Canada to Welcome War Refugee Children For Duration
The article outlines Canada’s plan to admit refugee children from Britain during the war and possibly adult refugees later. It discusses Western Canada's immigration concerns, labor and agricultural impacts, and the projected intake of about 10 000 British children as temporary residents who may later settle permanently.
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Europe
Canada
Western
Prairie Provinces
Meet
Great Britain
Radium Moved To Derbyshire Cave as War Measure
Radium moved from Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute in Manchester to a cave in the Derbyshire Hills to protect patients if a bomb bursts near the hospital. The board learned that an explosion within 150 yards could rupture radium needles, kill a patient, and render the area uninhabitable. Milk delivery began house to house with cows driven to each dwelling.
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Christie Hospital
Holt Radium Institute
Manchester
Derbyshire Hills
Tulip Bacon Tested by British Agriculture Ministry
At Kirton agricultural institute in Lincolnshire tulip bulbs unfit for sale were fed to pigs to replace 25 percent of cereal meal. The resulting tulip bacon will be tested soon with a warning that daffodils are not suitable for feeding.
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Ministry of Agriculture
Kirton Agricultural Institute
Lincolnshire
Autotomy in animals where limbs break off at defined points
The concept of autotomy refers to certain animals ability to shed a limb at specified breaking points as a defense mechanism. This process allows the animal to escape predators with a detached limb regrowing later in some species.
The Way To Advancement and Working Up
A veteran writer recalls two youths with similar ages and different paths. One left a route man truck to win a premier commercial traveler job in a field of 460 entrants, trading a truck for a car and a higher collar. The other remains idle, dependent on others, and deteriorating in effort and form, illustrating the case for taking any job as a stepping stone toward a better one.
Prime Minister Donates Autographed Books to Troop Library
The Library For Troops under Canadian Legion War Services gains two autographed volumes by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. The Secret of Heroism and Industry and Humanity join 200 other Canadian titles sent to the C.L.W.S. education HQ in London to stock a wartime library for soldiers studying trades and professions.
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Canadian Legion War Services
Mackenzie King
Wilfred Bovey
L. M. Montgomery
Hector Charlesworth
A. S. Bourinot
DB. Ross
Lloyd C. Douglas
Canada Imposes 21 Percent Duty On Tourist Imports
Budget reveals 10 percent tax on value for duty for goods brought by Canadian tourists returning home. Exemption of $100 for U S goods is removed, creating an effective 21 percent duty when combined with an 11 percent exchange differential. Radios among the popular items face the new tax.
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Canada
United States
Dominion
National Revenue Department
Germany's Economic Woes Behind Nazi War Machine
An analysis argues Hitler funds rearmament by taxing workers and devaluing the mark. Sternberg contends 20 million employed Germans earn less than 12 million did in 1932, with rising living costs and shifted tax burdens. The piece warns of an inevitable reckoning as war stalls and opposition suppression widens.
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Germany
Paris
London
New York
Hitler
Fritz Sternberg
New Republic
Sternberg
Mr. Sternberg
Gestapo
Watertown
N.Y
Times
King and Queen meet soldiers in Lancashire visit
During a Lancashire tour the King and Queen spoke with a party of soldiers. A 15 year old, Billy Carswell, slipped behind naval experts and earned a brief audience after answering the Queen’s questions.
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Lancashire
Billy Carswell
Billy
Flies Gather Before Rain, Tulips Cut Off
Flies swarm house screens as heavy air bears food odors ahead of a coming rainstorm. The German invasion of Holland disrupts tulip supply, and flowers do not sprout along the Nazi advance.
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Holland
Escaped The Gestapo A Czech Woman’s Flight To Canada
Mrs. Stanislaus Mlynar told Torontos that her husband Stanislaus escaped to fight on the right side in Czechoslovakia. She endured a Gestapo inquiry before feigning a divorce and using a pre arranged letter. Posing as a German girl she entered Italy in February and sought passage to Canada where her husband was the first Czech in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Official red tape delayed sailing and voyage plans were set one hour before the Manhattan departed from Italy.
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Gestapo
Czechoslovakia
Canada
Toronto
Stanislaus Mlynar
Stanislaus
Mlynar
Italy
R.c.af
Manhattan
United States
Selected Recipes Cake Note from Historic Kitchen
Cream butter and sugar then beat in eggs. Stir in syrup and molasses, add dry ingredients alternately with sour milk. Bake in a greased pan in a slow oven about 40 minutes. This recipe halves easily for a smaller cake.
Ham and Bran Meat Cakes with Peach Halves
A recipe blends 2 pounds ground raw smoked ham with lean pork with egg cloves brown sugar evaporated milk and All Bran shaped into small cakes baked at 375 to 400 degrees for about 30 minutes. Heat peach halves alongside and serve two cakes per person with one peach half for eight servings.
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Kellogg's
Primitive beginnings of the modern canning industry
Historical note traces early canning to 1807 with Bryan Donkin and John Hall at Dartford Iron Works. It covers wartime rations, early can openers, Parry's Arctic voyages carrying tins, and findings that canned foods retained quality comparable to fresh, including carrots with carotene preserved.
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Parry
The Young Raleighs and a Soldier Poet Remembered
In tribute to Lieut. W. S. Finlayson 28, killed defending Calais, the piece links his wartime heroism to actor Wallace Douglass who played Raleigh in Journey's End. It reflects on the many Raleighs in war, citing sacrifice for England and a sentimental linkage to Mr Chips. It closes with a note on modern machinery displacing people, and a sentiment about a girl in love with a car.
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W.S. Finlayson
Calais
Wallace Douglass
Raleigh
Chips
England
Hamilton Spectator
Gasoline Pool System in Britain Under Government Rationing
British fuel firms substitute brand names by pooling imports into a central gasoline pool. Each company then receives a government allocated quantity to sell anonymously at its filling stations, enforcing rationing and control over retail distribution.
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Great Britain
Stromboli Volcano Shows Long Eruptions for Visitors
Stromboli in the Lipari Islands continues to erupt with near two hour activity drawing tourists to the island. Authorities report ongoing volcanic activity and safety advisories for visitors and residents.
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Lipari Islands
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