Post World War I Industrial Prospects on the Prairies
Discussion at a Minneapolis conference highlights potential Western Canada growth after the war. Talks cover lignite deposits in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Dakota regions for chemicals, wheat-based plastics, and rayon. The Alaska Highway and Fort McMurray oil wells are noted as signals of postwar expansion across Canada’s prairie provinces.
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Minneapolis
Mama
Prairies
Stuart S. Garson
Manitoba
Western Canada
Saskatchewan
North
South Dakota
Western
Canada
Europe
Asia
Canadian Prairies
Prairie Provinces
Turner Valley
Alberta
Fort MacMurray
United Nations
Japan
West
Canning Becomes Essential In War Time Canada
Government urges housewives to can fruit this season to conserve sugar and tin. Canning uses less sugar than jam and preserves more value. Fill out the sugar canning application before April 15 at the local Ration Board. Free vitamin chart available from the Western Division Health League of Canada in Toronto.
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Dominion
Prices and Trade Board
Western Division Health League of Canada
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Cree Soldier D Greyeyes Enters Officer Training in Canada
Sergeant D Greyeyes from Muskeg Lake, near Marce Yin in northwestern Saskatchewan, the first full blood Cree Indian to be chosen for an officer's training course in this war, returns to Canada after overseas service. He enlisted with the Saskatoon Light Infantry at the war's outbreak as a private.
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Sergt
D. Greyeyes
Canada
Sergt. Greyeyes
Muskeg Lake
Marce Yin
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Light Infantry
Committee to study postwar book supply for occupied countries
R A Butler, president of the London board of education, names a committee to examine postwar book supply for occupied areas and the possibility of publishing history books of objective character. Buy War Savings Certificates.
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R. A. Butler
Board of Education
London
Really Worth Saving See a pin and pick it up
The article urges saving every metal item such as pins needles hair pins and fastenings for war needs. It warns against sweeping them into dustpans and advises cleaning rusted needles and storing salvaged fastenings and zippers to conserve scarce metal resources.
Four Soviet Flyers Account for 100 German Planes
Four Russian pilots Arsenin Smirnov Belyasnik Andrei Samokhavalov in the same regiment total 100 German aircraft shot down including 50 bombers. Arsenin leads with 29 victories while Smirnov 27 Belyasnik 25 and Samokhavalov 19. All are 25 years old serving in the Red Army fifth year.
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Nikolai Arsenin
Alexander Smirnov
Peter Belyasnik
Andrei Samokhavalov
Arsenin
Red Army
Weather makes January records in London and southeast England
The January period in London and southeast England saw record warmth and wet conditions. A severe gale reached 70 miles per hour at Kew Observatory with 1.3 inches of rain, flooding vast Kent and Sussex land while seafronts and promenades suffered. A 2000 ton ship wedged on a Southend pier as the Thames rose over three feet, with the Medway flooding wide areas.
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London
England
Kew Observatory
mid-Kent
Medway
Kent
Sussex
Southend
Thames
Maidenhead
Staines
London Times
Gems of Thought on Music and Harmony
A compact collection of quotes about music from Bovee Sallust Pope Henry Giles Mary Baker Eddy and Richard Wagner. The passages explore music as a fundamental human need emotion over ideas and a universal language that stirs the soul.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Richard Wagner
Tax Warning Sparks Threat Echo in Houston
A Black man told at the collector’s office in Houston, Texas that his federal income tax was $65, sighed and muttered a threat about pawn shops, signaling possible bravado or frustration following the encounter.
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Houston
Texas
Air Force announces new commissions for Canadian airmen
Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters releases a list of recently commissioned airmen across Canada. The roster includes air bombers and wireless operators from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Ontario, with towns such as Winnipeg Norwood Brandon Selkirk and Port Arthur among others.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Humorous Snippets and Quick Wit in Everyday Life
A collage of light humor and brief vignettes. Jokes touch on doctors, pay, habits and luck, cars, family questions, and quirky exchanges. Readers encounter puns, misunderstandings, and street anecdotes set in simple, colloquial tones.
New Wing Confusion at Cranborne Home
Lord Crangeron receives a young American visitor who proclaims a Mayflower lineage and shows a house, saying the newly named wing dates from 1377, prompting disbelief at its modern label. The exchange highlights humor over antiquity and status.
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Leonard Lyons
New York Post
Lord Crangeron
Britain
Cranborne
Lord Cranboven
Ice Caves Beneath Lava Flows Found in New Mexico
Researchers report ice-filled caves under lava flows in western New Mexico remain frozen despite surface temperatures reaching 100 degrees. The discovery highlights unusual geothermal conditions and persistent underground cold pockets.
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New Mexico
Italians Told How to Build Inside Aerial Frames
Italians barred from outside aerials by Mussolini still receive foreign broadcasts. The Italian language section of the British Broadcasting Corporation gave short wave instructions all day on building inside aerial frames to overcome jamming and other issues.
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Mussolini
British Broadcasting Corporation
Home Is Where the Unsettled Feelings Lie
The saying captures a sense that some individuals feel out of place even in familiar spaces. It explores the paradox of comfort and discomfort coexisting within the same environment.
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