BRIEF WAR NOTES OFTEN MIXED WITH CIVILIAN EFFORTS
A quick survey of wartime items shows 1940 farm output up by 11.0 million in gross commodity value over 1939, new officers to aid families affected by air raids, and limestone cave shelters repurposed for mass air raid protection. Mrs Jones of Laidley is Queenslands champion knitter for victory. Churchill portrait gifted to Yugoslav premier Simovich. Victoria Labor Leader Cain opposes bringing Italian prisoners to clear crown lands. Lord Nuffield donates 25000 to naval benevolence funds after the sinking of the Bismarck. Faith Bennett trains as an air transport pilot for the RAF auxiliary.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Walter Jones
Laidley
Queensland
Churchill
Dusan Simovich
Churchi
British Broadcasting Corporaton
Cain
Victoria
Australia
Mussolini
Bismarck
Lord Nuffield
Admiralty
Navy
Fleet Air Arm
Faith Margaret Bennett
Charles Bennett
England
Air Transport Auxiliary
Royal Air Force
Early Klondike Days Remembered On Yukon Tablet
Canada's northern historic site in Dawson City honors the hardy pioneers whose grit opened the Yukon gold era. The bronze tablet at the Admin Building recalls Robert Henderson and George Carmack, the Bonanza Creek strike of August 17, 1896, and the shift from pan and sluice to large hydroelectric dredges as Discovery Day remains a yearly tribute.
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Yukon
Canada
Dawson City
Department of Mines and Resources
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Chilkat
Chilkoot
Robert Henderson
George W. Carmack
Bonanza Creek
Bonanza
Eldorado
Hunker
Dominion
Gold River
Klondike
Parade Guard Mounting on Parliament Hill Ottawa
A daily ceremony on Parliament Hill Ottawa attracts wide interest with guards furnished by the Army or the Royal Canadian Air Force. The procession includes one officer 35 ranks and a band highlighting the formal guard mount.
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Parliament Hill
Ottawa
Army
Royal Canadian Air Force
Hay produced in northern Russian Ukraine from tall grasses
The report notes that hay is produced in the northern parts of the Russian Ukraine using grasses that reach ten to fifteen feet in height, indicating a distinctive local agricultural practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russian
Ukraine
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge pioneers cross gorge by basket
A Buffalo Courier account republished in the Hamilton Spectator recalls Niagara's first bridge begun 1847 under Ellet. A cable stretched across the gorge carried a basket from bank to bank for rail transport. A boy named Homan Walsh earned ten dollars for flying a kite to haul the line. Three quarters of crossers were women, and the first ride occurred in spring 1848, proving regional courage and engineering risk.
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Hamilton. Ont. Spectator
Buffalo Courier
Niagara
State of
New York
International Bridge Company
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company
Charles Ellet
Philadelphia
Theodore Graves Hulett
Homan Walsh
Ellet
New Cotton House Showcases Federal Housing Plans
A Seattle firm builds a five room cotton faced house for the Department of Agriculture. Cotton fabric covers fir plywood walls and provides insulation with cotton draperies and floor coverings. Displayed nationwide, experts expect private and government builders to imitate the concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Department of Agriculture
United States
Night bombing toll rises as raids continue
Reports from the German raid on London and the British raid on Hamburg describe heavy destruction and rising costs for attackers. Each side loses bombers and trained airmen, and as Britain gains better bombers the mutual destructiveness increases. Night bombing on a large scale threatens much of what is identified as modern civilization.
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New York Sun
London
Hamburg
Channel
Made Trip For Sikorski Returns To Britain In Bomber
Premier Wladislas Sikorski of the Polish government in exile traveled from America in a bomber after a two month stay in Canada and the United States. Polish circles in London called the visit fully successful, laying groundwork for a larger Polish contribution to the Allied effort and uniting four million United States Poles behind the U S war production drive aiding Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wladislas Sikorski
Britain
America
Canada
United States
London
Britain Spends 260000 In 1940 To Distribute Ration Books
Britain allocated 260000 to distribute fifty million ration books weighing about one thousand tons in 1940. The operation covered nationwide distribution and logistics for the wartime ration system involving government agencies and postal networks.
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Britain
Lord Austin 75 longtime Austin car founder dies near Bromsgrove
Herbert Austin renowned for creating the Austin automobile empire at Longbridge Works Northfield Birmingham, later titled Baron Austin of Longbridge in 1936. He funded Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory with 1 112 500 and served as Conservative MP for Birmingham 1919 to 1924.
