Canasta delegates to postwar jamboree in Paris
Canasta plans to send a delegation to the first postwar Bay national jamboree in Scout inter Paris in 1947. Sir Douglas Mawson, aged 63, studies his fourth Arctic expedition to pursue Australian whaling rights. Canada faces psychiatric strain among 10 percent of its population. Crime detectors costing 1.9 million dollars identify war criminals daily from a file of eight million Germans and civilians.
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Inflation and scarcity haunt postwar Europe
Inflation drives up cigarette prices in Holland to one guilder as Powley describes the era’s loopy math. He contrasts hunger with deprivation and notes black markets flourished after liberation, seen by a Belgian banker as a wartime virtue that persists until food supplies improve.
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Powley
Europe
Brussels
Sermon on Salt of the Earth from Matthew 5
Sunday school lesson centers on Jesus teaching the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes and salt of the earth image. It emphasizes Christian character as powerful and visible, transforming workplaces, schools, and communities through example. The lesson quotes Bruce Wright and Donald Fraser on light and influence, urging faithful living to glorify God.
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Dove
Matthew
Bruce
Wright
Donald Fraser
New neighbors intrigue Mrs Smith with modest belongings
A conversation between a wife and husband reveals curiosity about the social status of new neighbors who have moved in. They note the lack of a car and luxuries like a radio or piano, joking about whether they own a bank account.
Modern Whaling Ship Southern Venturer Sets Sail
Britain's new floating whale factory the Southern Venturer left England on October 28 on its maiden Antarctic voyage. The ship promises large stocks of dehydrated whale meat to aid starving Europe, with 84.56 percent protein content and a capacity to process 150 tons per hour into oil for margarine.
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Antarctic
Europe
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Health League of Canada backs compulsory milk pasteurization
The 26th annual Health League of Canada meeting endorsed compulsory pasteurization of milk and urged provincial governments outside Ontario to enact such laws. It cites raw milk as a transmitter of typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria, advocating pasteurization to destroy germs without reducing nutrition.
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Genocide term coined to describe Nazi extermination plan
The Montreal Gazette notes Prof. Raphael Lemkin coined genocide, combining genos and cide, to describe the deliberate systematic destruction of nations. It contrasts genocide with atrocity and cites Nuremberg indictments to mark the term’s likely permanent place in language.
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Nurenberg
Raphael Lemkin
Duke University
Lemkin
Montreal Gazette
Ord
Astonishing figures on wartime air losses and aircraft destruction
Col. George C. Price of the AAF disclosed at the Third National Aviation Clinic in Oklahoma City that the U S Army Air Forces suffered about 26 000 lives lost to flying accidents and 22 000 airplanes destroyed by German and Japanese forces. The report notes higher costs than in earlier estimates and highlights the scale of wartime aviation losses. The article also mentions the crocus juice used by Roman women as a hair dye and in cordials and cake coloring.
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Third National Aviation Clinic
Oklahoma City
Vast Canadian timber losses spur vivid fire danger talk
R V Whelan of the Department of Lands and Forests warned in Sault Ste Marie that since Confederation Canada lost three million cords to forest fires. He illustrated the amount by noting a four foot high cordwood pile would stretch from Fort William to London England, casting a stark image of forest protection urgency. The piece includes a note that over 1,500 biographies exist for Abraham Lincoln.
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R. V Whelan
Department of Lands and Forests
Canada
Fort William
London
England
Color Theory and Bee Work Ethic Quirks in Casual Note
A Port Arthur News-Chronicle snippet debates color definitions noting white as not a color and rainbow hues versus black. It references Newton and complementary colors as white by light combination. Separate line mentions a lazy bee outworking a honey bee in early and late hours.
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Port Arthur News-Chronicle
Blac
A Family Meal Plan Through Meat Rationing
A housewife is shown how a four person family can plan a week under meat rationing. By using two coupons and five tokens a four pound roasted beef can be bought from Group B. Leftovers make cold slices. other meals include roly poly, veal dinners, lamb chops, and off the ration tongue.
Gallant Warspite Remembered in Windsor Star Letter
W L Clark recalls the battleship H M S Warspite from Jutland 1916 to World War II era voyages from Murmansk to the Pacific. He suggests a naval memorial docked for public view as a symbol of Britain’s Royal Navy and national resilience.
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H.M.S. Warspite
Jutland
Murmansk
Pacific
Great Britain
Royal Navy
England
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Squids Use Three Methods to Move
Squids progress by crawling with tentacles, swimming forward with fins, and reversing to move backward by expelling water from the mantle cavity.
Atomic penicillin rival linked to Nazi era claims
A German drug touted as stronger than penicillin is reportedly being made in England by the Medical Research Council for clinical trials. It is described as derived from salicylic acid and bromine, with claims it could be made radioactive by cyclotron bombardment, and traced through the body to study germ effects.
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Medical Research Council
Richard K Wilhelm Institute
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