Canadian Wrens Sent On Loan To Royal Navy In New York
Canadian Wrens assigned for duty in New York on loan to the Royal Navy enjoy their first days in the city. They toured Broadway Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue, visited Harlem and the U.S.O. club, then settled into small apartments before reporting for duty at Headquarters. The new arrangement places Canadian servicewomen in RN roles with Paywriters and Supply Attendants aiding ships on this side of the Atlantic.
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New York
Royal Navy
New York City
Broadway
Rockefeller Centre
Fifth Avenue
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Staten Island
United Nations
Harlem
U.S.O
65Th Street
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Women's Military Services Club
R.N
Atlantic
Fight Inflation by Edna Jaques in wartime Canada
A 1941 essay traces rising prices during the fall of 1941 and credits Canadian women for maintaining price ceilings. It warns that a sustained inflation would erode wartime value, urging every Canadian to keep the cost of living steady across food, clothing, and farm goods.
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Edna Jaques
Canada
Notorious Tichborne Case Recalls Bella Sinking Mystery
Decades after the Bella vanished in a Rio de Janeiro storm with Roger Tichborne aboard, the sensational Tichborne Case split England. Arthur Orton, posing as the heir, was tried in London for perjury, found guilty, and sentenced to 14 years, later shortened, with his death in Marylebone.
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Bella
Rio de Janeiro
Valparaiso
Tichborne
England
Roger Charles Tichborne
Kate Doughety
Tichborne Park
Wanderer
Wagga Wagga
Queensland
Australia
Arthur Orton
Orton
Edward Kenealy
Kenealy
Arthur
Marylebone
R. M. Harrison
Windsor Star
Telegram sent to 94000 railway workers for Victory Loan
A telegram from R C Vaughan of Canadian National Railways was sent to all National System employees in Canada urging full cooperation to ensure the Sixth Victory Loan's success. The message flowed coast to coast via teleprinters as workers aim to top the Fifth Loan's record of 8,599,600 dollars.
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Canadian National Telegraphs
Montreal
R. C. Vaughan
Canadian National Railways
National
Canada
Victory
National System
Poisonous Weeds In Feed Souring Livestock Health
The National Weed Committee reports that complaints by livestock men about animal health from feeding stuffs often stem from poisonous weed seeds in seeds and seed mixes. Bitter or disagreeable tasting seeds trigger refusals and health issues. Main offenders include wild mustard black mustard worm seed mustard penny cress tumbling mustard purple cockle and false flax with darnel cow cockle blue burr hare s ear mustard wild radish and ergotized grains also problematic.
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National Weed Committee
Test of a Parcel for Overseas Mail
The Canadian Postal Corps notes a practical test for mail to soldiers overseas by standing on the parcel. If it bears an average person’s weight, it should withstand the load of mail bags in transit.
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Canadian Postal Corps
Noon-day meals in Britain factories and warm milk sleep link
About 3.5 million Britons, a quarter of the working population, eat midday meals in industrial canteens. Scientists report that drinking warm milk induces sleep.
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Great Britain
Spring Fever Remedies From The Salad Bowl
Nutritionists urge fresh vegetables as a spring tonic noting stored produce loses vitamins. Ottawa Nutrition Services promotes vitamin rich salads of leaf lettuce radishes turnips carrots and dandelion leaves to brighten cheeks eyes and steps. The piece recalls old bloodletting practices once used in spring.
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Ottawa
Reconstruction Panel Recommends 100k Farm Homes Plan
The Committee on Reconstruction proposes a BUILDING program to provide Canadian farmers and farm laborers with about 9,400 new houses annually for twenty years. The estimated total cost is $282,006,000, per the Report on Housing and Community Planning.
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Committee On Reconstruction
Belgian Farming Under Nazi Control Seeks Massive Housing Plan
A report details Nazi measures in occupied Belgium to ration and track farm output. It calls for 188000 new farm houses over twenty years, plus a rural housing division and subsidies, loans, and government aid to modernize farms and support laborers.
Windsor Castle Keeper Mrs Amelia Rawlings dies
Mrs Amelia Rawlings longtime Windsor house keeper and close friend of Queen Mary has died at Adelaide Cottage in the castle grounds. She served 27 years managing royal domestic affairs and bought vast quantities of blackout curtains for Windsor Castle. She retired in November 1939 and lived on the castle grounds since.
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Windsor Castle
Amelia Rawlings
Rawlings
Windsor
Queen Mary
Adelaide Cottage
Castle
Red tape origin tied to tedious official procedure
Historical note explains that governments bound documents with red tape making procedures slow. The phrase red tape became a symbol for bureaucratic delays in official work.
Sweetheart Pinafore Pattern Offer From Winnipeg
Embroidered pinafore pattern 7006 shown as year round wear for school or sun suit. Contains transfer embroidery design and pieces in sizes 2 4 6 with directions. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name and address. Delivery may be delayed by mail.
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Household Arts Departement
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Wonders Of Nature Insights From The London Free Press
A fragmentary note in the London Free Press describes nature marvels. It mentions gulls over the ocean in all weather, fur bearing animals sensing winter, caterpillars turning into butterflies, trees moving sap long distances, hummingbirds crossing the Gulf, butterfly communication through solids, mayflies' short lifespans, and turtles living up to two centuries.
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Gulf of Mexico
London Free Press
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Department of Agriculture
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Ont
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Nell Ross
Vancouver
Mary Gordon
Toronto
Louise LeClair
North Rustica
P.el
Betty Dowler
Pidgeon Lake
Alta
Dorothy Winter
Regina
Patricia Annand
Truro
N.S
Alma Lauer
Rosthern
Sask
Alice Brooks
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