Broader Health Measures To Meet Growing War Demand
Pensions Minister Ian Mackenzie calls for broader public health measures in Canada to support the war effort. He envisions nutrition education, housewife responsibility, and possible national health insurance, arguing policy must rise with public will and wartime needs. He cites cost savings from healthier living and urges action by federal and provincial governments.
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Canada
Ian Mackenzie
Toronto
Mackenzie
Health League of Canada
Pronunciation debates and a border skating lullaby
A discussion on pronouncing place names from Montevideo to Paris contrasts native and anglicized forms. Meanwhile a Franco-Swiss border incident on Les Brenets Lake led to barrels marking the line and patrols to keep skaters on their side.
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Les Brenets
Jura Mountains
Bata plans new Frankford plant completion in spring
Under construction schedules set completion of the Bata plant in Frankford Ontario for spring 194. Production in the leased plant exceeds 800 pairs of shoes daily with over 200 workers in production and 250 on construction. Twenty homes finished and 30 more under construction. Management expects 1,500 workers at the new plants. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution reports 60 000 lives saved since March 1824.
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Bata
Frankford
Ont
The
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Hardship and Privation Undermine German Youth Health
Readers' Digest summary cites a former Berlin medical authority asserting Hitlerism weakens German youth health. Six years of hardship and reduced calories lowered worker efficiency while diseases rise. Hitler Youth reportedly records record fallen arches and flat feet as Britain and France begin warfare with unharmed stamina.
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Berlin
Germany
Hitler Youth
Hitler
Four ambulances donated by Canadian Red Cross to Finland
The Canadian Red Cross announced the donation of four ambulances of a latest military design to the Finnish government. The move supports Finland's emergency and defense readiness amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Canadian
Red Cross
Field Peas Value In Feed And Diet
Field peas serve as a protein supplement worth double barley or oats and are prized for pig and dairy feed. They have long fed humans mainly in soup, and recent farming methods mix peas with oats to ease harvesting while maintaining soil nitrogen and structure.
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Dominion
L. H. Newman
Origin Of The Sandwich Lies Behind Earl Of Sandwich Claim
The National Geographic Society questions the Earl of Sandwich claim to be the sandwich inventor. Romans ate meat between bread two thousand years ago, calling it offula, a morsel, not a sandwich, according to the Vancouver Sun.
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Earl of
Sandwich
National Geographic Society
Offula
Offa
Vancouver
US Yearbook lists leading milks and old coin use
The 1939 Yearbook of Agriculture notes that groats, British four penny pieces, remain current in the West Indies though long out of use in Britain. It also reports reindeer milk with 22 percent butterfat as the richest among eleven listed milks in the United States.
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West Indies
Canadian certified seed potatoes find strong overseas demand
Canadian certified seed potatoes exceed 1.5 million bushels in the season with exports to Brazil Cuba the West Indies and the United States. Demand is reported from Argentina and other markets with Green Mountain Irish Cobbler Kathadin and Bliss Triumph varieties dominant. Growers are urged to place orders early as supplies are limited and sales are expected to sell out before spring.
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Cuba
West Indies
United
Brazil
Canada
United States
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Useful And Comforting In The London Blackout
A London Daily Sketch columnist recalls two former non smokers who started lighting up during the war blackout. They say a glowing cigarette tip acts as a warning light for safe crossing and provides surprising usefulness for identifying coins reading bus tickets counting change and writing addresses while keeping hands free.
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London Daily Sketch
Crochet chair set pattern with scarf ends charm
Pattern 6559 offers a crochet chair set and matching pillow with an old fashioned charm. It includes charts, illustrations, stitches, and materials. cost 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E., Winnipeg.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Remarkable Tribute to King George VI by American Paper
The American paper names King George VI of Britain as “Man of the Year” for 1939, praising his dignity, decency, and symbolic role in a world crisis. It argues a constitutional monarch embodies unity and conscience, carrying empire’s hopes through trials while not a politician or ruler.
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George VI
England
Britain
Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor
Manitoba's New Sugar Beet Factory Opens Fort Garry Plan
The Winnipeg Free Press reports immediate start on Manitoba sugar beet factory in Fort Garry. The plant will employ 250 workers at peak and harvest 300 000 pounds of sugar daily, feeding 1500 tons of beets from local producers and supplying about 70 percent of Manitoba's sugar. Refugee capital from Europe enabled the project after wartime finance gaps. The million dollar facility aims to begin operations by October 1, with machinery now sourced domestically and from the United States.
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Manitoba
Europe
Fort Garry
Germany
United States
Winnipeg Free Press
Rain Insurance Payouts Highlight Fair Day Cash
The Australian Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind has insured opening day rain for eight years and collected £1,600 from insurers. A scientist notes lumberjacks are the hardest workers among manual laborers. The saying ends with a truth about effort and pay.
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Royal Victorian Institute For the Blind
Melbourne
Fools The Gestapo Warned by Free German Radio Pamphlet
The New York Times reports British police close in on unlicensed German shortwave station Die Freiheit. The pamphlet Freedom Calling claims thousands of helpers and a mobile staff, with three or four technical workers and no fixed broadcasting house. Cars to Berlin, furniture vans in Wuerttemberg, and Rhine barges are halted as broadcasts continue.
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Die Freiheit
the Freedom
Germany
Marconi
Herren Hitler
Goebbels
Goering
Gestapo
Frederick Muller
London
Broadcasting House
Berlin
Wuerttemberg
New York Times
Trees To Trap Snow At Dominion Forest Nursery
A 1 500 foot belt of trees at Sutherland Saskatchewan captured enough snow to fill a 17 600 cubic foot dugout. The belt yielded about eleven cubic feet of water per foot of belt. A single belt of one to four rows and at least 15 feet high is recommended for temperate climates. The article notes colder average temperatures around sunrise.
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Dominion Forest Nursery
Sutherland, Sask
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Vienna
Wien
Montreal
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Greenwitch
Brantford Expositor
Bata Shoe
Ontario
Tiber Messner
Rochester Times-Union
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