Automobiles banished from Sark as British groups depart
The Island of Sark will ban automobiles once British groups have left. The year old Ireland ban on sending wedding presents abroad is lifted except for furniture suites. Australia looks to revive gold production as a major future economic factor. 50,000 live mines exist in the Mediterranean and 16,000 in the Aegean Sea per Cindr. E Sworder. New Zealand offers 16,000 tons of food valued at £1,000,000 to Britain. Montreal禁止 smoking in large stores to cut fire hazards. Britain transfers five German destroyers and two torpedo boats to France from its fleet. Britain aims to boost postwar car exports by 50 percent. Lord Nuffield targets 1,000 vehicles weekly. England operates 240 oil wells yielding about 500,000 barrels per year. Empress Nagako visits a hospital and orphanage in Tokyo after royal reforms.
Kew Gardens Expands Empire Plant Research and Exports
Professor Salisbury notes live specimens and seeds travel to Kew from across the Empire and are redistributed from there. Sir Geoffrey Evans highlights innovations from potato sets to air transport, cocoa in West Africa, and tropical crops like pineapple and macadamia. Wartime vitamin drives and dandelion rubber work illustrate Kew’s broad role for the Commonwealth.
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Ceylon
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English Tourist Asks Trapper About His Room
A cold morning in a Canadian inn sees an English traveler warming by the fire while a trapper returns indoors with icicles on his moustache. The Englishman asks in mock concern which room the trapper slept in.
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Canada
Outlook Not Bright For Europe’s Food Supply
The Wall Street Journal estimates European meat production at 43 percent, cheese 47, eggs 48, milk 37, and France’s grain crop under 60 percent of prewar levels, signaling broader hunger concerns beyond wheat.
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Europe
Wall Street Journal
France
Petticoat Lane Sunday Bazaar in London East End
A vivid scene at London's Petticoat Lane Sunday bazaar open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors push carts from accordions to watches with armed bystanders and plainclothes detectives in crowds. Shoppers bargain among mixed goods from used clothing to poultry as police monitor the lively stalls.
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Petticoat Lane
London
East End
Meaning of Eisenhower name Cited by Toronto Chancellor
Dr. H. J. Cody cites a striking historical parallel comparing William the Conqueror’s minstrel Traillefer to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He notes the Teutonic meaning Tron Cutter and claims Eisenhower came to cut the bars of iron and free Western Europe from tyranny.
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University of Toronto
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The Tramp Whose Brand Declined A Cigarette Grin
An inquisitive park observer challenged a shabby man sorting cigarette ends after discarding a long one. The tramp defended his action by saying it ain’t his brand. The narrative then shifts to ancient history noting Lydia’s early mint in the late eighth century B C.
Adventurous London tool maker plans yearlong bike trip
F. J. Cooke, a 36 year old London tool maker, intends a sweeping bicycle journey to reach New Zealand within a year. He will ride through England and Scotland, sail to Belfast, tour Ireland, then depart for Canada in mid June. From Vancouver he will cycle westward to Los Angeles, then sail to New Zealand.
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Soviet Transbaikal Trapper Farm Grows Self-Sufficient
In Zeiskouchursk, Chita region, a collective farm named Novaya Zhizn formed by hunters and families built on Chitka Station findings. It began with 15 acres and 3 tons wheat 20 tons vegetables, and by 1943 produced 125 tons of wheat and oats. During the war area expanded doubling sowing and added potatoes cucumbers tomatoes cabbage and melons alongside grain and stockbreeding with three cattle hogs and sheep farms.
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Zeiskouchursk
Chita
Chitka
Novaya Zhizn
New Life
Tea houses of Chungking bustle from dawn to dusk
In Chungking a thousand tea houses stay busy all day with businessmen, gossip, lovers, farmers, and rickshaw coolies. People order tea and call for boiling water while they chat or rest. Fortune-tellers also frequent the venues. To Feel Right-Eat Right.
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Chungking
Ricksha
Cherry Party Bread Recipe with Cherries and Nuts
Melt butter in a pan and layer with brown sugar cherries and nutmeats. Mix flour baking powder salt sugar eggs milk and shortening then fold in All-Bran cherries and nut meats. Pour over cherry mixture and bake at 350 degrees for about one hour. Remove from pan and cool before slicing. Yield one loaf. Note loaf may omit cherry nut bottom.
Weekly ration menu and token guidance for meals
The piece outlines a wartime weekly meal plan using ration tokens. It covers tongue dishes on Sunday, minced round steak on Monday, bean based meatless options on Tuesday, a meat loaf variation, Wednesday leftovers for lunch, lamb stew on Thursday, fish on Friday, and a Saturday steak. It notes token costs and extra tokens for guest nights or next week’s roast day.
Battleship Obsolescence Foreseen by Pacific Fleet Chief
Admiral John H Towers, new U S Pacific Fleet commander, says only two American battleships fired on Japan in the Pacific. He argues battleships were useful for anti aircraft defense and island bombing but could be replaced by smaller ships. Atomic tests may prove the battleship obsolete. The future warship would carry atom bomb firepower and fly.
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John H. Towers
United States Pacific
Towers
Pacific
Winnipeg Free Press
Gems of Thought on Nobility and Generosity
A collection of aphorisms praising noble character, self-denial, and generosity. Isaac Bickerstaffe, Mary Baker Eddy, Plato, Lavater, Sir Henry Taylor, and Walter Scott contribute quotes urging noble thinking, charitable action, and steady self restraint.
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Sir Henry Taylor
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