Plastics and Canadian resources shape postwar progress
The article notes wartime gains in plastics as substitutes for metals and glass, highlighting hard but light, shatterproof materials for aircraft and ships. It discusses Canada's wheat exports and potential Western crops for industrial plastics, including oats, soybeans, corn stalks, and plant fibers, as studied by scientists and the House of Commons Reconstruction Committee.
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Canada
West
House of Commons
Pictou Highlanders Adopt Disabled Girl for Care
The Pictou Highlanders in eastern Canada adopt a crippled girl and fund expert medical treatment to ease her leg affliction. Britain provides the United States with radio locator and the astograph, two of its newest inventions.
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The
Pictou Highlanders
Canada
Britain
United States
Increased 1944 Canadian sheep and wool objectives
The Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference in Ottawa calls for a five percent rise in sheep and lamb marketing in 1944 from 1943 levels. It suggests feeding lambs to higher weights, and sets a wool production target of 14 million pounds greasy basis, up from 13.6 million in 1943, with eased wartime wool shortages and better Pacific shipping.
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Ottawa
Canada
Pacific
Farmer’s Tale Explains Horns On Cows And Horses
A farmer tells a city girl that some cows lack horns for various reasons. He then reveals the humor of the moment by noting that the cow is not a cow at all but a horse, turning the conversation into a sly punchline about mistaken identity.
Cartoonist Must Be Quick on the Draw to Catch Events
A cartoonist stays rapid on the draw to mirror fast moving news, illustrating current events with speed and insight. The captioned panels reflect timely topics and sharp humor, preserving the river of daily occurrences.
Price Control And Rationing Information
Wartime prices and trade board answers questions on evaporated milk coupon rules for children under two and medical need, tea ration eligibility new books, lumber discounts for farmers under $200 value, trapper ammunition declarations, extra farm rations for temporary help, and how to obtain Consumers' News or the Blue Book pamphlet.
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Consumers’ News
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Regina
Saskatchewan
Jet propelled plane secret nearly leaks through boy model
An officer in the Mid lands spots boys with model planes including one without propellers showing a jet propelled secret. He confiscates the propellerless model, questions the father who had worked on Britain's secret weapon, destroys the model, and warns the father.
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Midlands
Britain
Willing to oblige on CN train ladder mishap
A CN Railways train porter cannot find his ladder while a passenger helps. An English sailor offers his ladder to the porter until morning. The anecdote, from the Wall Street Journal, ends with the sailor carrying the ladder in his berth.
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Canadian National Railways
Wall Street Journal
Millions of wartime charts produced for navy and merchant ships
The Royal Navy Hydrographic Office prints millions of charts annually at a factory in England. Authorized messengers collect portfolios for ships, with 5,000,000 charts a year and hundreds of tons supplied for the Sicily invasion. Women from art schools update corrections quickly, sometimes 4,000 changes weekly, adapting to minefields and sunken ships.
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Royal Navy
Pan
Mercantile Marine
England
Department
Sicily
St. Thomas
Royal Bank Officials Highlight Record Business And Victory Loans
The Royal Bank of Canada reports unprecedented business volume with assets over 1.5 billion dollars. Vice President Sydney G. Dobson says banks did not buy government bonds for profit and explains banks aided Victory Loans by encouraging subscriptions and advising depositors to subscribe to the full extent of their ability.
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Sydney G. Dobson
Royal Bank of Canada
Humility as a Noble Virtue Across Thinkers
A compact collection of quotes extols humility and lowliness as true dignity. Notable voices include Bond, Charles Hodge, Bulwer-Lytton, Mary Baker Eddy, Quarles, and C. H. Spurgeon, each linking meekness with virtue, leadership, and spiritual ascent.
Surplus Wheat Across Argentina Australia Canada Exceeds Demand
Harvests in Argentina and Australia yield an estimated 388 million bushels with 225 million bushels exportable. Carryovers of 275 million bushels meet domestic needs, totaling a surplus near 500 million. Adding Canada pushes exportable supply above one billion bushels across three of four major exporters.
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Argentina
Australia
Canada
Smile a While humor strip snippets
A collection of light exchanges and quips. Jokes range from family manners to university, medicine and executive wit. Characters such as Mary, Jones, Smith, Alf, Gertie and Norah appear in sketches about hair tonic trades, marital spats, widows, dentistry, and dinner table etiquette.
Fast talk on the road by Uncle Henry
An older Black man on a plantation road chats aloud while a neighbor asks why. He says he enjoys hearing a smart man talk and likes to talk to a smart man, then resumes his walk with his sack on his shoulder.
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Darkey
Uncle Henry
Bachelor Definition Turns On Marriage Status
A lighthearted note defines a bachelor as a man who never marries or takes a wife. The quip frames bachelorhood as an ongoing, voluntary state and plays on social norms about partnership.
Order New Seed Potatoes Advises Growers
The Dominion Department of Agriculture reports Canada holds Supplies of Foundation and Certified seed potatoes to meet domestic demand. Export demand remains strong this season, and growers are urged to order 1944 seed requirements promptly. Export will resume after March 1, with lists of available seed from the Plant Protection Division, Ottawa.
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Foundation
Foundation A
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Quick Skin Relief
Promote Moone's Emerald Oil as a potent antiseptic for eczema and itching. Claims rapid relief from itching, eruptions, and other skin troubles with a clean, penetrating formula that does not stain. Offers complete satisfaction or money back.
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Moone
Matey
Tale Of Two Cities Burnings Remembered In Britain And Berlin Raids
Britain marks December 29 1940 as the date Nazis tried to burn central London, dropping about 350 tons of bombs, largely incendiaries. Germany notes December 29 1943 when the RAF dropped 2 250 tons on Berlin.
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Britain
London
Germany
R.A.F
Berlin
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