Invasion Craft Crews Train To Reach Hidden Beaches
Naval officers and Canadian volunteers for combined operations train to spot elusive beaches in rough seas. At a Highland loch they maneuver assault craft despite rain and wind, with crews including Gaston Lavergne and Jack Nunn taking roles at the wheel as they simulate landing objectives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Fotilla
Gaston Lavergne
Ottawa
R. M. Smith
Regina
Jack Nunn
Port Dover
Harry Atkins
Waterford
Ont
Saving and Using Fats in the Home
A Dominion agriculture folder advises housewives to maximize fat use in cooking and salvage unusable fat for meat markets. It notes fats can come from drippings and meats instead of butter or shortening. The Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture released the free pamphlet from Ottawa.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Play Too Rough
Thomas Murdock a 21 year old U S marine back home to recover from Guadalcanal wounds believes he found a Japanese Confucius on the island. He quotes a captured Japanese captain saying Tojo claims Americans are playboys but the marines say they play too rough.
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Thomas Murdock
U.S
Guadalcanal
Wolf mistaken for dog prompts wild hunt in Selkirk
Mrs. G Cameron of Selkirk, 100 miles north of Whitehorse, armed with a broom when a large black wolf entered her yard and kennel. Two Indians nearby helped restrain the animal and fire a rifle, ending the threat after the prowling intruder fled.
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G. Cameron
Selkirk
Northland
Cameron
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Whitehorse
Mrs. Cameron
Pansies Bloom Fast In Easy Stitchery Pattern 7384
A crochet and embroidery craft notice describes patches with pansies for towels scarves and sheet sets using transfer patterns 6 by 20 and two 6 by 134 motifs with edging and stitch illustrations. To obtain pattern 7384 send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Manitoba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Newsppper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Eiffel Tower rust fear spreads as war looms
A Stratford Beacon-Herald report cites a Sweden Paris dispatch claiming the Eiffel Tower has rusted beyond repair due to neglect. The piece recalls wartime threats by German invaders and notes the tower's historic painting by workers, its 984 feet, and past survival before warning it could be destroyed for iron scrap.
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Eifel
Biffel Tower
Paris
Sweden
Eiffel Tower
Seine
France
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
City of Light
Bowie
Eiffel
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Distinctive Badges of the Canadian Parachute Corps
The Canadian Parachute Corps displays distinctive uniform insignia. The cap badge combines wings for air service, a parachute for jumping, and maple leaves to identify Canada. A collar badge shows a paratrooper’s dagger dropping from a cloud with the motto Ex Coelis meaning Out of Heaven. Buttons depict a maple leaf hanging from a parachute with Canada around it.
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Canadian Parachute Corps
Canada
Dutch Exiles Urge Nose Blowing To Slow War Output
Radio Oranje in London urged 300000 Dutch workers in Germany to blow their noses to waste time and slow production. The announcer claimed each nose blast lasts a minute, totaling about 1,250 lost working hours if all comply. He also argued that burning hardwood saves coal or oil.
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Germany
Hitler
Radio Orange
Netherlands
London
Not A Bad Idea And A British Destroyer Flotilla
A business executive seeks big thoughts from a bishop who counsels self discipline and discarded foolish habits to gain time for a happier life. The tale ends with a British destroyer flotilla having sailed over 1,000,000 miles in 21 months of war.
Food Aid For French Africa Allocated Under Rationing System
Thirty six thousand tons of civilian supplies have been landed at French North African ports. The shipments include flour cheese sugar tea and dried fruits with textiles soap medicines and kerosene. The French administration will distribute the goods under a rationing system.
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British Ministry of Information
South African Native Groups Named
The article classifies South Africa’s natives into three main divisions: Bushmen, Hottentots, and Bantu. It notes distinct identities among these groups as observed in the region.
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South Africa
Strange Story Of A Captain Saved By BBC Victory Bells
A British captain lost in the Middle East desert heard church bells broadcast by the BBC on November 15. The sound guided him to a lorry with British troops listening to England’s bells, his car fixed, and he rejoined his unit within an hour.
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Daily Sketch
BBC
Middle East
Old
England
London
The British Empire Shock Of War
The piece argues critics avoid the word empire except for certain nations and suggests such avoidance echoes prewar jeering at empire. It defends the value of the empire’s principle and central will in facing global conflict.
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Empire
London Daily Mail
Minister Cheers Gift With Graceful Acknowledgment
An old negro preacher, famed for a fondness of cherry brandy, accepted a prank offer to confess in the church magazine next issue. The magazine published a brief note thanking Mr. Jones for his gift of fruit and for the spirit in which it was given.
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Church
Jones
Port of Tunis builds on Carthage stones
La Goulette, the Tunis port, was constructed using stones quarried from the ruins of ancient Carthage, located about three miles away.
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la Goulette
Tunis
Carthage
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Highlands
Lieut. Smith
Yukon
Alice Brooks
Cap Bance
Conterarr
Banoe
Idea
Holland
French Africa
Canadian
Red Cross
Ers
Mr. Beaver
Toronto
Society
Inquiry Bureau
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
R C.A.F
Sergt. A. R
Newfie
Taylor
R.C.A.F
Newfoundland
Mary Devine
New Westminster B.C
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