Ocular War Demonstration to Rally Canadian Public
The article urges broad public support for wartime efforts through visible displays. Army Day and a Canadian National Exhibition exhibit are highlighted as key propaganda tools to educate citizens on sacrifices and responsibilities. It calls for a traveling, graphic demonstration to reach Western Canadians and inspire action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Departent of
National Defence
B. W. Browne
Browne
Department of Munitions and Supply
Toronto
Atlantic
Pacific
Wartime generosity to a Canadian marked by a street exchange
A British stenographer, Miss Muriel Bennett, helps a Canadian war correspondent obtain seven ration coupons for running shoes. She offers aid without expecting return, citing an aunt in Canada, Miss Florence Bushell, linked to evacuees and the Canadian High Commissioner in London, Vincent Massey, in a brief wartime anecdote.
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England
Canada
Toronto
Muriel Bennett
Florence Bushell
Vincent Massey
London
Massey
Bushell
Post Office Announces Restored Money Orders Canada Iceland
The British postal administration resumes money order service between Canada and Iceland and between Canada and French India, announced at Ottawa. Alaska’s nearest point to the United States lies 600 miles northwest of Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Iceland
French India
British Postal Administration
Post Office Department
Ottawa
Alaska
United States
Seattle
Irate old lady snubs picnic after rain prayer remark
A pious irascible elderly woman living alone raged at neighbors for a big picnic she was not invited to. They invited her later, she refused, quipping she had prayed for rain.
Burial depths and colonial labor voyages noted
The text notes graves 50 to 60 feet deep in Colombia and Ecuador. It mentions Oliver Cromwell in 1650 sending Scottish prisoners captured at Dunbar to Saugus, Massachusetts to work in iron works.
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Colombia
Ecuador
Oliver Cromwell
Dunbar
Saugus
Masa
Apricot Upside Down Cake Recipe
This vintage recipe describes making an apricot upside down cake. Ingredients include butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, an egg, milk, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, apricots, and optional shortening. Steps cover creaming butter and sugar, alternating flour and milk, melting butter with brown sugar to form a glaze, arranging apricots cut side up in a pan, pouring batter, baking at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes, then cooling and serving with apricots visible.
Mosquitoes Targeted By Home Insecticide Advice
The article explains mosquito life stages from eggs to adults and urges removing standing water to curb breeding. It advises spraying rooms and footwear with pyrethrum to kill mosquitoes and notes sprays also deter spiders and other outdoor pests.
British Pianos Rise With Radio Era Gains
The London Times notes that musical instrument trade in Britain has grown since the radio and gramophone boom began. Despite fears that fewer youths would pursue music, piano firms report steady output and increased sales, especially to the Dominions, despite German competition after the war.
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Britain
Germany
Dominions
London Times
Fearless Commander Dives His Plane Into Enemy Fuel Trucks
A Soviet pilot aboard a flaming craft reportedly crashed into German gasoline and fuel tank cars after a shell struck Faseline tank. Capt Gastelo, commanding an air squadron, led the attack amid front line clashes. Dozens of German vehicles were said to burn. Fifty five trades are taught in the United States Navy today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gastelo
United States Navy
Nine Hour Prefab House Aims to Ease Wartime Housing
A seven room dwelling built in nine hours and costing about 1500 dollars may start a national system of prefabricated houses for wartime housing shortages. Developed by Canada’s Dominion Housing Administration led by F W Nicolls, the model unit was built at an Ottawa lumber plant. It uses standard market materials and features modern plumbing and lighting. The one story design covers 576 square feet with two bedrooms a dining room living room kitchen bath and furnace room, assembled from twelve floor and roof sections and four wall parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Housing Administration
F. W. Nicolls
Ottawa
Queen Elizabeth visits fund office to view quilt gift
The queen mother visits the lord mayor’s fund for air raid victims and admires an embroidered quilt bearing 600 Canadian children’s names. The quilt raises 60 dollars, with each child paying 10 cents to embroider their name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Elizabeth
Lord Mayor's Fund
Elm tree moved to fill estate landscape in Gloucester
A 12 foot elm tree weighing 35 tons was transported 32 miles from East Gloucester to West Newbury at a cost of $400 to fill a vacant space in the landscape of Mrs William Dice's estate in Gloucester Massachusetts.
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East Gloucester
West Newbury
William Dicle
Gloucester
Mass
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