Almost Incredible Progress in Canadian Plastic Surgery
The article details Canada’s Joint Service Special Treatment Centres at Christie Street Toronto Montreal Shaughnessy Vancouver and the English based Basingstoke hub guiding wartime facial and other plastic surgeries. It highlights Colonel Stuart Gordon a leading figure directing the Christie Street unit and notes rapid knowledge gains and centralized expert care for wounded servicemen.
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Canada
Joint Service
Cheolete
Joint Services
Christie Street Hospital
Toronto
Montreal Military Hospital
Shaughnessy Hospital
Vancouver
Merchant Marine
Dominion
France
Italy
Basingstoke
England
Great Britain
Christie Street
Medics
Stuart Gordon
Canadian General Hospital
Gordon
Dieppe
Old London Livery Stable Sales Recall Gentle Times
Excerpt from the 1909 Free Press celebrates horses vehicles and London livery life. It fondly contrasts creak of leather rattle of wheels and slow fog homeward under the moon with modern ignorance of the past.
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Free Press
London
London Free Press
First sweaters worn by participants before and after games
The earliest athletic garments described are heavy dark blue jackets worn by participants before and after contests, serving as team attire and warmups in the era.
Postwar synthetic detergent ends bathtub ring problem
Chemists unveil a new product called acaplesa soap described as a synthetic detergent. After ten years of research it promises to clean effectively in hard soft or salt water and leave no ring. Experts say the breakthrough comes from juggling molecules.
Painting sale links Morris Hunt to Millet intrigue
A Vermont 19th century artist William Morris Hunt once offered a French painter sixty dollars for a canvas catching his eye. The Frenchman initially refused but eventually accepted. He later rose to fame as Jean Francois Millet, creator of The Angelus The Reaper and The Sower. The $60 sale concerned The Sower painting.
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Wiliam Morris Hunt
Battleboro
Vermont
Jean Francois Millet
the Angelus
Reaper
Canadian Army plastic surgery work documented in photographs
A wartime display from Christie Street Hospital Toronto showcases Canadian Army plastic surgeons led by Lieut Colonel Stuart Gordon. The exhibit details pedicle grafts skin transfers upper lip repair facial casts and a repaired hand for a tank driver with extensive facial injuries.
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Stuart Gordon
Chris Qe Street Hospital
Toronto
National Defence Headquarters
Christie
White Shore Lake salt mine fuels prairie sodium sulphate boom
Across Western Canada vast lakes crusted with white Glauber's salt yield a valuable sodium sulphate supply. Deposits at White Shore Lake near Palo, Saskatchewan, feed Midwest Chemicals Limited and Canadian Industries Limited. Extraction concentrates brine into 100,000 ton stockpiles for sale to the paper, glass, and metal industries. The process dehydrates, screens, and packs salt cake for market use.
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Kenneth Lidkie
Prairies
Oath
Eta Can
Saskatchewan
White Shore Lake
Canada
Western
Western Plains
Nature
Department of Mines
Midwest Chemicals Limited
General Chemicals Division
Canadian Industries Limited
Atdwest
Bulcarrots
Saskatchew
Palo
C.N.R
Saskatoon
Fifteen Inches Tall Bunny Pattern 7469 Offered
A pattern for a soft curdly toy bunny with movable arms and legs and a saucy pompon tail is described. Pattern 7469 includes directions and costs twenty cents, mailed to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union in Winnipeg Manitoba. Names addresses and pattern number must be written clearly. Mail delivery may be slower due to mail delays.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McPermot
Avenue E
Winnipeg
Crop harvesting swing felt worldwide in the year 2615
The note describes ongoing crop harvesting fluctuations across regions every day of the year 2615, highlighting broad agricultural activity without detailing specific locations or events.
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