Sabotage Mystery Deepens at Bristow Plant
Nancy Thorne stirs office rumors after discovering shipments to a Detroit air motor factory and fearing a key Bristow figure will arrive too late. She plans to alert John Bristow while police questions loom, hoping to thwart a planned seven o’clock move by Hugo Blake and associates.
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Nancy Thorne
Annie Burke
Nancy
Madge Fletcher
Hugo Blake
Bristow
John Bristow
Nancy Rushes to Emergency Hospital After Pat Hurt
Desperate tones and gray eyes reveal Nancy racing to the airport hospital after Madge Fletcher reports Pat is seriously hurt. The page ends with a cliffhanger as urgency fills the scene.
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Nancy
Pat
Madge Fletcher
Wartime Patriotism Recipes Promote Canadian Foods
Staff officials under Miss L C Pepper in the Consumers Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture lecture women across the Dominion about substituting Canadian foods for imports. They urge planting more rhubarb, canning young rhubarb, and using canned Canadian apples while testing candied fruit from Canadian harvests.
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Miss L. C. Pepper
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Miss Pepper
Dominion
United States
E. LeBlanc
Canada
Cranberry byproducts yield high value acids and oils
Scientists report ursolic acid from cranberry skins commands 80 dollars per ounce and cranberry seed oil rich in vitamin A. Growers call it a lucky breakthrough. A $50,000 pilot plant is planned to scale the emulsifier and oil production from cranberry waste.
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Scientific American
Wives Provoking Class of Society Quip
A wry aphorism notes wives as a provoking class of society, claiming they are never fully right yet never fully wrong, reflecting a dated gendered stereotype in a sharp, satirical tone.
Western Canada Food Council Formed in Calgary
A western Canadian food distribution council was organized in Calgary with about 45 representatives from producers processors wholesalers retailers labor and consumers groups. President J. M. Sinclair of Regina said the body shows willingness to unite to pursue reforms in food production and distribution for greater equality among groups.
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Food Distribution Council
Calgary
Western Canada
J. M. Sinclair
Regina
London taxi driver ferrying unexploded bomb for threepence
A London cab driver picked up a police sergeant’s job to transport an unexploded bomb. He drove the bomb to a safe location with two bomb disposal members aboard and charged threepence for the luggage fare, claiming officials were short of transport.
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London
Customs and Thought Trace Through Time
A compact medley of aphorisms on custom, education, and fashion. It contrasts how people think and act by inclination and learning, notes the transient power of fashion, and argues for resistance to tyrannical custom. Notable voices include Bacon, Eddy, Dumas, Bovee, and Mill.
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Bacon
Mary Baker Eddy
Dumas
Selected Recipes Layered Corn Bake
Layer corn pepper and celery with crumbled soda wafers in a greased dish. Pour hot milk with butter over layers, dot with remaining butter, and bake at 425 degrees F for 25 minutes. Makes six portions.
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Christie's Soda
Whipped Jell O Dessert Prep Guide
Dissolve Jell O in hot water then chill until syrupy. Place in cracked ice and whip with a rotary beater until fluffy and thick. Pile in sherbet glasses, chill until firm, and garnish with fruit.
Red Cross mobilizes medical supplies for Greece
The Netherlands East Indies Red Cross Society provides an immediate response to the Greek appeal. The BBC reports 2,000,000 quinine tablets and 10,000 tubes of anti tetanus serum collected for shipment, with funds and blankets to follow.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Netherlands East Indies Red Cross Society
BBC
Greece
Odd Lapland Custom Tests Suitor by Coffee Quest
A Lapland tradition gauges a man’s suitability by asking to cook and serve coffee at the bride’s home. If parents refuse, he is rejected as a suitor. if allowed to enter and brew, he is deemed an acceptable son in law.
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Lapland
Glass Gardens and Novel Indoor Gardens booklet offer
Home Service Digest promotes terrarium and dish garden ideas with steps for window glass gardens. It describes miniature houses, terrarium care, humidity needs, and growing plants like lan tana and craton along with cactus and gardenias. Ordering details for the Glass Gardens booklet and other titles are provided.
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Peru
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Onions Signal British Holiday Shortage
British letters to Canada lament onion shortages during Christmas. A reader notes price surges rationing and vanished supplies with onions and leeks becoming scarce. An English clipping values a 14 pound parcel of onions as the era's costliest lost mail bundle.
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Britain
Canada
Apple peel rich in vitamin C five times flesh
A study tested sixteen apple varieties and found peel vitamin C levels about five times higher than the flesh, highlighting the value of consuming the peel.
Ontario Leather Output Drives Canada Tannery Trade
Eighty eight percent of Canada's leather tannery output comes from Ontario. The note adds that sausages are made from hogs listed as boars at market.
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Canada
Ontario
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Lax
John Bristow Company
Grimshaw
Airplane Motor
Detroit
Hugo
Maple Leafs
Canadiens
Rangers
Black Hawks
RED Wings
Hockey Rangers
Peayers
Pels
Save
Food Council
John Stuart Mill
Mey
Sarge
Declei
Heb
Home Service
England
Lydia Pinkham
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