Little Known Minerals Found In Canada And Their Uses
Canadian mineral resources offer varied uses beyond common metals. Quartz aids in optics and glass making, while clays clarify fats and oils and aid oil refining. Calcite provides optical properties, and pyrite yields sulfur. Radium informs age dating. magnesium and strontium have illumination and refining roles. mercury is liquid at room temp. chromium builds refractories and dyes. Amber, talc, diamond, graphite, asbestos, barite, and bauxite each hold specialized industrial value in mining, paints, drilling, and manufacturing.
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G M Mutt
Canadian Pacific Railway
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Baltic Sea
Canadians Honored by Belgian Government in War Service
Twelve officers one warrant officer and one non commissioned officer of the Canadian Army received Belgian Croix Militaire Belge while the warrant officer and the NCO earned Decoration Militaire Belge for aid to Belgian Forces in the war. Recipients include Major General H F G Letson Major General B W Browne Major General M A Pope Brigadier General E de B Panet Brigadier T D Switzer Colonel H T Cook Colonel A A Magee Colonel A J Everett Colonel H J Keating Lieutenant Colonel W C Arnold Major J Leal Captain Guy de Serres Regimental Sergeant Major J R Owens and Company Sergeant Major Arthur Beauchamp.
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Department of External Affairs
N.C.O
H. F. G. Letson
B. W. Browne
Reserve Army
M. A. Pope
Washington, D.C
E. de B. Panet
Military District No
Minister of National Defence
A. J. Everett
Atlantic Command
H. J. B. Keating
W. C. Arnold
Department of National War Services
J. Leal
National Defence
Canada
Guy de Serres
Quebec
J. R. Owens
Canadian Army
Cornwall
Ontario
Arthur Beauchamp
Cornwall Centre
Smoking on London parade ground sparks Canadian purge
Canadian NCOs in London were puzzled by a War Office rule about not smoking on Horse Guards Parade. Officers told troops to refrain until off the ground, but War Office says no objection to smoking. the ban was set by Canadian authorities to keep a neat wartime appearance on hallowed ground.
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N.C.O
London
War Office
Horse Guards
Winnipeg
Brigade of Guards
London Evening Standard
Hat Auction Gaffe In Bakersfield Involving Margaret Lindsay
During a band auction in Bakersfield California actress Margaret Lindsay bid on a hat she borrowed from a Bakersfield woman. Lindsay asked to keep the hat for the rest of the tour and arrange mail shipment after Oakland. A later auction in Oakland drew another bid for the same hat.
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Margaret Lindsay
Bakersfield
Calif
Miss Lindsay
Adrian
Portland
Oakland
Blood Transfusion's Early British Roots in Wren Discovery
The St Thomas Times Journal recalls Christopher Wren's unlikely link to blood transfusion history. It notes his 17 year old experiments, early crude tools, and later advances by Alexander Wood. The article contrasts Wren the architect with a possible medical path, citing Pepys and Newton in a portrait of the man.
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Britain
Christopher Wren
Oxford University
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Wren
BBC
Lower
King
Samuel Pepys
Alexander Wood
Edinburgh
St. Paul’s
Christopher
Isaac Newton
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Dehydrating Watermelons Thought Tabled by War News
A man on the Eight-Twenty muses that if watermelons are dehydrated they will be beaten before they begin. The remark contrasts with the ongoing war coverage and adds a wry note to the page.
Home as Haven or Hallway for Cain Rising from Office Friction
A succinct reflection on how men retreat to home after workplace conflict, turning home into a stage for unresolved anger. The tone suggests domestic tension linked to work stress and personal dynamics.
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Cain
Birth of a Day from Francis H. Matthew in Temple City
A reflective poem contrasts city life with rural joys of a slow country morning. The speaker praises farm life, jack and Nellie as faithful work partners, neighbors helping without pay, and the sunrise as a profound natural lesson beyond urban science and bustle.
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Francis H. Matthew
North Kauffman
Temple City
Calif
Easy To Knit For That New Baby Pattern 7420
Pattern 7420 offers a bonnet and jacket for babies in pink or blue with white popcorn trim. Directions share stitches and materials, and readers send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg for the pattern.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
St Nicholas Church Turns Pink After Great Yarmouth Fire
The largest parish church in England, St Nicholas at Great Yarmouth, was bombed and gutted by fire. Experts say the heat altered the stone color to pink, noting the extreme blaze transformed the exterior.
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St. Nicholas
Great Yarmouth
England
Theatre Guilds and Actors Rights From Ancient Times
Theatre guilds formed to protect actors rights dating back to ancient history notes, tracing back to early organizational efforts in late antiquity and classical civilizations. The excerpt hints at early guild-like structures in antiquity.
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