Ninety Thousand Scouts Support War Effort Across Canada
Canadian Boy Scouts and Girl Guides unite in a nationwide salvage and aid drive. Scouts collect wastepaper rags bones and metals while aiding Red Cross and Salvation campaigns and sending seeds to Britain. Guides knit garments and staff dressing stations and contribute ambulances and war relief funds.
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Boy Scouts
Canada
Stouta
Red Cross
Britain
Baden- Powell Chins Up
Old Country
Girl Guides
Army
Navy
Air Force
A.R.P
United Nations
Dominion
Germans Selling Out Germans in France Amid War Losses
London Daily Sketch reports Germans who acquired property in France after the collapse are selling at large losses. Nazi authorities urge agents to discourage sales to avoid French optimism about early end to the war and Germans’ departure. Private sales by German owners increase.
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France
London Daily Sketch
Maiden Speeches and A Veteran Senator’s Wry Judgment
An old Senate member meets a new member after the latter’s maiden speech. The veteran notes the good things were not new and the new things were not good, offering a dry judicial verdict on the exchange.
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Senate
Sena
Axis aircraft losses in North Africa campaigns total over 8000
Reports indicate more than 8000 Axis aircraft were destroyed across campaigns in North Africa. About 5000 were lost in combat while the remainder were captured or destroyed on the ground.
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North Africa
Big Money Sums Change House of Commons Knowledge
A Vancouver Province passage notes shift from uncertainty over lakhs and crores to familiarity with billions. It contrasts John Morley era ignorance with modern ease handling large budgets and debts, citing Canada’s early budget and today’s vastly larger figures.
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House of Commons
John Morley
Canada
Vancouver
Whistler Painting Rejected by Royal Academy
Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother faced initial rejection for exhibition at the Royal Academy and remained unsold for two decades before finding a buyer.
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Whistler
Royal Academy
Crop values in 1943 reach 1.1 billion in Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports crop values for principal field crops at 1 100 million in 1943 down slightly from 1942. Declines mainly in wheat across the Prairies and all grains in Ontario Quebec. Prices rose with wheat average farm price from 69c to 1.02. Buses run 250 per hour at Victoria station forecourt in rush hours.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairies
Ontario
Quebec
Victoria Station
London
Canada grows oil seeds to power ships and industry
Canadian farms produced rape seed flaxseed and sunflower oil as war measures this year. Rape seed yield surpasses 2.3 million pounds from about 4 000 seeded acres with expansion possible to 10 000 for navy. Flaxseed oil finds uses in munitions paints and coatings while 18 million bushels of seeds are projected from nearly 2.8 million acres up from past years. Sunflowers yield oil for shortening across 30 000 acres, marking a shift to domestic vegetable oils of quality rivaling imports.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Dominion
Millais Confronted by Rustic Mocking Portrait Comment
An anecdote from a Royal Academy banquet features Sir John Millais presiding as an artist works on a landscape. A rustic stares at the canvas and quips that caricature photography would be quicker and more like the scene.
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Sir John Millais
Royal Academy
Millais
Women in Russia and Canada mobilize war effort contrasts
The article compares wartime labor shifts showing Russian women taking factory, railway, mining, naval and medical roles while Canadian women join war industries and voluntary work. It notes Rus sian rationing, state sale of surplus, and incentives tying family duty to national service.
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Canada
Arctic Ocean
Russia
Germany
Unique UK's steam heated garden produces many crops
The London bureau reports on David Lowe near Edinburgh who covers eleven acres with steam under glass to boil soil and kill weeds. He applies 100 tons of fertilizer and straw per acre yearly and yields six to eight crops including lettuce carrots onions and beans. Watering is overhead in summer.
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London
David Lowe
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Lowe
New York Herald Tribune
Providing Uniforms Praised by Government for Armed Forces
Hamilton Spectator lauds the clothing industry for successfully supplying uniforms to Canada's armed forces. The program was gigantic and the result is that service members stand second to none in adequate garb.
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Canada
Hamilton Spectator
Largest Allied Invasion Of Sicily Sets Sail
More than 3,000 ships of all kinds supported the Anglo American attack on Sicily the largest amphibious operation in history. Initial assault moved 160,000 men 14,000 vehicles 600 tanks and 1,800 guns.
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Sicily
George Cross Awarded Posthumously to LAC Kenneth G Spooner
The King awarded the George Cross posthumously to Leading Aircraftman Kenneth G Spooner of Smiths Falls Ontario. He died in a training flight when the pilot collapsed and Spooner, despite being a student navigator and never having flown, took control, ordered the other crew to jump, and attempted to land the aircraft. The plane crashed, killing Spooner and the pilot, who could have been saved by jumping.
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Kenneth G Spooner
Smith's Falls
Ont Spooner
Spooner
Lac
George Cross
Ottawa Journal
New Peacock Crochet Pattern for Upholstery Accent
A new easy pineapple crochet pattern features a peacock motif to protect upholstery. Pattern 7670 includes transfer design, materials, and crochet stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number for delivery.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Costly accident disrupts London to Portsmouth line
A platelayer dropped a shovel on a live rail at Ewell England causing rail to buckle and a three hour delay on the London to Portsmouth route. The incident halted service on the Southern Railway line and prompted safety checks after the fault.
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Southern Railway
Ewell
Eng
London-Portsmouth
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