Commonwealth loyalty across the empire shapes Canadian identity
A New Zealander with sea service seeks to join the Canadian forces, highlighting Commonwealth solidarity. The piece notes RAF experience, cross imperial camaraderie, and a Montreal flying officer's remark that nationality fades in service abroad. It argues that being part of the British Commonwealth fosters shared identity among Canadians, New Zealanders, English, Scots, Australians, and others.
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Bealinder
Aputy
Royal Navy
England
France
British Commonwealth of Nations
Montreal
R.A.F
Ottawa
Agricultural By-Products in Prairie Provinces
For years Prairie Province residents studied waste farm crop by products for commercial use. Research progressed and some plants operated to make wall board and insulation from cereal straws. Waste materials include straws stems hulls weed seeds and similar residue. Much of it rots in fields and returns to soil as fertilizer. this is often desirable. Some waste is used for feed other farm uses and occasionally as fuel.
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Prairie Provinces
Large Yield of Cereal Straws From Canadian Wheat
An average of twenty five million acres of wheat are sown in Canada each year, yielding about twenty million tons of wheat straw and two hundred thousand tons of flax straw. Agriculturists debate returning straw to the soil to prevent drifting and enrich the soil while keeping a surplus for other uses. If straw is used commercially, collection and storage pose problems, with substantial on farm collection costs and transport to assembly points needing reduction.
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Canada
Wastes Put To Practical Use on the Prairie
A large number of agricultural residues yield practical products such as wall board and insulating materials with promising markets for farm and urban homes. Waste farm materials also create papers, cardboard, twine, heavy sacking, burlap, and a usable gas fuel. Scientists and economists expect closer agriculture industry ties and many developments ahead.
Last descendant of Robert Morris dies in Saluda mystery blaze
Task Handed Down William Morrs of Saluda North Carolina 84 died. He kept alive a fire started by his ancestors 150 years ago in an open fireplace burning for six decades. He was the last direct descendant of Robert Morris of Philadelphia who moved to the Blue Ridge in 1780 and started the blaze that has burned since. Hampton Owens a nephew now inherits responsibility.
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William Morrs
Saluda
N.C
Robert Morris
Philadelphia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Hampton Owens
Bicycle Can Carry Load Ten Times Its Own Weight
A bicycle is capable of transporting a load equal to ten times its own weight. This indicates remarkable hauling capacity for heavy cargo relative to the bike’s mass.
Colour in Milk and Egg Powder Vitamin A Link
The text explains that rich milk color in certain cow breeds comes from carotene and Vitamin A in feed. In some breeds carotene turns into colorless Vitamin A, so milk remains pale. Fat color in beef reflects carotene intake, yellow from grass finished cattle and white from low Vitamin A rations. Canadian dried egg powders are lighter in color due to variations in liquid egg color.
Price Control And Rationing Information Update
Q and A style notice outlining ammunition limits for rim fire rifles and shotguns 100 rim fire cartridges 50 shot shells per person and separate permits for each type. It covers automobile dealer tagging rules wartime price boards rationing for transient laborers and instructions to request Consumers News pamphlet or the Blue Book via local Wartime Prices and Trade Board office.
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Reg
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
UN shipping agreement outlined at London conference
The Department of External Affairs in Ottawa announced a United Nations shipping agreement. The pact covers all tasks toward finishing the war in Europe and the Pacific and supplying liberated nations. The agreement was drawn up at a recent London conference.
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United Nations
Europe
Pacific
London
Department of External Affairs
Ottawa
Bride to wed in August join Canadian CWACs in wartime
Private Rosalie Matthews of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps prepares for her August wedding to Private Arthur Armitage of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. After their ceremony they will visit relatives in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The article highlights CWACs in Italy and Manitoba and notes family military service and Shakespearean recruiting tales.
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Rosalie Matthews
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Arthur Armitage
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Halifax
Charles Matthews
Blackmarsh Road
St. John's
Newfoundland
Pte
Matthews
Lloyd Matthews
R.C.A.F
High Quality Wheat Promises Large Agricultural Advances
A correspondent hailed a new wheat as a pivotal agricultural development, predicting it could alter livelihoods for millions including Canadian farmers. He noted four harvests in two years from one sowing, with yields of 30 to 40 bushels per acre under Russian conditions similar to Saskatchewan and Alberta, and highlighted rust and rust resistance and high quality.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
Train Station Prank Reflects Wartime Wit at Dutch Stop
A Nazi waiting for a train at a Dutch station left his bag to wash his hands. Upon return the bag was gone and a Dutch worker humorously replied that in Cologne he left his bag at the station too, only the station had vanished.
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Cologne
Rescue Boat Aids Surviving Castaways Developed by Higgins
Higgins Industries of New Orleans has developed a rescue boat of the flow type that can be dropped from a plane by parachute at high altitudes. Officials say several hundred are being rushed to completion. The fully equipped boats ship survivors or cast aways and carry clothing blood plasma smoke signals and rockets to discharge buoy lines.
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Higgins Industries, Inc
New Orleans
Beurling Resigns RCAF To Seek Combat In Far East
Canada's top fighter ace Lt. George Buzz Beurling says his resignation from the RCAF has been accepted and he plans to leave Montreal in mid October for the Far East to pursue aerial combat with the Japanese. He would not confirm the air force he will join, though he had earlier offered services to the Chinese Air Force.
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George “Buzz” Beurling
Canada
R.C.A.F
Montreal
Far East
Beurling
Muffins Help Keep You Regular Recipe Notes
A hot 400 F oven is prepared for muffins yielding eight large treats. The ad claims muffins support regularity and notes ALL-sRaw is produced in Canada with two convenient sizes for shoppers.
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Canada
New Seaweed Industry Aims to Boost Scottish Crofting Regions
Industrialists and chemists form the New Use For Seaweed Association to study seaweed from Scotland’s western coast. They highlight algin as the key extract for textiles plastics dental plates transparent paper and other products including poultry feed. Factories will be built where seaweed thrives with hope of a valuable new crofter driven industry after solving a few chemical hurdles.
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Scotland
Relatives of Leading Nazis Move Abroad to Neutral Posts
The London Daily Sketch reports many relatives of top Nazis are allowed to go abroad to take posts in embassies and consulates in neutral countries. Two Ribbentrop nephews arrived at the Japanese Embassy, lacking diplomatic experience, while Goering relatives, including a wife’s niece, secured posts in Spain and Portugal. Goebbels family members have been assigned sinecure posts in Stockholm.
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Ribbentrop
Japan
Spain
Portugal
Goebbels
Stockholm
London Daily Sketch
Gems of Thought Quotes on Language and Truth
A collection of aphorisms by Delaune Coleridge Emerson Johnson Eddy and Bronson Alcott. It contrasts speaking with thinking and notes language as a nation’s monument and a tool for science. It emphasizes truth beyond literal words and the value of implied meaning.
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Samuel Johnson
Land values rise in Canada from 1939 to 1943
Canada wide land values rose overall by 12 percent since 1939 with yearly variations. In 1940 values were up 4.2 percent from 1939, in 1942 the increase was 4 percent from 1941, and in 1943 the rise reached 7.8 percent over 1942.
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Canada
Camp Shilo CWAC Team Sets Tire Change Title
The Camp Shilo group won an original CWAC event for changing a tire, replacing tools, and readying the vehicle for the road in four minutes and forty seconds. Their fast time suggests they may also set a record for the competition.
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Camp Shilo
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