Canada at War Economic Front Mobilizes Nation
A Financial Post writer highlights war as a national fight, detailing Canada's total economic mobilization. The piece notes frontlines beyond the military, with factories, metals, farms, and finances carrying the war effort, and argues for drastic organization and resource allocation to sustain production and defeat inflation. It stresses the need for unity, efficiency, and state-like control within a democratic economy to match totalitarian production.
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Financial Post
Hitler
John Canuck
Hans Schmidt
Canada
Canadas
The Trapdoor Spider and Book Sales in America
A note on a trapdoor spider in Australia shifting from ground to tree during wet season. The piece also compares U S bestsellers, noting 29 titles sold over 500,000 copies after 1890, versus only 12 after 1920, highlighting a decline in mass market fiction.
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Torres Stairs
Australia
America
Mileage of the world's highways drops in formic Honey note
The article notes a tiny drop of formic acid in honey cells over ten years. It states numbers around 6,500,000 increasing to over 10,000,000 and mentions sealing to prevent the honey from leaking. It reads as a technical observation about honey preservation and highway mileage analogies.
Women of Canada Turn Cloth to Aid Britain Miracle
Gregory Clark highlights Canadian women and the Red Cross turning raw materials into garments and medical supplies for Britain. Seventy five hundred thousand clothing items and eighty thousand blankets and quilts are shipped, with ambulances and field provisions financed by the Red Cross British Bomb Victims Fund. Each dollar donated becomes two dollars worth of goods.
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Canada
Gregory Clark
Britain
Canadian
Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross Society
Selected Muffin Recipe From Old Cookbook
This vintage recipe lists 2 cups flour 31 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon cinnamon 34 teaspoon nutmeg 143 cups All-Bran 13 cup shortening 4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 cup finely chopped raw apple 2 tablespoons sugar 44 teaspoon cinnamon X teaspoon nutmeg. It instructs to lift dry with baking powder salt cinnamon and nutmeg, add All Bran, cream shortening and sugar then egg, fold in the flour mixture with milk, fold in apples, fill greased muffin pans two thirds full, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar nutmeg mix and bake at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes yielding 20 muffins.
Ice supply rush sparks Alaska mining find and sale
In Anchorage Alaska a sales notice says ice for sale at eighty dollars per ton for weeks. Walter Grob aerts advertises glacier crystals from the Independence mine sixty miles away w it vein of glacial ice found deemed pay dirt after city ran out of ice last winter.
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Nana
Anchorage
Alaska
Walter Grobaerts
Independence
Julius Caesar Wore Laurel Crown For Baldness Sensitivity
A historical note suggests Julius Caesar wore a laurel crown to cover thinning hair. The belief reflects ancient ideas about status and appearance in Roman leadership.
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Julius Caesar
Airmen Are Good Cooks Twenty-Second Class Graduates
The Royal Canadian Air Force School of Cookery at Ontario Agricultural College Guelph produced the twenty-second class of airmen in a special short course. Seven provinces including England and Scotland were represented. Flight Lieutenant H. D. Branson recommended graduation. Wing Commander A. H. Keith Russell praised the cooks and the ceremony was led by Flight Lieutenant W. M. Thomson.
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Guelph
England
Scotland
Royal Canadian Air Force School of Cookery
No. 4 Wireless School
Ontario Agricultural College
H. D. Branson
A.C
Air Force
A. H. Keith Russell
W. M. Thomson
M.C
D-F.c
Wireless School
Sheridan's bargain ducks a witty misdeal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, after a day of unsuccessful hunting, offered a sovereign for a shot at a pond of ducks. He paid and fired, killing several. The stranger coldly remarked the ducks were not his, turning a pricey hunt into a moral joke about ownership.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan
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