Interesting Tests on Canadian Army Mess Tin Ration
Field tests in Ottawa show the Canadian Army Mess Tin Ration maintains fighting efficiency for ten days of extreme exertion. Trials tracked weight, water, intake, morale, and performance with groups using standard, mess tin, and compact rations, plus an emergency ration of biscuit and chocolate.
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Ottawa
Quartermaster General
Canada
Newfoundland
Department of National Defence
R.C.A.F
Always Useful Nurse Vital Asset In War and Peace
Regina Leader-Post asserts nurses are vital to the nation whether in active duty or on the home front. The piece notes the profession maintains usefulness after leaving public work and that nursing holds the key to individual and national health and a normal, happy life.
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Regina
Postwar Economic Shift Tied to Plastics Clothing
Dr Waclaw Szukiewicz, a refugee Polish chemist inventor, cites plastics based clothing, cheaper tires, and insulation sheathing from rubber as major drivers of a sweeping post war change in the American economy. Buy War Savings Certificates.
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Waclaw Szukiewicz
Royal Wedding Transforms Liechtenstein Into Fairyland
Liechtenstein's Franz Joseph II wed Princess Gina Wiletek of Austria in a grand ceremony that drew most of the nation’s 11,102 residents. The armored guard led a carriage procession through the small principality between Germany and Switzerland as a torchlight parade ended a wartime blackout. In a separate note, Brimsby, England, sees one fifth of its population relying on fishing in normal times.
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Franz Joseph II
Principality of
Liechtenstein
Gina Wiletek
Austria
Wartorn
Europe
Otto of
Brimsby
England
Canadian Inventors Pioneered Aileron Wing And Flight
Historical note recounts Dr. Bell and partners developing movable wing tips the aileron as early control for airplanes. J A D McCurdy linked to Baddeck experiments and Farman’s demonstrations in New York. The Aerial Experiment Association formed at Beinn Breagh with Bell Baldwin Selfridge Curtis and Mrs Bell funding. The Silver Dart achieved Britain's first heavier than air flight on Bras d Or Lake Feb. 23 1909 with Casey Baldwin piloting.
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Department of Munitions and Supply
Henri Farman
Dr. Bell
McCurdy
American Aero Club
Europe
Paris
New York City
Farman
Bell
England
Cape Breton
Bras d'Or
Baddeck
Beinn Breagh
Bells
McGill University
F. W. “Casey” Baldwin
Wrights
Thomas E. Selfridge
United States Army
Association
Glen H. Curtis
Salvage Ideas For Vivid Scatter Rugs
Instructions to make nine rugs from scraps of material and yarn rescued from old knitted and unwoven articles. Includes list of materials and pattern parts, with pattern number and cost. To obtain send twenty cents by coin to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name and address. Pattern delivery may be delayed by mail.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Death of James Clark the artist behind The Last Sacrifice
James Clark, the English painter of The Last Sacrifice which comforted many bereaved during the First World War, died at Reigate at age 85. The work was later purchased by Queen Mary.
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Reigate
England
James Clark
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Pearce
Eurepe
Edinburgh
Scotland
Brantford
Ont
J. A. D. McCurdy
British Empire
The
Aerial Experiment Association
Donald C. Veale
Argyle, Ont
James P. Klassen
Armstrong
B.C
Fort Benning
Georgia
London
Middlesex
Surrey
Kent
Essex
Sussex
Hertford
Alice Brooks
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