Australia Day marks 158th anniversary of crown entry
The People of Australia observed the 158th anniversary of joining the British Crown, celebrated as Australia Day this year after the war. Messages from Canada and the Empire expressed hope for progress and prosperity and tribute to Australia’s war effort. Australian campaigns in New Guinea and Papua are credited with pivotal turning points against Japan.
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Australia
Canada
Pacific
New Guinea
Japan
Papua
Australia Mobilizes Mighty War Effort Across Pacific
From a population of 7.3 million Australia built a one million strong fighting force with 666 000 women in auxiliary services and 300 000 civilian defense workers. Casualties total 95 561 with 59 203 against Japan and 36 358 against Germany. Seventeen Victoria Crosses awarded. War expenditure 7 599 600 000 and 21 Royal Australian Navy ships lost. Australian forces aided campaigns in Africa and the Middle East before the Pacific war.
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Australia
Japan
Germany
Royal Australian Navy
Africa
Middle East
Pacific
Bonds Between Two Nations
As with Canada Australia gains a broader sense of nationhood and responsibility for lasting peace. Australia’s isolation makes world affair settlements, Pacific matters, and wartime training and exchange with Canada crucial. UNO meetings in London showed goodwill, a trend hoped to continue in postwar British Commonwealth relations.
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Canada
Australia
Pacific
UNO
London
British Commonwealth
Crossword Puzzle Clue List A to B
Horizontal and vertical clues list phrases covering time period admiration constellations verbs body parts and ancient items plus divine and numeric hints. Includes names like God of love deities and common words such as wealth, intruder and pestilence while ending with printer's measure and various misc clues.
Nothing Can Beat It For Introducing A New Pen
A department store launched a new two year guaranteed pen with four New York newspaper ads. The campaign drew over five thousand customers the next morning and Crow’s pen counter was crowded. Telephones and mail orders flooded in as fifty thousand pens sold in two weeks. The ads proved highly effective.
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New York
Crow's Five Deep
Community Action Needed to Beat Sawfly in Wheat
Experimental Station at Swift Current Sask undertook extensive trials on sawfly infestation in wheat. Findings show collective effort beats individual work, with seeding order oats first barley second flax third and wheat last. Oats and barley prove as profitable as wheat and recommended for 1945 crop in brown soil area.
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Swift Current
Sask
His Contribution and Co operation in Forest Preservation
A government conservationist spoke in a village hall urging active help to save forest wealth. He asked if anyone had ever saved a tree, and a timid man from the rear replied that he once shot a woodpecker.
Price Control And Rationing Information
Readers ask about next butter coupon validity and ration rules. The blue R coupons in book 5 start Feb 14 for butter, nylons priced uniformly 85c to $2.50 with gauge stamp. Unauthorized cashing of rationed goods without coupons is illegal. If a ration book is lost and new book issued, unused coupons may be archived and not needed.
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O— Q
WPTB
Pepper and Salt Meet Again in London Club
Newsweek recalls Claude Pepper sitting with an English student at Harvard lunch when Pepper introduced himself as Salt and the fellow replied. Later Salt, now a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, hosted Pepper in a London club during reunion events.
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Newsweek
Claude Pepper
Harvard University
Pepper
Salt
Salt and Pepper
H. E. Salt
Lincoln’s Inn
London
Young Spanish chess prodigy loses treasured chess set in London
Arturo Pomar, a 14 year old Spanish chess expert, misplaced a much cherished plain wood chess set he has owned since age six after leaving it in a taxi in London. The incident highlights the young grandmaster's long running passion for the game and the value of early memories.
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Arturo Pomar
London
Eskimo encounter shapes famed Arctic explorer
Lt Col Graham Rowley MBE of Ottawa recalls two years living among Eskimos from Baffin Island to Hudson Bay. He praises their kindness and intelligence while describing subsistence on raw and boiled meat. He leads the Baker Lake force to refuel RC AF Dakotas during the Musk Ox expedition toward Cambridge Bay in mid March.
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Ottawa
Baffin Island
North
Hudson Bay Area
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Rowley
Manchester
England
Cambridge University
Baker Lake
R.C.A.F. Dakota
Cambridge Bay
Col. Rowley
Salada Tea Credits Newspapers For Large Advertising Role
A Salada Tea letter from company leaders praises newspapers as the backbone of its advertising in the United States and Canada. It notes last year’s sales volume hit a record high, with four million pounds more than the previous year, and argues that effective advertising lowers costs for consumers through higher volume production.
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U.S.A
Canada
Smile Awhile Humorous Exchange Collection
A comic page of quick quips and vignettes features a doctor naming Italian lumbago a new muscle ailment with a back stabbing symptom. Jests play on dress costs, vocabularies, efficiency, marriage, love letters, jealous tiffs, car trouble, dogs biting, and self made men with a wartime sting urging readers to buy War Savings Stamps.
Golden Rule and rights quoted from notable figures
A collection of moral maxims from Lord Chesterfield George Lansbury Mary Baker Eddy Gardiner Spring and Cumberland emphasizing the Golden Rule rights of man liberty of conscience and just conduct as guiding principles.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Interchangeable Weather Lenses Aid Pilots
Interchangeable lenses designed for pilots include clear lenses for wind protection, green lenses for sunny skies, and amber lenses for hazy days to adapt to varying weather conditions.
Hem-Head Piles Treatment Ad Offers Home Trial
An advertisement touts Hem-Head as a long used pile remedy promising lasting relief by addressing internal causes. It claims a private home test, a money back guarantee, and highlights Canada and a drug store purchase with a five day trial and refund option.
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Canada
Smary
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