Housing In Canada Calls For Higher Living Standards
The article argues housing is a fundamental issue for Canadians with rural and urban dwellings far from adequate. It cites international examples where better housing reduced disease and notes 61 percent of low income residents in Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver live in quarters with less than one room per person. It urges modern improved homes to keep youth on the land and provide suitable housing for farm workers.
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Canada
Britain
United States
Sweden
Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Canada faces postwar housing crisis with 700000 needed
After the war Canada faces a vast urban housing shortfall. Experts estimate 700000 new dwellings are needed in the first decade, with a twenty year program likely. Prefabrication saves only about fifteen percent of normal costs, and postwar plans emphasize space and privacy.
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Canada
Origin Of The Telephone A Tale Of Bell And Hubbard
Alexander Bell sought funding for his new invention the telephone. He visited Cambridge financier Hubbard hoping to persuade him. Bell demonstrated by making Hubbard's piano sing and explained the harmonic principle of voice transmission to win support. Hubbard backed the project.
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Alexander Bell
Bell
Hubbard
Cambridge
Canada rehabilitates ex servicemen a lesson for Australia
The Brisbane Telegraph praises Canada’s rehabilitation methods for ex servicemen and notes Australia can learn from them. It lists program provisions as already part of Canadian law. The article also reports Yale University keeping the Gutenberg Bible in an underground vault since the war began.
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The
Brisbane Telegraph
Canada
Australia
Yale University
Ancient Amphibian Tracks On Exhibit At ROM
The Royal Ontario Museum displays 200 million year old footprints from two amphibian species found near Parrsboro Nova Scotia. The tracks show life in a coal swamp along a shallow sea border, preserved as tides and sands fixed the imprints for posterity.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Parrsboro
Nova Scotia
Royal Ontario Museum News
Price Control And Rationing Information Summary
Wartime guidance explains butter coupons in ration book No 5 have no expiry date and 90 91 coupons became valid December 28. Milestone advice covers obtaining ration books for marriage, landlady rights during vacations, and procedures to buy rationed foods via the nearest Wartime Prices and Trade Board office.
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Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Humorous Vignettes and Snippets From Daily Life
A collage of light jokes and anecdotes about marriage, manners, shop life, and travel. Donkey and wife remarks, a Persian Iran lecture quip, a cracked hat gag, job interview quips, word games, a colonel’s orders, and a London chatter with Jack London, all presented in a breezy clubroom style.
Plan for $50,000 scholarship honors VC heroes
A foundation to fund education for children of enlisted servicemen and merchant seamen from New Westminster and the Fraser Valley will be created with at least 50,000 dollars. The plan arises from a New Westminster meeting honoring Maj John Keefer Mahony VC and Pte Ernest Smokey Smith VC, representing 22 local organizations.
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John Keefer Mahony
V.C
Ernest (Smokey) Smith
New Westminster
B.C
Fraser Valley
Ramsay Company Patent Offer for Inventors
The Ramsay Company advertises free listings of inventions and complete information. Located at 273 Bank Street Ottawa Canada the firm offers registered patent attorney services to inventors seeking patent protection and guidance.
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Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Ottawa
Canada
World Problems and the Duty to Think for Tomorrow
A Liberty Magazine excerpt argues that public apathy and isolationism led to wars such as Pearl Harbor and the Maginot Line failures. It warns that future conflicts depend on people active in shaping leaders, policy, and the nation’s course rather than expecting others to decide.
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Pearl Harbor
Manila
Liberty Magazine
Moscow Radio marks 20th anniversary as world’s strongest station
Izvestia says Moscow Radio has operated in the east since autumn 1942 and broadcasts daily in 20 foreign languages and 70 Soviet languages. The official paper notes 14 news slots and 18 music programs daily across 2,000 regional stations and 7,000 relays. Foreign broadcasts total 64 hours daily.
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Soviet Union
Izvestia
East
Moscow Radio
Organ
Radiologist Uses X Rays to Predict Orchid Bloom
A Sydney radiologist cultivates orchids as a hobby and X-rays them to forecast flowering. He claims to determine up to nine months ahead when blooms appear and how many will open. The ancient Greeks reportedly used light signal systems for intercity messaging.
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Sydney
Bride of D'Artois Parachutist Aims to Join Husband
D'Artois' bride Tony D'Artois, wife of Capt. Guy D'Artois, a British agent who parachuted into France with daring French-Canadians before D-day, is expected to join him in Montreal where he resides. She was born in England and lived 14 years in France.
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Tony D'Artois
Guy D'Artois
France
Capt. D'Artois
Montreal
England
Quiet CWAC Weddings Tie Manitoban Servicemen
Wedding notices report Pte Marjorie Hobson of Winnipeg CWAC and Tpr Frederick Goulsbra in London England in uniform with Hobson serving overseas. Also L Cpl Jessie May MacDonald of Hamilton wed to Donald J MacDonald of New Westminster in England. Promotions include Lt Joyce Jellett to captain and Lt Marie Arnott named officer commanding CWAC personnel in England.
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L Cpl
Jessie May MacDonald
Hamilton
Ont
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
England
Donald J. MacDonald
R-C.n.v.r
New Westminster
B.C
L-Cpl
MacDonald
T. MacDonald
Medical Services
Joyce I. Jellett
H. St. C. Jellett
Vancouver
Capt. Jellett
C.w.ac
Canadian Tobacco Depot
C.W.A.C
Marie Arnott
Mount Forest
Western cities urged to cooperate on low rental housing
Canadian cities should cooperate on a single scheme for low rental housing projects to gain federal action. Winnipeg council has informed the Vancouver civic building committee and urges Vancouver to back a resolution amending the National Housing Act of 1944 to empower urban municipalities to set up low rental housing with Dominion government funds at low interest. Under the plan the cities administer the project and the federal government underwrites any loss.
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Winnipeg
Vancouver
Civic Building Committee
Cleaning burned aluminum and enamel pots and pans
The acid touch helps aluminum pans stay bright. Boil with a little vinegar to loosen grime, then scrape with a wooden spoon. If food burns while on the phone salvage what you can and boil water to loosen the mass. Enamel pots burn well with a pinch of soda. Damascus is famed for its damask fabrics.
East Chicago Couple Donates War Risk Insurance to Boys Camp
Mr and Mrs John Clubb parents of Pvt Robert Clubb 26 killed on Saipan donate 10000 life insurance payout to a protected boys camp saying they could not touch any of the money The item also notes that the vitamin in strawberries is not destroyed by freezing.
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Chicago
Saipan
Warrisk Insurance
John Clubb
Pvt
Robert Clubb
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Ottawa Citizen
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Maginot Line
China
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Can
D'Artois
Damascus
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