Britain Learns To Eat Sensibly In Wartime Diet Reform
A wartime diet guide notes Britain’s shift to balanced meals with vegetables, wholemeal bread, and oatmeal. Government demonstrations and advice from health experts promote fruit substitutes, carrots, and green vegetables to boost stamina and health amid rationing. The feature also recalls Edmund Toft, a blind veteran, his resilience, and his late-life work with St Dunstan’s.
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Dieliciang
Hitler
Unuts
Ministry of Health
Britain
Horder
Locomotives For Turkey From British Shipments
British engineers build 24 GS locomotives for Turkey each weighing 106 tons with a top speed of 70 kmh. In the quarter ending June 30 Britain sent 34 locomotives, valued around £250,000, and 18 locomotive boilers abroad, totaling 56 items valued about £110,000 for the first half of the year.
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Turkey
Britain
Thiamin Added in Russia Bride Garland Symbol
A custom in Russia uses a garland of wormwood for brides to symbolize the bitterness of marriage after introducing thiamin as a vitamin.
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Russia
Royal Navy Submarine Service Admired Despite Losses
The Prime Minister Winston Churchill pays tribute to the Royal Navy submarine service describing it as thoroughly deserved. Thirty submarines have been lost since the war began and a loss usually means the entire crew is lost. The branch is the most dangerous yet attracts keen volunteers.
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Winston Churchill
Naval Service
Royal Navy
Edmonton Journal
The Whale World Record Among Giants
The whale stands as the largest living animal and the biggest creature known to have existed, surpassing all prior estimates and enlarging humanity's sense of natural scale.
Real board of health is home cooking
A compact briefing notes a local health authority framing its approach around domestic food preparation. It highlights community safety and standards while emphasizing accessible, everyday cooking practices.
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Board of Health
Mountie Dog Dale Passes at Age 12 in Canada
Dale the Mountie dog of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, regimental No. 470, died at age 12 after a painful growth ended his service. He was hailed as Canada’s best canine policeman and had notable exploits including tracking gunmen Pete Woykin and John Kalmakoff in 1935, aiding a search near Canmore, Alberta, and locating a missing man in Saskatchewan. He received a medal of honor from Dog World for guiding authorities to a 16 month old who was found smothering under grain during a rain storm.
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Edmund Toft
England
London
St. Dunstan’s
Bridge
Ian Fraser
St. Dunstan's
Cavendish Square
St. Dunstan's Hospital
Dale
Cansalta
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Mounted Police
Canada
J. N. Cawsey
C.B.I. Branch
R.C.M.P
Calgary
Date
Harry Buskey
The
Dog World
Chicago
Parachute Troops Fail in Chinese War Raids
A British radio broadcast reported by N B C says Japanese parachute troops failed in several surprise attacks west of Peiping and were mopped up in each raid. The broadcast notes lack of success in the operations.
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N.B.C
Peiping
Hotel Industry Ranks Seventh in U S Economy
The hotel business of the United States is its seventh largest industry, underscoring its sizable role in national commerce. This position highlights the sector's employment, tourism appeal, and contribution to GDP amid evolving travel patterns and policy shifts.
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United States
War Accelerates Reform and Democratic Life
Time and Tide argues that total war has not weakened democracy but spurred reforms. It notes greater public involvement, expanded welfare schemes, nursery and maternity facilities, rest homes, and improved community life. The piece highlights shelters, workers’ restaurants, evacuee exchanges, and a broader sharing of benefits as war progresses.
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London
W for Win haircut idea from Gerald Smith
Gerald Smith of Edwardsville MI unveils a W shaped haircut named W for Win. He explains the style carries a W for Victory and, if taken apart, reveals two Vs for double victory.
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Gerald Smith
Edwardsville
Milady
Coiffure
Young Gerald
Advanced Motor Mechanics Training In Canadian Forces
A new school of advanced instruction in motor mechanics for Canada’s highly mechanized forces opens in London Ontario. The program, run by the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps and Anderson Organization, trains 500 to 2000 students rapidly on diesel and gasoline engines for tanks trucks and infantry carriers with American instructors and a practical hands on syllabus. Graduates join maintenance depots across armored corps artillery engineers and ordnance to service every wheeled and tracked vehicle in use.
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Department of National Defence
London
Ont
Atai. Ad
Great
Canad
Canada
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Victor Sifton
Ordnance
Tracs
United States
Ordnance Corps
Ottawa
Nesr
Esquimalt
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Anderson
Los Angeles
Cal
Ance
U.S. Army
Mechanics’ School
Fort Knox
Anderson Organization
W. O. Anderson
California
Queen's Park
Armored Corps
Artillery
Engineers
Army Service Corps
Lace Makers Keep Wartime Spirits Through English Craft
In Devonshire's Beer village lace making, a 400 year old tradition, feeds wartime needs with orders from the United States. Many artisans are over 80, including Ida Allen who has supplied lace for Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra. Meanwhile Nottingham mills press forward, and US and Canada demand tailored curtains, nets, and tour de lits. The report also notes Hudson Bay drainage and Utah’s empty Great Salt Lake.
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England
Devonshire
Beer
United States
Ida Allen
Jace
Queen Mary
Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Nottingham
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Far East
Palestine
Egypt
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Malaya
A.lf
Mountie
Petain
Darian
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avyénue E
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Spitsbergen
Terus
Magdalena Bay
League of Nations
Hague Tribunal
King's Bay
Long Year City
Siberia
Norway
Moscow
H. J. Snider
Toronto Telegram
Dominion
Hudson Bay
Arctic Ocean
Utah
Great Salt Lake
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