Canadian Scouts and Guides Aid Wartime Effort Across Dominion
Canadian Boy Scouts and Girl Guides organize a broad salvage and aid drive for the war effort. They collect water paper, rags, bones, and medicines, support Red Cross campaigns, aid war savings and hospital needs, and crew ambulances for United Nations fronts. Many serve as messengers and volunteers, with leaders and ex-scouts enlisting in armed services.
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Boy Scouts
Steader
Canada
Red Cross
Thescouts
Britain
Scouts’ Baden- Powell Chins Up Fund
Old Country
Armed Services
Girl Guides
Army
Navy
Air Force
A.R.P
United Nations
Dominion
Germans Selling Out Properties in France During War Endgame
German owners who had bought property in France are selling out at loss as Nazi authorities try to curb panic selling. They fear rising French optimism for an early war end and removal of German presence. Agents urged to discourage sales, but private dispositions continue.
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France
Loendon Daily Sketch
Veteran senator notes mixed quality of maiden speech
An old Senate member listens to a new colleague's maiden speech. When asked his view, the veteran quips that the good points were not new and the new ideas were not good. The exchange reflects cautious parliamentary wit.
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Senate
Axis air losses in North Africa reach high total
The report states that over 8,000 Axis aircraft were destroyed in all campaigns in North Africa. About 5,000 were lost in combat while the remaining aircraft were captured or destroyed on the ground.
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North Africa
Understanding Big Money in Parliament Across Eras
The Vancouver Province notes how modern budgets deepen familiarity with vast sums, unlike earlier times when even experts needed the Lakhs and Crores scale. It contrasts John Morley’s era with today’s billion dollar budgets and astronomical debts. It argues current lawmakers are not wiser, just used to huge numbers.
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House of Commons
John Morley
Canada
Vancouver
Whistler Portrait of the Artist's Mother Rejected at RA
Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother was initially refused for Royal Academy exhibition and stayed unsold for two decades before a breakthrough or sale occurred.
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Whistler
Royal Academy
C B Brown Retires After Notable Rails Career
C B Brown former chief engineer for Canadian National Railways retires to private life. Known across Western Canada, his last CN assignment was the Montreal Central Station and Terminals project. He is regarded as one of the continent’s best known railroaders.
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Canadian National Railways
Brown
Canada
C_N_R
Central
Montreal
Crop Values in Canada Reach 1943 High Despite Decline
Canada’s principal field crops were valued at about 1 100 million dollars in 1943 per Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The total is slightly below 1942 but remains high versus earlier years as yields fall. Wheat prices rose from 69 to 102 cents, helping offset reduced output. In London, buses run at 250 per hour from Victoria station during rush hours in normal times.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairies
Ontario
Quebec
Victoria Station
London
Canada grows oil crops to supply ships and industry
Oil products from Canada include rape seed flaxseed and sunflower oils produced on farms for wartime use. Rape seed oil funds marine lubricants and could be used on 19 000 acres. flaxseed oil supports munitions and paints. sunflowers yield edible oil for shortening with 30 000 acres planted this year.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Dominion
Millais Recounts Rustic's Fer rography Remark
Sir John Millais, presiding at a Royal Academy banquet, was painting a countryside landscape when a rustic asked if he had tried fer rography. The rustic claimed it quicker and more like, eliciting Millais's brief response.
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Sir John Millais
Royal Academy
Millais
Women In Russia Drive War Work And Leadership
Russian women play a central role in war mobilization with many taking over skilled factory jobs railway duties and mining while 60 000 work in mines 30 000 serve as sailors and over half the army doctors are women Women surgeons advance to battalion officers and field ambulance units rationing is strict with food stamps and graded allotments reflecting wartime resource shortages.
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Canada
Arctic Ocean
Russia
Nazi Germany
Six Crops A Year From Steam Heated Ground Near Edinburgh
The London bureau reports on Mr. David Lowe who, near Edinburgh, grows eleven acres under steam pipes with glass panes. Steam boiling the soil kills weeds while each acre receives 100 tons of fertilizer and straw. He harvests six to eight crops yearly including lettuce turnips carrots cauliflower leeks onions beans and more. Watering in summer uses overhead warm water sprinklers as the plans are removed to refresh the plants.
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London
David Lowe
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Lowe
New York Herald Tribune
Government Praises Uniform Program For Canadian Forces
Government authorities applaud the clothing industry for successfully supplying uniforms to Canada's armed forces. The effort was gigantic and the result leaves service members well outfitted, second to none in attire.
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Canada
Hamilton Spectator
Allied Sicilian Invasion Surges With Record Armada
More than 3,000 ships carried 160,900 troops and 14,000 vehicles in the Anglo American assault on Sicily. The invasion marked the largest amphibious operation, with 600 tanks and 1,800 guns ferried to the island.
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Sicily
Canadian airman Keneth Spooner awarded George Cross posthumously
The Rise carried LAC Keneth GC Spooner of Smiths Falls Ont in a training flight when the pilot collapsed. Spooner, acting as student marker, took control, ordered crew to jump, and sought to land the aircraft. He died when the plane crashed, praised for great courage and unselfishness.
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Keneth GC
Spooner
Smith’s Falls
Gil
Tie
Conl
Lac
Spooners
George Cross
Ottawa Journal
New Peacock Crochet Pattern T670 for Chair Set
Old favorite pineapples inspire a peacock themed crochet design to adorn a chair set. Pattern T670 provides transfer pattern and materials list. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name address and pattern number. Delivery may be delayed by mail.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
MecDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Costly Accident Delays London to Portsmouth Line in Ewell
A platelayer dropped a shovel on a live rail in Ewell England causing rail to buckle and halt the London to Portsmouth line for three hours. The incident disrupted service and highlighted dangerous maintenance work on the Southern railway.
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Southern Railway
Ewell
Eng
London-Portsmouth
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