Thrilling National Exhibition Sports Program Announced
The 1941 Canadian National Exhibition will crown champions across motorsports ball, archery, swimming, table tennis, dancing and weight lifting. World hydroplane titles in 225 cubic inch classes await sanction by the American Power Boat Association along with outboard divisions on the Exhibition course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.N.E
Phoenix
Arizona
Cowboy
Enid
Oklahoma
United States
Canada
Dominion
Swimming Is Fine Exercise
An eminent physician Dr. David Mezz of Brooklyn extols swimming as ideal for full body conditioning and muscle development. He notes natural waters like ocean and lake are best and warns that water helps cooling the body while fatigue can appear unexpectedly with moderate effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Mezz
Brooklyn
63rd Exhibition Showcases Canada at War Effort
The 63rd annual Canadian National Exhibition presents a war driven panorama. Canadian soldiers farmers workers and women display war effort while entertainment includes the U.S. Navy Band and Britanna dance. Highlights span Horse Cattle Sheep Judging Art Horticultural displays and air raid shelter exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.N.H
Canada
C.N.E
Lake
Ontario
U.S. Navy
America
Canadian National Exhibition Cooking School Welcomes Surplus Foods
The 1941 CN E Cooking School under Mrs. Kate Aitken will run fourteen days from August 22 to September 6 in the Electrical Building with 2 30 and 8 pm sessions. It will feature Canadian surplus foods, offer $50 for best apple pie and $10 for best bread, taste pies by navy army and airforce, and broadcast daily from Exhibition Park with prizes and charitable activities for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Airforce
Kate Aitken
Dominion
C.N.E. Cooking School
C.N.E
Exhibition Park
Cn.e
Toronto
Ontario Mayors to Attend 1941 Exhibition at C N E
The 14 day 1941 Exhibition from August 22 to September 6 will host leading Ontario cities and municipalities. Brantford London Newmarket Midland Oshawa Peterboro Stratford Collingwood Niagara Kitchener Barrie Hamilton Brampton Guelph Orillia will be represented by their mayors and wives plus school board heads and service club leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.N.E
Toronto
Ontario
Brantford
London
Newmarket
Midland
Oshawa
Peterboro
Stratford
Collingwood
Niagara
Kitchener
Barrie
Hamilton
Brampton
Guelph
Orillia
Fashion Model Turns Expert Plowman on English Farm
Two young women, Violet Shirley and Nelly Blow, work from Great Risington on a Gloucestershire despatch. Shirley, 19, ex mannequin, plows. Blow, 24, ex nurse, shears sheep. In eight months they plowed 300 acres, cut 250 acres of corn, sowed corn with tractor, harrowed 100 acres in a day, and planted twenty acres of oats in one day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Risington
Gloucester
England
Violet Shirley
Canterbury
Nelly Blow
London
Children’s Chorus to Perform at 1941 CNE Show
C N E headquarters announced that childrens choirs from towns such as Brantford Oshawa Beamsville Stratford Waterdown Newmarket Orono and New Toronto will join Toronto and an Ontario provincial choir of 200 voices during the fourteen day fall show. Each guest choir will perform in the New Town Hall Theatre in the International Building with audience participation in familiar airs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.N.E
So.ial
Ontario
C.N.H
Brantford
Oshawa
Beamsville
Stratford
Waterdown
Newmarket
Orono
New Toronto
Toronto
New Town Hall
Dinner scene leads to charitable photo for Warm Springs
At a formal dinner, Dorothy Thompson is approached by a New York merchant who offers $500 to the Warm Springs Foundation for a portrait with Mrs. Roosevelt. She agrees to pose and the merchant increases the pledge to $1,000. The merchant’s mother, aged 92, is invited for the picture, and Mrs. Roosevelt offers to join, joking she is younger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Thompson
New York
Sara Roosevelt
Warm Springs Foundation
Mrs. Roosevelt
Dance Pavilion at the C N E Welcomes Top Radio Bands
Tommy Dorsey Kay Kyser Benny Goodman and Eddie Duchin headline the giant Dance Pavilion at the C N E as four of America’s leading radio dance bands in popularity polls in both Canada and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Dorsey
Kay Kyser
Benny Goodman
Eddie Duchin
America
Canada
United States
C.N.E
Elsie the Borden Cow Displayed in Luxurious Boudoir
Visitors can view Elsie the internationally famous Borden cow in her luxurious boudoir from August 22 to September 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie
Borden
Opening and Special Days At The 63rd C N E
The schedule lists opening day August 22 with Lieut Governor, and daily events through September 6 including Warriors Day with Red Cross, Children’s Day, Automo tive Day, Food Products and Merchants Day, Women’s Music and Art Day, Press Day, Manufacturers Athletic and Floral Day, Labor Day, International Day Program by IBM, Agriculturists Day, Transportation and Service Clubs Day, Live Stock Review Day, and Citizens’ and Children’s Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.N.E
Red Cross
Auxiliary War Services
International Business Machines Co. Ltd
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Coliseum Arena
Messerschmitt
Junkers
Heinkel
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Hall
Centre Court
Canadian Gladiolus Society
Nature’s Wonderland
Children’s Zoo
North Road
East of Art Gallery
Birmingham
International
General Motors
Spadina Avenue
Children’s Chorus
Bernman’s
Herman's
Onivy
Bay Street
Gerrard
Front ST. East
Taylor
Noblesse Oblige
W. T. Pember
Pember Stores
Yonge St
Toronto, Ont
Ss. J. Dew
Church St. Toronto
Elgin
Indus
Brth
John Millar
Watt
Elwood A. Hughes
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