Call to complete Trans-Canada highway to link coasts
The article urges finishing the all-Canadian Trans-Canada highway to connect Halifax and Vancouver with a solid route across Canada. It notes a 160 mile gap in Northern Ontario between Schreiber and Port Mamainse and describes the economic and wartime tourism incentives for completing the road, especially as Americans seek safe travel during the European conflict.
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Halifax
Vancouver
Big Bend
British Columbia
Atlantic
Pacific
Ontario
Schreiber
Port Mamainse
Lake Superior
Geraldton
Hearst
Canada
United States
Europe
North Ontario
Joe and waitress wed in quick ceremony
A light hearted exchange hints at a marriage between a man named Joe and a waitress. Friends remark the pairing as fitting, with playful banter suggesting the relationship arises from mutual affection and shared humor.
New German Submarine Decoration Established
Berlin awards a new decoration to submariners who sail on two or more enemy cruises or are wounded on duty. The emphasis marks the high risk of submarine service and honors survivors as heroes while recognizing wounded sailors as a separate class. Winnipeg Tribune notes on skilled mechanics aiding Canadian industry and the push for more training. Hertz and Maxwell referenced on early radio wave discovery.
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Berlin
Winnipeg Tribune
Government licenses to regulate Canadian coal and coke
The wartime prices and trade board announced new licensing effective December 1 requiring all coal and coke operators to obtain licenses. Administrators J. McB. Stewart and Frank G. Neate will oversee reporting on hand in transit sales prices and distribution to ensure adequate supplies and prevent price spikes. Dominion coal production rose in September to 1,344,972 tons with imports at 1,744,468 tons and exports at 42,883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prices and Trade Board
Hector B. McKinnon
J. McB. Stewart
Frank G. Neate
Canada
Coal
Dominion
Halifax's Giant Gunner N A MacPhail Claims Biggest Soldier
The Halifax garrison touts Gunner N A MacPhail of the Royal Canadian Artillery as the army’s biggest man. At six feet four and 268 pounds he dwarfs standards, with double rations and hearty appetite. Native of Lake Ainslie Cape Breton he enlisted May 24 1933 and serves at Halifax forts.
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Halifax
Gunner N. A. MacPhail
Royal Canadian Artilery
MacPhail
Lake Ainslie
Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
Angus MacAskill
MacAskill
Loyal Kenyan Offers Pigs to Government in War Letter
A Kenyan native letter to the District Commissioner South Nyeri pleads loyalty by offering three pigs to the Crown for wartime use. The writer Kanoga S. C. Njega describes giving the animals to the government as a life sacrifice and asks for guidance on the offer.
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Kenya
South Nyeri
Europe
King of Fruits Apple Declared In Quoted Ramble
The passage notes Izaak Walton praising the apple as the king of fruits quoting a remark about strawberries and apples. It adds Jefferson’s epitaph instruction not to add a word and recalls William Harvey’s birth on April 1 1578.
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Izaak Walton
Thomas Jefferson
William Harvey
Sinking A U Boat At Scapa Flow Ends In Failure
The Manchester Guardian notes five U boat attempts to pierce Scapa Flow defences between 1914 and 1918, three submarines destroyed. JB 116, crewed by volunteers, aimed to sink the Grand Fleet flagship but unknowingly entered a minefield activated from shore, ending its mission.
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Scapa Flow
Royal Oak
Grand Fleet
Rosyth
Hoxa Sound
Manchester Guardian
Road hogs top pet annoyance at auto show booth
Visitors at the Automobile Show rated road hogging as the main pet annoyance while registering safety opinions. A rugged poet submitted a ballot calling road hogs a dangerous beast and lamenting their driving behavior in all directions. The piece also notes windmill references dating to late 12th century and the oldest surviving mill from 1665 at Outwood Surrey, England.
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New York Herald Tribune
Rhymester
Outwood
Surrey
England
Early permanent waving traces to 3000 B.C.
The earliest records note Babylonian women braiding hair and treating it with bitumen to preserve curls, signaling ancient roots of permanent waving.
The Hands and the Quintuplets Teach Useful Skills
The article argues that early training of the hands builds skill and value. It cites the Dionne quintuplets, now over five, learning to drive nails, stack blocks, and draw. It warns that skilled hands aid livelihoods and family stability, noting demand for dexterous workers in war and peacetime.
Fire kept alive for 148 years in North Carolina home
William Morris of North Carolina maintains a hearth fire started by his great grandfather 148 years ago. The flame has burned continuously. Meanwhile a separate note observes that in Japan after dinner speeches are made before meals.
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William Morris
North Carolina
Japan
Pilot Training Scheme Aims Stations in Canadian Cities
W. F. Schuyler, representative of a British aircraft company at Portsmouth, outlined a scheme to establish at least one and likely two pilot training stations in every large Canadian city as part of training British Empire airmen. He said camps must be urban, not rural, and has just toured several Canadian aircraft plants.
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W. F. Schuyler
Portsmouth
Canada
Schuyler
Window Screen May Contain About One Mile of Wire
A full sized window screen holds roughly a mile of wire. The note highlights the density of material woven into standard screens and its potential implications for durability and maintenance.
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Department of Transport
Ottawa
Foreign Exchange Control Board
Hertz
Maxwell
R.C.A
Kanoga S. C. Njega
Mickie
Santa Claus
Coleman Lamp & Stove Co.,ltd
Toronto
Cippleford Paren Products
Appleford Paper Products Ltd
Winnipeg - Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
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