Fire at Barnes stables leads Brad to preach amid flames
In Honey Hollow, a church crisis ends with Brad Hunter delivering a impromptu sermon atop a blazing Barnes stable fire. The crowd silences, songs rise, and Tom Barnes endorses the message, pledging to curb Sunday racing as Martha muses on family ties and Nancy Barnes.
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Barnes
Honey Hollow
Tom Barnes
Martha
Nancy
Brad
Ezra
Nancy Barnes
Tom
Canadian composers win five scholarship prizes
The Canadian Performing Right Society announces five winners of its annual scholarship for Canadian composers. Among them are Bandsman James M. Gayfer overseas and John Maurice Lowe of White Rock, B C. Sas katoon, a past prize recipient, wowed Massey Hall audiences. Robert Fleming, an airman in training in Canada, is another winner. Young composers are invited to request application forms from the Royal Bank Building in Toronto.
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Canadian Performing Right Society
Canada
Robert Fleming
E. B. Fleming
Saskatoon
Massey Hall
Toronto
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Ernest MacMillan
Soldier
James M. Gayfer
John Maurice Lowe
White Rock
B.C
Royal Bank Building
Fresh frozen foods rise as postwar luxury gains
Fresh frozen foods are a recent luxury that may become common after the war. They offer good food value as strawberries and peas hold vitamins. Freezing methods lock in nutrients. strawberries provide about a third of daily vitamin C, but thawing quickly reduces vitamins, so cook vegetables frozen and thaw fruits only at use.
Sugar beet acreage up in 1945 to 70 thousand acres
The Agricultural Supplies Board recommends 70 000 acres for sugar beets in 1945, 11 650 more than 1944. Provincial allotments are Quebec 10 000, Ontario 15 000, Manitoba 15 000, Alberta 30 000 acres.
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Agricultural Supplies Board
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
Cows Kept Safe Underground In Alsdorf Mine
In Alsdorf a 25 head Holstein herd survives 1200 feet underground to shield milk meat and animal stock from shelling and Nazi withdrawal. Soldiers from Boston explain Germans took chickens when retreating, leaving underground farmyard without fowl.
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Alsdorf
Boston
Rare Thallium Production Reported in Canada 1944
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes rare metal thallium produced at Flin Flon Manitoba by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. About 128 pounds of new material were yielded with a value of 1690 dollars. Experimental shipments of tantalum ore were also sent from the Northwest Territories in 1944.
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Flin Flon
Man
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, Limited
Northwest Territories
Portland man hid bag of cash for charity deed
Henry W. Shindollar a former school teacher and oil operator in Portland Indiana kept a brown paper sack with him for a decade. When ill he gave it to banker Lewis Hoover who found 22500 dollars in 500 and 1000 bills wrapped separately. A will inside the sack directs the money to charity.
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Henry W. Shindollar
Portland
Indiana
Lewis Hoover
Rudel Receives Germany's Knight's Cross Decoration
Berlin radio reports Col. Hans Ulrich Rudel, 28, awarded Germany's highest decoration the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with golden oak leaves swords and diamonds for destroying 463 tanks and 700 vehicles among other feats.
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Germany
Hans Ulrich Rudel
Berlin
Women observers endure rigors of Royal Observer Corps duty
Britain’s Royal Observer Corps includes about 2,500 women who must endure rigorous conditions on duty. Posts are placed in isolated exposed spots from hilltops to church towers, and must be manned 24/7 in all weather. The observers report enemy aircraft trajectories to the ROC center even when bombs fall or guns fire.
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Royal Observers’ Corps
Britain
R.O.C. Centre
Hearty Gift Beef Roast with Gravy and Potato Dumplings
A beef roast recipe uses chuck shoulder or rump with vinegar and water soak, browns in fat, then slow cooks with reserved liquid. Gravy is thickened with flour and spices. Dumplings are potato based with eggs parsley and bread crumb mix baked into airy balls. Serves ten.
Pattern 4698 Dress Pattern For Misses And Women
This Week's Pattern Look promotes Pattern 4698 side-buttoning set-in belt as a smart home wear. It lists misses and women's sizes 12 through 40 and requires 3% yards of 35 inch fabric for size 16. Send 20 cents in coins to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg in Winnipeg Manitoba. mail delays may extend delivery.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Home-grown tobacco gains share in Canadian industry
The Brockville Recorder notes that 66.9 million pounds of 68.2 million pounds of tobacco used last year were grown in Canada, marking progress for local tobacco once deemed unsuitable for ordinary consumption. It also recalls that Canada’s first RCAF unit to go overseas was an army co operation unit arriving in England in February 1940.
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Brockville
R.C.A.F
England
Fire tests show wooden barrel flame height far higher
A recent test found a steel rubbish can flame rose two feet above the top while a wooden barrel fire reached nine feet. The comparison highlights wood’s higher fire risk in similar conditions.
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Alice M. Snow
McClure News
Martha Terrill
Brad Hunter
Ezra Terrill
Perseverance
Pero
Lee Ct Ta
Glenn Miller
James Daniel Murray, Jr
Philadelphia
8Th Air Force Service Command
Kellogg's
Kellogg
London
Royal Observer Corps
Olls
Ramsayompany
Gani Street
Ottawa
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