Western Canada Urged to Welcome War Refugee Children
The article discusses immigration trends driven by Europe’s war, urging Western Canada to accept refugee children for the duration and later adult refugees. It notes prior debates on British stock migration, economic concerns from farmers and labor alike, and the need to maintain food security for the Allied war effort. A first contingent of 10,000 British children is planned, with transport limits and parental preferences affecting numbers. Many children may integrate and later persuade relatives to join them in Canada, shaping long term population.
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Europe
Canada
Western
Prairie Provinces
Sury
Marke
Western Canada
British Isles
Great Britain
Gasoline pooling and rationing under government control in Britain
The report explains that gasoline sold under brand names in Great Britain has been pooled for months. Fuel companies contribute imports to a general pool and are rationed a set amount of gas by government authorities for anonymous retail at filling stations. The piece also recalls medieval milk delivery where cows were brought to homes for on-site service and notes Stromboli’s two hour volcanic eruptions on Lipari Island.
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Great Britain
Explanation Is Simple Why Germany Has Not Gone Bankrupt
An analysis cites Fritz Sternberg on Nazi finance via wartime spending. It notes 20 million employed but real wages down, taxes up, and living costs rising. The article argues a reckoning remains possible as war profits hide hardship, with Gestapo suppression masking dissent. Watertown Times report.
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Weiter
Germany
Paris
Lond
New York
Hitler
Fritz Sternberg
3 Republic
Sternberg
Gestapo
Watertown
Tulip Fed Hogs Could Yield Bacon in Britain
Britons will test tulip bacon after Kirton Institute fed tulip bulbs to pigs to replace a quarter of the cereal in their feed. The ministry warns daffodils are not suitable for feeding.
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Ministry of Agriculture
Kirton Agricultural Institute
Lincolnshire
Autotomy in animals noted for leg shedding
A biological fact explains how some animals can shed a limb at specific points to escape danger. This autotomy mechanism varies by species and serves as a survival strategy in the animal kingdom.
Radium moved to cave in Derbyshire hills wartime measure
Radium from the Christie Hospital 4 Holt Radium Institute in Manchester was transferred to a cave in the Derbyshire Hills as a war precaution. The Board warned that a nearby bomb burst within 150 yards could rupture the radium needle during treatment, killing the patient and rendering the area uninhabitable.
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Manchester
Christie Hospital
Holt
Manter
Derbyshire Hills
Selected Recipes Include Ham Cakes and Spiced Cake
A collection of recipe fragments describes a spiced cake with butter sugar eggs syrup and molasses plus ham cakes with ground pork eggs cloves brown sugar evaporated milk and All Bran. Peaches are steamed with the meat and optional grilled fruit is suggested.
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Kellogg's
Escaped The Gestapo First Czech To The RCAF
Torontonian Mrs. Stanislaus Mlynar recounts a Czech escape from Gestapo oppression. Her husband Stanislaus joins the RCAF in Canada. After thirteen months apart in Czechoslovakia she stages a ruse to reunite in Canada aboard the final ships from Italy amid wartime delays.
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RCAF
Czechoslovakia
Canada
Toronto
Stanislaus Milynar
Stanislaus
Mlynar
Gestapo
Soldier’s Badge Accepted By Queen On Tour In Lancashire
During the royal Lancashire tour the King and Queen spoke with soldiers. A young 15 year old, Billy Carswell, slipped past naval guards to meet them. The Queen asked his age and duties, and he replied he was a check boy at the lodge. She pinned a regimental badge to her coat in greeting.
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Elizabeth
Lancashire
Billy Carswell
Billy
Tam
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