McGill to speed medical training amid physician shortage
Government acknowledges a move to accelerate medical training at McGill University to address the physician shortfall. A vast Dominion loan to British Columbia is approved in-council to support ration coupons. A Travellers union member pledges future tipping to War Savings Stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGill University
Dominion
British Columbia
Washington
Oregon
United Commercial Travellers
London Temple and Temple Church Suffer Severe Fire Damage
In recent German air raids London landmarks were heavily damaged including Temple and Temple Church. The reading room of the library and Inner Hall were destroyed while flames spread to inns of court. The 16th century ball and library with about 20 000 volumes were burned out. A German incendiary bomb left a relic neighborhood scar, yet two catalpa trees planted by Sir Walter Raleigh remained unharmed.
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Temple
Heart of Legal London
England
Inner Peel
Inns of Court
Catalpa
Walter Raleigh
Propaganda Tactics Exposed Across Nations
The piece critiques propaganda and interventions described as helping oppressed peoples to regain freedom from British rule, linking the present to past betrayals such as Norway. It portrays von Petain as serving master interests and cites the Montreal Star in naming the pattern.
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Norway
von Petain
Montreal Star
1941 Anne Adams Pattern Preview for Wardrobe
Advertisement for Anne Adams pattern 4746 a 1941 version showing a tailored bodice with yoke curves and waist emphasis. Describes a deep centre panel, side gathers, notched collar and slender rising skirt line with long and short sleeve options. Bend twenty cents to order and mail name address and style number to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermott Ave. E
Man
Russian Born Scientist Admitted to United States
Russian born scientist Dr Serge Voronoff and his wife were admitted to the United States for residence. Voronoff, famed for his monkey gland experiments, had arrived in Canada with his wife to await his quota number under the immigration department. The couple left Europe after their Mentone France laboratory was lost when Germany breached France last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecapes
France
Serge Voronoff
United States
Voronoff
Canada
Europe
Mentone
McNaughton Named Honorary Fellow of Royal Society
Lt General A G McNaughton commander of the Canadian corps in Britain was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Canada at the opening of its annual meetings at Queen s University Kingston Ontario General McNaughton had long served as president of the National Research Council for many years.
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McNaughton
A. G. McNaughton
Britain
Royal Society of Canada
Queen's University
Kingston
Peace Garden Near Turtle Mountain Attracts Visitors
Officials say a visit to the Peace Garden is worthwhile as roads to the site, which sits near Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve, are excellent from both North Dakota and Manitoba. The garden is under development with the American side more advanced due to CCC camps and substantial U S funding.
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Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve
North Dakota
Manitoba
United States
Fanny Kemble and the Coachman Pay Mystery
A humorous 19th century tale in which Fanny Kemble asserts she hired a driver to ride rather than chat, ending with a farmer’s blunt charge of five dollars for sass. The anecdote reflects colonial era manners and miscommunication in rural Massachusetts.
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Boston
Fanny Kemble
Massachusetts
Fanny
Inflation Illustrated by a Child’s Breakfast Dilemma
The Christian Science Monitor uses a breakfast scene to explain inflation. A small boy overfills his bread with butter and jam, then returns for more butter and bread to balance the slice, illustrating how prices rise as demand grows.
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Christian
Science Monitor
Maple Leaf Fund Rose Week Aids British Soldiers
The New York chapter of the Maple Leaf Fund organized Rose Week selling 1,000,000 roses donated by florists across the United States. Proceeds provided comforts for British soldiers and civilians.
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New York
The
Maple Leaf Fund
United States
Aviator to Advise on Warner Bros RCAF Film
Squadron Leader Owen Cathcart-Jones of the Royal Canadian Air Force will serve as technical adviser and script collaborator for the Warner Bros film Shadows of Their Wings set to shoot near Ottawa this summer. He is noted for long distance record flights including London to Melbourne and London to Capetown among others.
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Owen Cathcart-Jones
R.C.A.F
Iial
B. Wallis
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cathcart-Jones
Ottawa
Owen Carthcart- Jones
Royal Canadian Air Force
Warner Brothers Film
Rcaf
Hal B. Wallis
London
Paris
Melbourne
Australia
Capetown
London-to
Kenya
Malta-to-Cairo
Mediterranean
By & Gestroyer
Thien
Palestine
Reval Aare Club
London Churches and Art Center Hit in Blitz
The London area of Chelsea Old Church and a major art centre sustained direct bomb hits. Sir Alec Martin of Christie’s vowed to carry on a two hundred year tradition. The church, famed for royal weddings and the tomb of Sir Thomas More, was left in ruins with monuments and rare books damaged.
