Sugar Ration and War Production Measures Reported
Trade Minister RV Keane announces a weekly sugar ration of one pound per person as Australia details a national effort to boost vegetable production. Dutch footwear trends rise in response to leather shortages while Dutch civilians present RAF with fighters. US wartime boards create a Canadian division, led by Joe Tucker, to manage priorities in Ottawa. Marshal Petain criticizes backward-looking Frenchmen at a Gallic ceremony, and the BBC notes 60,000 photograph replies overwhelm Admiralty plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RV. Keane
US War Production Board
Joe Tucker
Ottawa
Marshal Petain
Caesar
BBC
Admiralty
Soft Shirtwaister Pattern 24 Shape and Fit
Anne Adams Pattern 24 offers a softer shirtfrock with pointed collar and toned bodice, waistband and front panel for attractive lines. Available as Pattern 4123 in misses size 14 to 42 and 16 requiring about 4 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents, name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Air Raid by Allied Planes Over France Reported
A World War II era tone notes Allied aircraft in massed formations over Western France blasting factories. The piece emphasizes that the German people must learn war's cost on their own soil for lasting peace, stating nations must realize those who wield the sword perish by it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
RAF
France
Flower clock in Westmount built from Ford parts
A Monetary Times note from Toronto describes a Westmount Quebec flower clock fashioned from nearly four thousand plants. An Associated Screen did you know short explains the timekeeping relies on parts scavenged from an old Ford car to drive the mechanism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uaten
Arfeay Monetary Times
Toronto
Westmount
Quebec
Joseph's Journey in Genesis a Sunday School Lesson
The lesson analyzes Jacob's favoritism and Joseph's dreams from Genesis 37 and 39.17. It recounts Joseph being sold by his brothers to the Ishmaelites, his sale to Potiphar in Egypt, and notes on envy and moral consequences. The devotional cites Psalm 130 and James 3.16 to frame jealousy and faction as sources of wrongdoing.
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Jacob
Yoseph
Joseph
Genesis
James Jas
Reuben
Egypt
Dothan
Gilead
Plain of Sharon
Judah
Tudah
Potiphar
Memphis
Air Training Plan graduates listed from Commonwealth program
A damaged OCR entry lists names of graduates from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan linked to No. 1 Central Navigation School Rivers, Manitoba, with scattered spellings and fragmented locales across Canada including Saskatchewan and Alberta. The text preserves names like Laskirider, Toshio, and Stewemann alongside places such as Regina and Moose Jaw, though details are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 1 Central Navigation School
Rivers
Man
Andrew Laskirider
Luxurious Drapes You Can Make At Home
Home Service advertises easy to sew drapes and swags with apricot sateen main pieces and side draperies. Instructions cover swags cascades and valances, plus a 12 page booklet with diagrams sent for coins to Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 1 Dermot Ave. E. Ensure your name address and booklet title are clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Dermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Local Camp Finds Concrete Floor Under Grass Patch
At Camp Robinson Arkansas soldiers dug up a barren lot after months of trying to grow grass and found the concrete floor of an old shower room just beneath the surface. The era remark notes the Chinese contributions to silk porcelain tea printing and gunpowder.
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Sol Mera
Camp Robinson
Arkansas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Australia
Johannesburg
S.A
Netherlands
RCAF
Omeral Foote
Saskatchewan
No. 5 Air Observer School
FF. A. Steigel
Richmond
Sask
W. H. Flatt
Lemberg
By Fred Neher
Eptember
Reg'lar
Gene Byrne
UST
A Toshio
Saskestoon
Sook
Ramanan
Aiea Wertele
Pan Peale
Radi
Stewemann
Regina
Home Service
Mickie
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