Ducks Unlimited Financed by U S Contributions in Canada
Judge W G Ross of Moosomin reports Ducks Unlimited Canada has operated for a decade with U S funding, improving 1 263 600 acres of breeding areas. He notes Americans funded 1 099 242 to date and urges Canadian support to reach a 600 000 annual budget for expanded work.
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Ducks Unlimited
U.S
United States
Canada
Ducks Unlimited Inc
W. G. Ross
Moosomin
Judge Poms
Stubbie
Drouth
Canadian
Prairies
Nwt
Judge Ross
Nature
P.F.R.A
Ross
Young Veteran Proves Court Attache to Juror Pool
Five year old Ann McEachern of Columbia South Carolina serves as a veteran court attache drawing jurors names for Richland County circuits. She earns 2 dollars daily when sessions run. When idle she watches proceedings quietly. State law requires the post go to someone who cannot read.
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Ann McEachern
Columbia
South Carolina
Richland County
Ann
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A man reading a newspaper notes a saying about the father’s cleverness becoming a stumbling block for the son. His wife sighs with relief that their son Bobby will have nothing to stumble over.
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Bobby
Scotch Parliament Bans Golf to Protect Archery
In 1457 Scotland, the Parliament banned golf citing interference with royal archery practice. The move aimed to preserve military readiness and archery skills among citizens.
Canada Plans Postwar Readiness Arsenal Network
A Canadian survey outlines a business like approach to postwar defense readiness. Arsenals Ltd headed by Col. Malcolm P. Jolly would plan rapid conversion of plants to war production, stock machine tools, and coordinate with other manufacturers to support the Department of National Defense.
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Canada
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Arsenals, Ltd
Malcolm P. Jolly
Department of National Defense
St. Catharines
New Emergency Wheat Receipt Aids Prairie Grain Deliveries
Canadian Wheat Board implements Emergency Wheat Receipt to spur wheat deliveries April 1 to June 30 1946. Producers may opt for cash or deferred payment up to December 31 1948 with a fixed price of 1.25 per bushel less freight costs and may receive a 1945 46 participation certificate.
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Canadian Wheat Board
Fort William
Port Arthur
Vancouver
Beaver Catch and Fur Values in Canada Through 1944
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics records show beaver catches in Canada declining from about 170000 twenty years earlier to 59000 in 1934. War years boosted fur demand with beaver numbers rising from 90000 in 1941 to 131000 in 1944, while pelt values varied from 15 in 1924 to 37 by 1944.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
British Fall Whaling Expedition Employs New Gadgets
A British Antarctic expedition set to depart this fall will use advanced scientific tools including planes and radar. The mission aims to curb whale hunting by tracking and protecting the mammals as they flee distant whaling fleets, marking a historic shift in pursuit tactics.
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Antarctic
Sir Ben Smith
House of Commons
Britain
Sir Ben
John Grierson
Grierson
Fleet Air Arm
England
Capetown
Fort Prince of Wales guards revived by Muskox exercise
A convoy of snowmobiles reached Fort Prince of Wales near Churchill Manitoba as Exercise Muskox mounted a temporary guard. The visit revived memories of 1782 La Perouse siege and 1941 designation as a National Historic Park. Plans for a five month expedition to Cape Town and the Antarctic were discussed alongside whale oil shortages.
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Fort Prince of Wales
Churchill
Manitoba
Samuel Hearne
Fort Princes of Wales
la Perouse
Hudson Bay
Canada
Exercise Muskox
York Factory
Odds of atomic chain reaction event put at one in 100 septillion
Dr Harold C Urey, Nobel laureate and physicist, estimates the chance of an atomic bomb explosion triggering a world reaction at one in 100 septillion a 1 followed by 26 zeros. He notes the idea as a theoretical improbability. The piece also mentions the pyramids and the Great Wall rising during times of unemployment relief.
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Los Angeles
Harold C. Urey
University of Chicago
Book keeper aims to fix bank slip error
In Plain Words at a Louisville bank a book keeper telephones a customer about an error in her deposit slip. After a long exchange the customer asks what to do and the employee replies they simply want to change the slip, followed by a sharp, hung up call.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Help Your Neighbor Driver Delivers Odd Finchley Ride
A driver bound for Finchley stopped in Central London to offer a lift to two young women. Two older women surged forward and forced themselves into the seats. At Paddington Station the older pair claimed they must get off there, insisting the driver take them to Finchley. The driver persisted, and the trio of women ended up alighting at Finchley.
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Finchley
London
Paddington Station
Wisconsin restaurateurs push National Soup Day
At a Milwaukee convention, the Wisconsin Restaurant Association urged President Truman to declare November 15 a National Soup Day and to designate split pea soup as the national soup. The statement linked broad cultural aims with a broader culinary agenda.
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Wisconsin Restaurant Association
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Truman
Virgin Islands Adopt Anti Segregation License Rule
The Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix pass an anti segregation statute letting a business lose its license if a discriminated against person wins a court case. The rule aims to deter prejudice in hotels and public places by tying license renewal to lawful conduct and protects establishments from frivolous charges. The measure relies on license loss as a simple enforcement tool.
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Virgin Islands
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Islands
United States
Winnipeg Free Press
A Boy Warns A Stranger About The Schoolmaster
A holiday hunter, hoping for sport along a creek and lagoons, wanders with a gun. On a bridge returning to the hotel in the late afternoon he meets a freckled boy who asks about game. The boy then spots the schoolmaster crossing the bridge.
Polar bears drift from Greenland to Iceland on ice cakes
A historical note describes polar bears moving from Greenland toward Iceland aboard drifting ice floes, illustrating Arctic migration by natural ice movement.
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Greenland
Iceland
Stitchery Magic for Plain Linens Pattern 7180
A brief note on cutwork and simple stitchery to elevate plain linens with varied motifs. Pattern 7180 includes transfer of twenty motifs measuring 3 by 9 inches to 2 by 4 inches, with stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to Householder Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, for the pattern. Include name and address.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Five-Cent New Brunswick Stamp Sells at Auction
A five-cent stamp from New Brunswick bearing Postmaster Charlies Connell’s likeness sold at a London auction for 60 pounds, about 270 dollars, highlighting a rare philatelic sale and the value of colonial postage.
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New Brunswick
Charlies Connell
London
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