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London
Bomba Fund
Alec Martin
Christie's
Chelsea Old Church
Thomas More
Selected Rhubarb Bake With Toasted Bread
A fruit rhubarb dessert combines butter or margarine with sugar and eggs, flavored with nutmeg and vanilla. Small toasted bread cubes and corn flakes add texture, layered with rhubarb and baked about 35 minutes at 315 degrees Fahrenheit yields eight servings.
Vermilion Lima Bean Dish From Murky Recipe Clippings
A 1930s style kitchen note describes cooking a lima bean dish with butter salt mustard paprika wafers and milk then adding an egg and Worcester sauce. The piece concludes with a thunderstorm safety line stating a person above ground faces fifteen times the danger of being struck versus lying down.
Une For Coffee Scientiste vawung sean Dave
A compact item notes an individual named Dave in a coffee related context with unclear details. The readable text centers on a person and a possible event or venue linked to coffee and science themes. No dates or organizations are clearly identified in the legible portion.
Sermon at Antioch Acts 13 and the Gentile Call
A devotional summary of Paul and Barnabas in the Antioch synagogue where they speak on the Sabbath, face Jealousy from Jews, and turn to the Gentiles, urging persistence in grace as the crowd gathers and persecutions rise, leading them to move on to Iconium.
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Antioch
Paul
Barnabas
Paul F
Fersecutam
Ramony
Pal
Tconlum
Battle in the Mediterranean and air supremacy theme
The text argues the war will continue in the Eastern Mediterranean and at sea. Only by achieving air superiority can the Allies defeat the Nazi threat, with Crete cited as teaching that air dominance ends terror, a lesson for Britain and the United States.
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Mediterranean
Suez
Middle East
Crete
Manager of London's Crystal Palace In Destruction Event
Henry Buckland, manager of London's Crystal Palace since 1914, witnessed the destruction of the north tower. Once a draper's manager, he hoped to restore the palace as a public pleasance but wartime occupation by sailors altered its course. Buckland is brother-in-law to Sir Milsom Rees and resides in the palace grounds.
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Henry Buckland
Sir Henry Buckland
London
Crystal Palace
Hlm.s
Henry
Milsom Rees
Paxton
Looking Ahead and the Suit Pattern Question
An exchange shows a man presenting a small fabric sample to his son Tom and asking for feedback. The boy responds with a joke about the wrong ride and comments on which side the suit would be worn when completed.
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Tommy
Motor Salesman and Pedestrian Dialogue Fragment
A brief, unclear exchange shows a motor salesman offering to show items while a pedestrian declines, stating they are not there to buy. The fragment includes garbled speech about change and being in a crowd.
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Lenge Om
Health League cites Britain's public health gains during war
The Health League of Canada argues for stronger public health measures at home after noting Britain’s health improved despite bombing. Official London figures show lower typhoid early in 1941 and fewer communicable diseases due to shelter medical care and prompt treatment, prompting calls to save working years by eradicating preventable illnesses.
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Health League of Canada
Britain
London
League
The
Health League
Canada
Snd
Evaporated Milk Sent to Children Crated with Tools
In Cincinnati, three cases of machine tools from the United States arrived for the ministry of supply and ordnance. Each case contained forty eight tins of evaporated milk for the workers' children. A typewritten slip claimed the milk was sent without the purchasers’ knowledge and implied the milk was intended for the recipients’ children.
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Cinciam
United States
Ministry of Supply and Ordnance
Jones Machine Tool Works
Cincinnati
Queen Elizabeth Touches Wood Belief During Raid Visit
During a visit to the King George and Queen Elizabeth Club for Service Women of the Empire the Queen asked a young Irish cook if gas had been cut off in air raids. The cook replied gas continued, and the Queen touched the table saying we had better touch wood then to be safe.
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Elizabeth
King George and Queen Elizabeth Club
Empire
Najesty
Dakar seen as springboard to French loss to Germany says Buffalo Courier Express
The Buffalo Courier-Express argues that American plans to send expeditionary forces to Dakar are unlikely. It asserts that talk of French collaboration with Germany to hold Dakar is credible, noting Dakar's strategic value to Germany and France’s lack of intent to use Dakar for New World conquests.
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Germany
Buffalo Courier-Express
Dakar
France
Brazil
New World
Oil replaces import olive oils for value abroad
Oil from Australia shows greater food and medical value than olive oils formerly imported. Canadian-made army vehicles support British forces across Britain, Egypt, the Near East, Australia and South Africa.
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World
Britain
Egypt
The
Near East
Australia
South Africa
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