Banff Mineral Springs Inspired Canada Parks System
The Banff hot springs story links to Canada’s parks legacy. William H. McCardell and partners first publicized Spa development in 1883 84 shaping a national park system begun with a ten square mile reserve around the springs in 1885. The springs attract visitors from armed forces and civilians, with Cave and Basin and Upper Hot Springs reporting significant annual attendance. Various springs in Jasper and Kootenay parks show temperatures from 114 to 126 degrees Fahrenheit.
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William Henry McCardell
Banff
Alberta
McCardell
Commonwealth and
Empire
Banff National Park
Canada
Selkirk Mountains
British Columbia
Atlantic Seaboard
Nova Scotia
Rockies
Selkirks
Miette
Jasper National Park
Kootenay National Park
Two mobile churches on Western Front named St Paul and St George
Two wheeled mobile churches attached to the British Army serve soldiers on the Western Front. Built in Army workshops, they feature St Paul and St George interiors, solid oak altars and silk curtains. Amplifying units sound bells and hymns. Field Marshal Montgomery and other generals have attended, and he can request St George's church by signal when usual channels fail. The note also mentions ancient silk fibre origins kept secret by China until 419 AD.
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St. Paul
St. George
Montgomery
London Sunday Times
St. George’s Mobile Church
Symbolic Forder: Berlin Ruins to Be Rebuilt or Recreated
The text declares Berlin a symbol of Nazi cruelty and calls for its site to be cleared. It urges abolition of the city name in Germany and demands reconstruction of cities with homeless housing and free materials for rebuilding, asserting German responsibility for wartime destruction.
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Berlin
Gestapo
Germany
Reich—St. Thomas Times-Journal
Champion Cow Peg Top Burke Crowned World Champion
Champion cow Doncrest Peg Top Burke, a pure bred Holstein, earned a fourth world championship. Capt Roy Brown aided Peg before his death last March at Stouffville Ontario and his widow now runs Lisnaclin farm. In 365 days Peg produced 31 935 pounds of milk with 1108 pounds of butterfat and an average test of 3 47 percent.
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Doncrest
Peg Top Burke
Roy Brown
Peg
Stouffville
Ont
Lisnaclin Farm
Adams
Burnley Aims for Raincoat Coupons Claiming Wettest Town Title
The London Daily Mail notes Burnley in Lancashire as Britain's wettest town with 272 wet days and 42.8 inches of annual rainfall. Residents petition the board of trade for 18 extra clothing coupons per inhabitant to buy raincoats as their current ones wear out.
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London Daily Mail
Burnley
Lancashire
Britain
Board of Trade
Ancient Chinese canal longest manmade waterway
The longest canal in the world lies in China, completed in 1350 after about six centuries of work. It spans roughly 2,100 miles, linking major regions and supporting imperial transport and commerce.
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China
Trans-Canada Air Lines Expands To Three Daily Transcontinental Flights
Trans-Canada Air Lines increases passenger service to three daily trips between Montreal Winnipeg and Vancouver using 14 passenger Lodestar aircraft. Mayor Garnet Coulter of Winnipeg welcomed the inaugural flight at Stevenson Field and sent goldeneye boxes to mayors of Regina Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton Vancouver and Victoria. The extension doubles passenger capacity to 42 seats daily, aided by air force personnel, with plans for a possible fourth transcontinental flight after crew training.
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TransCanada Air Lines
Canada
Garnet Coulter
Winnipeg
Regina
Lethbridge
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Victoria
Coulter
Stevenson Field
Has No Hale From a Briton in Switzerland
A Nazi German writer in Wuert temberg questions Britain as Germany’s ally lapses. He argues England persuades the world she defends the weak and fights for moral justice, while Britain’s trade system and halo over centuries draw support for the empire. The Montreal Star notes truth will out.
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Switzerland
Wuerttemberg
Germany
Great Britain
England
British
Montreal Star
Stainless steel hosiery eyed as wartime textile rival
Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, told the Association of Customers' Brokers at the New York Stock Exchange that stainless steel hosiery could compete with nylons after the war. He noted companies are producing stainless steel wire comparable to silk and suggested colored steel to cut paint costs in auto factories.
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Walter Tower
American Iron and Steel Institute
Tower
New York Stock Exchange
Mr. Tower
Castle Of The Sky Luxurious airliner for Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
The London Daily Mail describes a modern luxury airliner built for the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester as they prepare for his Governor General duties in Australia. The craft features a red leather office stateroom, ten hour flights, plush restrooms and sleeping quarters with red carpets, a blue tiled bathroom, and private salons for the equerries and ladies-in-waiting.
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Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
Australia
London Daily Mail
Pay Mounted Up for Soldiers Freed From Luzon Captivity
War Department finance officers say the pay owed to about 500 soldiers held in Japanese captivity in Luzon has mounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The article notes the vast sum awaiting release and mentions related wartime financial work.
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Luzon
U.S. War Department
International Co Operation Urged To Preserve Liberty And Peace
Canadian Ambassador to the United States L B Pearson said in New York that strong inter national cooperation led by Anglo Saxons is essential to avert a potential thin world war. He urged better mutual understanding between Britain, Canada, the United States and Russia and outlined four US accepts for Canada US relations within the Western Hemisphere and the Commonwealth.
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Pees
L. B Pearson
United States
New York
Pearson
Solomon
Napoleon
Canada
Londo
Washington
Sinc
London
Dominions
England
Canad
Dominion
Wes Ward
United Kingdom
Unite States
Commonwealth
British car promises 50 mpg for 60 mph turbine engine
British inventors who now make cannons for Spitfires claim a new three-cylinder car using exhaust turbine power to achieve 50 miles per gallon at 60 miles per hour. They plan to bring 25 demonstrators to the United States and offer production in an American plant to meet the large U.S. market.
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United States
Christian Science Monitor
Life sized baby doll pattern 7406 from Winnipeg union
Alice Brooks describes a life sized baby doll wearing real baby clothes. Pattern 7406 includes tissue pattern and directions. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Depart ment, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E., Winnipeg, Man with name address and pattern number. Note mail delays may occur.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Wheat Stocks End Jan at 372 Million Bushels
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports total Canadian and U S wheat stocks in North America at midnight Jan 25 reach 372,893,760 bushels. Canadian positions total 335,294,865 bushels and U S positions 37,598,895. Last year on the same date stocks were 348,830,958 bushels.
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North America
United States
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Smugglers Use Children in NI to Move Contraband
Sir John Anderson told the House of Commons in London that smugglers are using children to haul contraband between Eire and Northern Ireland. He said the traffic is being tackled with the strongest possible measures.
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Eire
Northern Ireland
John Anders
Exchequer
House of Commons
London
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Banff Mineral Springs
Western Front
Lancashire Town
Bank National Park
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Castle of the Sky
Grand Coulee Dam
Alice Brooks
Italy
Canadian Army
Len Kemp
Alexand
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