Merchant Seamen Heard At Navy League Club Halifax
In January the Navy League of Canada’s merchant seamen’s club in Halifax sheltered 360 survivors from nine Allied ships. The facility serves 2,000 to 3,000 seamen daily with meals, medical care, and clothing gifts totaling over 1,000 socks 800 sweaters 700 scarves 800 mitts 500 caps 142 coats 250 underwear sets and 900 pajamas to 1,553 seamen. Notable visitors included Crown Prince and Princess of Norway and journalists from Collier’s Time and Rosita Forbes.
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Navy League of Canada
Merchant Seamen’s Club
Halifax
David H Gibson
Dominion
Navy League
Geamer
Gibson
Red Cross
Lo.d.e
Magazine Exchange
St. John Ambulance Brigade
War Services Organizations
Crown Prince and Princess of
Norway
Angus L. Macdonald
Nova Scotia
Gordon Taylor
M. S. MacKay
C. M. Ford
Quentin Reynolds
Collier's Magazine
John Osborne
Time
Rosita Forbes
The Enduring Name of Cook and Sons in Travel History
The New York Sun notes Thomas Cook & Sons, founded in 1841, pioneered modern travel and shaped the industry with tours, guides, and reliable transport. Despite a stock transfer, the firm continues under the familiar name as travel routes shift and old venues close.
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Thomas Cook & Sons
Cook
Cook Agency
New York Sun
Not Very Reassuring Complacency and Grim Warning
The passage argues reassurance from UN support masks a warning from a wartime context. It cites four-fifths of humanity aligned with the Allies and notes Java’s population failed to deter Japanese forces. It also compares alloying metals, stating platinum requires iridium as a more precious alloying element.
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United Nations
Java
The Art Of Walking In Gallup Poll Insights
A Gallup poll measures American daily walking habits with 25 percent traveling one mile or less and smaller percentages for two to five miles or more. The study, before rationing, predicts more walking a year hence, noting housewives cover unusually large areas daily.
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Los Angeles
Redondo Beach
Palos Verdes Hills
Municipal Airport
Long Beach
Seal Beach
Gallup
Toronto Star
Cheap and Strong Plastic From Sugar Cane
Sugar cane plastic, derived from bagasse fibre, is described as nearly as strong as iron and a plentiful, cost free material for production. The text notes its origin as sugar cane residue from mills and its use in celo tex. It also states gelatin is the highest protein food at about 85 percent protein, compared to meat at 25 percent.
Arnold Anniversary Marks Rugby Head Master’s Reforms
The centenary observance of Dr. Thomas Arnold, Rugby School head master from 1828 to 1842, will be held June 13 at Rugby. His legacy, celebrated in biographies by Dean Stanley and Thomas Hughes, highlights character formation as a core aim alongside learning, and his reforms reshaped public schooling.
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Thomas Arnold
Rugby
Rugby School
Dean Stanley
Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown
Birmingham Mail
Armed With Cannon Airmen Assess Japanese Zero Fighters
Australian airmen who fought in Malaya describe Japanese Zero fighters as highly manoeuvreable with speeds up to 340 mph. They note Zero planes are armed with cannons and machine guns, including four cannons on one opposing plane. The piece also recalls the Dutch trade control in the Orient and Europe for 150 years before British victory in Malaya.
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Malaya
Orient
Europe
Canada’s navy shares convoy burden with Allies
Navy Minister Angus Macdonald said in Toronto that destroyers corvettes and smaller vessels are proving excellent for convoy work and carrying a fair share of the burden. He noted Canada is sharing about 30 percent of North Atlantic convoy duties with the United States and Britain and that recruitment is strong with some 30 000 men ready and a long waiting list for admission.
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Angus Macdonald
Toronto
North Atlantic
Macdonald
United States
Royal Canadian Navy
Light snips and wartime fears mix in a coastal report
A New Jersey eye specialist links Nazi defeat to blue eyes, while fogs persist on the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. The classroom pun alter ego is noted as students discuss language and metaphor.
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New Jersey
Aleutian Islands
North Pacific
Severe aggressors faced by a just peace in world war
The Brandon Sun argues Japan and Germany seek to save face by attacking the United Nations and forcing lenient peace terms. It contends Japan and Nazi regimes rely on appeasers and moralistic civilizations to mislead allied nations, while Russia may reshape postwar terms if it leads. The piece warns of brutal crimes by Japan and the Nazis’ grim future if defeated.
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Japan
United Nations
China
Malaya
Russia
Axis
Germany
Brandon Sun
Rise of Sir Stafford Cripps and the Fourth Attribute
A London cable notes Cripps possesses talent sincerity and luck but questions his judgment. It recounts his rise from solicitor general in 1929 to ambassador in Moscow and his wartime switch to government service, ending with the view that British public opinion may be right when it feels Cripps is a big man.
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Financial Post
Toronto
Sir Stafford Cripps
Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Party
Moscow
Russia
Cripps
Adolf Hitler
Tokyo
Churchill
Ministry of Supply
Germany limits bread type and requires bakers badge
The report notes a regulation in Germany restricting bakers to one bread type and mandating a special badge for baking. A separate science note states a square yard of leaf surface absorbs about two gallons of carbon dioxide daily. An astronomy fact adds that stars of 65 magnitude are the faintest visible unaided to the eye.
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Germany
Wheat Outperforms Barley For Bacon Hog Feed In Western Canada
Western Canada uses about 100 million bushels of grain for hog feed yearly with wheat, barley, and oats. Tests at Brandon show wheat yields more digestible feed per acre and faster gain, with oats being weakest. barley about 111 pounds to 100 pounds of wheat. Mixing grains and adding protein reduces overfinishing risk and improves feed efficiency.
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Canada
R. M. Hopper
Dominion Experimental Farm
Brandon
Debrett’s 1942 Peerage Reveals War Toll And Humor
The Debrett’s 1942 edition shows sharp wit in entries while detailing a steep war toll among the elite. Lance Corporal Jean Dennys becomes the first woman listed as killed on war duty, with eight peers, four baronets, and 24 heirs among those lost serving.
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Jean Dennys
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Tea Taste Sparks Carbolic Acid Claim
An orderly officer at breakfast hears a soldier complain tea tastes of chloride of lime. The officer tests the mug, finds carbolic acid in the tea, and dismisses the claim as nonsense.
Dickens House at Gravesend Torn Down for Factory Extensions
Memory of a Gravesend dwelling that inspired Peggotty's boat roof in David Copperfield is being demolished to make room for factory extensions. The 100 year old house, with an old boat as its roof, is being cleared as part of industrial expansion.
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Gravesend
England
Charles Dickens
Peggotty
David Copperfield
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