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Herbert Austin
Australia
Brampton College
England
Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co
Longbridge Works
Northfield
Birmingham
Britain
Austin
Baron Austin of
Longbridge
Cavendish Laboratory of Experimental Physics
Cambridge University
Stanley Baldwin
Lord Austin
House of Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
Bison Tongues Sell For Fifty Cents At Market
Market report notes early American bison tongues fetched 50 cents each. Prices show modest demand as traders cataloged the day's offerings and buyers debated value amid a brisk but measured trade.
More Doctors to Meet War Medical Needs
Canadian university medical deans and the Director General of Medical Services for the Army agree to accelerate medical student graduations to bolster future military and civilian healthcare during the war emergency. New Zealand marks centennial with over 100000 trees and shrubs planted in school grounds. Replacing an old roof with a new shingle roof is advised for better resistance to heat, cold and rain.
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Faculties of Medicine
New Zealand
Cotton fashion pattern 4747 a for Misses and Women
Pattern 4747 a Anne Adams style features neckline buttons across bodice to left side and flare skirt with trim waistband and optional pockets. Available in sizes 12 through 40 with short or no sleeves. fabric 35 inch 3 1 4 yards. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Anne Adams
Vivid Rcrae
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Consolidated aircraft mass production for Allies rises fast
Production increasing Bombers and flying boats for Britain and the United States Army and Navy roll off the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation line in San Diego California at a rate averaging nearly 3 000 000 dollars a month. Officials report first reports on the four motored bombers effectiveness in raids on Germany extremely encouraging.
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Britain
United States Army
Navy
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
California
Germany
Sunday School Lesson Golden Text Sermon Theme
Sunday school lesson highlights Mark 16 15 preaching to the whole creation with acts 12 25 13 12 devotional reading psalm 72 6 13 emphasizing mission and outreach through gospel preaching across nations and ages.
First Foreign Missionary Work Begins the World
Acts chapter thirteen traces Barnabas and Paul obeying the Spirit to Seleucia and Cyprus. They preach in Salamis and Patroclus, meeting Sergius Paulus the proconsul, while Elymas the sorcerer oppos es them and is struck blind, opening the proconsul’s mind to the gospel.
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Barnabas
Paul
Seleucia
Antioch
Cyprus
Basil Matthewes
Salamis
John Mark
Paphos
Sergius Paulus
Bar-Jesus
Elymas
Sergius Paulua
Saul
Luke
C. E. Jefferson
R. C. Gillie
Korea
Buchan’s The Three Hostages predicted wartime civilian toll
The St Thomas Times Journal recalls John Buchan, a famed Canadian author, and notes that a character in his 1924 novel The Three Hostages prophesied a future war with few battlefield deaths but massive civilian casualties. The quote emphasizes a push toward conscription to keep people in civilian life.
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St. Thomas-Times Journal
Canada
John Buchan
Remarkable British Exports Hold Steady Despite War
Britain’s 1940 trade report shows exports from the British Isles at 1.652 billion dollars, only 16 million below 1938, while imports rose. The Ottawa Journal notes Britain under Hitler’s blockade, with submarines, mines, bombers, and a strong home war effort yet persistent production and overseas shipments.
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London
Britain
British Isles
Ottawa Journal
Photo flash X ray machine patented for rapid exposure
A new device labeled a photo flash X ray machine has been patented after demonstration of exposures lasting only one thousandth of a second. The invention promises faster imaging with reduced motion blur and potential medical and industrial uses.
Carbon Monoxide Hazard Educates Public and Responders
An education piece warns the public and especially police and fire personnel about carbon monoxide dangers from incomplete combustion in cars, furnaces, and enclosed spaces. It notes CO is colorless, odorless, produced by fires, kilns, mining, and even cigarettes, and outlines signs of poisoning and the Schaefer artificial respiration method for treatment.
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Schaefer
Oil Exploration Collaboration With Dominion Oil Office
An official from the mines and resources department said Dr. George Hume, senior geologist, will assist the Dominion oil controller in western Canada. Hume is described as a leading expert on Alberta oil production, with geologists already active in Turner Valley for war-related expansion. Wrinkled linen advice notes avoid starching and suggest wrapping in fast color blue paper to prevent yellowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mines and Resources Department
George Hume
Department
Dominion Oil Controller
Western
Canada
Hume
Alberta
Turner Valley
Radio Commentators Read Fresh Excitement Into A Day Old News
Critics say radio voices hype events from the day before yesterday, turning quiet headlines into dramatic broadcasts. They warn it narrows context and inflates significance for listeners.
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Jek
Niagara Gorge
Sikorski
Austin Automobile
Bromsgrove
Uwe
V. M. Molotov
K. E. Voroshilov
Josef Stalin
Lenin
Moscow
Red Square
Stalin
Molotov
West
Mickie
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