Canada’s Postwar Foreign Trade Opportunities Abroad
Canada should seek new markets beyond the U S and Britain, especially in Latin America and the Orient. Minister MacKinnon advocates expanding trade with India China Japan and Australia while noting exports to these regions were under ten percent of total in 1939. Developments in foreign trade will shape Canada’s future economy.
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Canada
MacKinnon
United States
Great Britain
Chamber of Commerce
Edmonton
Latin America
Orient
Japan
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Train Nurses Across Canada
The Canadian Nurses Association urged immediate steps to train nurse aides to ease the Canada wide nurse shortage. It proposed representative committees with nursing medical hospital administration and government members to analyze professional duties and reassign non professional tasks. Educational credential appraisal should be centralized due to varying provincial standards and university matriculation requirements.
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Toronto
Canadian Nurses Association
Canada
Assembly
Soviet libraries number eighty thousand nationwide
The Soviet Union operates about 80 000 public libraries in cities and countryside. Some 1 581 are in Moscow including the Lenin Library, described as the country’s reading library with a 10 million book collection.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Great Lenin
Navy outlines future of space and guided missile travel
The Navy previews interplanetary travel as a distant goal built on jet propelled pilotless aircraft and satellite vehicles. It details a pilotless air weapon that detects and strikes enemy targets and a submerged submarine launched missile to attack shore installations.
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United States Navy
Navy
Australian doctor honored as Payneham memorial
A memorial children’s centre of 9720 dollars is planned in Payneham Adelaide to honor Dr. E. L. Borthwick. The 75 year old physician served 46 years for the needy, never charged poor patients, arranged free medicines with a chemist, supplied steak and firewood, and provided free care for an incurable patient for 26 years until his death.
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Payneham
Adelaide
E. L. Borthwick
Borthwick
Niagara Falls
Germans Wish to Leave Reich Emigration Seen by U.S. Army
The United States Army intelligence division reports an unanimous desire by millions of Germans to emigrate from the occupied Reich, signaling broad public demand for departure from Frankfurter conditions.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Occupied
Reich
United States Army
Healthful youngster walks and runs about 15 miles daily
A healthy youngster is described as walking and running roughly 15 miles a day. The note emphasizes the individual’s stamina and active daily routine.
Price Control And Rationing Information for Wartime Consumers
A Wartime Prices and Trade Board advisory lists when new borns' ration books include sugar coupons and notes on ex servicemen priority suit certificates effective after October 30 1946 and December 31 1946. It explains due dates for ration book six coupons and that barber pricing remains under ceiling unless special permission is granted. Readers are urged to request pamphlets Consumers News or the Blue Book from local offices.
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Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Mani toba quartet drives 1300 miles in a jeep to attend funeral
Four Manitobans Missed a train from Gypsonville to St. Catharines and chose a farm jeep for the 1300 mile trek. Harold Hunter and wife, Algy Freeman and wife completed the journey by Saturday morning with no major trouble aside from a gas outage north of North Bay. The travelers found the trip delightful and full of sights.
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Manitoba
Gypsonville
Winnipeg
St. Catharines
Harold Hunter
Algy Freeman
North Bay
Defies Discovery Legend of Mazinaw Lake Silver Mine
A local legend places a silver mine in a cave near Mazinaw Lake east of Peterborough Ontario. The mine’s location is said to be known only to a few Indigenous people in the district. Meyers reportedly learned of the cave during a health visit, and legends speak of silver formations from the ceiling and two other whites given silver. The current whereabouts of the mine remain a mystery.
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Mazinaw Lake
Peterborough
Ontario
Meyers
Masai Insight On Malaria Long Before Modern Science
The Masai people of Central Africa recognized malaria as mosquito borne well before modern medicine. Their term for malaria translates to I have been bitten by 2 mosquito, reflecting early understanding of disease transmission.
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Central Africa
King's Pictures to be shown at Burlington House
The King's most important collection will be exhibited next winter at Burlington House by the Royal Academy, featuring nearly 500 works.
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London
Burlington House
Royal Academy
Viscount Montgomery Adopts Conventional Shield For Coat of Arms
Field Marshal Montgomery, head of the Imperial General Staff, selects a traditional shield for his heraldic arms. The supporters hint at his unorthodox stance, one a crusader badge reminiscent of his 8th Army, the other a British Tommy in battle dress with a black beret. The shield bears two lions and lilies, with a broken spear and helmet, a Montgomery family emblem, and the motto Gardez Bien.
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Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
8Th Army
Tommy
Smile Awhile Jokes From a bygone Coffeehouse Scene
A string of vintage quips and misunderstandings unfolds with pickpockets con men teachers artists soldiers and a Kentucky judge meeting a long familiar Aunt Jemima figure in a humorous slice of everyday life. The jokes play on language classes social roles and mistaken translations.
British blood donation scheme proves valuable to hospitals
A review by Britain's Ministry of Health finds four thousand bottles of dried plasma sent to Holland after liberation for starving patients, plus thousands more bottles of whole blood plasma for British forces and civilian hospitals. England and Wales' total donations reached nearly 394,000 last year, marking transfusion as a wartime service that grew into a standard hospital provision.
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Britain
Ministry of Health
Holland
England
Wales
General Hospital
Fort William
Ice Cream Origins Traced to Italy in 1600
The record notes ice cream production began in Italy around 1600 with water ices spread to France by 1550. Paris saw ice cream by 1775, and it appeared in England and Germany about the same period. It was advertised in New York in 1786 and served in Washington at a dinner honoring President Jackson.
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Italy
France
Paris
England
Germany
New York
Washington
Jackson
Kitchener Record
Gems of Thought and Quotes on Merit and Striving
A collection of maxims and sayings on ambition merit and self improvement. Notable attributions include W H Jones La Rochefoucauld Mary Baker Eddy James Lane Allen and Clarence Amry Towne. A jokey futurist line about psychiatry imagines universal insanity by 2139.
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Jedge
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