Making Canadian Homes Attractive With Trees And Gardens
An essay argues every home benefits from trees shrubs vines and flowers. It links beauty to happier children tourism and property value, urging readers to invest time and nursery stock, seek guidance from farms or colleges, and contribute to national beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Plant Kingdom
Brasdor Lakes
Cape Breton Island
Pacific Coast
United States
Dominion
Agricultural College
Armaments For The Reich Cost Germany Tremendous Debt
A New York despatch notes seven years of heavy armament and public works spending left Germany financially exhausted at the war’s start. Nazi policies drained funds via high taxes, forced subscriptions, and inflationary borrowing to equip the army, with debts tripling under Nazi rule and conquest financing importing scarce materials through neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
New York
United States
Reich
Hitler
Lco.u
Reichsbank
Reichstag
Denmark
Sensible Fire Safety Advice From Ontario Inspector
Ontario Fire Marshal inspector Bishop urges preparedness and home fire safety. He advises housewives to keep ten pounds of baking soda for fat fires and warns against using water on gasoline fires. A rug or foam extinguisher is recommended and volatile cleaners replaced by safer solvents. An electric bulb can ignite fumes and a gallon of gasoline vapor can explode with the force of 1000 sticks of dynamite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoddard
Varsoi
Bishop
Exactly What Name Implies Plastic Wood Invention
The article in C I L Oval explains a plastic wood product made from a single tree wood ground to a flour and blended with a binder. The final material acts like wood yet is a pliable putty kept airtight until moulded and hardened back into wood.
Optimism Based on Knowledge Cited by Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press notes Sir Henry Wilson’s saying on pessimism and optimism. It contrasts pessimism from ignorance with optimism grounded in knowledge, deeming informed optimism the safest approach for troubled times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Henry Wilson
Winnipeg Free Press
Denmark's King Christian Stands Tall at 6 Feet 6 Inches
The Danish king, Christian, is noted as the world's tallest monarch at a height of six feet six inches. This unusual detail highlights a ruler who exceeds typical statures among contemporary royals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian of
Denmark
Domestication of Marten and Fisher Reported in Canada
A Canadian report notes eleven marten farms and one fisher farm operated in 1938 with 128 marten and 25 fisher born. The piece compares progress to the silver fox, suggests this may expand the fur industry, and mentions wartime censorship practices and their limits on authentic news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Marten
Fisher
Letters Returned as Mail Routes to War-Torn Countries Seal
Postal authorities face a formidable task returning thousands of letters addressed to countries now at war or under Nazi domination. Norway Denmark Finland Holland Belgium cannot receive mail from Canada. Letters to Finland circled the Atlantic and back. Belgium and Holland added to the list. they will stay until a neutral intermediary routes are arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Holland
Belgium
Canada
Atlantic
Oyster-eating fish found on Great Barrier Reef
A school of shell crushing fish was seen near an oyster bed along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The creatures have no teeth and crush shells with tough lips before swallowing the oysters, leaving a mass of crushed shell behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
The Captain Teaches Quick Fire Cooking in Camp
A captain corrects a young soldier’s breakfast method by showing how to build a fast fire. He recalls hunting breakfast in the Himalayas and returning to camp quickly. The soldier replies with a humorous misreference to Ananias and George Washington. A note on Creoles clarifies they are descendants of white families, not mulattoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Himalayas
Ananias
George Washington
Dish Drying Bluebirds Pattern Sale at Winnipeg Bazaar
Quick stitchery pattern 6668 offers seven motifs averaging 54 by 7 inches with transfers. Materials and color schemes included. send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for this pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Northern air trail pilots train for Allied war effort
Veterans from Canada's northern skies shift to RCAF and BCATP roles. Don Farrell, Stan McMillan, Harry Winny, Archie Van Hee, Tom Mahone, Jack Harriet, Wilf Cameron and Wop May lead teaching, patrols, and recruitment while clubs and Trans-Canada Air Lines prepare pilots for war and civilian flights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.C.A.F
Don Farrell
Stan McMillan
Harry Winny
Archie van Hee
Tom Mahone
Jack Harriet
Wilf Cameron
Canada
W. R
Wop) May
Alberta
Canadian Airways Limited
Edmonton
Northern Alberta Aero Club
May
Eimonton Club
Dominion
Canadian Airways
R.C.A F
Air Force
Trenton
Ont
McMillan
Mackenzie Air Service
Winny
Hudson’s Bay Company
Col. C
Ian Innes-Taylor
Camp Borden
Aero Club
Maurice Burbidge
A. D. Kennedy
James Bell
RCAF
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Mysterious Near Galactic Fireball Found by Palomar Astronomers
Josef F. Johnson of Palomar Observatory reports a nearby star system object initially seen as a supernova. Mount Wilson astronomers later used the 100 inch telescope and found a spectrum like an ordinary star, yet its brightness and distance place it among nebulae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef F. Johnson
Palomar Observatory
Pasadena
Callif
Mount Palomar
Mount Wilson
Rudolph L. Minkowski
Design King Carol III Reworks Romanian Uniforms
The Romanian sovereign designs new costumes for nearly every uniformed person in Roumania. The Balkans feature numerous colorful uniforms of high importance, making this a historically significant sartorial shift akin to notable figures of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol III
Goering
Roumania
Balkans
Frederick the Great and the early Prussian tongue
The text notes that Frederick the Great despised the German language and ignored German writers despite ruling Prussia. It then mentions the Cincinnati Reds as the first baseball team to wear uniforms with short pants in 1863.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great
Prussia
The
Cincinnati Reds
Sergeant-major boasts during recruit drill session
A pompous sergeant-major at a training session proclaims drill is vital and brags about his chest, prompting a back-row comment. A separate note mentions the Japanese writing system with katanaka for men and hiranage for women.
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Ava
Inspector Bishop
Ontario Fire Marshal's Department
le Dimanche Ilustre
Paris
London
J. A. McNeil
McNeil
Ottawa Journal
Bluebird Towels
Northern Air Trails
General von Seckt
Adolf Hitler
Hans von Seekt
Russia
von Seckt
Reichswehr
Europe
Northwest Territories
Royal Canadian Air Force
Arctic
Queer Star
Hing Carol
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