Canada’s Navy builds a modern fleet including carriers
The Naval Service at Ottawa notes 8 600 officers and ratings already enlisted with 2 000 monthly applications. Canada plans a 18 000 ton Warrior carrier and a second carrier by end of 1947. Training expands at Halifax and Esquimalt with nine inland stations, aiming to train 18 000 reserve personnel.
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Royal Canadian
Prairie Provinces
Prairies
Canada
Naval Service Quarters
Ottawa
Naval Headquarters
Warrior
Belfast
Ireland
Halifax
Esquimalt
B.C
Navy
Canafloat
Financial Benefits For Unemployed Increase Aid Tenfold
Britain will extend unemployment pay beyond six months for sixty thousand people meeting age disability or other special needs. The change prefigures the National Insurance Act set to fully operate in 1948. A Krakatoa eruption in 1883 hurled a cubic mile of rock over seventeen miles into the air.
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Britain
Minister of National Insurance
National Insurance Act
Krakatoa
Malay Archipelago
Back Aches Signal Kidney Ailment Says Reader
Health note states backache arises from lazy kidney action and acids in the system. It warns headaches rheumatic pain and other aches as secondary signs and urges caution.
Neighbors raise funds for boy's artificial legs
In Birmingham six year old John Richards, who lost his legs after being hit by a bus, walked to school as neighbors raised 1000 pounds through nine months of dances auctions raffles and concerts. His mother praised their kindness and encouragement.
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Birmingham
England
John Richards
John
Butterfly becomes new household pet in Saanich
The butterfly of Jack Todd in Saanich, British Columbia, arrived on December 15 and has lived in the home since. It flies in the daytime around the living room and rests on a curtain or green fern at night, fed a teaspoon of honey every two to three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Todd
Saanich
B.C
Toronto youth fined for improper vehicle management
Magistrate O. M. Martin ruled that seventeen boys exceed a six passenger coupe's capacity and fined George McCullagh Jr. 16, five dollars plus costs for operating a car without proper vehicle management.
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Toronto
O. M. Martin
George McCullagh, Jr
Difference in play methods sparks peace debate in Windsor Star
W L Clarke contrasts European and North American youth games. He argues European children are raised to expect future war through drums guns and marching while Canadian and American children grow up with hockey sticks and baseball bats and spirited rink battles. He warns that erasing war ideas could foster world peace.
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W_ LL. Clarke
The
Windsor Star
Europe
Canada
United States
Soroner
British papers face no increase in size before July
London reports that newsprint ration increases permitting six part editions will likely be impossible until the supply situation changes. Sir Stafford warns a trade paper notes a possible return to size pegs to assist larger editions if paper shipments improve.
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London
Stafford
Pattern 4713 offers classic dress with tailored details
The Anne Adams Pattern 4713 features squared-off armholes deep cuffs and soft pleats with a single fabric or contrast option. Includes illustrated instructions and sizes 12 through 40. size 16 uses about 2% yards of 54 inch fabric. Send 20 cents with name address and style number to Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Gems of Thought and Faith Reflections
A collection of quotes on happiness virtue and spiritual joy from biblical and literary figures. The excerpt closes with an odd line about Ree Kathe and a fragmentary signoff.
Humorous Fragments Span Beans to Rhinoceros
A collage of gags and jokes spans topics from dinner beans to Adam naming animals and a rhinoceros, a maid gossiping about a boss suitor, and a landlady’s kitchen bill. The set also includes a sermon ending with a river song and a sharp exchange about a mother’s marriageable dress.
Impudent Exchange Between Two Workers Over Hypocrisy
A heated dialogue unfolds as a man accuses a woman of lying and vanity while she recites her past as a lady's maid. The pair clash over hypocrisy with threats of violence and sharp retorts, ending with a cynical remark about appearances and opportunism.
Great help to crops from earthworms improve soil yield
A historian notes that ten earthworms in a cubic foot of soil can boost crop output by up to 300 percent. By tunneling and digesting vegetable matter, they enrich and aerate infertile top soils.
Cattle in Britain Die From Poison Gas Leaks
Farmers wore gas masks to save cattle from fumes as thousands of bombs dumped by American troops leaked near Shel ley and Penistone. Denby council urged the ministry of supply to remove the bombs amid continuing deadly gas risks. U.S. Army signs still warn deadly gas in the area.
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Shelley, Eng
Shelley
Penistone
Denby
Ministry of Supply
U.S. Army
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