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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
6
Germany Moves in as Italian Army Faces Shortage
A Galt Reporter quip notes German generals taking over Italian army roles. The joke implies a shortage of Italian generals or their deployment limits, reflecting wartime uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Ontario slot machine crackdown leads to 18 fines
In Gananoque police shut down gambling rooms under a differing provincial rule. Eighteen men were charged with keeping slot machines pinball games and punch boards and paid 1298.48 in fines and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gananoque
Ontario
Amherstburg
Wheat policy shocks Prairie West leaders
The 1941 federal wheat policy announcement causes widespread disappointment and concern across the Prairie West. Observers note an easy optimism in recent months from those aware of realities who now call for public measures aligned with the policy's effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie West
Pope Named To Joint Defence Commission Role
On the Defence Commission Brigadier Maurice A. Pope a former Director of Military Intelligence and recently back from England has been appointed as a member of the Canadian section of the Joint Permanent Canada United States Defence Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice A. Pope
England
Joint
Canada-United States Defence Commission
J. S. McLean
Esquire
Canada Packers
Wyndham Lewis
McLean
United Kingdom
United States
British Purchasing Commission
Washington
The Maltese Tongue and Island Life
The Maltese language is Maltese, not Italian, with Phoenician roots and Latin and Arabic influence. Malta’s population is about 240000, density over 2000 per square mile, and two thirds of food is imported despite around 10000 farms. Land is terraced and protected. farms are small holdings with rainwater springs and windbreak walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Mediterranean
Eyes Water Exercise for Focused Vision
The passage prescribes a cleansing ritual of dipping the face in cold water and rotating the eyes while holding breath, to be done every night and morning. It asserts a spiritual view that every rose is a divine autograph and that nature expresses God’s thoughts in its hieroglyphics, a message Theodore Parker attributed to understanding through science over centuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Theodore Parker
War Week says Canada United States merge wartime aims
Hyde Park accord links economies for war material to Britain. US to buy 200 to 300 million dollars of Canadian defense goods, easing trade, and aiding balance of payments. Joint defence plans in place for eastern and western coasts. June seen as peak month for possible US entry. debate over broader alliances and a six nation Far East pact circulates amid war mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park
N.Y
United States
Canada
New World
Canad
Britain
Permanent
Joint Defence Board
Washington
Balkans
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
Far East
Osaka
Japan
China
British India
Australia
Netherlands East Indies
South Africa
Singapore
Hong Kong
Manila
Robert Brooke-Popham
Thomas Hart
Ontario Vermouth Emerges From Native Grapes After War Trade Shift
St. Catharines reports that war tied trade with British nations boosts Canadian agriculture as native grapes supply vermouth. Ontario vermouth now replaces imported Italian and French stock in government stores. Growers, leveraging herbs already stockpiled, expect higher production and rising quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ontario
Italy
France
British Battleships and Cruisers Costs and History
New British battleships cost 35 million dollars each and cruisers 9 million. The first ironclad was 1.8 million, double the price of the largest three decker wooden line. In 1869 Britain's Naval Defence Act ordered eight 14 000 ton battleships named Royal Oak Ramillies Resolution Revenge Royal Sovereign Hood Repulse and Empress of India. Four built in dockyards four by private contract averaging 4.4 million each. They first used quick firing guns and torpedo tubes. A growing pig eats up to seven pounds of food daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Royal Oak
Ramillies
Resolution
Revenge
Royal Sovereign
Hood
Repulse
Empress of India
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Farmer’s Advocate
On Defence Commission
Dominion
Toronto
Goldwin Smith
Greece
George Fielding Eliot
British Isles
Associated Press
Dewitt Mackenzie
The
Atlantic
Kirke L. Simpson
Churchill
Russia
Germany
Iran
Persia
Baku
Persian Gulf
Dardanelles
Tiflis
Romance
S.line
Gene Byrnes
By Fred Neher
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