Garden notes on starting plants and speeding vegetable growth
The article offers tips for faster results with started and bedding plants, including shading young flowers, snipping back stems, and sowing mixes. It advises sowing with a sand mix for tiny seeds, sprouting potatoes in a sunny room, soaking seeds, and using fertilizer plus weekly cultivation. It notes spacing and staggered sowings by professionals to ensure tender, high quality produce until frost in Canada.
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Canada
Trappers Chase Spring Musk Rat Crop Across Canada
Thousands of trappers gear up for spring harvest of Canada’s 2.5 million dollar musk rat crop. Trappers brave cold waters to secure pelts as furriers showcase Hudson Seal and other processed forms, while warm weather threatens prime quality.
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Canada
Royal Ontario Museum
Britain Supplies Maps for Armed Forces by Royal Engineers
Britain has long produced top quality maps and supplies the United States Army and Air Force under Mutual Aid Lend Lease. The Royal Engineers oversee map production and distribution with a mobile unit able to print 4,500 copies per hour. During the North African campaign their presses ran 22 hours daily for six weeks.
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Britain
United States Army
U.S.A.A.F
United States
Mediterranean
Royal Engineers
Royal Engineers Survey
St. Thomas
Naval officer runs his own special to Sicily front
A Royal Navy officer Lieut. G. S. Ritchie of Aberdeen landed with invasion troops at Licata on Sicily's southern coast and traveled 200 miles to Syracuse after rail traffic halted by the fighting line. He borrowed a train from the stationmaster to move his group, saying it was the simplest option with several ratings aboard.
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Licata
Sicily
Syracuse
G. S. Ritchie
Ds&o
Royal Navy
Aberdeen
Tough on Japs Mosquito planes hit Japanese boats in Burma rivers
In India the Mosquito fighter and reconnaissance bomber flies over the Burmese rivers against Japanese barges and other small craft, delivering deadly blows. The high mortality rate among these targets has risen with the swift twin engined monoplane.
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India
Cross 14000 Support Aids Greek Children With Cod Liver Oil
A donation totaling fourteen thousand dollars was raised with most funds allocated to purchase cod liver oil for Greek children in need. The effort highlights relief work and ongoing humanitarian aid during the period.
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Cross
Greece
Lovers' flight ends in tragedy at Carlton Field crash
Lola frets as Benny rushes to Carlton Field for a flight with Carl. A private plane crashes on the field killing one man and leaving Lola shaken. Benny returns unharmed but loses a safety pin as the burnished horseshoe and four leaf clover pin gleams in the memory of a near miss.
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Benny
Lola
Carlton Field
Pete
Donley
Carl
Canada’s Food Rules and Vitamin C Values
Canada’s nutrition guidelines require one daily serving of citrus or tomatoes for vitamin C, with the rest from vegetables and other fruits. Ottawa Nutrition Services compares alternative servings, assigning values to applesauce, bananas, currants, broccoli, kale, cabbage, beans, peas, potatoes, squash, turnips, parsley, and radishes to match citrus fruit vitamin C.
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Canada
Ottawa
Assumed Cost of Social Security Plans Debated
The Ottawa Journal argues that funding social security plans is complex because government funds come from the people. It emphasizes that all costs must come from taxpayers already stretched thin by government demands.
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Caesar
Ottawa Journal
Knodishall Housewives Challenge Britain With Knitting Record
The Hard to Beat Housewives of Knodishall England population 469 have challenged the nation to surpass their knitting feat They have produced 7363 garments for the three services and 103 garments for hospital patients This fulfills a strong local record and underscores community spirit in a small village.
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Knodishall
England
Britain
Record yield set in 1943 potato contest in British Columbia
Leslie Gilmore of Steveston, British Columbia, won a 900 bushel per acre yield in the 1943 Columbia Potato Growers Association competition, with 883 bushels marketable. The variety Netted Gem dominated locally and in Western states, despite not being the top general high-yielding type.
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Canada
Leslie Gilmore
R.R
Steveston
B.C
Columbia Potato Growers’ Association
Lulu Island
British Columbia
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Idaho
Selected Recipes Small Fudge Cake
Melt butter with grated chocolate then stir in sugar corn syrup and water. Cool, beat in egg and vanilla. Fold in sifted dry ingredients with sour milk, then bake in a loaf pan 8 by 2 inches lined with waxed paper at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
Ontario Labor Relations Board Act Introduced
Hon Charles Daley labor minister introduces the Labor Relations Board Act 1944 in the Ontario legislature. The act would apply the new dominion war industry labor code to all industry in Ontario except farming domestic servants police forces the hydro electric power commission and municipal bodies.
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Charles Daley
Ontario
Labor Relations Board
Dominion War Industry
Hydro Electric Power Commission
Monk in Florence Invented Spectacles in 1135
A Florence monk is credited with the invention of spectacles in 1135. The device aided vision and marked a milestone in optical history, influencing later scholarly and everyday use across Europe.
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Florence
Italy
Wonder Drug Penicillin Reaches India Grain Method Accelerates Growth
Indian researchers report penicillin production using a wheat bran medium yields about 30 Oxford units per gram, far exceeding the 3-4 units per cubic centimeter from sugar or glucose methods used in Western labs. The faster method cuts production time to a quarter and marks a significant advance in antibiotic research.
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India
Willow slim dream frock Pattern 4697 for junior sizes
Anne Adams promo describes a willow slim 80 easy frock with soft back skirt fullness and cap sleeves. Pattern 4697 offers junior miss sizes 11 13 15 17 12 14 16 18 20 with yardage guidance and writing to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man for 20 cents. Delivery notes warn mail delays.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winninnipeg
Man
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