East
USA
South America
Sennacca
Switzerland
Australia
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Finland
Hungary
Iece Eet
Rumania
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Ridgde
Waeeye
Yugoslavia
Reet AG Ok Baa
Russia
Germany
U.S
U.S.A
Canada
New Western International Hockey League Formed
The Kootenay Hockey League dissolves and a new league named the Western International Hockey League will start with five teams Trail Nelson Kimberley Spokane and Los Angeles. Fred Holger LA Ramblers manager announced in town and said the league opens October 26.
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Calgary
Kootenay Hockey League
Western International Hockey League
Trail
Nelson
Kimberley
Spokane
Los Angeles
Fred Holger
Los Angeles Ramblers
Holger
Humorous Snippets and Q&A from a Home Life Page
A collage of light jokes and brief anecdotes. A father searches for a shaving brush while a nursery child reports Willie’s growing wooden horse tail. A boy jokes about being good in everything but history and a universal solvent puzzle provokes Smart.
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Willie
Guardians of the Law Stir City to Action
Police captain Steve Brant pursues the Black Hoods with pressure from Commissioner Drury as rookie Stark, son of the doomed ally Dan Stark, arrests the criminals under a by law for spitting on the sidewalk, winning reluctant praise.
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Steve
Steve Brant
Commissioner Drury
B. J. Turner
East End
Groceteria
Dilly
Turner
Stark
Drury
Dan Stark
Young Stark
New Rust Varieties Boost Oat Growing in Canada
Dr. L H Newman notes rust resistant varieties will lift oats as a safer crop and key feed grain in Canada. Oats and barley rank high for livestock feeding, with oats dominating horse feed and cattle rations while contributing to vitamin B intake. Milling returns show oatmeal value at 3,743,738 dollars.
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Canada
L. H Newman
Dominion Cerealist
Agricultural Institute Review
Newman
Dainty Pattern 4564 Child Frock and Party Dress
Advertises Anne Adams Pattern 4564 for sizes 2 4 6 8 with a flare sleeve frock. Floral transfer included and contrast yardage listed. Sent for 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg, 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address and size.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Engineer Hopes River Water Heats City Buildings
A Norwich England electrical engineer has devised a heat pump using river cold water to heat a five story building. The system leverages compression to generate heat and maintains about 63 degrees Fahrenheit. Report suggests compression heating costs roughly one third of conventional methods.
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Norwich
England
Grape-Nuts Flakes Promoted For Nutrition and Value
Dialog highlights enthusiasm for Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes noting nutritional benefits including energy from carbohydrates proteins for muscle phosphorus for teeth and bones and blood support. The speakers praise the two grain blend wheat and malted barley and the product’s golden-brown crispness and easy digestion. A shopper contemplates buying large economy packs.
Selected Creole Fudge Loaf Recipe Instructions
A historical recipe for a creole fudge loaf using Swans Down cake flour baking powder salt butter sugar egg chocolate milk and vanilla. Instructions cover creaming butter and sugar beating in egg melting chocolate alternating flour with milk then baking in a greased 8 by 8 by 2 inch pan at 325 degrees for about one hour and icing after cooling.
Cheese Wafers With Piquant Spices
Butter and cheese blended with Worcestershire and Tobasco gives a rich spread. Cereal crumbs mixed with flour form a dough rolled into 1 to 2 inch rolls chilled then sliced into 3 8 inch wafers and baked 375 degrees for 12 minutes, yielding 60 wafers.
Cornwall to be broken up for furniture timber at Gravesend
The Cornwall, Britain’s wooden wall built in Bombay in 1815 and launched as a 74 gun ship, will be dismantled at Gravesend on the River Thames. Once a training ship for boys, it last saw action in 1940 when a bomb damaged its hull. its timbers will be used to make furniture.
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Britain
Cornwall
Gravesend
Thames
Bombay
Christian Science Monitor
Not Interested Falconbridge Nickel Mines Not Bothering With Low Grade Deposit
Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited said it has no interest in a low grade nickel deposit reported near Dar Es-Salaam Tanganyika and will not send a representative to inspect the find. C H Farnum, cited as Falconbridge’s representative, is a consultant who has worked for the company but is currently in the United States and not bound for South Africa.
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Toronto
Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited
Dar Es-Salaam
Tanganyika
Falconbridge
Sudbury
Ontario
C. H. Farnum
United States
South Africa
Dodd's Kidney Pills Ad Encourages Middle Aged Health
An old advertisement urges readers around age 40 to prevent kidney and bladder disorders with Dodd's Kidney Pills. It claims energy loss, headaches, rheumatic pains, and insomnia can be avoided, praising the pill's fifty plus years of use.
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Dodd
Welcomed All Comers Thomas Hardy Tea With Cats
The great English novelist Thomas Hardy enjoyed tea with visitors while surrounded by many cats. He explained that some were his, some regular visitors, and others simply found out tea was served and joined the gathering.
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Thomas Hardy
America
Mr. Hardy
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