Transmitter at Newport Corner powered Nova Scotia war effort
The Newport Corner station in Nova Scotia housed Canada’s strongest wartime transmitter with 80,000 watt output. Built 1943 at a cost of 6 million dollars, the facility used 209 transmitters and fed secret coded traffic through Albro Lake Dartmouth. Lieut. D. W. Carroll oversaw the project while naval telegraphists handled the keys sending million-word monthly traffic.
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UAWA
Nova Scotia
Canada
Dominion
Newport Corner
N.S
Royal Canadian Navy
Ting Newport Corner
Windsor
Murmansk
Falkland Islands
Newport
Wit
Albro Lake
Dartmouth
Halifax
Naval Services Headquarters
Ottawa
D. W. Carroll
RCN
First public sale of whale steaks in North Shields
A consignment of frozen whale meat arrived at North Shields and began selling slowly before momentum grew as buyers learned whale steaks resemble beefsteaks. In London gourmets have tasted whale burgers and praised them. a local omnibus conductress quipped that after sausages everything would taste like ambrosia.
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North Shields
London
Omnibus
Miniature Car For Disabled Men Advances in London
A new single seat miniature motor car for disabled ex service men and crippled persons debuted in London. It allows control by foot hand or both, aims for 35 mph cruising speed and 65 mpg fuel efficiency, with a narrow chassis fitting a 2 ft 6 in gateway and storage in small sheds. Price is £198.
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London
Empire Digest
Notable World Facts From Various Fields
The piece lists remarkable figures and curiosities from history and science. It notes a 5 500 mile Trans Siberian Railway, 835 shoes worn by Nebraska Williams in 36 000 miles, a wartime Dutch sweetener 4000 times sweeter than cane sugar, and the moon rising earlier near the Arctic Circle. It also mentions Yenan University’s cave campus, MIT measurements of tiny fog particles, extreme vertical temperature changes, and bullion shipments linked to the Dutch Government.
President Truman urges nationwide highway safety drive
President Truman appeals to every state and community to push highway safety through 1947. He cites 34000 American fatalities in 1946 and calls the highway death-rate problem one of the nation's most serious daily concerns.
Britain’s Prisoners of War Get Special Postwar Care
The Returned British Prisoners of War Association reports over 60,000 men consulted them in the past year. The organization aims to ease men’s transition from enemy camps to civilian life with constructive and practical assistance.
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Britain
Returned British Prisoners of War Association
Silent Assistants Train Nurses In Canadian Schools
For over 25 years a group known as the Chase Sisters have served as patient for student nurses in Canada. They endure cold packs and injections while lying on beds in demonstration rooms. The life sized dolls, called Chase after their maker, look nearly human from a distance and are used to practice treatments before real patients.
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Canada
Mary Chase
Chase
If No Atmosphere Makes Darkness Upon Sunset
The text posits that without Earth's atmosphere, darkness would descend instantly as the sun dips below the horizon, implying a direct sky absence of scattering and twilight. It frames a hypothetical immediate night following sunset with no atmospheric diffusion.
Elizabeth Smellie to resign as VON superintendent
The long service of public worker Miss Elizabeth Smellie comes to a close in May with her resignation from the post of superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses. After 23 years with the organization, her retirement marks the end of a notable career of selfless service to Canada.
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Elizabeth Smellie
CBE
RRC, LLC
Victorian Order of Nurses
Miss Smellie
Canada
Montreal Gazette
Order of St John launches nationwide drive for first aid funds
A three week national campaign begins February 2 to raise 1,000,000 for teaching first aid and nursing at home hospital nurse aid services and rural first aid posts across western Canada. Honorary chair Vincent Massey and Governor General Viscount Alexander support the drive.
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Order of St. John
Canada
St. John Ambulance
St. John
Jerusalem
Order
British Empire
Vincent Massey
United Kingdom
Order In
Viscount Alexander
Faith Braiden
Isabelle Westmacott
Winnipeg
Record Lumber Output Amazes Canada in 1946
Canadian lumbermen push record production with more than five hundred billion board feet in 1946 up from 1944. Most of output stays domestic while 40 percent is exported, with 13 percent to the UK and 18 percent to the United States. Quotas and shifting controls affect 1947 demand. Production concentrates in British Columbia and eastern provinces.
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Otn
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Embroidered Peacock Motifs Pattern No 7230
Transfer pattern 15 by 18 inch and four 4 by 4 inch motifs with a color chart and stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name and address and pattern number clearly.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Wool Clip Falls Short Of 1945 Level
The 1946 Canadian wool clip totaled 13,700,000 pounds, about 800,000 pounds below 1945. Early estimates for 1947 predict a clip roughly five percent lower than 1946.
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Canada
Surprise PGA Open to Be Held at St Charles Links
The 1947 10 000 P G A open golf tournament is set for next summer on the St Charles Golf and Country Club course. Charlie Conacher discussed coaching the St Louis Flyers after a St Louis meeting with A H L officials. Victoria basketball teams face amateur status restrictions against professional units in the U S. The Davis Cup returns to the United States with Walter Pate as non playing captain of the defending champions. Lynwood Rowe predicts 1947 will be a strong baseball year. Detroit protest over a Toronto 2 1 decision is denied by Clarence Campbell. John Cobb aims for 400 mph in a car he used to set the current land speed record.
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Winnipeg
St. Charles Golf and Country Club
Charlie Conacher
Toronto Maple Leafs
Kid Line
St. Louis
St. Louis Flyers
American Hockey League
Flyers
Eeee
Victoria
Dave Nicol
Dominoes
Torchy Torrance
A.A.U
Seattle
United States
New York
Walter Pate
Australia
Salt Lake City
John Cobb
Cobb
Salt Flats
Priceless Egyptian treasures donated to Royal Ontario Museum
The late Sir Robert Mond bequeathed a rich Egyptian collection to the Royal Ontario Museum including a cosmetic palette from about 3000 B C and a variety of figurines pottery and funerary objects. The article notes Mond's role with the International Nickel Company and his support of Egyptian expeditions. It also discusses how atmospheric effects color the Moon blue and other hues, explaining the science behind blue moons and sky colors.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Sir Robert Mond
International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited
Robert
Egypt
Wolf teeth mirror domesticated dog dental structure
A concise observation notes that wolf dentition aligns in all major structural aspects with that of domestic dogs, highlighting shared anatomy and similarities between the two canid groups.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Truman
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