War effort grows as tax take soars in Canada
Finance Minister J L Sisley reported a $34.2 million rise in direct tax revenue for the year ending May 31 1942. Personal income tax up $105.1 million defence tax $86.9 million and excess profit tax $155.2 million. Bank of Nova Scotia survey notes 30 percent rise in industrial employment and 18 percent farm income gain in 1941.
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Dominion
House of Commons
J. L. Sisley
Issley
Isley
National Defence
Canada
Bank of Nova Scotia
War Time Farm Output Grows While Living Costs Rise
Since the outbreak of the war farm living costs have increased five percent and production costs have risen. Yet output of agricultural products has grown to meet wartime needs. Metals and forest products also rise, signaling a broader war effort in our Dominion. The United Nations initiative should boost the offensive spirit and Canadians are urged to provide funds for the men in uniform.
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United Nations
The Erie Canal Debate in a Quaker Meeting
In a Quaker business meeting Elias Hicks, a famed preacher, opposed the Erie Canal as speculation. He argued creation already settled canals, while another member responded with the line Jacob digged a well, echoing skepticism about grand projects.
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Elias Hicks
Jacob
Rationing Aids Health In London Tests Show Improvement
London health tests indicate rationing improves health for adults and children due to careful preplanning. Evacuees and camp children undergo quarterly weighings and measurements, with lessons to guide postwar practice. A tiny platinum wire of nearly 5000 miles can be spun from a one-pound lump.
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London
McKim Directory lists 1811 Canadian publications
The 35th McKim Directory of Canadian Publications shows 1811 titles: 953 weeklies, 107 dailies, with 20 monthlies and 23 others added. Japanese dailies reduced to one weekly. Chinese lead foreign language dailies at 66 across 16 languages. Advertising shifts reflect wartime production needs.
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Canada
McKim
Toronto
British Columbia
C. T. Pearce
A. McKim Limited
Quotations on Peace From Famous Thinkers
A collection of short lines on peace by Cicero Ruskin Emerson Eddy Jefferson and Tennyson. The excerpts emphasize liberty tranquillity harmony principles and universal goodwill guiding policy and conduct.
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Cicero
Emerson
Cigarette Gift For Overseas Canadian Forces
The Dodds Medicine Company in Toronto donates two million cigarettes to Canadians serving overseas. Distribution is through the Overseas League Tobacco Fund with 16 packs per dollar and donor cards sent with each package. Lord Athlone serves as a leading patron in Canada for this volunteer effort.
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Dodds Medicine Company Limited
Toronto
Overseas League, (Canada) Tobacco Fund
Canada
United States
Air Force
Navy
Army
Merchant Marine
Overseas League Tobacco Fund
King Edward Hotel
Lord Athlone
Women Home Defence drill disturbed by live mouse incident
Fifty Mayfair business girls of the Women's Home Defence Corps faced a shock when a cat entering a lecture room carried a live mouse. The trainees leaped from their chairs in alarm, but otherwise the drill continued.
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Women's Home Defence Corps
Essex children haul 10 foot high pile of scrap
In Essex England children using soapbox carts gathered scrap from hedges and ditches forming a heap about ten feet tall and eighty four feet in circumference as a rough communal salvage.
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Essex
England
Waves Wake Hidden Rockies Peak Remnants
A fragment describes ancient sea incursions once covering what is now the highest Rocky Mountain peaks. The text implies long geological history and uplift shaping the landscape. No dates or named individuals are provided.
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The
Rocky Mountains
The Individual Citizen's Army and the Patriot Paradox
A wartime speech argues against equating citizens with machines and urges personal sacrifice through everyday acts. It praises voluntary service, condemns thoughtless patriotism, and invites readers to wear “uniforms” of thrift and restraint to support soldiers. It cautions against politician driven rhetoric that hides human costs.
When Egyptian cat died men shaved eyebrows in mournful rite
Ancient belief held the household mourned a pet cat deeply. men shaved their eyebrows and wailed in a ritual display, for the sacred animal held reverence in Pharaoh era Egypt.
Ponies for London Streets Rally in War Buy War Savings
Country costermongers' ponies of 12 to 14 hands gain demand as autos sit idle. Women buyers, drawn to their ease of handling and horse sense, push prices from about 120 dollars before the war to roughly double now, while ponies grow scarce.
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London
Two chickens in every pot and other excess
A Colgate University president mocks excess with the line about two chickens, two autos, two caddies and two hair-dos, then jokes about balancing a budget by doing half as much reading and a quarter as much thinking. The piece notes a plumb line weighs a mountain and mentions color in colored diamonds from carbon impurities.
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George B. Cutten
Colgate University
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McKim’s Directory of Canadian Publications
Just of Press
John Ruskin
Mary Baker Eddy
Thomas Jefferson
Tennyson
Kipling
Christie’s
Graham
Christie's
Graham Wafers
Gpploford
Parereuc
Hamilton
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