Agricultural By-Products for Prairie Province Use
The Prairie Provinces consider turning farm crop waste into commercial products such as wall board and insulation from cereal and flax straw. Annual wheat straw totals about twenty million tons with flax straw at two hundred thousand tons. Challenges include collection costs and deciding how much residue to return to soil versus selling, plus storage and transport hurdles for a large program.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada
Wastes Put To Practical Use
A large number of agricultural residues find practical uses. Wall board and insulating material emerge as key products for farms and urban homes on the prairies. Other outputs include paper, cardboard, twine, burlap, and a gas suitable for fuel.
Last Morris Descendant of Philadelphia Dies in North Carolina
William Morris of Saluda North Carolina aged 84 died after living 60 years with a fire started by his ancestors 150 years ago in an open fireplace He was the last direct descendant of Robert Morris of Philadelphia who migrated to the Blue Ridge mountains in 1780 and started the blaze Hampton Owens a nephew now in charge remains as head of the family heritage
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William Morris
Saluda
N.C
Robert Morris
Philadelphia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Hampton Owens
Bicycle Can Carry Load Ten Times Its Weight
A bicycle is described as capable of carrying a load equal to ten times its own weight. The claim emphasizes high load capacity relative to bike weight, suggesting robust design or specific testing conditions.
Color and Vitamin A Affect Milk and Meat Color
The color of milk in some cow breeds comes from carotene or Vitamin A in feed. Some cattle convert carotene to colorless Vitamin A, dimming milk color. Grass finishing yields yellow fat in beef steers. feedlot finishing with limited Vitamin A keeps fat white. Canadian egg powders vary in color due to liquid egg color from feeding practices, manufacturing conditions and time.
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Britain
United States
Price Control And Rationing Information
The Q and A covers ammunition permits for sporting use with August 15 to September 30 applications and September 1 to December 31 purchase windows. It specifies limits of 100 rim fire cartridges or 50 shot shells per person, even with multiple guns, and that each permit applies to one ammunition type only. It also outlines automobile tag requirements and ceiling prices, plus rules for temporary labor rationing during threshing season and how farmers obtain extra coupons.
Mixed Imperial Unity and New Wheat Growth Across Frontiers
A New Zealander with sea service seeks Canadian army recruitment reflecting Commonwealth bonds. A Montreal air officer notes cross‑Empire comradeship and identity fade in service. A Moscow cable claims a perennial Russian wheat could yield four harvests per sowing and 30 to 40 bushels per acre. A Dutch station prank ends with a missing bag and a wry reply about Cologne.
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Royal Navy
England
France
British Commonwealth of Nations
Moscow
CBC
Raymond Davies
Davies
Saskatchewan
Alberta
UN Shipping Agreement Aids War Efforts Outlined
Ottawa announces a London conference drawing up a United Nations shipping agreement. The pact aims to mobilize shipping for all war tasks in Europe and the Pacific and to support liberated nations.
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United Nations
Europe
Pacific
London
Department of External Affairs
Ottawa
Rescue Boat Dropped From Planes Rushes to Completion
Higgins Industries of New Orleans has developed a new rescue boat sturdy enough to be dropped by parachute from high altitudes. Officials say several hundred boats are being rushed to completion. The fully equipped boats can drop to ship or plane survivors or castaways and carry clothing blood plasma smoke signals and rockets to discharge buoy lines.
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Higgins Industries, Inc
New Orleans
Beurling Plans Mid October Departure for Far East Combat
Fit. Lt. George Buzz Beurling Canada’s top fighter ace says his RC.A.F. resignation has been accepted and he expects to leave Montreal in mid-October for the Far East to seek aerial combat with Japan. He won’t identify the air force he will join though he previously offered to help the Chinese Air Force.
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George “Buzz” Beurling
Canada
R.C.A.F
Montreal
Far East
Beurling
Romance of CWAC private set for August wedding
Private Rosalie Matthews of the Canadian Women's Army Corps plans an August wedding to Pte. Arthur Armitage of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. After the ceremony they will spend a few days at the groom's summer home near Halifax and visit Matthews' parents in St. John's Newfoundland.
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Rosalie Matthews
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Arthur Armitage
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Halifax
Charles Matthews
Blackmarsh Road
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Pte
Matthews
Lloyd Matthews
R.C.A.F
Muffins Promote Regularity With Kellogg All-Bran
A home recipe from Kellogg's promotes regularity by eating Kellogg's All-Bran muffins daily and drinking water. The method includes mixing egg and milk with All-Bran, folding in flour, baking in a hot oven for about 30 minutes for eight large muffins.
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Kellogs’s
London
Canada
Seaweed Textile From Scottish Algin Tests Promising
The Scottish Seaweed Research Association formed by Scottish industrialists and chemists aims to convert coastal seaweed into algin. Algin yields a sturdy textile and may act like a plastic substitute, with potential products including dental plates transparent paper varnishes and poultry feed. Factories to extract algin will be built near seaweed beds, offering a new industry for crofters once key chemical challenges are solved.
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Scotland
Scottish Seaweed Research Association
Nazi leaders kin win posts abroad in neutral countries
The London Daily Sketch reports many relatives of leading Nazis are allowed to leave the country for posts in embassies and consulates in neutral nations. Ribbentrop nephews reach the Japanese Embassy, lacking diplomatic experience. Goering and Goebbels relatives secure sinecure positions in Spain Portugal and Stockholm.
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Japan
Goering
Spain
Portugal
Goebbels
Stockholm
London Daily Sketch
Gems of Thought Quotations on Language and Truth
A collection of famous aphorisms on language and thought from sources including Henry Delaune Coleridge Emerson Samuel Johnsort Mary Baker Eddy and Bronson Alcott. The quotes explore speech as shield and tool of mind, the monumentality of language, and the primacy of spirit over literal words.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Land values in Canada rise overall since 1939
Canada shows a 12 percent overall increase in land values since 1939 with yearly fluctuations. The year 1940 saw a 4.2 percent rise from 1939, 1942 a 4 percent rise from 1941, and 1943 a 7.8 percent rise from 1942.
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Canada
Camp Shilo team claims CWAC tire change crown
A Camp Shilo team won a CWAC competition by changing a tire, swapping all tools, and prepping a vehicle for road in four minutes and forty seconds. The feat suggests a potential world record for tire changing speed.
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Camp Shilo
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Hamlet
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Italy
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Smiths
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Smith
Constance
Gwendolyn
Kindersley
Sask
Norma
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Coleridge
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Samuel Johnsort
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