RCAF Students List Graduates From Multiple Training Schools
Western Canada homes of graduates listed from No 4 Service Flying Training School Saskatoon No 5 Bombing and Gunnery School Dafoe No 3 Bombing and Gunnery School MacDonald No 7 Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Names include LAC D J MacLise D J McIntosh C Tuma A Wareham J A Wilson W L Yaholnitsky G M Young H B Gwynn W K Hamilton R A Livingston F W Skinner C A Walsh A T Biech P F Creech D E Browne A G Brown B A Moffatt G B Robb K Stenbraatin T S Taylor with towns such as Wadena Souris Churchbridge Unity Punnichy Vista Rosebank Morris Lindaw Bruderheim Lloydminster Expanse Crystal City Kincaid and more.
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Canada
No 4
Service Flying Training School
Saskatoon
A. T. Biech
Bruderheim
Alta
F. B. Creech
Lloydminster Sask
Paulson
Man
D. E. Browne
Lashburn
Sask
A. G. Brown
Codette
B. A. Moffatt
Gregg
G. B. Robb
Realities Of War Call For A Greater Canadian Effort
Editorial urges all Canadians to grasp the war’s seriousness and contribute to the war effort. It notes Japan’s entry, submarine activity off North American coasts, Pacific coast fears, and the need for conservation. It praises Victory Loan support and calls for full personal sacrifice to defend freedom.
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Canada
Japan
Pacific
Proved Its Efficiency Inventions By Rural Hydro Staff Item
Charles A. Shupe a former Rural Hydro Office staffer in Simcoe Ontario is remembered for inventing an envelope sealing machine. Preliminary tests showed effectiveness after needed alterations. The staff sealed thousands of envelopes, timing showed 40 seals per minute. Tarakan Island Borneo, now under Japanese control, was a key petroleum area for the Netherlands Indies.
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Charles A. Shupe
Staf
Hydro
Simcoe
Ont
Tarakan Island
Borneo
Netherlands Indies
Mail scrutiny for MPs and private citizens urged
The Brockville Recorder and Times argues that if private citizens face mail scrutiny by censors, MPs should also endure similar examination. The piece condemns complaints against this proposed oversight and calls for uniform treatment of all mail.
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M.p.'s
The
Brockville Recorder and Times
Women Lead in War Industry Details and Dressed Roles
The text notes that women perform about 193 tasks in making the steel body of an army rifle with 63 on the barrel and in one plant all but three are done by women. It also explains golf knickers are called plus fours because a tailor added four inches to the width when standard length was found insufficient.
How To Make Slip Covers from Home Service Dept
A pamphlet offers step by step instructions for making slip covers for sofas chairs and auto seats. It explains pinning trimming basting fitting and finishing with gathered or stiff flounces and lists other booklets available for 15 cents each including vitamins poems and party games.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
The Individual Citizen's Army Tankers and Their Air of Cockiness
The column examines tank crews as a confident breed in the civilian army. A writer rides a tank, notes the sense of power behind the steel, and observes how this experience shapes careful driving once back on ordinary roads. Tankers blend bravado with disciplined skill and relentless mobility.
The Ideal Way in War Kitchens Dishes Dry Cleanly
British war factory kitchens wash dishes with hot and cold water sprays and dry with hot spray. Dishes then dry in cold air, providing cleaner drying in the factory commons. The housewife’s dream is contrasted with industrial efficiency.
Young Bride Presents First Pie In Kitchen Banter
A young bride serves her first pie and asks her husband if it is nice. He replies it is terrible. She retorts that the cookery book says it is tasty and delicious, highlighting playful kitchen humor.
Was Too Smart Inquirer's Witty Shop Trade Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds as a shopkeeper boasts he sells writing pads not keeps them. The customer retorts with a quip about the pad they planned to buy, highlighting quick wit in a lighthearted street scene.
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the Inquirer
Regular Oil Care Extends Car Engine Bearings Life
Brief guidance notes that applying a few drops of good oil to the generator and starting motor bearings at regular intervals helps preserve these components.
Notable Reporter Grits Through a Humorous Climb
The passage contrasts light hearted efficiency with the effort of middle aged newspapermen as they climb out of a situation. It notes the jaunty stride the younger man has and the bruises felt by the older observers. The major remains slightly hysterical, aware of how the crew appears afterward.
Paris Raid Seen as National Catastrophe by Petain
Marshal Petain terms the raid a national catastrophe though seen as a sequel to the greater catastrophe of betrayal by fifth columnists. The piece notes Canada’s need for fifteen thousand basic gauges in munition manufacture and inspection.
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Paris
Marshal Petain
France
Canada
Gorilla Guards Family from Lone Leopard Threat
The leopard is nearly the sole danger to a gorilla, which sleeps at the base of a tree to defend its family from this solitary predator.
Leaves It To Experts Says Britain's Food Controller
Britain's Food Controller Lord Woolton says he cannot cook and will leave cooking to the experts the British housewives. He recounts a Bank of England sausage shop joke to illustrate his stance. The Mount Wilson telescope at 100 inches weighs 100 tons and is the largest telescope in use today.
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Lord Woolton
Bank of England
Mount Wilson Observatory
Beau Brummel Dies Poor in 1840 Asylum
The famed 18th century London fashion leader Beau Brummel died a pauper while confined in an insane asylum in 1840.
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Beau Brummel
London
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R.C.A.F
Western
Maris
Ontario
Home Service
Tank Corps
Kipling
Itn
Bob Bowman
C.B.C
Dale
Miss J. Duplante
Cornwall
J. H- Laliberte
Montresi
P.Q
Nabisco
Protecmiv
Canadian Shredded Wheat Company, Ltd
Niagara Falls
Conodo
Nabisco Grays
Britain
Amilton
Toronto
Montreal
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