How Eskimos Hunt the White Whale
In Cumberland Sound near Pangnirtung on Baffin Island Eskimo whale hunters gather each July for the white whale drive. Sixty boats pursue thousands of belugas over a tidal bar, killing and skinning them for muktuk oil and leather while the Nascopie ships the products to supply the Hudson’s Bay Company. The article closes with a quip about George Washington and a fact about lettuce seeds.
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Clifford Wilson
Une
Baffin Island
Arctic Circle
Cumberland Sound
Pangtirtung
Arctic
Hudson's Bay Company
Atlantic
St Lawrence
Kingua Fiord
Fierd
Sound
Pangrirtung
Elephants to Shelter Forests With Long-Term Ban on Logging
A Children’s Newspaper report claims the Knysna Forests in South Africa will be closed for about two hundred years to allow original growth to renew. It notes the Knysna elephants, once numerous, now dwindled to around a dozen, and argues preserving forest and water access helps their survival. The report cites Addo as a related example where added water holes kept elephants within bounds and thriving.
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South Africa
Knysna
Africa
Destruction of Krupp Works Shows Air Power’s Reach
The Ninth Army entered Essen and found the Krupp munition works pulverized, a symbol of German industrial might turned to dust. The piece recalls Krupp’s historic guns such as Big Bertha and notes air power's dramatic impact on a once impregnable arsenal.
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Ninth Army
Krupp
Essen
Paris
Carolina Sands
Quebec
Feed industry growth mirrors wartime demand in Canada
Like other farm industries, the feed manufacturing business expanded greatly during the war. In 1943 it totaled forty million dollars, up from twenty six point seven million in 1942, accounting for about one sixth of the total value of feeds fed to Canadian livestock.
Proportion and color in room trim according to placement
Good room design suggests painting trim a different color from walls to emphasize well placed windows and doors. If windows and doors are badly placed, paint trim the same color as the wall so it blends in.
Woman Sees Ocean for First Time in Simple Joy
A woman who lived a life with few comforts gazes at the sea, standing with folded hands. She declares it the first sight of something she has found ample and satisfying.
The Sarnia Observer on Grass Growing Sounds
The piece argues that under hot dry sun, grass growth becomes audible as energy, linking seen and unseen phenomena. It suggests a spiritual lesson in listening to nature’s processes and the broader good it implies for a troubled world.
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Sarnia
Canadian
Middle Western
Mississippi
Souvenir Heist Rumor From V E Night Palace Roof
A London correspondent reports a tale of a daring theft on V E night where a thief climbed the Palace roof and cut a square from a royal handkerchief to carry away. The tale follows earlier souvenir capers at 10 Downing Street and Westminster tea-set legends carried to America with heraldic emblems.
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London
Ottawa Journal
10 Downing Street
House of Commons
America
Palace of Westminster
Formosa Island News and a Wartime Bridge Link
The article outlines Formosa now Taiwan’s geography and resources with details on area population and minerals. It also recounts wartime uses of the Waterloo bridge sections, noting their transport to Cologne and the American crossing into Germany marking a symbolic link to a Nazi defeat.
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Waterloo
Thames
London
Rhine
Cologne
Waterloo Bridge
Germany
Waterloo” Bridge
St. Thomas Times-Journal
1943 Canning Industry Output by Province
Industry report shows fruit canning and freezing, pickles and related products valued at over 72 million dollars in 1943. Of this total 62 percent was produced in Ontario and 17 percent in British Columbia.
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Fe NG
Ontario
British Columbia
Reverse lend lease feeds U S forces with food goods
Australia New Zealand and India supplied the United States armed forces with 3 159 238 000 pounds of food under reverse lend lease. Leo T Crowley administrator reported in Washington the food was worth 283 767 000 dollars. Penguins are found at the South Pole but not at the North.
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Australia
New Zealand
India
United States
Leo T Crowley
Washington
Crowley
South Pole
A Real Patriot Redisguised For Resistance Work
Lt Col J R H Hutchinson, aged 52, underwent facial reconstruction to fool the Gestapo after aiding the National Council in 1939 40. With his wife’s consent a doctor grafted bone and reshaped his face. Four days after D Day he parachuted into France with a radio operator and 12 in an airborne unit to assist the Maquis targeting bridges and ammunition dumps.
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Gestapo
France
National Council
Algiers
J. R. H. Hutchinson
Normandy
Secret minefield charts write wartime miracle on D-Day
An eyewitness account details Allied capture of German minefield charts during a night clash off Toulon six hours before H Hour in August 1944. Destroyer Endicott sank two corvettes, enabling invasion of southern France without ship losses. Nuclear secrecy and swift minesweeping followed dawn.
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France
Davidson
Augusta
Edward H. Jones
Mediterranean
Ranson Kirby Davis
Toulon
Detroyer Endicott
Endicott
Scarves as life saving maps used by Australian airmen
Canadian airmen in the Pacific may adopt Australian style scarves printed with three color maps. The Australian Air Force has produced 33,000 scarves in recent months covering 12 600 000 square miles. Maps show rivers in blue, airdromes in violet, towns and roads in black, and villages in orange to reveal only essential lines in dim light.
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Canada
Canadian Merchant Navy Losses in World War II
About 1,500 Canadian merchant seamen died in the war era while serving on Canadian ships or on vessels of other Allied flags. The text also offers a home design tip on painting rooms to create visual depth, noting darker end walls for narrower spaces and lighter side walls to suggest length.
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Merchant Navy of
Canada
United Nations
Australia Leads World as Wool Producer
Australia remains the world’s top wool producer with strong output figures reported this year. The nation’s textile sector highlights robust farm incomes and export momentum, underpinning a key agricultural trade position.
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Australia
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Red Army
Equator
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