Postwar Canadian Army plans outlined for security
A veteran speaker lays out Canada’s future defence posture. The plan calls for a small Active Force of 25 000 personnel with a 5 000 6 000 brigade group, and a large 180 000-strong Reserve Force of part time soldiers. Prairie Command HQ sits in Winnipeg with MDs in Winnipeg and Regina.
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Canada
Prairie Command
Air Force
NPAM
Dieppe
British Empire
United Kingdom
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Regina
Embroider Simple Linens with Lasting Cutwork
Alice Brooks promotes cutwork motifs that render linens lovely and durable. Pattern T278 offers transfers for 14 mitfs from 2 by 2 inches to 4 by 15 inches. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Man to obtain the pattern. include name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Man
Paris Lyons Rail Electrification Starts Milestone Route
Work has begun on the 320 mile Paris to Lyons railroad line to electrify the track at a substantial cost. The project aims to modernize service, reduce travel times, and improve efficiency across the route linking major French cities.
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Paris
Lyons
Panther the cat travels from England to South Africa by packing case
A black cat named Panther survived six weeks aboard a British aircraft engine sent to a South African training school. Nourished by grease and tarred paper, the scraggy feline lived beside the tarred box and became the crew’s favorite “erks” pet.
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South Africa
England
Britain
Auckland father saves son with homemade magnet
In a race against time J E Openshaw RNZAF radio technician spent two days crafting a tiny electro magnet to pass down his son's throat. Doctors used the device to retrieve a large nail from the boy's stomach, saving his life.
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Auckland
N.Z
J. E. Openshaw
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Old Dutch Bibles Sought as Nazi Looted Copies Rebound
Dusty shelves across South Africa hold old Dutch Bibles sought by churches in Holland to replace hundreds of thousands destroyed by the Nazis. The relics, superseded by the Afrikaans Bible, are now in demand again.
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South Africa
Holland
Lost Lemon Mine Tale Spreads Through Alberta Frontier Legends
An Alberta Folklore Quarterly piece recounts the Lost Lemon Mine saga from 1870s High River, detailing Blackjack and Lemon’s failed gold strike, Stoney scouts Bearpaw and Bendon, repeated expeditions, the miner’s curse or hoodoo, and Lafayatte French’s decades-long search ending with fatal burns and unresolved mystery.
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D. E. Riley
High River
Alberta
Alberta Folklore Quarterly
Mcleod
Lemon
William
Daniel Bendon
Stoney
Morley
Bearpaw
Tobacco Plains
John McDougall
Blackjack
McDougall
Fort Benton
Crow's Nest Lake
Fort Kipp
Lafayette French
French
Emerson House
Bar U Ranch
Campbell plans jet engine speed trial to break record
Sir Malcolm Campbell announces an autumn attempt to smash his world speedboat record of 141 mph set in August 1939. He says a jet engine has never been fitted to a boat and that exhaustive tests are underway in a tank and wind tunnel focusing on aerodynamics.
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London
Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm
Two Catfish Snared By One Fisherman Hook
Tacoma resident Bob Fitch tells of a curious catch when two catfish tangled in shallow water. He snagged one by the jaw and gave a sharp jerk, pulling the second fish from the mouth of the first in a surprising double catch.
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Tacoma
Wash
Bob Fitch
Philadelphia to rejoin Hockey Majors in nine-team league
The Ameri can Hockey League will expand to nine teams next season with Philadelphia returning to the circuit. At the league meeting in New York Maurice Podoloff of New Haven Conn was re elected president.
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Philadelphia
New York
Maurice Podoloff
New Haven
Conn
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