Strip Mining of Alberta Coal Solves Wartime Labor Need
Alberta’s Western Ventures Coal Mine near Taber uses strip mining to rapidly produce coal for war needs. A 25 man crew uncovers up to 15,400 tons monthly, surpassing deep seam output, with overburden removed by caterpillar scrapers. Coal is trucked to Taber rail tipple, screened, and shipped to Canada and the U S, including Seattle markets.
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Alberta
Lberta
Nova Scotia
Canada
Foothills
Dominion
Taber
Lethbridge
Western Ventures
Canadian Pacific
Old Man
Tabor
Bomcars
Prairie Provinces
Seattle
United States
Canadian Pacific Railway
Alte
Old Men River
Canada Russians Admire Allied Forces Postwar Cooperation
Raymond Arthur Davies, Toronto Saturday Night correspondent in Moscow, told a Toronto luncheon of the Canadian Jewish Congress that Russian admiration for Canada's fighting forces should grow into post war friendship and close co operation.
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Canada
Raymond Arthur Davies
Toronto
Moscow
Davies
Eastern Front
Canadian Jewish Congress
Canada highway drive eyed after war says CAA chief
R A Stapelis of Toronto, re elected president of the Canadian Automobile Association for a second term, told the annual meeting that Canada would spend more than 1 billion dollars on road construction in the decade after the war.
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R.A. Stapelis
Toronto
Canadian Automobile Association
Canada
Grapes Required for Raisins
A historical note states it takes about four tons of fresh grapes to yield one ton of dried raisins. The figure reflects drying losses and processing efficiency referenced in old agricultural coverage.
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League Reports 1944 Work
X ray surveys covered about 125000 people as part of the leagues efforts this year. Dr R G Ferguson reported that in the first nine months of 1944 there were 375 more diagnosed cases than in 1943. The league cared for 744 patients at the end of September.
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Anti-Tuberculosis League
R. G. Ferguson
League
French Prisoners and Deportees in Germany Estimated
Henri Frenay says at a press briefing that about 3.0 million French prisoners and deportees will be in Germany after hostilities end, with 780000 POWs and 750000 workers among them. He lists 600000 political deportees and 300000 Alsace Lorraine deportees, plus 225000 prisoner workers and 250000 recent frontier deportations. Returnees will receive a three month vacation and six months of double rations. He notes 2.6 million refugees elsewhere and 1.0 million destitute limits in France.
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Germany
Henri Frenay
Frenay
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Boundary Park Nears Reality On Manitoba Ontario Boundary
Manitoba minister Errick Willis announces tentative plans for Boundary Park approved by Manitoba and Ontario. The park aims to attract thousands to Kenora’s district for recreation and tourist accommodations, turning the area into a summer mecca.
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Manitoba
Ontario
Errick Willis
Public Works
Kenora
Winnipeg Tribune
Churchill cites voting rights gap in Britain under 30
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Churchill notes no one under 30 has ever voted in Britain. No general elections have occurred in nine years, byelection registration is paused, and the last electors register, made for 1935, has never been revised.
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Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Canadian Farmers On The Home Front Deliver Wartime Victory
Canadian farmers and their families faced long hours and dwindling help as they produced an unprecedented wartime harvest. Despite adversity they kept granaries full and livestock thriving, supporting forces at home and abroad while awaiting peace to tell the full national record of their contribution.
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Fatea
Europe
Asia
Canada
Do Not Use Chairs and the Japanese Stereotype
The piece discusses beliefs that Japanese are short and underweight compared to Europeans and Chinese. It cites historical views linking sedentary habits and lack of chairs to short stature, notes both home and office practices, and mentions army gymnastics aimed at increasing height, with a concluding remark from the Manchester Guardian labeling the Japanese as "little" in stature and civilization.
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Manchester Guardian
Surgical life saver from animal blood in prothrombin production
Scientists announce a method to produce prothrombin using two main materials from animal blood and meat juices. The process promises unlimited production for use as a life saver in war and peacetime surgery.
Andrew Carnegie's Reported Fortune at Death in 1919
The article states Andrew Carnegie, noted philanthropist, allegedly possessed a personal fortune of 500 million dollars at his death in 1919. This figure reflects wealth attributed to Carnegie during that era and appears in a historical context within the piece.
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Andrew Carnegie
Mother India Hosts RCAF Airmen in New Delhi Scene
A sign in India shows primitive transport as RCAF men from Canada and Ottawa visit a village near New Delhi. LACs Kirsop, Bernard Joubarne, and Fred Steep pose with a local girl while Warrant Officer Joe Worobek, from Portage la Prairie, chats nearby. Joe, a meteorology pilot, hopes for another assignment against the Japanese.
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New Delhi
India
Reg. Kirsop
Royal Victoria Hospital
Montreal
Bernard Joubarne
Ottawa
Fred Steep
Guelph
Ont
Joe Worobek
Portage la Prairie
RCAF
Joe
Star of the East Medallion Crochet Pattern 7240
The Star of the East medallion offers quick easy crochet for spreads cloths scarfs or pillows. Pattern 7240 provides medallion stitches directions and costs twenty cents plus mail delays for delivery from Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Man repays loan after 33 years with $100 cheque
Joseph Skinner of Holyoke Massachusetts lent his son’s college expenses a hundred dollars thirty three years ago to an employee. When the borrower died Skinner forgot the matter until a letter arrived with a thank you note and a one hundred dollar cheque from the former employee’s son.
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Joseph Skinner
Holyoke
Mass
Skinner
Churches Shrink Catholic, Protestant Membership Share
More than 130 million Americans exist and fewer than half belong to churches. The statistic highlights dwindling church affiliation across major denominations and reflects broader secular trends shaping religious life in the United States.
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United States
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