Canada Sets Uniform Seed Grades Across Nation
The Seeds Act administered by the Plant Production Division of the Canadian Department of Agriculture runs eight seed testing labs nationwide. Samples are anonymized, tested for purity germination and quality, using manual and mechanical methods, including diaphanoscope and air separation, with four lots tested on four days. Grades issued are 1 2 and 3, with No 1 and No 2 most common.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Soybean Shipments Reach Europe In Wartime Push
Thousands of bushels are sent via Lake Michigan from South Chicago to Canadian and European ports with 5,000,000 shipped in October and another 5,000,000 expected before season end. Illinois reports a bumper 46,000,000 bushels crop with over a third shipped to Europe. Soybeans fuel explosives and various wartime products, including nitroglycerine and dynamite, and serve in fertilizers paints and chemicals.
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Lake Michigan
South Chicago
Canada
England
France
Illinois
Europe
Moyer Listed Dead Then Found Alive On War Memorial
Gunner Bill Moyer serves with an anti aircraft battery in England yet his name appears on his home town war memorial for the first Great War. A Boston Lincolnshire native, he enlisted underage, fought for a year, was captured, rejoined in 1917, wounded and held in a German camp, and after the war was released and returned home.
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Bill Moyer
England
Moyer
Boston
Lincolnshire
Artillery
Unusual Sheriff Levy and Airlifted Caviar Trade
A sheriff seized dining room furniture including a table six chairs and a mahogany sideboard plus a full decanter of whisky. Five minutes later the word full was crossed out and a revolving doormat was added. Caviar from Canadian sturgeon flown to New York is due for sale within 48 hours.
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New York
England Hosts World Largest Drop Hammer Plant
The St Thomas Times Journal reports a massive drop hammer in England. The 455 ton device stamps molten light alloy into aero engine crankcases in seconds. It sits in a plant on 1,800 tons of concrete with 360 ton anvil blocks buried 14 feet under shock absorbers.
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United States
England
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Prisoners Run the Kitchen in English Camp
German POWs in a northern English disused mill manage midday roast beef and vegetables, serve meals, wash dishes, and till fields for Britons. They also fill sandbags and play football in spare moments, wearing civilian clothes marked with a circular badge.
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Adolf Hitler
England
Britain
Your Freedom Is In Peril Defend It With All Your Might
General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Iron-nerved commander, leads a wartime rallying call on billboards across the U K. A towering six foot four figure famed for multilingual fluency and bold leadership, Ironside returns to frontline action with a defiant wartime stance amid renewed global conflict.
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Great Britain
Germany
Kitchener
United Kingdom
Sir Edmund Ironside
Chsef
Imperial General Staff
Britain
Sonic device aids milk digestion for babies
The New York World Telegraph notes a reversed use of a submarine signaling device, once meant to aid peace, now employed to break up butterfat globules to make milk easier to digest for infants, amid concerns about the growing world population.
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New York World Telegraph
Fossil Rock Unearthed by Toronto Workmen
Douglas Fox and Alec Pratt uncovered a fossil slab eight feet underground in Toronto. Royal Ontario Museum officials say the slab shows primeval life 406 million years old. Dr. Madeline Frit identifies shells and outlines as ancestors of clams and cephalopods, from a prehistorical sea covering the area.
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Park Lawn Cemetery
Douglas Fox
Alec Pratt
Toronto
Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology
Madeline Frit
Morning Walks Rise In London Amid Blackout
The London Daily Sketch notes a new habit shift as cinemas close and amusements end. With early bedtimes and rising for morning walks, Regent's Park fills at seven o clock and hotel breakfasts in Park Lane and Piccadilly attract National Service workers and lone residents alike.
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London Daily Sketch
Park Lane
Piccadilly
Polar surface quirks and anthem singing noted
The Globe reports relief in news items as organizations end meetings with the National Anthem and The Marseillaise. It observes holidays pose little worry while bosses at work and home control timing and place. It notes polar land surface differs by 10 000 feet above and below sea level at the South and North Poles respectively.
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Toronto Globe and Mail
South Pole
North Pole
Quilt Pattern 6525 for Flower Block Quilt
A detailed quilt pattern 6525 offers a block chart pattern pieces color schemes and yardage for a floral quilt. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg for the pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book is published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave
Alice Brooks
Appoint Controller To Direct All Land And Sea Transport
The Canada government authorizes a transport controller to direct all land and sea movement of troops naval forces and supplies to the United Kingdom and Allied countries. Howe will appoint the controller who will issue priority orders to railways lines and ships and coordinate with Sir Edward Beatty on wartime shipments.
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United Kingdom
Empire
Canada
Howe
Trans
Railways Association of Canada
Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ministry of Shipping
Aimless Peace Talks Between Leaders and Vexed Allies
The piece argues both English and French desire peace but see irreconcilable differences. Hitler as dictator cannot offer a credible peace. Until a trustworthy German government emerges, peace on any terms cannot be achieved.
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Hitler
New York Herald Tribune
Blow Your Horn or Walk Up to the Doorbell
A Halifax Chronicle note laments drivers who blow their horns to clear traffic jams and disturb neighborhoods. It mocks horn fans as lazy, contrasts with walking to a doorbell, and aside includes casual remarks on animal spirits and a remark about feeds for geese and gender stereotypes.
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Halifax Chronicle
Old Soldiers May Live Longer Than Expected Says Study
A Canadian study of 16 000 war pension cases finds pensioners reach average mortality for their age in about ten years with good medical care and financial security. The research notes treatment and hospitalization advantages do not extend to non pensioners, while four years of war saw army deaths from disease slightly lower than the general male population.
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F. S. Burke
Department of Pensions and National Health
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Burke
Municipal leadership stability signals strong local governance
The text argues re electing officials yearly shows good government but losing power to change that government is harmful. It notes 30 million U S families use gas for cooking and claims sugar is a stronger stimulant than tea.
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United States
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Dnieper River
Soviet Russia
British Empire
News of the World
London
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Ironside
Poland
Archangel
India
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London Parks
Dominion Agriculture Department
British Isles
Quebec
Ontario
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
George W. Muir
Dominion
Summerland
B.C
Sary
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