Desian Emergency Outfits For Air Crews In Distress
ANADA air force scientists with civilians reveal emergency outfits for downed air crews. Pack items include 100 hour eight light, smoke signalling fins, two way zipper casualty jackets, and a plastic whistle. Kits stay attached to airmen and include medical kits, food pills, tools, mosquito net, tent instructions, and a Bircham dropping barrel with parachute gear.
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National Research
Air Force
Canada
R.C.A.F
War correspondents join invasion coverage from Britain
A Canadian Press despatch from London notes war correspondents assembling in Britain to accompany the invasion army. Reports say accredited journalists from Canadian, American, and British outlets will move freely on the Western front to relay battle developments while preserving security.
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London
Britain
Europe
Associated Press
United Press
Pacific
Mediterranean
Western Front
Ottawa Journal
Aluminum Revolution Mission Traced to Napoleon III Prophecy
Nearly a century ago Napoleon III predicted aluminum would transform transportation. The remark echoes through history as researchers explore aluminum’s potential to power lighter vehicles and cleaner rails.
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Napoleon III
Ode To Spring from a Toronto turn of the century clipping
A poem notes spring optimism despite lingering snow. The speaker values signs like cattle shedding hair and mud in barns, farms stirring, and maple trees with birds as warmth returns. He contemplates writing a song about simple rural pleasures and patiently awaiting spring’s full arrival.
HOBBY HINTS FROM WORLD RULERS INTERESTS REVEALED
An English researcher catalogs favorite pastimes of famous rulers. Haile Selassie enjoys tuna fish, Ibn Saad favors jeeps with machine guns, and King Farouk loves motorcycles, revealing human interests behind autocratic rule.
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Orient
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Ibn Saad
Central
Arabia
Farouk
Egypt
Startling explanation prompts kind gesture on hill
A kind-hearted vicar helps an old woman push a perambulator up a steep hill. At the summit he offers to help again and asks for a reward. She reveals the baby is not a child but the old man's beer, ending with a humorous twist.
Unusual Job for Naval Service Meteorologist
Sub Lieutenant Helen Rosemary Partridge, the sole woman meteorologist in the Canadian armed forces, works at Naval Service headquarters Ottawa. She compiles weather from airport stations to forecast conditions affecting ships and cargo, and will soon begin a three month Admiralty course overseas.
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Helen Partridge
Wrc.n.s
Naval Service Headquarters
Navy
Army
Air Force
Ottawa
Helen Rosemary Partridge
Royal Canadian Navy
Partridge
Admiralty
Prosperous Alberta Districts Report Lethbridge Review
The Lethbridge Herald notes prosperity in Alberta southern districts while crops ran two thirds normal. Farmers invest in Victory bonds, clean debts, and prepare for postwar conditions. Southern district wealth reached 67.2 million with cattle hogs dairy and honey prices at high levels amid drought year 1943. City debt reduced by 793681.86 with a 50000 current surplus in Lethbridge.
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Lethbridge Herald
Alberta
Herald
Ontario
Lethbridge
J. T. Watson
British Columbia Salvage Corps Sees Rag Drive Success
In Victoria a 40000 pound rag depot drives community effort as A H Pease leads a school drive. Students collected rags in two weeks with prizes for top contributors and blue buttons for school winners. A visitor calls the corps a top North American model.
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British Columbia Salvage Corps
Victoria
A. H. Pease
Greater Victoria
Canada
North America
Woman achieves historic staff officer role in Royal Canadian Navy
The navy praises a trailblazing woman in the Wrens as she becomes the first and only female assistant to staff officer M. Her appointment is celebrated as a milestone for the Royal Canadian Navy and women in the services nationwide.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Wrens
Heavy bombing as Britain's chosen form in this war
In a London New Statesman and Nation piece, the correspondent argues that heavy bombing has been Britain’s deliberate strategy in World War II. It notes Berlin and Hamburg firestorms, questions if civilian casualties are justifiable, and cites Churchill's 1940 policy of long-range bombing and limited dive-bomber use as shaping the timing of a second front.
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Britain
London New Statesman
Nation
Hamburg
Berlin
Germany
Flanders
Churchill
France
Your Life Quote on Born Fears by Lester F. Miles
In Your Life magazine Lester F. Miles claims people are born with only two fears the fear of falling and a fear triggered by a sudden loud noise. He argues all other fears are learned since birth.
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Lester F. Miles
Your Life
Women in Industry Postwar Roles for Canadian Army Corps
Hundreds of women serving with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps will be fitted to enter specialized industry after the war as a direct result of their army training.
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Canadian Women's Army Corps
Canada to boost vegetable seed production for 1944 spring
The Agricultural Supplies Board reports adequate 1944 seed supplies after a 1943 program. Beans peas beets carrots cauliflower cucumbers lettuce onions radishes spinach tomatoes swedes and mangels will be available. Canada plans expanded production with British Columbia leading in field root seed output and some shipments to the United Kingdom.
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Canada
Agricultural Supplies Board
United Kingdom
British Columbia
Medical research group formed to study wounded Canadians care
A new medical research group will track wounded Canadians from front line to base hospital to assess treatment methods and improve healing techniques. Key members will monitor care, documenting progress and outcomes to inform medical practice.
Take It or Leave It: People Often Preface Preference
A brief note on the common habit of stating a stance as indifferent while privately favoring one side. The piece suggests that many who claim to be neutral actually lean toward a preferred option in decision making.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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