Canada Opens Homes To Refugee Children During War
The article argues Western Canada should welcome British refugee children as a wartime duty and potential future citizens. It notes an initial plan to admit 10,000 under British Canadian agreement, discusses economic and transport limits, and foresees many youths adopting Canada as their home after the conflict ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Western
Prairie Provinces
Western Canada
British Isles
Great Britain
Radium moved to cave in Derbyshire Hillis
War time safety measure moves radium from Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute in Manchester to a cave in Derbyshire Hillis. The board was told that a nearby bomb burst within 150 yards could explode the radium, kill a patient, and make the area uninhabitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christie Hospital
Holt
Manchester
Derbyshire Hillis
Milkmen Deliver Milk Door to Door in Middle Ages
Delivery of milk on a house to house basis began in the Middle Ages with cows driven to each domicile and milk delivered on the spot.
Tulip bulbs tested as pig feed at Lincolnshire institute
The Ministry of Agriculture reports Kirton Agricultural Institute fed tulip bulbs to pigs replacing up to a quarter of the cereal meal in their diet. The experiment will be tested further, with both raw and cooked bulbs. Daffodils are warned not to be used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Kirton Agricultural Institute
Lincolnshire
The Autotomy Ability in Animals
The concept describes how certain species can shed a limb or tail at a specific point to escape predators. This self amputation enables quick escape, with some species regenerating the lost part later.
Two Young Men, One Rises While Other Grows Idle
In a marketing piece J C Kirkwood contrasts two youths: one leaves a perishable goods route job to become a commercial traveler with a 400-entry field, using a car. the other remains idle, deteriorates, and relies on handouts. The message urges securing any job and advancing toward a better position aligned with one's goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goa
J. C. Kirkwood
Hitler Can't Win The Nazi Economy Explored
In New Republic Fritz Sternberg argues Hitler spends 90 billion marks on rearmament and relies on taxed workers as living costs rise. While 20 million Germans are employed, wages lag behind 1932 levels due to high taxes, devalued mark, and inflation. Sternberg warns a reckoning awaits when war stalls and opposition grows. Watertown Times.
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Germany
Paris
London
New York
Hitler
Fritz Sternberg
New Republic
Sternberg
Mr. Sternberg
Gestapo
Watertown
N.Y
Times
Prime Minister King gifts autographed books to Legion library
The Canadian Legion War Services education division adds two autographed volumes by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to its Library For Troops. The shipment, including 200 other works by Canon G. Scott, Sir C. Roberts, L. Montgomery and others, aims to support troops studying trades under wartime programs. King praised the Legion’s educational services and Canadian authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion War Services
Mackenzie King
Wilfred Bovey
Dominion
Legion
L. M. Montgomery
Hector Charlesworth
A. S. Bourinot
P. D Ross
Lloyd C. Douglas
Canada Imposes 21 Percent Duty on Tourist Imports
Budget introduces 10 percent tax on value for duty for goods brought by Canadian tourists returning home. Exemption of $100 for U S imports ends, raising effective duty to 21 percent due to 11 percent exchange difference and 10 percent duty. Radios among top exempted items now taxed, with radios facing 31 percent total to enter Canada.
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Canada
United States
Dominion
United
National Revenue Department
Gasoline Pooled in Britain Under Government Rationing
Britain operates a general fuel pool where all imports are shared among firms. Each company receives a government ration to retail anonymously at its filling stations, avoiding brand name sales for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Stromboli Volcano Eruptions Draw Visitors
Stromboli on the Lipari Islands experiences eruptions lasting about two hours as visitors observe the volcanic activity from various vantage points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lipari Islands
King and Queen Accept Soldier Badge in Lancashire Tour
During their Lancashire tour the King and Queen spoke with soldiers. A man unpinned his regimental badge and offered it to the Queen, who accepted and pinned it to her coat. A 15 year old, Billy Carswell, briefly met the royal couple after squeezing between naval personnel and learned he is a check boy at the lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancashire
Billy Carswell
Billy
Flies Gather on Screens Before Rain Through Heat
Report notes flies clustering on house screens as a rain approaches and heavy air carries food odors far. The piece links the German invasion of Holland to disrupted tulip trade, claiming flowers fail to sprout along the Nazi path.
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Holland
Escaped The Gestapo Heroine Reaches Canada
Torontonian Mrs Stanislaus Miynar told how she endured Gestapo inquiry after her husband Stanislaus escaped to fight for the Allies. She faked a divorce to avoid exposure, then slipped from Czechoslovakia, via Italy, toward Canada where her husband had been the first Czech accepted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Official delays nearly blocked the voyage until one hour before the Manhattan sailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gestapo
Czechoslovakia
Canada
Toronto
Stanislaus Miynar
Stanislaus
Mlynar
Italy
R.c.af
Manhattan
United States
Selected Recipes for Sweet Syrup Cake
Cream butter and sugar then add beaten eggs, syrup, and molasses. Alternate adding sifted dry ingredients with sour milk. Bake in a greased pan in a slow oven about 40 minutes. Halves well for a smaller cake.
Ham and pork cakes with peaches bake together
Recipe combines 1 pound ground raw smoked ham with 1 pound ground lean pork, egg, cloves, brown sugar, milk, and All-Bran to form small cakes baked 375 400 degrees for 30 minutes. Peach halves heat in the oven last 10 minutes. serve two cakes per peach half with optional grilled fruit. Yield eight servings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kellogg’s
Primitive to modern canning origins traced to 1807
The article recalls early canning history from 1807 at Dartford Iron Works by Bryan Donkin and John Hall, notes the ham mer and chisel method, and cites Parry’s Arctic voyages. It cites studies showing canned foods maintaining carotene levels comparable to fresh by 1824 and later provisions remaining usable into 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Donkin
John Hall
Dartford Iron Works
William Edward Parry
Northwest Passage
Parry
The Young Raleighs and W S Finlayson Remembered
A concise tribute to Lieut. W S Finlayson 28 killed defending Calais and to English youth symbolized by Raleighs in World War I and II. The piece links Finlayson Wallace Douglas stage roles and Journey's End to sacrifice and national resilience. It notes broader wartime references and echoes a curatorial reflection on modern machinery in society.
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W. S. Finlayson
Calais
Wallace Douglas
Raleigh
Chips
England
Hamilton Spectator
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