Invest In Victory SeventH Victory Loan Campaign
Canada launches its seventh Victory Loan with a minimum objective of 1.2 billion dollars. Finance Minister J L Waley outlines reasons for continued wartime savings to ensure economic stability postwar while Japan and Pacific efforts persist and UNRRA aid expands. Public warning against early relaxation of restrictions is issued as social security planning and postwar expenditures loom.
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Canada
J. L. Waley
Germany
Japan
Lisley
Pacific
United National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Dominion
Inflation Is A Constant Danger
A public appeal warns that inflation looms as a constant danger and wartime restraint must continue. It contrasts Canada’s wartime measures with chaotic inflation elsewhere and urges strong support for the Seventh Victory Loan to back both military and domestic stability.
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Canada
Autumn Coloring Explained by Tree Chemistry
Dr. D. J. MacLachlan of the Ontario Agricultural College explains autumn color as a simple sugar accumulation and breakdown process. A cork layer forms at leaf bases to seal in sugars, stopping transport and revealing yellows and reds as chlorophyll fades, with deeper reds signaling more sugar. browns appear as leaves die.
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D. J. MacLachlan
Ontario Agricultural College
MacLachlan
Kitchener
Dust control cuts respiratory disease in Canadian troops
Canadian doctors and military officials report that dust control trials at Camp Borden Ontario reduced airborne germs and cut respiratory disease casualties by more than half. This drop lowers soldier illness and training days lost, with annual costs previously reaching about 6 million dollars for 25 000 cases in Dominion hospitals.
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Dominion
Camp Borden
Ontario
Portland Won Coin Flip For City Name In 19th Century
Portland Oregon earned its name after a coin flip between two real estate men from Portland and Boston. The decision settled the city’s tag, with Portland prevailing over the rival suggestion and becoming the adopted moniker through a simple gamble.
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Portland
Ore
Boston
Price Control And Rationing Information
Wartime Prices and Trade Board issues guidance on hot lunches for schools and rationed foods. It covers registering as quota users, accepting donated item sales, timing for ration card presentations, and expiry dates for ration books. Citizens are advised to request Consumers’ News pamphlet or the Blue Book from local offices.
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Consumers' News
Prices and Trade Board
All Bran advertised as a constipation remedy
An advertisement promotes Kellogg's All Bran as a gentle cereal that relieves constipation without harsh laxatives. It claims daily consumption of All Bran, with water, aids bulk in the diet and positions it as a wholesome cereal rather than a medicine. Made by Kellogg's in London Canada.
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Kellogg's
London
Canada
Poison gas warning from mixed cleaners case
A Birmingham woman nearly died from mixing two household cleaners. The Daily Mail cited a London analyst report noting the two products released chlorine gas during scrubbing, causing fainting and medical treatment after she lost her sense of smell in childhood.
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Birmingham
London Daily Mail
Birmingham City
Telegraph Message Triggers Plea From Camp Roberts Sergeant
A financially strapped sergeant at Camp Roberts California learned of a collect telegram waiting and, to read the message from his wife, borrowed $1.30. The note read Please send $10 home immediately.
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Camp Roberts
Cal
Sparks From Chromium Tail Sparks on Wheel
Sparks from a chromium tail against a grinding wheel burst in flower like flashes, while sparks from ordinary carbon steel travel in straight lines.
Power Of Science And Not Machines
Dr Butler addresses Columbia on the danger of overreliance on machines and the need to base training on liberal education. He warns that education should aim to produce thinking humans rather than skilled human machines, proposing a plan where liberal studies form the foundation of all training.
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Butler
Columbia
Delhi launches 100 kilometer short wave transmitter
All India Radio inaugurates a high power transmitter near Delhi spanning over 300 acres capable of broadcasting a 200 hour program service weekly and claiming power ten times greater than rival stations. The transmitter operates on a 100 kilometer short wave link extending girdling the globe.
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All-India Radio
Delhi
All India Radio
Mock Drum Sticks with Corn Flake Crumbs Recipe
A recipe for Mock Drum Sticks using veal beef or pork, rolled around skewers, breaded with corn flake crumbs, dipped in egg and milk, then baked with water added. Yield six servings. Also provides a quick salad dressing of cottage cheese mayonnaise catsup and olives served on lettuce with crackers.
CWAC Sunday breakfast at Ste. Anne de Bellevue Centre
The CWAC hosts a leisurely Sunday breakfast in the recreation hall at Ste. Anne de Bellevue with butter jam marmalade honey tea and coffee. Pte Agnes Demone of Lunenburg Nova Scotia is celebrated for steering the schooner Bluenose on the ten cent piece and for her Dalhousie degree at 19. Major Pearl Brent of Edmonton commands No 103 Depot Company CWAC Kingston and praises her team as Pte A Wezner of Saskatoon hits a homer for a steak dinner prize. The meal ends as uniforms go on for church parade.
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C.W.A.C
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
CWAC
Agnes Demone
Lunenberg
N.S
Demone
Dalhousie University
Halifax
United Kingdom
Dominion Engineering Works
Dorval
Montreal
P.Q
Pearl Brent
Edmonton
Alta
Kingston
Pte
A. Wezner
Saskatoon
Sask
O.C
Pte. Wezner
Bren
For Dog Owners and the Duty of Pet Care
A Halifax Herald opinion notes that dog ownership means more than licensing feeding and housing the animal. Responsible owners provide supervision and consider neighbors by preventing harm such as auto collisions theft or poisoning.
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Halifax Herald
Shipyard Improvement Plan Gets British Aid for Modernization
Capital assistance from the British government supports ship yard improvement schemes including development and modernization, with an extension of welding. The total estimated cost equals 39,870,000 dollars, and the aid amount is 26, p6.
Smile Awhile Jokes and Whimsies From Everyday Life
A series of short, light hearted vignettes and jokes about family, work, and social quirks. Quips include a boy explaining meals and debuts about grammar, a sergeant sizing up a recruit, a father and son exchange, a runners club gone missing, Uncle George and baby comparisons, and a woman finally finding a friend after a long search.
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