War production board orders civilian radios discontinued after April 22
The United States war production board directs the halt of civilian radios and phonographs after April 22. Britain signs lend lease with Greece to supply war materials. Italian Balkans losses reach about 2,000 in three months. Romania reports four female students court martialed and sentenced to labor. No steel for baby carriages or lawn mowers. Manitoba to stop recruiting fishermen for British Columbia work. A British radio broadcast of the Oberammergau play marks a historic exception to bans on Christ depictions.
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United States War Production Board
Public School Plays Guide for Teachers in Ontario
Mary Ellen Burgess shares a compiled list of plays suitable for public and high school use with prices and descriptions. It includes Rose Fyleman volumes, Little Theatre and My Little Play Book titles, Pattern Plays, Hampden edited volumes, literature derived plays, and French non royalty and royalty selections with costs from 20c to 40d, plus royalty options. The note invites teachers to request further assistance and provides contact in Regina.
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Rose Fyleman
Little Theatre
Cinderella
Father Christmas
Shoemaker
Snow White
Rose Red
John Hampden
Princess and the Wood Cutter
Micheal
Eldorado
Catherine Parr
Henry VIII
S Palace
David Copperfield
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd
Wellington St. West
Toronto
Ont
King
Chancellor
Sabra
Racketty-Packetty House
Mary Ellen Burgess
Regina
New Apron Wardrobe Pattern 4803 by Anne Adams
Busy housewives can build an apron wardrobe with Pattern 4803. Versions A B and C offer everyday wear heavy tasks and a dainty tea apron with scalloped edges and lace. Sizes small medium large and fabric requirements listed with a 20 cent order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba. note European high heel shoes and wedges mentioned.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Tea taster urges sugarless tea to save flavor and sugar
Spoils The Flavor C. J. Brown, an official tea taster, advises not adding sugar to tea to enjoy real flavor. He notes that 32,000 tons of sugar could be saved if two of three sugar users abstain, as part of wartime thrift. 2455
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C. J. Brown
Department of National Revenue
Fighting Services
Farm Land Values Rise Across Canada in 1941 Estimates
An official report shows Canada wide average occupied farm land value up from 24 to 25 dollars per acre. Increases occurred in the Maritime Provinces Quebec Manitoba and British Columbia while Alberta held steady and Ontario and Saskatchewan fell by one dollar per acre. The Dominion average remains well below pre-1929 levels when values ranged from 37 to 40 dollars per acre.
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Canada
Maritime Provinces
Quebec
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Maine town named China and its Texas namesake
A note identifies a China in Maine and a separate China in Texas, both named similarly. The report lists their distinct locations and confirms they are separate communities sharing the same name.
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Maine
Texas
Last Minute Adjustment in Commando Raid Timing
The report says a British Navy commando raid on Norway at December end went "according to plan" until a minor delay. An officer noted arrival at 8:31 instead of 8:30 Saturday morning, and finishing at 2:45 p.m. instead of 3:00 p.m., with the last minute made up handsomely.
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Norway
Air ministry bans term airscrew in official talks
The British air ministry prohibits the word airscrew for aircraft propellers to prevent confusion with aircrew. Propeller becomes the accepted term in all official correspondence and conversations. In a separate note, Tambora's 1815 eruption expelled roughly 388 cubic miles of solid material in the Netherlands East Indies.
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British Air Ministry
Tambora
Netherlands East Indies
Jesus Questions Peter on the Christ and the Cross
In Mark 8 the scene shifts near Caesarea Philippi as Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is and then who they believe him to be. Peter proclaims him the Christ, while Jesus explains the Messiah must suffer, die, and be raised, revealing the necessity of the cross for the Kingdom.
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Jesus
Messiah
Charea Philippi
Luke
John the Baptist
Elijah
Peter
Christ
Golden Sponge Cake And Coconut Crisps From A Historic Kitchen
Selected recipes present a Golden Sponge Cake and Cocoanut Crisps with steps, ingredients, and temperatures. The sponge uses eggs, sugar, almond flavoring, pastry flour, starch, salt, baking powder, butter, and hot milk, baked slowly. The cookies combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, egg, rolled oats, cocoanut, flour, salt, and baking soda, baked at 300 degrees then crisp.
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Benson's
Canada
Mazda
Health in Industry Focused Postgraduate Course
The University of Toronto hosted a three day postgraduate medical course on industrial health, aimed at medical graduates and industrial physicians, the first of its kind here. It followed a prior three month course for industrial nurses and covered lost time causes, health supervision, injuries, burns, and sickness control in workers.
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University of Toronto
School of Nursing
J. G. Cunningham
Division of Industrial Hygiene
Ontario Department of Health
Cunningham
Ontario
Oliva Dionne to receive standard rationed gasoline
Not classed as an official, Oliva Dionne, father of quintuplets, will get the same gasoline as other drivers when rationing starts April 1. Ottawa learned he is in class A with entitlement from 300 to 380 gallons yearly. Also note a tale urging kindness to children and a Bolivian La Paz cathedral seating 12,000 worshippers.
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Oliva Dionne
Dionne
Ottawa
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Balkans
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F. B. Kilbourn
Department of Munitions and Supply
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Renee
Ae Aah
By William Ferguson
Son Ser
Mexico
United States
Lone Star
Tate
By Fred Neher
Father of Quints
la Paz
Bolivia
Mickie
Royal Order OF Good Fellers
Evry
Reg'lar Fellers
Gene Byrnes
Johnson's Creek
Peet
Miller's Pond
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