Jade masterworks amid war taunt a fragile beauty
An article describes Chinese craftsmen and jewelers protecting a collection of Fei Tsui jade pieces, valued at 25009 dollars, crafted for a salon and mounted in 18 karat gold in America. The narrative links the caravans of the Burma Road to their arrival, highlighting jade's royal, ceremonial, and healing significance and the emerald green Kingfisher feather shade as the prized form.
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China
America
Burma Road
Treacherous Enemy and the Jade Market Explain Value
The text contrasts jade quality with price, noting green kingfisher feather jade is rare and highly valued. It details carving challenges, tools like diamond drills, and explains jade’s cultural symbolism in Chinese thought, including Confucian quotes on virtue and purity.
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Lord Nelson
A Remarkable Pension From Nelson’s Viscountcy to Earl Nelson
The Nelson pension saga unfolds from Nelson’s expected Westminster Abbey fate to a viscountcy that died with him. His barony passed to a Norfolk parson who became Earl Nelson of Trafalgar and Merton with £90,000 up front and £5,000 yearly for life. The annuities total about £680,000, then pass via his sister’s son Bolton who took the Nelson name, leading to the present earl whose line does not descend directly from the Trafalgar victor. The entail could be altered by Parliament, leaving unborn Nelson heirs unendowed.
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Nelson
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's
William
Norfolk
Trafalgar
Earl Nelson
Trafalgar and
Merton
Bolton
London Spectator
True Democracy Willing To Be Tested
Sergeant W Y Searles, a six foot Canadian, visits the Halifax YM C A Centre for tea and meets Princess Royal who chats about his war service. He praises democracy for the unexpected encounter and calls it a fine novelty. Army doctors in Egypt study Lieut K Douglas from Napier s N Z i as a potential antidote source for venomous bites. Douglas endures flea and insect bites with immunity and offers to face a scorpion sting for further study.
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W. Y. Searles
Halifax YM. C.A
Princess Royal
Searles
Leeds Yorkshire Post
Egypt
Lieut
K. Douglas
Napier
N.z.i
Douglas
Medieval poison fears shape noble tableware and salts
A quirky historic note claims nobles kept salt cellars charged against poisoning as a precaution. A Canadian farmer reports two of his horses shot by pheasant hunters near Cooksville Ontario. Marble sidewalks in Marble North Carolina use local quarry marble. Cunningham war leaders may drown in history as the high a.
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Cooksville
Ont
Cunningham
Cunnningham
Area restricted under government order by transport minister
A government order issued by transport minister Lord Leathers restricts area access to railway transport to economize. The move implies cocoa produced in one English region will not reach areas where another company makes the same product.
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Lord Leathers
Tank types built in Canada Inf III and M-3 Cruiser
Canada builds two tank types the Valentine Infantry Mark III and the M-3 Cruiser as part of wartime production. The statement notes the difficulty of forgetting what you intend to target, reflecting a wartime mindset.
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Canada
Japanese embassy letter hints at preplanned attack timeline
Hamilton man Herbert S Mills sells English china and received a November 2 letter from Koto Matsudaira, first secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, urging delivery before December 7. The note, amid discussion of Japan's December 7 attack, is cited by the Financial Post as proof of long planned aggression and extended negotiations with Secretary Hull. The Ottawa Journal adds that a farewell dinner by the Japanese minister the night before Hawaii’s attack aligns with the theory of premeditated Axis action.
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Herbert S. Mills
Hamilton
Ontario
China
Koto Matsudaira
Washington
Japan
United States
Financial Post of
Toronto
Matsudaira
Washinon
Churchill's Full Name and Surname Change
Winston Spencer Churchill is named as England's prime minister. His father Lord Randolph Churchill dropped Spencer from the surname deeming it too clumsy.
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Winston Spencer-Churchill
England
Spencer
Lord Randolph Churchill
Campers Flock to Western Canadian Parks in 1941
More than 45 000 campers used public camp grounds in natural parks across Western Canada during July and August 1941, reflecting strong summer outdoor interest and tourism activity in the region.
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Western
Canada
Simple Stitchery For Babys Cover Pattern 7137
Pattern 7137 describes a baby themed embroidery suitable for a fringe or crib cover. Suggests daisy sower motifs in pink or blue, or mixed colors, to create a charming design for baby textiles.
Royal Post Office and Icelandic History Combined
The Royal Post Office handles vast mail for the Royal Family with modern teletype and telegraph circuits linking Buckingham Palace and other royal residences. Iceland is described as a land of lava, snow and green fields with early democracy, literature, art, and notable painters and sculptors guiding its cultural heritage.
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Royal Post Office
Tceland
Iceland
Norway
Europe
National Museum
Reykjavik
Teeland
Jon Stefansson
Blondel
Kristinn Pelivisson
America
Buckingham Palace
Court
Windsor Castle
Sandringham
Balmoral Castle
British Isles
Winter Bloom tips for house plants from J. G. Allaway
Gardening advice from J. G. Allaway of the Dominion Experimental Station Scott Sask on promoting winter bloom for perennial house plants through late summer rest, repotting practices, soil mix, drainage, light, temperature, and humidity. It notes 60 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit as ideal and warns against warm rooms and dry air while suggesting pebble trays to raise humidity. A final line mentions Sir Walter Raleigh being beheaded as a spy.
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J. G. Allaway
Dominion Experimental Station
Scott, Sask
Canada field crops value drops, wheat leads decline
Dominion statistics put principal field crops value this year at 649.1 million dollars, down 33.3 million from 1940. Wheat's decline is the main factor, lowering the wheat value to 160.95 million from 287.62 million in 1910. Other crops mostly rise. orange trees in California and Florida equal one tree per U.S. family per the 1940 census.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
California
Florida
United States
Letters For Stalin Baffle British Censors
Thousands of letters for Joseph Stalin pour into Great Britain weekly. Admirers send requests and messages, but the Post Office forwards them to the Soviet leader while the Ministry of Information declines to reveal the routing path.
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Post Office
Great Britain
Joseph Stalin
Ministry of Information
Special Meals of Frederick the Great
Each dish at Frederick the Great’s table was made by a distinct cook who possessed a private kitchen for preparing his signature dish.
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Frederick the Great
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