We Must Support War Effort To The Limit Now
A Liberty Magazine excerpt urges Canadians to overwhelming support as war demands escalate. It contrasts comfortable living with the harsh realities faced by soldiers and civilians abroad, warning against complacency and urging immediate, full effort beyond past loans. It cites Morgenthau on Sicily’s heavy costs to rally resolve.
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Poland
Salerno
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
United States Treasury Department
Sicily
Europe
Italy
Liberty Magazine
Pompeii ruins reevaluated as retreating Germans clash with British
Allied troops push toward Naples as German forces fall back along the road through Pompeii and the modern city. British artillery harasses the line while Vesuvius echoes the shelling. Civilians endure bombardment, with some villagers gifting wine and fruit to advancing troops as fear and relief mingle amid the destruction.
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Pompeii
Naples
Vesuvius
Memorial fragments from House of Commons glass displayed in Welsh village
In a North Wales mountain village near the Berwyn range a memorial to the destroyed debating chamber of the House of Commons has been created. Sir Henry Morris Jones MP Denbigh organized a collection of 26 stained glass fragments from Westminster windows shattered on May 10 1941 and given to the Memorial Institute at Glyn Ceiriog. The framed pieces bear an inscription noting they came from bombed windows and serve as a reminder of German efforts to destroy the Mother of Parliament and the Welsh queen Elizabeth.
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Wales
Berwyn Mountains
House of Commons
Henry Morris-Jones
Denbigh
Memorial Institute
Glyn Ceiriog
Westminster
Elizabeth
Radio picks up Nazi letter from Tunis discoverer
Allied forces found a letter by SS leader Paul Nieren in Tunis. The Algiers broadcast and London Daily Sketch station relayed it. The letter envisions war as entertaining if Nazi equipment matched Russia and German food were available with Hitler still an unknown soldier.
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Paul Nieren
Tunis
Algiers
London Daily Sketch
Adolf Hitler
Newspaper value and racing outfit weight noted
The text notes a newspaper could fetch $60 in the Lisbon black market and discusses Norway banning outside newspapers. It mentions a jockey's racing outfit weighing about 30 ounces including boots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Norway
Finland
Jack Miner
A compact verse profile of Jack Miner of Belley Ontario poetically describing his life tending birds and recalling autumn flights and pirates imagery, blending affection for his aviary work with reflections on gunlike ornaments and changing beliefs about angels and science.
Farthing Price Handling Keeps Half-Cent Unit
England will retain the farthing in food pricing. The food ministry rejected removing the extra farthing, arguing it would widen traders' profit margins, while removing it would lower margins too much.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Food Ministry
Author George Barr McCutcheon Finds McCutcheon Title at Bookshop
George Barr McCutcheon browsed a Boston second hand store and found Beverly of Granstark signed by himself. He asked for works by McCutcheon and was offered a damaged copy for fifty cents then a quarter after the clerk noted the autograph. Also notes rivet counts in bombers and the Turkish piaster value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Barr McCutcheon
Boston
George B. McCutcheon
Penicillin Production Aims At Canadian Output Boom
The article notes Japan's retreat in New Guinea and sketches Western defenses, then shifts to medical progress. It highlights Fleming's penicillin discovery, Florey’s isolation, and the push to mass produce the antibiotic in the United States and Canada. Canada expects 500 million units weekly by next April under a government plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Fleming
University of London
Howard Florey
Oxford
United States
Canada
Banting Institute
Medical advance uses isinglass as blood substitute
Dr N B Naylor of the University of Toronto and Dr Taylor with Miss Moorehouse develop a plasma substitute from isinglass for transfusions. Trials at Toronto General with 51 patients show no poisonous effects and good responses in ten shock cases, suggesting volume and pressure support until recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B. Naylor
University of Toronto
Teylor
Margaret E. Moorehouse
E. T. Waters
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Taylor
Miss Moorehouse
Isinglass
H. E Pugsley
R. F. Farquharson
Toronto General Hospital
Buenos Aires Parks Grow as City Expands
About 100 parks exist in Buenos Aires, the largest city in Latin America, reflecting ongoing urban development. The note mentions the Netherlands as a historical blend of Frisian, Saxon, and Frankish roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Latin America
Be Luxe Tablecloth Pattern 7605 With Floral Transfers
Be Luxe pattern 7605 offers 4 transfer motifs 45 by 1% inches on white cloth. Crochet directions included. Send twenty cents in stamps to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. Include name and address and pattern number for delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipegee Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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Hussa
Jack Miner
Kingsville, Ontario
Jack Miner By
Jack Henrty
Belley Ontari
Kingsville Way
Tre
McCutcheon
Turkey
Aleutian
R.c.af
Cme
SNAFU
R.C.A.F
Aleutians
Andy Kuftuk
Welland
Ont
Radio
Kufuk
Paul Doyle
Toronto
Lac Stam Tourangeau
Arnprior
New Guinea
Kiska
China
Japan
Great Britain
R.A.F
Nippon
Aleutian Islands
Paramushiro
Germany
Ottawa Citizen
Netherlands
Jous
Alice Brooks
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