Battle Scarred Bugle And RW Rifles Hat Badge Return Home
A dented battle scarred bugle and a Royal Winnipeg Rifles hat badge return to Canada from Hong Kong as mute symbols of the Winnipeg Grenadiers heroic stand there. The items were found by Dr. E Middelburg and forwarded to the Winnipeg Grenadiers, with official praise for their historical significance and ties to both units.
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Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Winnipeg
Canada
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Hong Kong
E. Middeburg
Netherlands
8S. M Scott
Rw.r
Riel
Louis Riel
Black Devils
Pritchard Avenue
R.w.r’s
Pte. Smith
J. E. Tulloch
Dad
Grenadiers
Russell
Middelburg
Tulloch
Anne Smith
J. E Tulloch
Evacuation of Japanese Lands in British Columbia
About 23 900 Japanese residents have been evacuated from coastal British Columbia since Pearl Harbor. Chinese and White newcomers took over Japanese stores, boats, farms, and timber holdings as the district shifts to a wartime economy. Public tenders and advertising governed liquidation. money credited to former Japanese owners. A legal challenge to the Dominion order for compulsory sale is in a suit by three evacuees.
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British Columbia
Pearl Harbor
Vancouver
Tokyo
Chungking
F. G. Shears
Dominion Order In Council
Dominion
Kenya Colony wheat drive aids Middle East armies
The Kenya Agriculture Production Board begins large scale wheat production for Middle East forces. Local bread now contains 30 percent maize to free more wheat for the troops.
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Kenya Agriculture Production Board
Middle East
Allied bombing reports stir German home front concerns
German newspapers publish evacuation woes as parents fear sending children to Poland while evacuee women risk loss of ration cards. Propaganda ministers urge readers to accept necessary displacement. Reports note shortages in rents, machines, cutlery, wine and savings withdrawal as civilians cope with air war. Five Albertans receive new commissioned ranks and navigators join recent Edmonton courses.
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Mannheim
R.A.F
Poland
Gestapo
Britain
Germany
Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung
Hamburg
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Hamburger Tageblatt
Muenchner Neuste Nachrichten
New York Times
Aircraft Repair Rates Rise and Spitfire Reuse Highlight Cripps Figures
London notes from the Ottawa Journal show Sir Stafford Cripps reporting 1940 to mid-year repair figures. For every hundred airframes engines and propellers repaired, 1080 frames 45 engines and 2207 propellers were fixed this year.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Stafford Cripps
Couple seeks name change to Mitchell in Los Angeles court
Stanley and Margaret Bierwagon petitioned the superior court in Los Angeles to change their name to Mitchell citing disruptive remarks about their surname. Divinyl oxide touted as a faster, more efficient anesthetic than ether or chloroform. Saturn’s rings explained as moonlets held by gravity.
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Stanley
Margaret Bierwagon
Los Angeles
Mitchell
World’s Best Loved Poems booklet offer from Winnipeg
Poem loving readers urged to order a 32 page Home Service booklet titled World’s Best-Loved Poems. Send 15 cents in coins to Winnipeg News paper Union at 175 McDermot Ave E for copy. include name address and booklet title. The note adds a WWII era sea expression origin snippet.
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Ike Walton
James Whitcomb Riley
Browning
Pippa
Stevenson
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
United Nations Plans Post War Aviation as Peace Factor
Captain A G Lamplugh argues air transport will be a key postwar peace tool. He notes safety, cost, and international regulation dictate how fast air travel expands, with glider towing and freight possibilities showing early potential. He urges UN-led cooperation to boost understanding and prevent future conflicts.
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The
United Nations
A. G. Lamplugh
Earth
Britain
Atlantic
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
United Kingdom
Governor General and Princess Alice Travel Canada
The Governor General and Princess Alice journeyed seven weeks through northwestern Canada by train plane auto mobile and on horseback. They return to Ottawa and continue as Canada’s staunch friends, following predecessors at Rideau Hall.
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Princess Alice
Rideau Hall
Canada
Ottawa
Dominion
Ottawa Journal
Fahrenheit name origins traced to Gabriel Fahrenheit
The term Fahrenheit derives from Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit who invented the mercury thermometer in 1714. The note adds historical context about Fahrenheit’s invention and its lasting impact on temperature measurement.
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Fahrenheit
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
WAAF Chief Forbes Visits Canada on Coast to Coast Tour
Air Chief Commandant K J Tre fusis Forbes director of the British WAAF arrives in Canada for a coast to coast tour visiting Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division units. She ranks with Air Vice Marshal and remains senior officer of the WAAF though relinquishing director duties for the tour.
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K. J. Trefusis Forbes
C.B.E
W.A.A.F
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
R.A.F
Study to hinder German scorched earth retreat tactics
Patriot groups in Holland Belgium and France study methods to thwart German retreat scorched earth plans. They warn districts to protect mineral wealth production and transport as in past wars when flooding mines caused long restoration delays.
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Holland
Belgium
France
Rag Doll Twins Pattern 7627 Request Notice
The notice offers a pattern for a rag doll with a head in three pieces and body in two, plus clothes patterns. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union for Pattern 7627 at 175 McDermot Avenue East, Winnipeg, with name and address clearly written. Products mailed later due to mail delays.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
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Toronto
Kenya
Canadian Army Photos
R.C.A.F
AW2
Patricia Braum
Horace Braum
Fredericton, N.B
R.C.A.F. School of Photography
Rockcliffe
Air Force Commissions
No. 4 Training Command Ministry
Calgary
Sary
No. 2 Air Observer School
Edmonton
Garfield W. Cross
Ronald C. Shaw
Kenneth D. Clements
Kimberley
B.C
Lloyd G. Peardon
New Westminster
Kenneth I. Durk
Leonard F. Paxon
Carbon
Alberta
Karl G. Gutensohn
Frederick C. Samuels
Donald B. MacMillan
Victoria
John H. Sargent
New Hazelton
Jack K. Balcombe
James R. L. Linn
Lethbridge
Frank A. Theriault
Leduc
Alto
James S. Thomson
John A. Welf
Howard L. Tilley
Oyen
Bryn E. Roberts
Poe
Alta
Joseph P. Beruhe
Prince Albert
Sask
John Keple
Regina
Saturn
Home Service
W.A.A.F. Chief
Rag Doll
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