Postwar Plans for Employment and Land Settlement in Canada
Canada prepares for postwar problems with demobilization in view and unemployment insurance in force. Ian Mackenzie leads a land settlement plan via the Soldiers' Settlement Board, offering veterans farms or suburban homes with garden plots and long experience guides policy to provide employment and security after victory.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Canada
Great Britain
Ian Mackenzie
Canadians spent more on illness than air training plan cost
Figures show 1941 illness spending reached 250 million dollars, surpassing the Commonwealth Air Training Plan cost of 225 million. Health authorities note about half of sickness is preventable and 50,000 Canadian workers are absent daily. Additional notes state maple sap yield and eye energy use.
Birmingham Warship Week Sets Record With £10 Million Raised
The Birmingham Post hails Warship Week as an unqualified success. It notes Birmingham raised more than £10,000,000 in a week, a feat not previously equalled, reflecting the city’s ongoing pursuit of higher charitable targets and broader civic effort.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Post
One ounce of radium from vast ore quantities
A historical claim notes that one ounce of radium arises from processing 14,000 tons of ore. The statement highlights the extraordinary mass of material required to obtain a tiny amount of radium.
When in Rome you do as the Germans tell you to do
A concise quip notes a paradox about adherence to local authority rules. The line plays on cultural sayings and historical context, implying obedience to higher orders in unfamiliar settings.
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Rome
The Individual Citizen's Army in Canada 1914 19
The piece explains Canada's modern army construction through the Directorate of Personnel Selection using the M test to place specialists in suitable roles. Colonel G B Chisholm leads the effort, combining interviews with capability testing to reveal learnability and potential beyond education.
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Canada
G. B. Chisholm
M.C. and
Bar
Toronto
Dominion
Time
Monk Hero of Libyan Campaign Saves Prisoners
A young Trappist monk from Mount St. Bernard Leicestershire known as Father Celsus Flinn served as chaplain with a field ambulance in Libya. He was captured by a German tank column but escaped and, under fire, drove an army wagon to British headquarters. His report led to a successful bombardment that freed the remaining prisoners.
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Mount St. Bernard
Leicestershire
England
Celsus Flinn
Easy Lessons in Guitar Playing Offered by Home Service
A Winnipeg News paper Union notice promotes a 32 page booklet with guitar fingerboard diagrams and basic chords. It invites readers to send 15 cents for Easy Lessons in Guitar Playing and lists other 15 cent booklets on vitamins poems party games rock gardens and more.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Soldier Artists in Canadian Army Overseas
Three enlisted soldiers were commissioned as 2nd lieutenants and chosen as war artists. Will Ogilvie, E. J. Hughes, and J. N. Fisher from Montreal and Vancouver will contribute oils and watercolors to the army’s pictorial record. Col Fortescue Duguid and Major C. P. Stacey guide the project.
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Will Ogilvie
17Th
Duke of York's
Royal Canadian Hussars
Montreal
E. J. Hughes
Royal Canadian Artillery
N. Fisher
Royal Canadian Engineers
Vancouver
Ottawa
Col
A. Fortescue Duguid
National Defence Headquarters
London
C. P. Stacey
Toronto
Birds in Britain War Markets Feed Nation
Sparrows, starlings, crows, larks, curlews and even swans are being sold in large markets as food due to a hard winter. Many wild birds, previously considered inedible or too small, are finding buyers amid wartime shortages.
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Britain
Water Density Peaks at Four Degrees Celsius
The article states that pure water reaches maximum density and weight at four degrees Celsius, a property notable for its implications in natural water bodies and thermodynamics.
Carved Potato Type Produces Chinese Ad for Lillooet News
John Hunt, a Chinese university graduate, carved Chinese characters from a potato to form a printable stereotype for a Lillooet Bridge River News ad. The English read It is your duty to buy Victory Bonds. A Timbuktu legend mentions roasting poles on minarets for returning spirits while noting wood’s grain strength surpasses structural steel.
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Lillooet Bridge
Timbuktu
Kellogg's All-Bran Promoted as Better Way to Regularity
Montreal reader Mr. A. H. Ward endorses Kellogg's All-Bran as a non-cathartic solution for constipation. The ad urges trying the product's bulk in diet and notes availability in grocers or restaurant servings, made by Kellogg's in London Canada.
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A. H. Ward
Montreal
Quebec
Kellogg's
London
Canada
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