Yellowknife gold rush eyed by Edmonton prospector
Edmonton businessman Mr Geo F Gordon says a Yellowknife mining boom will mirror the Klondike. About 20 shareholders will visit mine properties in June. 10,000 men are in the camp with 35,000 claims staked and 100 formed. RCM P stations guard entry while steps seek an assay plant and test mill likely at Yellowknife to speed results.
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Geo. F. Gordon
Edmonton
Yellowknife
Dave
Geo. Caywood
Gordon
R.C.M.P
Ottawa
Evangeline Returns Upends Small Town Romance
Dave Thorne and Mary Mills endure years of quiet life while Evangeline Vangie Clayton returns, rekindles a claim on Dave, and triggers a turbulent triangle. Mary drives back into Dave’s life, buys a blue car with a purpose, and the trio’s fate folds around marriage, loyalty, and independence in a coming reunion.
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Mrs. Thorne
Mary
Dave
Evangeline Clayton
Lake Forest
Eve
Vangie
Frieberg
Rocking Chair House
Tummer
Brown-Eyed Susans Cookie Recipe and Medieval Anesthetic Note
A recipe outlines Brown Eyed Susans cookies using raisins, sugar, water, lemon juice, shortening, orange rind, cereal crumbs, flour, powder, and salt with a milk mix and two shapes. Instructions include chilling, cutting, filling, crimping, and baking at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, yielding about 12 cookies. The note mentions medieval surgeons using wine as an anesthetic to render patients unconscious.
Garden Notes on Maintenance and Soil Enhancement
Garden notes stress thorough cultivation by early June, thinning crowded plantings like carrots and lettuce, and timely pest sprays after damage signs. It advises staking tall plants, supporting climbers, and frequent picking to encourage continuous flowering. Also explains green manure and compost heap practices for soil improvement.
Old opinion on snacks in war plants changes
The belief that eating between meals harms health has faded. Efficiency experts in war plants report that snacks during rest periods aid general well being. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon energy foods help workers sustain high production levels.
Nine moons of Jupiter observed with naked eye
The pliant Jupiter is said to have nine moons four of which are large enough to be seen without aid. Exceptional eyesight is required for such a feat. Before repainting glossy enamel rub down the surface with steel wool to ensure proper adhesion.
Netherlands underground built country wide secret telephone network
An Amsterdam engineer describes a bold underground achievement linking villages to central exchanges across the country. Operatives tapped German lines and even heard a Hitler–Rauter call about Brussels, then relayed intelligence through a covert Dutch system.
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Netherlands
Ijssel
Amsterdam
Hitler
Holland
Walther Rauter
Rauter
Fuehrer
Brussels
Combat Sawfly Campaign Aims At Wheat Pest
Saskatchewan farmers face a costly wheat stem sawfly invasion with an 18 million dollar loss in 1943. Provincial and federal experts promote community led action using trap strips and late sown wheat, with oats and barley seeded early to reduce infestation.
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Saskatchewan
S. H. Vigor
Girl's Dirndl Pattern 4751 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams pattern 4751 offers a simple girls dirndl sewn with drawstrings at waist neckline and sleeves no buttons placket or seams. Sizes 6 8 10 12 14 require 2% yards of 35 inch fabric for size 10. Send 20 cents to Winnipeg pattern office with name address and style number. mail slow.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave. E
Man
Barendsa Tribesmen Fall Ill Across The Crescent Moon
A poetic observation notes Barendsa tribesmen in Africa suffering fevers coughs and colds as the tilted crescent moon rises over the landscape. The fragment evokes distant illness linked to lunar imagery without specific events or dates.
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Africa
The Business of Farming film on Canadian farm costs
The National Film Board Rural Circuits program presents The Business of Farming. It analyzes farm costs and income from 1926 onward, detailing how machinery prices, price volatility, and rising operating costs affected farmers through the 1920s and 1930s and how postwar prosperity aims to reverse old declines.
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National Film Board
Canada
Values Publicity By Life Insurance Companies In Canada
R Leighton Foster, K C, of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association, urged strong newspaper publicity at a luncheon of the Underwriters' Sales Congress. He noted Canada began institutional advertising 25 years ago, a cooperative effort to explain life insurance.
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R. Leighton Foster
K.C
Canadian Life Insurance Officers’ Association
Canada
Canada weighs new industry of silkworms in backyard
A Chilliwack woman reportedly raises silkworms on mulberry trees in her yard and stocks her family in silk stockings. The Edmonton Journal notes doubt that the mulberry and silkworm culture will spread across Canada, even in wartime.
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Chilliwack
B.C
Canada
Edmonton Journal
British Empire Population Surpasses Five Hundred Million
The total population of the British Empire exceeds 500 million, reflecting vast reach across continents and diverse communities under colonial governance and economic influence during the period.
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British Empire
Blythe Spirit and skylarks in Victoria BC area
The article notes the skylark, a European songbird, lives around Victoria BC as the region's sole American locale for the species. It resembles the horned Canadian lark but lacks the tufted horns and has a striped breastband. It also mentions light-colored ceilings and porch ceilings reduce shadowing under overhanging eaves.
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Victoria
B.C
America
Shelley
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Royal Yeast
Dave Thorne
Mary Mills
Brown-Eyed Susans
Pico
Peltitn
Macdonalds
Ogilvie —Ts Good
Life Insurance Companies
Blythe Spirit
Wayne
ATLAS
Red Lake
Little Long Lac
Michipicoten
Opeepeesway
Continental Securities Co
Toronto 5
Ontario
Bloor W. Toronto
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