Canada Builds Coastal Anti Aircraft Defences Coastline
Canadians guard strategic Atlantic shores with mobile batteries and shore installations. Sound locators search for approaching aircraft while searchlights pierce darkness to reveal targets for range finders and predictors guiding guns to detonate shells at the intercept point. Each battery operates with trained crews delivering rapid salvos as night patrols sweep harbours and inlets.
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Canada
Dominions
RCAF
Atlantic Seaboard
Camsda
Dominion
Atlantic
Dominion urges wheat germ in bread and milk pasteurization
The Canadian Public Health Association urged the Dominion government to ensure bread includes wheat germ to boost vitamin B intake. It noted white flour removes most wheat germ and called for fortification. Delegates also pressed for mandatory pasteurization of milk and milk products and regular health supervision for war industry workers.
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Dominion
Canadian Public Health Association
Association
Canada
Navy Rewards Canada for inventive service to British cause
Navy Minister Macdonald announced two Royal Canadian Navy personnel received awards. Lieut. M A Medland of Toronto earned £25 for improvements in gun mountings that reduce icing in winter, and Electrical Artificer Stanley C Goodyer of Halifax received £15 for inventive work. Medland joined the RCN as a cadet in September 1930.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
C. G Power
Montreal
Royal Canadian Air Force
Macdonald
Royal Canadian Navy
M A. Medland
Toronto
Stanley C. Goodyer
Halifax
Lieut. Medland
The
RCN
Aflichokes and the Aristocrats of the Erable Kingdom
A murky reference places Aflichokes among the leading figures of the erable kingdom's aristocracy. The text sketches a reputation tied to high status and notable influence within the realm's social hierarchy.
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Erable Kingdom
Buckingham Palace History Beginnings Near St James's Palace
The passage traces Buckingham Palace origins from a 1609 mulberry garden site planted to aid silk production, through Goring and Arlington Houses, to Buckingham House rebuilt in 1703. It notes purchase by George III in 1762, remodel under George IV around 1825, and its 1837 shift to royal residence with Queen Victoria, replacing St James's Palace.
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St. James's Palace
Marlborough House
London
Queen Mary
Buckingham
Buckingham Palace
James I
Goring House
Arlington House
Buckingham House
George HI
George IV
Queen Victoria
Maori battalion enlistment tops four thousand in NZ drive
The London Times notes that by July 22, up to that date 4103 men had enlisted for the Maori battalion as voluntary recruiting ended. New Zealand Defence Minister Mr Jones hailed the response as remarkably strong, surpassing 40 percent of Maori eligibility and promising continued reinforcements for some time.
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London Times
New Zealand
Defence
Jones
New Thames water-bus service launches in London
Londoners greet the new Thames water-bus with enthusiasm despite air raid alarms. Hundreds of people flocked to Westminster and Woolwich as the first boats began plying the river. A Cockney passenger joked with a ferryman about the novelty of the conveyance.
Scots face hard truth as porridge and pride clash abroad
A Toronto fair sword dancing contest sees a nine year old Chinese girl win the silver cup over a field of Scots named McTavish and McLeod while a Aberdeen lad complains about porridge in Canada. Ottawa notes comment on desert air cooling after sunset as moisture slows heat loss.
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Toronto Fair
McTavishes
McIintoshes
McLeods
McNeills
Joyce Chan
Donald Bain
Aberdeen
Toronto
Donald
Canada
Ottawa Journal
Nazi Press Chief Hanfstaengl Confined in Canadian Camp
Ernst Hanfstaengl once allied with Hitler is detained in a Canadian internment camp as an enemy alien civilian. He was among those sent from England for safekeeping, his son at Harvard revealed a letter indicating internment.
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Ernst
Putzi) Hanfstaengl
England
Canada
Adolf Hitler
Hanfstaengl
Germany
Wheat Donations Under Wheat Board Rules
The producer cannot endorse a Storage ticket to the Red Cross Society as ownership transfer is involved. Under the Canadian Wheat Board Act the board may only buy wheat from the producer. Donations must be cash tickets payable to the Red Cross Society with the producer retaining the donor's stub.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Canadian Wheat Board
Paolo Revere Ford War of Independence Hero
The In Messagero portrays Paul Revere as an Italian born in 1735 who hated the British and played a key role in driving them from the United States during the War of Independence. It refers to him as Paolo Revere.
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Messagero
Paul Revere
United States
Paolo Revere
Italy
A Queer Custom in Tradition of Revenge Death
A description of tribal customs where men take their own life as punishment or revenge. One example notes a tribe that requires a man to hang himself to penalize a slow paying debtor. The passage presents a historical practice tied to social enforcement and debt ethics.
British Commonwealth A Vast Experiment In International Unity
The British Commonwealth is described as a huge experiment in internationalism uniting independent nations, dominions, and colonies. It notes self governing dominions, India and Burma approaching equal status, and colonies guided toward shared liberty and progress. A contrast is drawn with Nazi claims of empire and taxation, emphasizing voluntary, equal partnership and mutual benefit.
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British Commonwealth
Canaad
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
Eire
Great Britain
Germany
British Commonwealth of Nations
India
Burma
Hitler
Mussolini
The Beehive Quest for One Pound of Honey
The text explains that making one pound of honey requires nectar from over 62 000 clover blossoms and about 2 750 000 bee visits. It notes bees may travel a mile or two from the hive, illustrating the vast distance covered for a single pound of honey.
Portraits of Columbus Unknown to Be From Life
The article notes that more than 80 portraits of Christopher Columbus exist, yet none were painted from life during the explorer's own lifetime.
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Christopher Columbus
American
Involved Montreal Star Says Car Owner Still Pays
A Montreal Star piece notes a motorist who continues paying installments on the car he traded in as part payment for the car he currently owns. The unusual case highlights ongoing pecuniary obligations despite changing vehicles.
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The
Montreal Star
Tree planted by Queen Mary destroyed by bomb blast
A tree in a Southeast town planted by Queen Mary 19 years ago to commemorate the victory of the war was destroyed by a high explosive device.
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Queen Mary
Icelandic courtesy marks at church parades end with anthem
Icelanders show marked courtesy to their defenders as church parades finish with the national anthem of Iceland, followed by God Save the King.
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Iceland
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