Handling And Distribution Of Mail For Men On Active Service
The Ottawa Journal explains that mail for service members overseas and in Canada boosts morale. The Canadian Postal Corps coordinates delivery from Ottawa base to overseas units, and units finally hand mail to the recipient. It notes mail losses from ship sinkings but emphasizes high overall reliability and the importance of continuing correspondence. PMID: 1941 data cited.
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Canada
Ottawa Journal
Canadian Postal Corps
Navy
Army
Air Force
Ottawa
Postal Service
W. Ross
England
Johnnie
Atlantic
Royal Canadian Air Force
C Waaf
Corps
Native craft from cactus resin cups water vessels
Authors describe how woodpeckers in southwestern states create holes in cactus and the wound forms a hard fibre lining. Native Indians remove this lining and fashion it into cups or glasses for holding water and other liquids. They also claim a vast gemstone quantity in Cheops pyramid with 4,000,000 tons of stone.
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Pyramid of Cheops
Egypt
A Matter Of Habit In Sugar Consumption
Wartime guidance urges Canadians to use less sugar to prevent shortages. The article notes sugar use is often habitual and suggests alternatives like fruit to cut sugar while maintaining taste. It highlights health benefits from reducing refined sugar and the risk of overeating protective foods when sugar is excessive.
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Prices and Trade Board
Canada
World famed photographer Ian Pirie MacDonald dies in New York
The 75 year old photographer known for portraits of men and refusing women access to his studio died in New York. He once said women would not sacrifice vanity for a true camera portrait. Brazil grows two thirds of the world's coffee.
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Ian Pirie MacDonald
New York
Exclusive Stitchery Design Pattern 7070 for Bunny Motif
Pattern 7070 offers a Bunny motif for carriage cover embroidery with five small motifs and color guides. Includes stitch instructions and materials. Send 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern access. Include name address and pattern number.
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Bunny
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Dermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Better Than Rubber Sldiers to Have Limestone Raincoats
Canada fast tracks raincoats made from limestone powder polymerized vinyl resin to replace rubber. Navy air force blue or khaki coatings are applied to cotton fabric, yielding a durable weatherwear claim as good if not better than rubber.
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Canada
Department of Monitions and Supply
Substitute horsehair touted as alternative to Chungking bristle
L S Hewes of Wartime Prices and Trade Board says Canadian horsehair serves as a substitute for the prized Chungking bristle used in brushes. To augment limited Chungking supplies, manufacturers have developed a brush with up to 50 percent horsehair, boosting durability and availability under wartime trade controls.
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Chungking
L. S. Hewes
Prices and Trade Board
China
Burma Road
Mr. Hewes
Paper String Only for Tying Wool Fleeces Says Board
The Canadian Wool Board Ltd warns against binder twine or sisal string and prescribes paper string to tie fleeces after shearing. If paper is unavailable the fleece should remain untied. Penalties apply for twine tied fleeces due to fiber contamination and quality impact.
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The
Canadian Wool Board Ltd
Australia
New Zealand
Birthday Cake Mixup and Chivalry Joke Entertain Readers
A married couple with same birth date celebrates with a cake inscribed Happy Birthdays Plural after a neighborhood bake shop clerk records the plural demand. The gag ends with a quip about chivalry at home, noting the man answers the phone seven times and says it’s for you.
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The
New Yorker
Daring Rescue as French-Canadian Heals Norwegian Sailor
Florent Morin of Sherbrooke, Quebec, used improvised tools aboard a Canadian corvette to treat a Norwegian sailor with a scalp wound after torpedoing off Ireland. He fashioned surgical clamps from fish hooks and curtain clasps, sewing the wound with horsehair thread during a three hour life saving operation. The rescued man later kissed Morin’s hands in Iceland, while Morin received the Order of the British Empire.
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Florent Morin
Sherbrooke
Que
Morin
Ireland
Vancouver
Paris
Montreal
Iceland
Resourceful Airmen and the Engliski Aero Planski Call
A London Times anecdote tells how RAF crews in Russia used humor to bridge language gaps. Operators learned to recognize Engliski Aero planski as a request to connect with No 151 Wing headquarters. High altitude combat is climbing with pursuit planes operating at 15 000 feet and higher.
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R.A.F
Russia
No. 151 Wing
Engliski Aeroplanski
Flying In The North Edmonton Air Capital of the Northwest
Edmonton's airport from 1919 has produced aviation notables and serves the Northwest Territories Yukon Alaska route. Norseman pilots and cargo flights carry gold bars eggs and Arctic fox as break up nears, with RCMP escort and a magistrate aboard, showing the north’s dramatic daily operations.
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Edmonton
Civic
Dominion
C. H Punch” Dickens
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Montreal
Grant McConachie
C.P. Airlines
West
W. R. “Wop” May
Air Observer
Northwest
Flatbush Rocter
Brooklyn Dodgers
Northwest Territories
MacKenzie River
Arctic
B.C
Yukon
Territories
Yukon-Alaska
Yukon Southern
Vancouver
Fort St. John Watson Lake
Whitehorse
Alaska
Eldorado
Great Bear Lake
Cec McNeil
Prince Albert
F. E. Meilicke
J. K. Potter
W. J. Windrum
Mackenzie
McNeal and
Meinicke
McNeal
Ile A la Crosse
Ie A la Crosse
Windrum
R.C
What He Thought On First Russian Rail Travel
A rural muzhik rides a third class rail to Moscow from a stop between Moscow and St. Petersburg. He joins a friend by chance, dines aboard, then realizes the irony of traveling toward Moscow while his friend heads to St. Petersburg as the trains split the journey. He marvels at the railroad’s wonder and scale.
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Russia
Muzhik
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Ivan
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Albert
Third Reich
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Canadian Pacific Air Services
Mid-West
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