Weisbach Mantles End Of Gas Light Era Relic In Gaslamp History
The Weisbach Mantles of Gloucester City New Jersey once lit millions of homes and public spaces marking the gas light era. Despite early electric light, the Welsbach mantle boomed globally until now ending as a relic of grandfather’s heyday in a New York Herald Tribune reflection.
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Weisbach Company
Gloucester City
Surpris Ng
Weisbach
Welsbach
Carl Auer
Freiherr von Welsbach
Thomas A. Edison
Auer
New York Herald Tribune
Stop the Waste Fire Prevention Week Aims to Aid War Effort
The article urges vigilant waste reduction and fire prevention as essential to wartime success. It cites losses from fires, notably over 24 million dollars, and identifies major causes in the prairie provinces such as careless smoking and faulty equipment, urging sustained precautions beyond October. It links insurance costs to national sacrifice and calls for year round vigilance to conserve resources for the war.
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Great Britain
Canada
Hitler
Mussolini
Dominion
Prairies
Prairie
Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
Clothes Rationing Starts in German-Occupied Norway
Norway imposes German style clothes rationing with all clothing and shoe shops shut for inventory. Hats caps ready made baby outfits and handkerchiefs are exempt. In Germany hats and caps are the only unrationed apparel.
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Norway
Germany
Guernsey cattle reportedly slaughtered and sent to Germany
The Guernsey Breeders Journal reports that some cattle on Guernsey Island were slaughtered while others were taken to Germany for dairy products.
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The
Guernsey Breeders Journal
Guernsey Island
Germany
Dictation clash over exact wording in a business letter
A great man insists on accurate transcription of his words by a typist who altered a sentence. The afternoon letter shows quotes and phrasing highlighted by the typist, including “Dear Smyth” and pricing terms “£10 a ton for the goods free on board.” The exchange reveals tension over faithful rendering of content.
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Smyth
Walter
Henpecked Husband and May Dialog**
The exchange humorously depicts a husband seeking plans for his wife’s winter trip. May responds with a witty reply about Palm Beach, hinting at companionship or exclusion in a light domestic scene.
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Palm Beach
Music Lessons In War Time
Sir Ernest Mac Millan of the Toronto Conservatory argues that music education must be preserved during war. He warns interruptions will hinder progress and calls music a valued mind trainer, citing Harvard’s Eliot and educational statistics.
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Ernest MacMillan
Toronto Conservatory of Music
Eliot
Harvard University
Salvation Army Band Joins Army as 222nd Battalion
A Salvation Army band of 25 players volunteered with the ALF and joined the Royal Melbourne Regiment drill hall. Leader Arthur Gullege led the group which donned khaki and the digger hat as they became the 222nd Battalion band.
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ALF
Australia
Salvation Army
Royal Melbourne Regiment
Arthur Gullege
Fragmented wartime rhetoric in early newspapers
The text mocks contradictory propaganda about Nazi and fascist leaders by noting incongruities in claimed popular support and visible security measures. It hints at cautious, often ironic reporting on Germany and Italy during the era.
Hospital ward overfull leads patient to joke heaven
Wounded soldiers crowd a hospital admission as stretcher bearers meet a nurse who says the "L" ward is full. The patient quips he will go to heaven instead. Meanwhile a statistic shows drinkers cause twice as many injuries as nondrinkers per crash.
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L” Ward
Population Near U S Border Concentrated in Canada
Nearly 90 percent of Canadians reside within 200 miles north of the United States border, highlighting population clustering along the shared frontier.
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Canada
United States
Canadian Army Expands Fish Rations To Boost Industry
The Canadian army has revised its standard ration list to include a wide range of fresh and frozen fish and seafood. The measure supports military morale and sustains Canadian fish industries by expanding the home market amid wartime export restrictions. Brandon Sun.
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Kings Army
Brandon Sun
Coffee rationing expands in unoccupied France
The Petain government adds coffee to rationed foods for residents in unoccupied France joining existing limits on sugar rice soap lard spaghetti and macaroni. Along the U S Canada border there are about 8 060 official markets.
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Petain
France
U.S
Canada
Sheep farming touted as profitable national industry
The Family Herald argues sheep are financially sound for farmers. Canada’s wool output is 18 million pounds with demand four to five times higher for domestic and military use. lamb imports reach 1 million pounds despite 60 to 70 million produced. Wool and lamb prices are strong, suggesting sheep farming rests on firm ground beyond wartime spikes.
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Family Herald
Weekly Star
Canada
Poles under German rule amid loot and restrictions
The Sault Ste. Marie Star notes severe Nazi policies in occupied Poland, stating four million Poles dead or escaped, 18 million remain but are deemed too many. Poles face curfews, forced labor, confiscations, forced German schooling, and bans on Polish language, with priests ordered to preach in German.
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Hitler
Poland
Versailles
Sault Ste. Marie Star
Captain Ervine Andrews Receives Victoria Cross
The London Spec tator recounts how Captain Ervine Andrews learned of his Victoria Cross from a BBC bulletin after dinner, noting a misrouted War Office message delayed his official notification and prompting a joke from fellow officers about a possible relation.
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Ervine Andrews
B.B.C
War Office
London Spectator
Calcutta Spitfires Launch From India to Battle Luftwaffe
Calcutta Spitfires eight Spitfires bought for Britain by the East India Fund launched by Calcutta businessmen have taken to the air as part of a squadron that already destroyed or severely damaged more than fifty Nazi planes.
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Britain
East India Fund
Calcutta
Water Cost for American Families Ticks At Five Cents Daily
A historical note states that the typical American household spends roughly five cents per day on water. This figure reflects a period when utility costs were substantially lower and household expenses were documented in simple terms.
History Repeats Itself in British Aid Debate
Bettina F Whyte notes Britain urged U S to aid in global freedom while recalling a Spanish American War episode when Britain sold two cruisers the New Orleans and the Albany built at Barrow in Furness. It also says 27 of 48 principal countries use the metric system.
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Bettina F. Whyte
New York Times
Great Britain
United States
New Orleans
Albany
Barrow-in- Furness
New Orleans’s Southern Label Versus Global Position
New Orleans is described as a southern city yet lies north of roughly two thirds of the Earth's inhabited area. The remark highlights the city’s climate and cultural associations rather than strict geographic classification.
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New Orleans
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