Handling Mail For Men On Active Service A National Issue
The Ottawa Journal highlights the Canadian Postal Corps role in delivering mail to sailors soldiers and airmen overseas and in Canada. It notes over 90 percent of mail delay complaints lack foundation describes mail routing from Base Post Office Ottawa to England and units. It cites sinkings of mail ships, 24 million pounds of mail in 1941, and details postal staffing in Canada and air force units including new CWAAF postal clerks.
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Canada
Ottawa Journal
Mai
Canadian Postal Corps
Navy
Army
Air Force
Ottawa
Postal Service
Civil
Hfe
W. Ross
England
Johnnie
Atlantic
Royal Canadian Air Force
C.W.A.A.F
Corps
A Matter Of Habit Peep Sugar Use During Rationing
During Wartime Prices and Trade Board rationing, households are urged to cut sugar use as a patriotic duty. Habits drive excess sugar in tea and coffee, with dishes like thinner icings. Use more fruits, reduce brown sugar, and enjoy health benefits from lower sugar intake while preserving essential nutrition.
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Prices and Trade Board
Canada
Odd Cup From Cactus Wounds Used as Vessel Study
Notes describe desert woodpeckers drilling into cactus revealing a fibrous hard lining that Native Americans scraped out to fashion a water cup. The text also cites a claim of four million tons of stone in the Cheops pyramid in Egypt.
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Pyramid of Cheops
Egypt
Studio photographer Ian Pirie MacDonald dies in New York
World renowned photographer Ian Pirie MacDonald died aged 75 in New York. He reportedly refused to allow women in his studio while he worked, claiming women would not sacrifice vanity for a true camera portrait. Brazil remains the leading coffee producer with two thirds of global output.
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Ian Pirie MacDonald
New York
Exclusive Stitchery Design Pattern for Bunny Carriage Decor
Alice Brooks offers pattern 7070 for a Bunny motif 18 by 14.4 inches and five smaller motifs about 5 by 6 inches. Includes color schemes, materials, and stitch illustrations. Send 20 cents to obtain this design.
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Alice Brooks Design
Bunny
Better Than Rubber Raincoats From Limestone Powder
Canada s armed forces will soon wear raincoats coated with a vinyl resin derived from limestone powder, replacing rubber. The Department of Munitions and Supply says the polymerized coating, dyed in navy, air force blue or khaki, is applied to cotton fabric and finished for durability, claiming the synthetic coats are as good as or better than rubber.
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Canada
Department of Munitions and Supply
Substitute Horsehair Bristles Shaping Wartime Brushes
L. 5. Hewes of Wartime Prices and Trade Board notes good substitute for Chungking bristle in brushes. Chin a Chungking bristle comes from wild boar like animal bred near Chungking. A brush with up to 50 percent horsehair boosts supply and durability. horsehair used in brooms polishers clothes hats and industrial machines. Arthur says his new job grants independence, able to start before eight and leave after six.
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Hewes
Prices and Trade Board
Chungking
China
Burma Road
Mr. Hewes
Canadian Wool Board Bans Binder Twine on Wool
The Canadian Wool Board Ltd bans binder twine for tying fleeces after shearing and requires paper string or leaving the fleece untied if unavailable. Penalties apply: one cent per pound for wool tied with binder twine due to defects and slower production amid tight supply from Australia and New Zealand.
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Canadian Wool Board Ltd
Australia
New Zealand
Birthdays Plural Cake Ordeal In The Neighborhood Shop
A married couple share the same birthday and celebrate lavishly. The wife orders a cake reading Happy Birthdays Plural to please both. The clerk notes the request and delivers the cake as requested. The joke ends with a quip about chivalry at home answering the phone seven times with the caller’s phrase.
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The
New Yorker
Daring Operation Performed By French-Canadian On Norwegian Sailor
A Norwegian sailor was rescued by a Corvette after a daring operation by a French-Canadian. The report discusses the origin and usage of the term Nazi, noting its Austrian roots from Sazi for Sozialist and the shift in reference from Hakenkreuzier in Austria to the familiar Nazi in English. It cites the Manchester Guardian’s inquiry into when the substitution occurred and how the term spread.
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Vienna
Munich
Austria
Manchester Guardian
Resourceful Airmen and a Makeshift Warfield Operation
An amusing note from World War II recounts RAF crews improvising Russian language cues with the operator using Engliski Aero planski to reach No. 151 Wing. Florent Morin, a 23 year old French Canadian, saved a Norwegian sailor in a lifeboat after their ship was torpedoed off Ireland using fish hooks and curtain clasps as clamps with horsehair thread for wound repair aboard a Canadian corvette. He performed the surgery himself with limited supplies, while the Norwegian endured the three hour operation and later kissed his hands in thanks. Morin earned the Order of the British Empire for the rescue achievement.
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R.A.F
Russia
No. 151 Wing
Engliski Aeroplanski
London Times
Florent Morin
Sherbrooke
Que
Morin
Ireland
Vancouver
Paris
Montreal
Teeland
Weill
Flying In The North Edmonton Air Capital Of The Northwest
Edmonton hosts a vivid aviation panorama from 1919 to the present with famed pilots, routes to the Yukon and Alaska, and six weekly Yukon flights out of Vancouver. It notes Norseman planes on skis and floats, cargoes of gold bars and eggs, and dramatic northern travel involving R.C.M.P. officers and an Arctic trapper’s season.
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Northwest Territories
MacKenzie River
Arctic
Northwest
B.C
Yukon
Territories
Yukon Southern
Vancouver
Edmonton
Fort St. John
Watson Lake
Whitehorse
Alaska
Yellownife
Eldorado
Great Bear Lake
Cec McNeil
Prince Albert
F. E. Meilicke
J. K. Potter
W. J. Windrum
Mackenzie
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
McNeal and
Meinicke
McNeal
Ile A la Crosse
Windrum
R.C.M.P
Tre A la Crosse
Remarkable Railroads Confound a Rural Rider
An old muzhik on a first rail trip from his rural town to Moscow meets a friend in Bologos halfway. He accidentally boards the other train and jokes about their destinations, amazed that both ride in the same carriage toward different cities.
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Russia
Muzhik
Moscow
Bologos
St. Petersburg
Ivan
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W. R. “Wop" May
Air Observer
Flatbush
Brooklyn Dodgers
Gill the Stranger
Vic Rowe
Canadian Pacific Air Services
Mid-West
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