Still On The Job Omen Keep Sharp Eye On Prices
Corinne de la Durantaye, assistant director of the consumer branch of the prices board, says French and English speaking Canadian women stay alert on prices and shortages as they did during the war. She describes crowded meetings with housewives business and professional women asking questions about shortages and price control. The remark underscores ongoing vigilance in price monitoring through a Quebec tour.
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Quebec
Corinne de la Durantaye
Prices Board
Fas
London to buy new gavel for city hall
London presented the city with a new gavel to replace a destroyed one after a bomb. Also reported fire at the Nakat Packing Corporation cannery near Ketchikan Alaska caused a loss. Catherine Bush 96 oldest Atlantic flyer. Scotland to grant two weeks paid holidays to steelworkers next April. Air W Tritton 71 died. naval and unemployment data noted. Govorov in Moscow vows enduring democratic peace after Bolshevik anniversary.
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London
HMS
Nakat Packing Corporation
Ketchikan
Alaska
Catherine Bush
Atlantic
Scotland
Canada
H. E. Reid
Bristol
Que
Leonid A. Govorov
Moscow
Russia
Britain to World Through Series of 10 Documentary Films
The Films Division of the Government's Central Office of Information will sponsor a ten part documentary series at an annual cost of 5 million dollars. It highlights Britain's hydro power, radio and television progress, shipbuilding, civil aircraft, and precision instrument making. A monthly magazine Things Britain will feature three items, one industrial in angle. Films distributed non commercially via overseas information services and commercially through trade channels.
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Britain
Alma
Central
Ofice of Information
Brietain
Igor Ianed
United Kingdom
Crossword Puzzle Clue Fragments Puzzle Fragment
Puzzle item shows fragmented letters and stray words from a crossword clue set. Readable text hints at a small fill in crossword with uneven spacing and partial word hints. No clear solution or complete clues available in the legible portion.
Constipation Saps Energy Prompted Kruschen Aid Claim
An advertisement quotes a reader recounting improved energy after using Kruschen Salts for constipation. It asserts constipation dulls activity, prompts fatigue, and promises inner organ normal activity with a morning dose. The piece urges trying the remedy and buying at drug stores.
Newspapers Still Best Media For Advertising In Canada
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports agencies advertising in 1943 show 65.6 percent of billings in newspapers magazines and printed matter. Radio accounts for 19.6 percent while 14.8 percent is spent in other media. In 1945 agencies’ total billings reached 42,471,233 dollars, up 15 percent from 1944 and 45.3 percent from 1941. Agencies with annual billings above 2,500,000 dollars accounted for 82.2 percent of their advertising billings.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Disappears Again Falcon Island Reported Missing
New Zealand government vessel Maui Pomare crew reported passing the spot where Falcon Island in the Tonga group should be, but it was not there. Falcon has risen and sunk since its discovery, is linked to Ninafoo volcano activity, and was last observed as an island after eruptive formation in 1927.
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Falcon Island
South Pacific
Auckland
Box Island
New Zealand
Maui Pomare
Ninafoo
Falcon
Rescue of Miss Aloor Amid Crunchy Debate
A fragmented cry echoes for Carrymere to save Miss Aloor from a scene of snack commotion. The speaker laments misdirected rescue toward crisp cereal Grape-Nuts Flakes while seeking energy throughout a tense domestic moment.
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Aloor
School Recesses Prompt Health Authority Notice
A Department of National Health and Welfare pronouncement from Ottawa urges strict observance of recesses in schools. Health officers stress airing classrooms and granting teachers and pupils a short break from instruction. Meanwhile the Mayflower, once the official yacht for six U.S. presidents, is slated to become a freighter after Frank Shaw of Montreal bid $20,159.99 to acquire her.
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Department of National Health and Welfare
Ottawa
Montreal
United States
Thaw Steamship Company
United States Maritime Commission
Frank Shaw
Shaw
Marine Superitendent
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Nergy
Kruschen
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