Britain orders vast Canadian bacon and ham shipments
The 1941 to 1942 Canada Britain pork program grows to a 600 million pound contract for pork products, with 100 000 hogs slaughtered weekly to feed convoys. Cheese and egg exports rise, aided by regulations ensuring Ontario and Quebec output for export to Britain.
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United Kingdom
United States
Britain
Canada
Agriculture Department
Department
Dairy Products Board
Ontario
Quebec
British Food Ministry
Dominion
Montreal
Empire
Canadian
Canadian Bacon Board
Veteran seaman rejoined merchant service after royal meeting
Charles Bartley a 49 year old Royal Navy veteran recalls meeting the King and Queen which inspired his return to sea with the merchant service. He served on HMS Collingwood in the First Great War and after initial rejections he joined the Pioneer Corps. A later audience with Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Sir Edward Evans prompted another attempt at sea, which succeeded within weeks.
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Charles Bartley
Royal Navy
HMS
Collingwood
King George
Bartley
Pioneer Corps
Queen Elizabeth
Corps
Sir Edward Evans Bartley
Sir Edward
Firefighter Survives Bomb Blast in London Raid
During a heavy London air raid a fireman named Norman Daniels, 41, was struck by a bomb splinter that pierced his chest near the heart. Surgeons at Charing Cross hospital believed his heart was damaged but defied expectations by repairing the wound and repositioning his organs after the blast.
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Norman Daniels
Daniels
London
The Bone China Secret Origin Story
A London Listener note recounts how bone china gained translucency when English potters began adding actual bone to ware after a French missionary learned from a Chinese sage that bone gave strength. The tale links China, France, and England in the early eighteenth century.
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China
Europe
London Listener
Duke of Gloucester Returns From Gibraltar Visit
The Duke of Gloucester returns to England after a week on The Rock his first royal visit since 1937 He inspected every aspect of life on the Rock and visited country homes of prominent Spanish residents He was cheered in the streets by Spaniards as he made his way back to the fortress
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Duke of Gloucester
England
Gibraltar
the Rock
Teo Curlew and a Laundry Marker Incident
A customer questions a laundry parcel bearing his name in Chinese. The laundryman hesitates then explains the marking is a description: it reads lil fat man who never smile, suggesting an attempted identifier rather than a name.
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Laundryman
Sam Cleland returns to hills after war news shock
Sam Cleland a 77 year old prospector who drifted to Wells British Columbia after 12 years in the Hills of a mountain goat country says he will not stay in the town long. He fought at Vimy Ridge in the first Great War and once homesteaded in the Peace River country before prospecting in BC interior hills. He cannot believe Britain and Germany are at war again and adds he has not seen a fellow human since 1932.
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Sam Cleland
Wells
B.C
Mountain Goat” Country
Cleland
Vimy Ridge
Peace River
British Columbia
Britain
Germany
L. W. Brockington
Mr. Brockington
England
Brockington
Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
War ace notes habits persist after peacetime flight
Wing Commander Roland S. S. Tuck, an RAF ace, said habits formed during combat over the Channel and France remained strong as he tested a Bel Air cobra near Buffalo. He reported constantly scanning the skies for enemy ships. Also noted: about 4,500 native reindeer owners in Alaska.
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Buffalo
English Channel
France
Roland S. S. Tuck
Niagara River
Alaska
Hitler Quote Credited by British Propaganda Prints
A Britain printed placard quotes Adolf Hitler praising the British spirit to endure any war effort, a claim attributed to Hitler in Mein Kampf. The text appears in Middle East and India locales from Tobruk to Teheran, presenting a counterintuitive propaganda moment.
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Libya
Middle East
India
Tobruk
Cairo
Baghdad
Teheran
Adolf Hitler
Freedom's Champion Churchill Birthday Tribute in The Times
The New York Times editorial tribute marks Churchill's 67th birthday praising him as a symbol of freedom. It notes his utterances are widely read and discussed in the United States and Britain, urging he be spared to spur humanity against oppression and intolerance.
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The
New York Times
Churchill
Times
Knitting Chair Set Pattern 7109 Offered
A pattern titled chair set 7109 promises an unusual and lovely gift knitted on two needles. It includes instructions illustrations stitches and a photograph with materials lists and costs 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue West Winnipeg Man.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
E. Wi
Man
Savageries in Poland Documented by Eye-Witness Accounts
The Polish government in London cites authenticated testimonies on German occupation abuses. The book notes mass executions without trial or by German court sentences, listing at least 70 000 civilians murdered and 30 000 dying in camps. Nazi punitive expeditions and executions target civilians including children with documented incidents across Warsaw and Gdynia.
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Warsaw
No. 9
Nalewski Street
Lublin
M.I
Gydnia
Four millionths inch flu particle linked to vaccine start
The flu molecule a four millionths inch bullet shaped protein particle described to the American Philosophical Society as non living yet capable of reproduction in tissue. Researchers Chambers and Henle of the University of Pennsylvania explain its gauge and its potential to guide vaccines. Mouse tests show 10 quadrillionths of a gram of protamine can deliver the flu.
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American Philosophical Society
Leslie A. Chambers
Werner Henle
Eldridge Reeves Johnson Research Foundation
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Princess Donates Blood For Wounded Soldiers
Lady Patricia Ramsay daughter of the Duke of Connaught and granddaughter of Queen Victoria donated half a pint of blood recently to aid wounded soldiers and air raid victims. Plum pickles are common in Japan and nearly every home uses them.
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Patricia Ramsay
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Queen Victoria
Japan
Not For Food Cob Pipe Farmer From Missouri
J G Gray of Clay county Missouri raises corn cobs for pipe making not grain He grew 7000 bushels of cobs last season and expects 360000 good cobs all sold to a Washington Missouri cob pipe company Each cob yields about three pipes and he has farmed twenty one years with fifteen years focused on cob pipe corn
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J. G. Gray
Clay County
Missouri
Gray
Washington
Navy chief warns against postwar naval cutbacks
Vice Admiral Alfred E. Evans head of Britain's admiralty technical mission to Ottawa told the Empire Club of Canada that postwar reductions would be folly. He warned it would take a year to build a small ship and four years to train an able seaman, stressing the need for a capable first line of defence.
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Alfred E. Evans
British Admiralty
Ottawa
Empire Club of Canada
Clever Scots Engineer Boosts Shell Production
A Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, youth develops new forging methods that officials say dramatically speed shell manufacturing in Britain. The report notes Australia’s wood abundance lies in eucalyptus hardwood.
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Coatbridge
Lanarkshire
Britain
Australia
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