Canadian Officers Engage in Expanded Educational Efforts Abroad
Canadian Legion War Service announces pocket sized four book courses in English mathematics bookkeeping and more for troops in Britain. Lectures by prominent speakers including Sir Harry Brittan will cover war unrelated topics, with 400 officers expected at camps where programs will run alongside technical facilities offered by British authorities.
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England
Canadian Legion War Service
McNaughton
Hamilton Gault
Sir Harry Brittan
Baltic
Balkans
Harry
Abdul the Damned
Constantinople
Great Age of California Redwoods Compared to Ancient Big Tree
Ancient redwoods near 200 years old in California show long life yet pale beside the Sierra Nevada’s Big Tree, age 5000 years or more. The Big Tree predates Columbus and Roman Britain, making it the oldest known American tree while redwoods count under two millennia of life. Fort Erie Times-Review.
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California
Columbus
North America
William the Norman
England
John
Julius Caesar
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Doubt Among French About War Survival in Nazi Occupation
Silas T. Johnston of California described in Calgary his impressions from four months in France during the Nazi advance. He recalled French people contemplating whether dying to defend the country would have been preferable to life under occupation and near slavery. He noted the Nazis believed Britain could be laid to ruin and that plans shifted after RAF port blasting altered their timetable.
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France
Silas T. Johnston
California
Calgary
Johnston
Bakersfield
Paris
Britain
Royal Air Force
Success Means Digging Hard Work for the Hen
An ownerless fable-like editorial extols perseverance as the hen digs for worms in all conditions. It argues success comes from constant labor and turning effort into profits, dismissing pessimism and signaling the Calgary Albertan audience.
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Calgary
Cheques Cashed Rise in Canada Eight-Month Period
Chartered banks in Canada cashed 22.982 billion dollars for the eight months ending August 1940, up from 19.9 billion in the previous year. South Africa bans 37 American comic publications.
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Chartered Banks of Canada
South Africa
Welsh Girl Learns About Lawyers After Ride With Mr George
A Welsh girl rode home with a young solicitor in a dog cart. He tried conversation but she answered only yes or no. Later her mother recounted that the girl believed lawyers charged for talking and had no money to pay.
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Mr. Lloyd George
Wales
Marmma
Timeline of life and civilization from midnight to noon
The article presents a scale where life began about 1.2 billion years ago, midnight marks that start, noon is 1940, and key milestones occur at 5 am vertebrates appear, 9:30 am dinosaurs arise, 10:45 am birds, 11:58 am prehistoric man, and within a tenth of a second ago ancient Egyptians and Sumerians began organized society.
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Minneapolis Star- Journal
Life
Munitions minister cites progress on air training field work
Howe told Ottawa that about 95 percent of development on airdrome sites for the British Commonwealth air training plan is finished and that completion by December 31 is likely. Government experts note long storage times for lamb and a California firm plans oil prospecting in northern Brazil. Historic Romans had salt water tanks for oysters. alabaster marble derives its name from its source location.
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Howe
Ottawa
British Red Cross to Supply 10000 Parcels Weekly for POWs
The British Red Cross requests support from the Canadian American and South African branches to deliver 10 000 parcels weekly to British and Canadian prisoners of war in enemy territory as air raids slow relief efforts. Postal cards signed by prisoners and visits by International Red Cross inspectors verify deliveries. US neutrals in Germany can also verify receipt. Shortwave cold treatment shows 75 percent success in 1000 cases at a northwest England factory. The cure promises to expand nationally if proven workable. Synthetic glass curviite aids surgical operations by delivering light around retractors, aiding emergency London surgeries during blackout periods.
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British
Red Cross
Canadian
Proutley
Canadian Red Cross
International Red Cross
Germany
Northwest of
England
Ernest Bevin
Goerng
London
The
Southern Medical Association
Tungsten Prospects Rise in Canadian Mining
Tungsten deposits, both known and possible, have increased in value amid wartime industrial expansion. Canada seeks to develop pre-Cambrian shield resources with backing for mining efforts to ease North American reliance on imports from China, the Malay States, Bolivia, and Argentina.
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Canada
North America
China
Malay States
Bolivia
Nova Scotia Yeast Firm Expands With Ontario Plant
The Financial Post highlights Best Yeast Ltd of Liverpool using waste spruce sugar to brew yeast. The firm recently opened a new Ontario plant to augment Maritime output, claiming to be the empire’s only industry of its kind and proof of industrial ingenuity beyond central Canada.
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The
Financial Post
Nova
Recognized counterfeit at World’s Fair prompts education push
The New York Times reports under a thousand dollars in counterfeit money taken at the World’s Fair as receipts near 70 million. Authorities attribute the loss to widespread counterfeit awareness and aim to teach people to distinguish real currency, signaling broader societal benefits.
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The
New York Times
Britain plans to buy merchant ships in US for 50 million
Britain to acquire up to 50 million dollars of merchant ships in the United States to sustain a 21 million ton merchant fleet. For every ship sunk by a Nazi submarine, a replacement is promised. The move aims to keep shipping at safety levels with contingencies. Canadian shipyard workers are described as performing an important role alongside the armed services.
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Britain
United States
Empire
Varous
St. Catharines
Call for Safer Driving Reward System in Licenses
The New York Times urges broader use of periodic re examinations to assess drivers physical condition and eyesight and proposes tangible rewards for safe driving. An entry on licenses for accident free years and a merit badge tied to responsible road use could influence behavior and improve highway safety nationwide.
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Connecticut
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
New York Times
Polish Troops Advance From Warsaw to Near East War Service
Allied Polish forces smoothed their path from Warsaw through Russia and the Carpathians to Asia Minor and Palestine after Franco–German fall. They trained near Jerusalem, secured horses and new equipment, and passed a visiting Anthony Eden with cheers from Polish and Egyptian officers and women.
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Warsaw
Russia
Carpathian Mountains
Asia Minor
Near East
Palestine
Jerusalem
Alan Moorhead
Cairo
London Daily Express
Anthony Eden
Eden
Henry Wilson
Moorhead
Read Your Paper Or Watch Rumors Spread Fast
A Vancouver Sun editorial urges readers to trust the printed word during war rumors about the Empress of Britain and other British ships. It warns rumors float on streets as radio reports circulate, stressing the need for sober, accurate records to maintain morale.
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Vancouver Sun
Shoplifting Suspect Arrested in Columbia With Contraband
Police in Columbia South Carolina arrested a 47 year old man on a shoplifting charge. Officers found in his sack ten packages of headache powder five packages of razor blades one tube of shaving soap two pairs of winter gloves and a flat iron. A separate note mentions that pronounce siren sireen is unpopular in London.
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Columbia
S.C
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Ation
Far East
Syria
Hitler
Siren “Sireen
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