Invasion Craft Training Pushes Naval Team Toward Land
Naval officers and Canadian volunteers train to reach elusive beaches for combined operations. In a Highlands loch drill five assault craft, nine tons each, maneuvered through rain and waves as crews logged signals and wheel duties. A moment later the aimer flashed “Objective achieved” signaling success.
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United Nations
Gaston Lavergne
Ottawa
Lieut
R. M. Smith
Regina
Jack Nunn
Port Dover
Ont
Allan Legate
Drumheller
Stan Rose
Montreal
Harry Atkins
Waterford
Saving and Using Fats in the Home
A wartime guide urges housewives to reuse fats and meat drippings to reduce butter use. It stresses collecting unusable fats for salvage and notes a free Dominion Department of Agriculture folder from Ottawa on saving and using fats at home.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Play Too Rough: Marine Returns From Guadalcanal and Speaks
Thomas Murdock, 21, a U.S. Marine recovering from Guadalcanal wounds, claims he found a Japanese Confucius on the island. He quotes a captured captain saying Americans are playboys, while they themselves acknowledge Marines play too rough.
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Thomas Murdock
U.S
Guadalcanal
Wolf Attack Survived by Yukon Homemaker With Broom
Mrs G I Cameron of Selkirk Yukon Territory faced a large wolf in her yard near Whitehorse 100 miles north. She chased it from a kennel with a broom. two Indian men heard the scene, and the animal lunged at her as she retreated. They then shot the wolf with a rifle.
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G. I. Cameron
Selkirk
Y.T
Northland
Cameron
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Whitehorse
Mrs. Cameron
Pansies Bloom Fast In Easy Stitchery
Pattern 7384 offers a transfer for a 6 x 20 piece and two 6 x 13 motifs with edging and stitch illustrations. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E., Winnipeg, Man, including name and address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
McDermot Avenue
Not A Bad Idea Methodsa Bishop For Discarding Habits
A British destroyer flotilla steamed over a million miles in 21 months of war. A business executive seeks to think big and is advised by a bishop to discard foolish habits to gain time for a happier life. The bishop suggests ongoing self‑critique as a path to meaningful change.
Eiffel Tower rust fears as Nazi wreckers eye Paris landmark
A Stratford Beacon-Herald summary reports a Paris dispatch claiming the Eiffel Tower, rusting from neglect, could fall into German hands. It recalls the tower’s 984 feet of steel, wartime survival, and Nazi plans to plunder metal, with fears the structure may be destroyed to aid Hitler’s aims.
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Eiffel Tower
Paris
Sweden
Eifel
Seine
France
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
City of Light
Bowie
Eiffel
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Idea From Holland Urges Dutch Wartime Nose Blowing
Radio Oranje in London broadcasts a call for 300000 Dutch workers in Germany to blow their noses for extended time to slow Nazi war production. The announcer cites that 200000 men halting noses for a minute could waste about 1250 working hours and saving hardwood cords could conserve coal and oil.
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Germany
Hitler
Radio Orange
Netherlands
London
Distinctive Badges of Canada Parachute Corps
The cap badge blends wings for flight, a parachute for jump, and maple leaves for Canada. The collar badge features a paratrooper hand with an unsheathed dagger dropping from a cloud. Ex Coelis or Out of Heaven suggests dropping behind enemy lines. Buttons show a maple leaf suspended from a parachute and the word Canada.
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Canadian Parachute Corps
Canada
Food aid for French Africa lands in North African ports
The British Ministry of Information reported thirty six thousand tons of civilian supplies arriving at French North African ports. The shipment includes flour cheese sugar tea and dried fruits with textiles soap medicines and kerosene. Distribution will be managed by the French administration under a rationing system.
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British Ministry of Information
Racial Classifications In South Africa Noted
The native groups in South Africa are described as three main divisions the Bushmen the Hottentots and the Bantu in a historical overview of indigenous peoples and social labels used in the region.
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South Africa
Desert Route Captain Rescued After Hearing Church Bells
A captain in the artillery in the Middle East found his way back to his unit after hearing church bells broadcast by the BBC on November 15. The report also describes the Toronto driven food parcel program aiding prisoners of war, its acknowledgment cards, and heartwarming messages from receivers and families across Canada Britain Australia and New Zealand.
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Daily Sketch
BBC
Middle East
Toronto
Society
Inquiry Bureau
Ottawa
Canada
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Beavers Person Learns Official Food Rules for Noon Meals
Mr. Beaver embraces Canada’s Official Food Rules to guide his noon meals amid staff shortages. He now avoids risky foods at lunch as he balances two roles in a tight work environment.
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Mr. Beaver
Canada
The British Empire Stood The Test And Withstood War
London Daily Mail argues that the British Empire endured war and remained principled and resolute. It counters critics who scorn the term Empire and notes the historical context between the wars, defending Empire’s significance and central will.
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London Daily Mail
Minister thanks donor for gift in church magazine
In a church magazine note an old negro preacher admits to a weakness for cherry brandy after a white donor offered a bottle for an admission. The minister thanks Mr Jones for the gift and for the spirit in which it was given.
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Church
Jones
Port of Tunis Built From Carthage Ruins
La Goulette in Tunis used stones removed from Carthage ruins three miles away to construct its harbor and port facilities.
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la Goulette
Tunis
Carthage
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Lieut. Smith
Aittle Beach
Yukon
PRN
Ane
Alice Brooks
Paflel
Idea
Holland
Detchmen
Cap Brooge
Krarr Baoce
French Africa
Canadian Red Cross
Desert
Old
England
A. R. “Newfie
Taylor
R.ca
Newfoundland
Mary Devine
New Westminster
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