Proper Food Guide For Healthful Growth And Repair
This informative piece lists key nutrients including proteins from milk cheese meat fish poultry eggs peas beans and nuts energy from starches sugars and fats minerals like calcium iron and iodine vitamins A B C and D with sources such as leafy vegetables liver fish oils fortified salt citrus fruits whole grains and cod liver oil. It emphasizes calcium for bones and teeth iron for red blood cells iodine from iodized salt vitamin D from sun exposure cod liver oil and fortified foods.
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Canada
Britain Builds Small Swift Craft To Patrol Nazi Convoys
Britain maintains a four‑fold “midget navy” of motor torpedo boats and motor gunboats built around the coast to protect convoys. These sixty‑foot craft rely on speed and surprise to attack E boats and Nazi merchant ships, engaging at high speed in quick, deafening battles along the North Sea and Channel routes.
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Britain
British Isles
Admiralty
North Sea
Channel
Loyal Norwegians Face Unrest Under German Occupation
A Norwegian describes food shortages and German control of herring and fruit, noting loyalty stays strong despite repression. He cites Trondheim executions as a catalyst for indignation and a desire for Allied invasion, with Norwegians in England seen as pivotal to the home front.
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Germany
Norway
Trondheim
England
Against reprisals in war Canada soldiers urge restraint
In a Manchester Guardian reflection a correspondent notes two Canadian soldiers oppose retaliatory acts against German prisoners. They argue reprisals would escalate violence and that Canadians should not imitate German hostage shootings, urging the right of soldiers to be heard.
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Manchester Guardian
Coal Research for Postwar Canada Faces Low Carbonization Demand
The Lethbridge Herald urges Canada to capitalize on coal and oil synergy after the war. It notes Canada has 17 percent of world coal reserves, with Alberta holding 12 percent, and warns imports of $50 million each for oil and coal. It highlights low carbonization as a profitable, smoke reducing method used in Britain, Germany, and Russia, and calls Ottawa to act now to plan development.
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Canada
Alberta
Britain
Germany
Russia
Ottawa
Lethbridge
Will to Live Sustains Soviet Resistance at Stalingrad
Maurice Hindus argues that the Russian will to survive powers their defense against Hitler. The battle of Stalingrad is called the fog of blood, with Major General Alexei Rodintsev among the Soviet Union's brightest commanders. In occupied areas, ordinary people display the Stalingrad spirit, frustrating Hitler and his generals.
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Maurice Hindus
Russia
Hitler
Stalingrad
Alexei Rodintsev
The
Argonaut
Newsboy Sells Puppy's Dream Price In Odd Deal
A man finds a puppy on a newsstand with a For Sale sign. The boy asks fifty thousand dollars. The man walks away. Days later the dog is gone and the boy reveals he sold it for two twenty five thousand dollar cats.
The Game of Chess Across Nations and Ages
The invention of chess is attributed to at least fourteen nations. Chinese tradition credits Han sing, around 174 B.C., with creating the game to occupy soldiers during winter quarters.
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Hansing
Fell A Mile Story Of A Canadian Spitfire Pilot
The Air Ministry news service recounts Canadian Spitfire pilot FC H A Simpson from Toronto who blacked out at 26 000 feet after oxygen failed, revived to engage FW190s in a dogfight, and belly landed on a coastal firing range with a damaged engine, emerging unhurt despite bullet holes in the cowling.
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Air Ministry
France
Britain
FC. H. A. Simpson
Toronto
Simpson
Channel
Prefer To Take Chance With Colds
The piece notes many cold preventives from doctors singing to eating raw onions and apples. It argues we cannot avoid every risk and if one must risk a cold while going to a movie, it prefers going to the movies and risking it.
New Zealand Grows Medicinal Plants for War Supplies
New Zealand expands medicinal plant cultivation to replace European digitalis and related drugs cut off by Nazi occupation. Foxglove, deadly nightshade, thorn apple, and henbane are grown, yielding large crops of foxglove. Local governments and the National Service Ministry organize farming with Women’s War Service Auxiliary volunteers, aiming for national needs and export surplus.
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New Zealand
National Service Ministry
Women’s War Service Auxiliary
Europe
St. Thomas
Wear Prisoners Special Ration Coupons Issued in Ottawa
The war services department in Ottawa announces special ration coupons for prisoners of war next of kin. The coupons allow up to one pound of coffee, one quarter pound of tea and two pounds of sugar per three months with official parcel labels. Coupons will accompany labels starting with the January distribution.
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War Services Department
Ottawa
Auto collision in Denver ends with odd ice cream loss
Peterson’s car accident in Denver Colorado left five cents of damage after striking nine year old Marian Gardner. The girl was not injured but demanded reimbursement for an ice cream cone broken in the crash.
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Peterson
Denver
Colorado
Marian Gardner
Honest coffee only when starting with coffee, says New York Times
Mrs Roosevelt, echoing the President, hedges on drying and rebrewing coffee grounds. The Times argues that substitutes like chicory or rye cannot replace the coffee essence, which is released by hot water and fades if grounds are reheated. Genuine coffee requires real bean starting point.
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New York Times
German generals seek to isolate Hitler for better terms
London reports a group of German generals planning to isolate Hitler in hopes of more favorable terms after defeat. The pattern echoes 1918, with leaders convinced the latest bid for world domination will fail and the military machine should be protected.
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London
Hitler
Germany
Edmonton Journal
Wrote Anyway From Duty Ends With Brief Mail
Pte Dick Thearer of the Marine Corps returned to Harrisburg Pa on his last furlough. His father asked for letters even with no news. He sent home a note that read Affectionately yours Dick P.S. Boy, am I tired.
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Pte
Dick Thearer
Marine Corps
Harrisburg
Dick. P
Gloucester Regiment Through Centuries of Combat Chronicle
The Gloucester Regiment traces origins to 1694 and recalls famed night fighting in Belgium and Burma. It lists battles and alliances including Canada with the Royal Canadian Regiment, Libya, Rangoon and Prome, and notes its colonel in chief the Duke of Gloucester. The text highlights endurance across Napoleonic, Indian Mutiny, Crimean, Boer, and First World War eras.
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Gloucester Regiment
Belgium
Middle East
Burma
Ledringham
Canada
Royal Canadian Regiment
Permanent Force
Tobruk
New Zealand
Rangoon
Mandalay
Letpadan
Prome
Duke of Gloucester
Ramillies
Wolfe
Repatriation Order Strips British Subject Status
An order in council targets Canadian nationals and British subjects born in Canada or naturalized in Canada or via marriage who are repatriated to enemy countries. Issued last November, it beefs up effects of exchanges with Japan and other enemy states, stating such returnees may lose British subject or Canadian national status. The measure allows discretionary deprivation of status for those seeking protecting power protection while abroad.
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Canada
Japan
India Self-Sufficient in Steel for Machinery and Arms
India with current finished steel output around 1 144 million tons annually and prospects of rising to two million tons will be virtually independent of steel imports for machine tools munitions and arms. All railway equipment is now produced domestically in the country.
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India
Rationing in Britain restricts milk and eggs in public venues
The article contrasts U K rationing with American norms noting milk is served only to mothers children and invalids and fresh eggs are unavailable to restaurants and hotels. It highlights the severity of Britain’s shortages and the impact on daily life during wartime.
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Britain
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