Little Known Minerals Found In Canada And Their Uses
G M Hutt surveys lesser known minerals and uses from quartz to calcite to radium. He notes optical quartz value, inversion heating effects, clay refining roles, bentonites swelling, calcite light splitting, pyrite wealth, radium dating and emissions, magnesium flares, strontium for flares, mercury liquid metal, chromium in refractories and dyes, amber lore, talc in powders and fillers, diamonds and carbon forms, barite weight in drill muds, and bauxite as key in refractories. Canada lacks native bauxite but potential clay and rock sources may supply aluminum.
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G M Hutt
Canadian Pacific Railway
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Great Bear Lake
Baltic Sea
Canada
Canadians Honored By Belgian Government
Twelve officers and one non-commissioned officer of the Canadian Army received Belgian honors for aid rendered during the war. Recipients include Major General H. F. G. Letson and Brigadier Generals Panet Switzer, plus Colonels Cook Magee Everett and others, with NCOs from Cornwall and Quebec honored for service with Militaire Decoration and Croix r.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Army
Department of External Affairs Annot
Militaire Belge
Warrant Office Belge
H. F. G. Letson
B. W. Browne
Reserve Army
M. A. Pope
Washington, D.C
E. de B. Panet
Military District No
Minister of National Defence
A. J. Everett
Ineed
Atlantic Command
H. J. B. Keating
W. C. Arnold
Department of National War Services
J. Leal
National Defence
Canada
Guy de Serres
Quebec
J. R. Owens
Cornwall
Ontario
Arthur Beauchamp
Cornwall Centre
Smoking on Parade Grounds Causes Canadian Misunderstanding
London soldiers puzzled as War Office says smoking on Horse Guards Parade is allowed though Canadian authorities banned it. A Winnipeg corporal questions the rule while officials say the ban was to keep the ground neat during parades. In Bakersfield California, Margaret Lindsay auctioned her hat after borrowing it. A buyer bought the hat but Lindsay asked to keep it for the rest of the tour, then the hat reappeared in Oakland auction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.C.O
London
War Office
Horse Guards
Winnipeg
Brigade of Guards
London. Evening Standard
Margaret Lindsay
Bakersfield
Calif
Miss Lindsay
Adrian
Portland
Oakland
Early British blood transfusion roots linked to Christopher Wren
The article traces blood transfusion history from 1656 experiments by a nonphysician, notes 1667 sheep blood transfusion claims, and highlights Sir Christopher Wren as an astronomy professor, later architect, with early studies of disease and attempts at transfusion. It links Wren to pale history and mentions Samuel Pepys and Dr. Alexander Wood in advancing the field.
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Britain
Christopher Wren
Oxford University
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Wren
BBC
Lower
King
Samuel Pepys
Alexander Wood
Edinburgh
Home is a place to raise Cain after a bad day at work
A commentator on the Eight-Twenty segment notes that when men return home they may start trouble if something went wrong at the office. The remark frames home as a arena of unresolved stress and conflict following wartime news.
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Cain
Birth of a Day Poem by Francis H. Matthew
A nostalgic poem celebrates country life over city noise. Francis H. Matthew of Temple City California reflects on farm life, slow travel, and nature's daily birth of day. He contrasts urban pleasures with simple faithful work by Jack and Netlie and neighbors helping without pay.
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Francis H. Matthew
North Kauffman
Temple City
Calif
Easy To Knit For That New Baby
Pattern 7420 offers a bonnet and jacket in pink or blue with white popcorn trim. Include stiches and materials, costing twenty cents, sent to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Pink hue blooms on Great Yarmouth church ruins
St Nicholas Church at Great Yar mouth the largest parish church in England was bombed and gutted by fire and has turned pink due to the intense heat altering the stone. Experts say the color shift results from the extreme flames affecting the mortar and mineral content of the structure.
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St. Nicholas
Great Yarmouth
England
Theatre guilds Protecting Actors Rights Since Ancient Times
The text notes that theatre guilds formed to protect actors' rights as early as the fourth century B C, highlighting early organized labor in performance arts. It mentions a specific era and the purpose of collective bargaining for performers.
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Department of National Army War Services
St. Paul's
Christopher
Isaac Newton
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Jack
Netlie
Alice Brooks
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