Hunter's Moon Echoes a Soldier's War Wake
Ex Corporal Loren LaFond returns to his mountain home for deer season unable to stalk due to a leg wound from mortar blasts. He spots a wounded buck on Windy Ridge and, amid memories of a brutal rice paddy chase, recalls vowing not to hunt again as the buck slips away.
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Fures
Loren LaFond
Grandfather
Loren
Wolf Rock
Windy Ridge
Cat Mountain
Old Tobie
Seren
Rosita Forbes Encounters Stalin In Private Moment
Rosita Forbes recalls meeting Josef Stalin before the wars. She asked what he liked best in life and he named dogs children his own people and Georgia workers. He then replied to what he disliked most with a swift murmur to his wife and a smile, translating through his wife a quip about large mountainous females full of words.
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Rosita Forbes
Josef Stalin
Georgia
Miss Forbes
Factory to repurpose poison gas plant for DDT production
A Cape Town plant once producing poison gas for South Africa's armed forces is to be converted for making the insecticide DDT. The powder will help combat disease and pests across the Union.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Union
Rust Laboratory in Winnipeg Focus of cereal Disease Research
The Dominion Laboratory of Plant Pathology at Winnipeg, known as the Rust Laboratory, conducts investigations on rusts and smuts of cereals and flax, seed-borne diseases of foundation seed, and root rots. It collaborates with the Cereal Breeding Laboratory and participates with Ottawa, the Dominion Experimental Farms, and western Canadian universities to test disease resistance in new cereal and flax varieties.
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Dominion Laboratory of
Winnipeg
Rust Research Laboratory
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Dominion Cereal Breeding Laboratory
Cereal Division
Experimental Farms Service
Cereal
Ottawa
Dominion Experimental Farms
Canada
Elsa Maxwell Defines a Lady for Modern Times
New York social figure Elsa Maxwell states a lady is a woman who shows as much care for others as for herself. The remark suggests many women must adjust habits and customs to meet that standard.
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Elsa Maxwell
New York
Battleford RCMP memorial and Indian museum progress report
Natural Resources Minister J L Phelps reports good progress on the Battleford Saskatchewan project. Buildings have been dismantled for salvage and renovation will convert the old police post into a memorial and museum with a rustic stockade. The Commanding Officer's house nears completion and grounds will become a community park. donations of Indian relics are invited.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Battleford
Sask
Natural Resources
J. L. Phelps
Police
Saskatchewan
Campbell Innes
M.A
North Battleford
Cosmic Rays May Yield More Energy Than Atom Splitting
Dr. Arthur H. Compton of Washington University told the St. Louis Academy of Science that cosmic rays show processes transforming all mass of particles into energy. He said cosmic rays may develop far greater energy than uranium atom fission, noting his role among scientists who helped create the atomic bomb.
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Arthur H. Compton
Washington University
Compton
St. Louis Academy of Science
Air Sea Rescue Service saves thousands of personnel
During the European war the Air Sea rescue service saved 5 721 air crew in waters around the United Kingdom 32 000 aircrew in overseas waters and 4 665 sailors soldiers and civilians in areas other than the seas around Britain.
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Air Sea Rescue Service
United Kingdom
Britain
Macdonald Brier curling renews world series in Saskatoon
The 1940s wartime pause ends as curling resumes with the Manitoba Bonspiel legacy. Canada's Brier Tankard returns to Saskatoon March 4 7, featuring top provinces and veterans like Gordon Hudson Howard Wood Clif Manahan Ken Watson. Western dominance is suggested by a 13 3 all time Brier record with Manitoba leading at 10 wins.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Cracie
Canada
United States
Danny Howard Wood
George Sherwood
Sherwood
Quebec
Toronto
Granite Club
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Montreal
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
Halifax Curling Club
Murray Macneill
Nova
John T. Haig
Thane A. Campbell
Supreme Court of P.ei
Rennie
Haig
Campbell
Peter D. Lyall
British Columbia
Prince Edward Island
Saskatoon
Sask
Arena
Quebec City
Gordon Hudson
Howard Wood
Clif Manahan
Edmonton
Ken Watson
Woolley Village Honors Two World War Returnees
In Woolley Somerset near Bath thirteen men sent to fight in World War I all returned home unharmed. Twenty two years later thirteen more villagers went to war in World War II and again all came back. Halifax Herald notes the village observance marking this remarkable exodus and safe returns.
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Somerset
Woolley
Bath
Halifax Herald
Wide Size Range Pattern 4866 for a quick slip-on frock
Pattern 4866 offers a front-buttoned frock with collar and sleeve ruffles for all day freshness in a wide size range. Sizes include 14 through 48 with fabric yardage details for size 36. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg for ordering with your size name address and pattern number.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
Man
Dining Etiquette Under Louis XIV Hats at Table
In Louis XIV era France etiquette allowed noblemen to dine with hats on and doff them when passing meat or spearing bread. The custom reflected strict table manners and social signaling among the courtly ranks.
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Louis XIV
France
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Thede
Hunter
THE
Chicago Sun Syndicate
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Rust Laboratory
Battleford Museum
Macdonalds
Thomas Rennie
Ont
Thane A. Campbell Charlouetown
P.E.I
P.E.L
K.C
Ipaton
Liniment
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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