Extravagant Monarchs and the Long History of Buttons
The article traces button origins from bone and safety pins in ancient times to royal excesses. Louis XIV reportedly spent millions on buttons, while Francis I wore thousands of gold buttons and Catherine of Poland left jeweled pieces in her will. It notes regional variations and evolving materials from bone and wood to plastic.
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B.C
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto
Louis XIV
France
William III
England
Francis I
Catherine
Poland
Gay Charles
Burma
Belgian Congo
Serum Saves Lives Across Front Lines In War Theatre
The Canadian Red Cross blood serum, distributed widely from Italy to Dunkirk and England, saves wounded Allied servicemembers including Canadians, British, and Americans. Surgeon Captain C H Best notes serum used on ships, in hospitals, at El Alamein, and supplied to Malta, India, Russia, and the Near East. He calls for stockpiling serum postwar and potential aid to occupied Europe. A separate note describes Allied training in the Khyber Pass with diverse Empire troops and a comparison of aircraft and travel speeds.
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Canadian Red Cross
Italy
United States
C.H. Best
Canadian Medical Research Bureau
Dr Best
Red Cross
Toronto
Dunkirk
England
Dr. Best
Dieppe
Malta
India
Russia
Near East
el Alamein
Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
Best
Europe
Blood Transfusion Saves Jap Prisoner on Burma Front
A British private who had stormed the Jap positions volunteered to give blood to a severely wounded prisoner on the Burma border. The prisoner, initially refusing food, recovered after a broad transfusion and is now near complete recovery, with medical staff declaring the act vital to his survival.
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Burma
London Daily Mail
New England Hotels Feature Apple Pie on Breakfast Menus
Historical notes mention crude cosmetics dating to 5000 BC, while modern breakfast menus in New England hotels commonly include apple pie as a regional staple.
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New England
Women Make Up Forty Five Percent Of Russian Industrial Labor
The Soviet press for International Women’s Day notes that by October 1941 women accounted for 45 percent of Russia’s industrial workers. It praises a girl pilot who downed 120 planes a girl ambulance driver who evacuated 348 wounded from StalINGrad and a 16 year old who helped arm a division with tommy guns. The article also includes a science aside about the relative sizes of the sun and the moon.
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Stalingrad
Pressure on Wartime Price Ceilings Shifts Amid Board Struggles
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board reports a year of evolving price ceilings from April 1 to December 31 1943. The piece notes persistent leaks and new pressures as officials like Donald Gordon and others confront recurring problems. John K. Elliott cites the London Free Press.
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Prices and Trade Board
Donald Gordon
John K. Elliott
The
London Free Press
V C Winner Met The Princess Alice
Major Paul Triquet the second Canadian to win the Victoria Cross is pictured with the Princess Alice at Brockville after receiving his commission in November 1940. He returned to Canada after overseas service as a regimental sergeant major with the Royal 22nd Regiment to take officers training before resuming duties with his unit overseas.
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Paul Triquet
Brockville
Canada
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Editors of the Underground Press Risk Lives in Occupied Lands
A wartime tribute to editors across France Belgium Poland Greece Denmark Norway and the Netherlands who publish underground papers under threat of death. It notes printing hubs like a Polish house under attack and emphasizes broadcasts from the BBC VOA as lifelines guiding resistance movements.
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Poisnd
France
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Mastan
Reid
Ge ‘Stars
BBC
Voice of America
United States
la Libre Belgique
Poland
Thss
Washington
Europe
Synthetic Rubber From Canadian Crops Seen as Growth Path
Dr Paul Kolachov told Winnipeg's Industrial Development Board that Canadian agricultural products offer unlimited raw materials for synthetic rubber and motor fuel. He cited wheat rye sugar beets and potatoes as promising carbohydrate crops and urged locating industries near crop sources.
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Paul Kolachov
Winnipeg
Industrial Development Board of Manitoba
Canada
Dr. Kolachov
Australian Formula Weldable Armor Steel Developed
Australia develops a weldable armor steel for armored vehicles and makes the formula available to Allied nations before the war. Australia had not yet built a motor car.
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Australia
Pictorial Exhibition Marks London Dover Railway Centenary
A centennial celebration in Dover marks the London to Dover railway opening exactly one hundred years earlier. Lieutenant Colonel J J Astor inaugurates a pictorial exhibit showing defences, tunnels, and the King Lear engine arrival, with notes on wartime supply uses and future railway capacity plans.
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London To
Dover
London
Chantel
J. J. Astor
Shakespeare Cliff
Channel
Folkestone
Round Down
Astor
Europe
Britain
France
Dunkirk
Needlework pattern for child panel design
This article advertises a transfer embroidery pattern 7652 showing a child friendly design. It requests twenty cents in coins and provides mailing details to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union, with instructions to include name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
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Greene
Canadian Highland Regiment
Armand Harrowcliffe
Ribstone
Alberta
Earth
V.C
Princess Alice
RCAF
James Wilson
Vancouver
Wilson
Jack Dalgleish
Edssors
Alice “Brooks
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