Canada Salvage Campaign Aids Dominion War Effort
New Zealand and Canada push strong salvage drives as Britain expands compulsory waste collection. Officials note salvaged materials conserve ship space and aid food and munitions imports. The National Salvage Office stresses salvage as a continuous primary production cycle.
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Canada
Dominion
United States
Britain
New Zealand
New Zealand National Council For
Girl Guides
Australia
Salvation Army
Pickles Demand Shapes British Agriculture This Year
Science Service notes that thousands of acres were planted with onions garlic mustard gherkins cabbage and cauliflower to meet persistent civilian and military demand for vegetables. Dr Magnus Pyke questions policy decisions while noting greenhouses shift to tomatoes and carrots area doubles. The public continues to crave pickles despite their negligible value.
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Air Force
Science Service
Science
Magnus Pyke
Nature
Pyke
Scientific Food Policy Committee
Dr Pyke
Van d al City Council Fails to Regulate Chickens
Van dal Hil council debates chicken limits for nuisance pestilence but cannot agree on a cap. Some push 12 others 25. The chicken clause is removed from the nuisance ordinance along with other livestock limits. Earth worms extend six feet underground and patent rights expire in 17 years.
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Vandal, Hil
United States builds strategic bases along African coast
The plan outlines a chain of bases from Freetown Sierra Leone to Liberia including airdromes and a submarine base. Built with Pan American Airways and Firestone Rubber Co. cooperation, the locations aim to substitute for U S ships in the South Atlantic to deter Nazi incursions from Dakar via Vichy control.
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United States
Africa
Dakar
South America
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Pan American Airways
Egypt
Liberia
Firestone Rubber Co
South Atlantic
Hawaii
California
Pacific
Brandon Sun
Byrd’s First South Polar Voyage Brought Two Fridges Aboard
On his inaugural South Polar expedition Admiral Byrd carried two refrigerators to prevent food from freezing. Islands in the Arctic archipelago north of Hudson Bay span 419,441 square miles.
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Admiral Byrd
Arctic Archipelago
Hudson Bay
Letters From Europe Reveal Secret War Messages
A wartime letter from occupied Europe shows a family describing sunsets and a river bend while hinting at strategic targets like warehouses and docks. The writer notes food shortages but claims beef is available twice a week, a claim tied to an American farm memory about a family cat named Emily.
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Europe
Washington
Royal Air Force
United States
Emily
Truth Over Trickery Shapes Historical Diplomacy
The piece recalls Benjamin Franklin’s famous truth telling in dealings with Talleyrand. It argues honesty gives a better chance to counter deception, noting a historic diplomatic coup and Franklin’s calm assertion that honesty can persuade or fail against cunning.
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Benjamin Franklin
Talleyrand
Europe
Franklin
Beautiful Garden of Fred Carter in Saint John
A renowned blind gardener named Fred Carter, former head of Kew Gardens in London, maintains a strikingly beautiful small garden in Saint John, New Brunswick, celebrated as the work of his skilled hands and described by locals as the Happy Wanderer.
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Saint John
N.B
Fred Carter
Kew Gardens
London
Schwab Mansion Deal Turns On Clever French Reply
Charles M. Schwab faced a flood of plans for a Riverside Drive mansion but Maurice Herbert, then a modest employee in a Fifth Avenue decorating house, answered a crucial question with a pointed query about Schwab’s own past leadership of the Steel Trust. The response sealed the contract and Herbert built the Schwab mansion.
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Charles M. Schwab
Riverside Drive
New York City
Maurice Herbert
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Schwab
Steel Trust
Schwab
Famous Guns Saved From Melting Pot By Armory Master
James G. Mann, famed Tower of London armory master, seeks ancient firearms as crowds clamour for new guns. He has already rescued many famous cannons from destruction, including those of HMS Bellerophon, the ship that carried Napoleon to exile.
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James G. Mann
Tower of London
H.ms. Bellerophon
Napoleon
A Champion Letter From Phoenix Service Men Contest
Luke Field air base personnel honor Pte Richard Rathkey of Lancaster Pa for receiving the longest letter from a girlfriend in the national service men contest. He displays a 62 page letter from a school teacher.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Luke Field Air Base
Pte
Richard Rathkey
Lancaster
Europe’s Renaissance spans the 14th to 16th centuries
The revival from medieval times to modern era took shape as the Renaissance between the 14th and 16th centuries across Europe. It marked shifts in art, learning, and thought centered in cities like Florence and institutions such as the Church and courts.
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Europe
A Crocheted Rug Pattern Offer From Winnipeg Paper
A crochet rug pattern titled Pattern 7098 promises a lifetime joy in any room. It features diamond motifs, joining stitches, illustrations, and materials lists. Readers can obtain the pattern for 20 cents by mailing to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Vitamin flour to raise bread nutrition in Canada
Canadian officials report preparations to produce vitamin rich white flour addressing the wheat milling process. They expect new standards for vitamin B content, with trials by millers and bakers, and public notice before year end for Government Approved loaf quality.
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Canadian Public Health Association
Winnipeg
Dominion
Dominion Experimental Farms Service
Great Britain
United States
L. H Newman
Ottawa
Parachute Jumper Studies Breath, Pressure and Perception
Scientific tests presented to the AAAS in Chicago examined A H Starnes’s five jumps carrying 300 pounds of equipment. Starnes showed rapid thinking during free falls from 8400 to 17500 feet, with 112 to 158 mph speed, while breathing only three to seven times. Heart rate and blood pressure stayed stable. he briefly blacked out after chute deployment, aided by a small guide parachute that kept his head up and confidence high.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Chicago
Andrew C. Ivey
Nathan S. Davis
Northwestern University
A. H Starnes
Starnes
Guard change on Parliament Hill suspended for winter
National Defence headquarters Ottawa announced the Changing of the Guard ceremony will pause for winter and resume next spring. The last change occurred Friday evening Oct 3 when the Saskatchewan Horse Regiment from Landsdowne Park relieved the Royal Canadian Air Force guard, marching off the hill at 6 30 pm Saturday.
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Parliament Hill
National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa
Saskatchewan Horse Regiment
Lansdowns Park
Royal Canadian Air Force Guard
Saskatchewan
Welcome Substitute at Wellington Bomber Landing
Radio from the station greeted a Wellington bomber crew returning from a raid with no petrol coupons and empty tanks. The plane and crew landed safely. A lighthearted aside on lunch counters follows the wartime theme.
Bravery Leads to New Bed Rest Rehabilitation Method
A London surgeon, bed-ridden after a fractured thigh, devised a rope and sling based exercise plan to strengthen arms legs and torso while in bed. Her method reduced convalescence time and has shown success in multiple hospitals and other patients.
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London
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