Postwar planning for Canada to secure jobs and housing
Canada faces postwar unemployment risk and aims to safeguard workers and veterans. Ian Mackenzie leads a land settlement plan via the Soldiers' Settlement Board to assist returned servicemen with farm or suburban home opportunities. The plan builds on the Unemployment Insurance Act and broad demobilization efforts to bridge wartime and peacetime economies.
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Great Britain
Churchill
Ian Mackenzie
Canada
Preventable Illness Costs In Canada Surpass Wartime Program
Analysis shows 1941 sickness expenses reached 250 million dollars, higher than the Commonwealth Air Training Plan's 225 million. Daily, 50 thousand workers are absent due to illness, health officials estimating half of these cases could be prevented.
Birmingham Warship Week Raises Over Ten Million Pounds
The Birmingham Post hails Warship Week as a standout success with more than £10,000,000 raised in a week. It notes Birmingham’s growing ambition and recalls that achieving such a total in seven days has not been matched.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Post
The Individual Citizen's Army in the Great War
The article promotes the Canadian Army's use of the Directorate of Personnel Selection and the "M" test to place soldiers in suitable roles. Colonel G. B. Chisholm leads the effort, combining interviews with capability assessments to identify each man's potential and readiness for advancement, ensuring the right man in the right job.
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Canada
Army
G. B. Chisholm
M.C. and
Bar
Toronto
Dominion
Time
Monk's daring rescue aids Libyan campaign action
A young Trappist monk from Mount St Bernard in Leicestershire, Father Celsus Flinn, served as chaplain with a field ambulance in Libya. He was captured with other British troops but escaped and, under fire, drove an army wagon to British headquarters. His report helped British gunners destroy the German tank column and free their fellow prisoners.
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Mount St. Bernard
Leicestershire
England
Celsus Flinn
War artists join Canadian army in field observations
Three enlisted soldiers became 2nd lieutenants and were named Will Ogilvie FEJ Hughes and Dr. Fisher. They will contribute oils and watercolors to the army pictorial record with work likely sent to Ottawa for the national defense archives under Col. Fortescue Duguid. Major Stacey in London oversees topic selection and direction. The lieutenants were well regarded as artists before the war.
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Will Ogilvie
17Th
Duke of York’s
Royal Canadian Hussars
Montreal
FE J Hughes
Royal Canadian Artillery
Fisher
Royal Canadian Engineers
Vancouver
Ottawa
A. Fortescue Duguid
National Defence Headquarters
London
C. P. Stacey
Toronto
Birds in wartime Britain feed markets through scarce winter
Sparrows, starlings, crows, larks, curlews, and even swans help feed Britain as war taxes supply, with wild birds of all kinds arriving at big markets due to a hard winter and finding eager buyers. Pure water is densest at four degrees centigrade.
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Britain
Learn to Play Guitar With Easy 32-Page Guide
Instructional notice from Home Service offers a 32 page booklet Easy Lessons in Guitar Playing for 15c. Includes diagrams of fingerboard, chords, tuning, and note reading. Also lists other 15c pamphlets such as vitamins poems party games and garden guides. Winnipeg news office address provided.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Chinese Ad Carved in Potato for Victory Bond Print
A Chinese graduate named John Hunt carved Chinese characters from a potato to create a mold for a Victory Bonds advertisement printed in the Lillooet Bridge River News. An English version urged readers to buy Victory Bonds. The piece notes unrelated cultural imagery about Timbuktu and a wood strength remark.
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Lillooet Bridge
Kellogg's All-Bran Endorsed For Regularity
A Montreal reader from A H Ward praises Kellogg's All-Bran as a steady way to stay regular. He notes it helps avoid irritant cathartics and urges friends to try the product. Available at grocers in two sizes or individual servings at restaurants, made by Kellogg's in London Canada.
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Vicks
A. H. Ward
Montreal
Quebec
Kellogg's
London
Canada
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