War Savings Stamps Drive Funds For Red Cross Effort
Local schools report February totals for War Savings Stamps with $21.00 from the High School and $5.50 from the Primary and Intermediate, plus $300 for Red Cross. The message lauds Canadian aid to Red Cross and war relief, urging continued support as a duty and a nest egg with future interest, while stressing relief to prisoners of war and bombed Britain.
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Miniota
Primary Root
Canada
Red Cross
Britain
Births Cunningham Doran and Williams vary in hospital
Birth notices list Doreen Dacre Cunningham born March 31 at Miniota hospital to F O Cunningham and Mrs A B Cunningham Paulson Manitoba. Doran Isabella born April 4 at St Marys Hospital Birtle to Mr and Mrs Glen Doran. Twin daughter Donna Fay Williams born March 29 at Hamilton Memorial hospital North Sydney to Cpl and Mrs C Williams Victoria MacDonald.
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Cunningham
Miniota Hospital
F. O
A. B. Cunningham
Paulson
Man
Doreen Dacre
Williams
Hamilton Memorial Hospital
North Sydney
N.S
Cpl
C. Williams
Victoria MacDonald
Donna Fay
Red Cross urged as final battle nears in wartime plea
The author praises the work of women in sewing and knitting stressing the Red Cross will be heavily taxed by wounded and prisoners as the final battle for Victory approaches. The piece emphasizes Red Cross service as a top responsibility and duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
War time packaging and storage innovations insights
The report highlights advances in field packaging and transport during wartime. Multi wall bags and linered cotton sacks aid shipment of launching grease and fuel for tanks and planes. Thiokol Mareng cells store gasoline in fabric bags, while portable shelters and dehydration enhancements save space and fuel, improving Arctic and global logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
News Gaps Shrink Distance In 19th Century India to London Routes
Robert L. Frey recounts how communications lagged a century ago with Bombay to London dispatches taking 61 days on the Hugh Lindsay voyage and later 50 to 60 days once Mediterranean and Suez routes matured. Private overland patches offered faster rumors but unreliable.
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Bombay
London
India
Rey
Suez
Malta
Iles
Mar
Gers
England
Cape of Good Hope
Persia
Turkey
Hugh Lindsay
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Gift Of Lake O'Hara Painting To National Gallery Ottawa
Carl Rungius oil painting Lake O'Hara, once in Los Angeles, has been transferred to the National Gallery in Ottawa. The work, praised as one of the artist’s best, joins Canada’s collection as trustees focus on purchases by Canadian artists only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake O'Hara
Canadian Rockies
Biltmore
Los Angeles
Canada
National Art Gallery
Ottawa
Carl Rungius
Banff
Rockies
Rungius
New York
Montreal
N.A
National Gallery
Rocky Mountain
Alta
H. O. Mee Curry
Rungins
National Academy
Society of American Artists
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Zoological Society of Animal Painters and Sculptors
Europe
United States
Trail Riders
Sky Line
Tax demand reaches Shakespeare at New Place in Stratford
Dispatch from Stratford reports the income tax collector sent a demand to Mister Shakespeare at New Place. The piece notes Shakespeare once lamented delays in the law in Hamlet while this new tax issue arrives. The second fact mentions Esther lacking the word God in the Bible.
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Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
New-Place
Hamlet
God
Slippers Crocheted Entirely Of Rags
Instructions show crochet slippers from rags in sizes small to large with color stitches and materials. Pattern 7504 costs twenty cents from Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Note postal delay and request for name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Spare back row replaces lost tooth in game shark
A description explains how a lost sharp tooth in a game shark is replaced by a spare from the back row, showing a quick adjustment to maintain the creature’s biting mechanism.
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Miniota W.1
Miniota Hall
Arrow River Orchestra
John Spalding
Maniota
Manitoba
GEO. Gabel
Virden
The
C.W.A.C
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Veteran’s Guard
R. M. Oliver
Drew Rys Limited
Wane
W.sutherland
Arrow Riot
G. J. Heyhoe Beulah E. Bolton
Butcher, Crandall
Bay War Savings Certificates
Robert L. Frey
Paris
Owever
Marseilles
Sevey
Newsay
Calcutta
Madras
Canada's
O'Hara
British Post Office Department
Alice Rooks
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