Special Rationed Supplies For Medical Cases In Wartime
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board allocates extra rationed goods to medical cases. In 1943 medical authorities approved 187814 pounds of sugar plus 45267 pounds butter and 15879 pounds meat for needful patients. Applicants must prove illness with a doctor’s certificate and specify the needed extra amounts and duration.
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Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Guardians of Canadas
Special Medical Advisory Committee
Department of Pensions and National Health
Russians In Alaska Trolls and Trots in Fairbanks
A pistol-toting Russian officer in Fairbanks, carrying bills for luxuries, roams the streets as a lend-lease fighter pilot seeking gifts for family in Russia. Locals note the influx, festive spending, and wartime symbols on his tunic while praising behavior and charm amid Alaska’s wartime commerce and beauty-parlor patronage.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Russia
Charlie McLean
Cultivated Agar Grows US Independence From Japan
Dr. C. K. Tseng of Scripps Institution of Oceanography reports that cultivated agar in tanks enables US independence from Japan for agar supply. Agar aids tungsten wire drawing, marine batteries, dental moulds, and bacteriological culture. It forms on the southern California continental shelf and can be harvested by non-diving experts.
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Nts
United States
Japan
C. K. Tseng
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
California
Early railways and 1844 innovations noted in history
The article recalls the 1823 Stockton to Darlington line and the 1844 air pressure train experiment near London aided by Brunel. It notes an Exeter to Newton Abbot run, steam dominance, seaside excursions from London to Brighton, and the Midland Railway formation with gauge changes from seven feet to standard four feet eight and a half inches.
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England
Stockton
Darlington
Dartington
London
Brunel
Great Western Railway
Exeter
Newton Abbot
Devonshire
Brighton
Midland Railway
Bristol
Gloucester
St. Thomas
St Gingolph Burned as Maquis Raid Ends in Slaughter
Report recounts a Maquis raid on St. Gingolph near the Franco Swiss border. Germans burned the French portion of the village with flame throwers and phosphorus bombs. Some villagers escaped to Switzerland. others were killed.
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St. Gingolph
St Gingolph
Lidice
Europe
Rails Welded by London Midland and Scottish Line
Rail welding adopted by the London, Midland and Scottish shows worn rails are welded and resur faced by workers during train intervals. The old method required removing and replacing worn points and crossings. The new process saves time and steel.
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London, Midland, and Scottish
Quality not quantity guides wartime clothing rations in Britain
British women embrace new clothes rationing with 24 coupons per person and strict limits on items. Frocks, overcoats, stockings and blouses are weighed against ration costs, teaching careful planning and emphasis on quality over quantity. Teens rarely own silk stockings or evening wear, reflecting ongoing shortages.
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Britain
Mrs. Churchill Sees Hope in German Conflicts
The wartime remark notes that Winston Churchill’s wife praises signs of internal German fighting. She told a Red Cross gathering that the infighting among Germans could reduce allied troubles as the war progresses.
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Winston Churchill
Red Cross
Germany
Birds prepare for migration as ROM researchers note changes
Ornithologists at the Royal Ontario Museum say migratory birds enter vacation mode with reduced feeding and nesting. They shed old feathers and grow new plumage while storing fat for the long southward journey, aided by insects seeds and berries in peak crops.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Australia LawProvides Reinstatement For Service Members
Law in Australia states servicemen must be reinstated to their prior jobs on terms no less favorable. Those not covered will be placed according to capacity. Tools of trade provided, living allowance during discharge to work gap. Advances up to £250 for those starting businesses. Home setup loans to incapacitated men and widows, and children’s education. House building loans up to £950.
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Brandon Sun
His Mistake Portrait of a Tired Man and a Funeral
A weary businessman explains a day’s error involving his office boy. He thought the boy asked to attend his grandmother's funeral to learn a lesson, only to discover it was an actual funeral and not a football match.
Poultry Industry Aims for Larger Flock Sizes
Officials of the Poultry Services, Dominion Department of Agriculture, say a profitable poultry business requires large flocks. Trying to live on 400 to 500 hens leads to wasted labor and inefficiency, and growers should consider units of 2,000 or more.
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Poultry Services
Dominion Department of Agriculture
First French Edition of The Maple Leaf Reaches Canadians
Read by thousands as Canadian troops in Italy launch the French edition of The Maple Leaf. In Verdun and Normandy sectors, editors and reporters work in the composing room to bring frontline news to Canadian readers abroad and at home.
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Editi
Canada
Dians
Normandy
France
French Editio
Duncan MacNab
Verdun
Pincher Creek
Alta
Canadian Army
Ing
Maple Army
Agng
Cpl
Bill Miller
Vancouver
Toronto
Maple Leaf
Rowlinson
Vachon
Timmins
Phil Jon
Italy
Canain-arms
Seth Halton
R. S. Malone
Wars past or present? Brother letters spark debate
A Halifax oil official and ex Princess Patricia’s Infantry officer criticizes war reporters for claiming last war was the greatest. He contrasts casualties in World War I with those in World War II and argues reporters mislead the public about the two conflicts.
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R. McKellar
Oil Company
Halifax
N.S
Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light Infantry
McKellar
Mr. McKellar
Ypres
Asschoner
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
Harvard Receives Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
The Montreal Gazette notes Harvard University now owns an electrical gadget eight feet high with 500 miles of wire and 3,500 relays that can solve intricate equations in hours. Described as a brainy marvel, the device is hailed as proof the human skull is not meant to house such machinery.
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Harvard University
Montreal Gazette
Will
Winter In Alaska Laughs At Cold Fronts
Oregon legislator and newspaperman Capt. Richard Neuberger returns from 20 months in northern Alaska. He recalls telling jokes about how cold it gets with shaving lotion, antiseptic, Scotch and truck antifreeze freezing at extreme lows. A local guide says 91 degrees below is a line, but you still freeze at 12.
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Leonard Lyons
New York Post
Richard Neuberger
Oregon
Legislator
Alaska
Neuberger
Nazi era youth fears in Nazi hysteria report
A fragment discusses Hunnish and Nazi ideas on concentration camps for boys aged ten to fifteen accused of disliking Hitler Youth life. The text notes not all children have fallen to Nazi hysteria and hints at broader social fear and resistance amid wartime propaganda.
Agricultural Film Showcases Western Prairies Work
A National Film Board project on agriculture in Canada proceeds with PFRA support. A team operates in the Val Marie district of Saskatchewan as part of the production.
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Canada
National Film Board
PFRA
Val Marie
Saskatchewan
Rag Doll Pattern Offer From Winnipeg Union
Childrens craft notice describes a demure rag doll with big eyes as a charming gift. It advertises pattern 7196 with instructions for doll and clothes and requests twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg. Include name address and pattern number. delivery may be slow.
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Winnipeg
Unio
McDermot Avenue
Winnipet
First Balloon Warfare Claim Attributed to French
Fragmentary text suggests a claim that the French were first to use the balloon in warfare, though details and context are unclear.
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Elats
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Australia
Helland
Holland
Netherlands
Harvard
Alice Brooks
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