Canadian Wrens Arrive On Loan To Royal Navy In New York
Canadian Wrens assigned for duty with the Royal Navy arrive in New York on loan. The first ten shipmates enjoy a week of leave to explore Fifth Avenue, the Staten Island ferry, and Rockefeller Center before reporting for duty at Headquarters. They tour the city, settle into small apartments, and begin pay and supply duties for RN personnel and ships on this side of the Atlantic.
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New York
Royal Navy
New York City
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Fifth Avenue
Staten Island
United Nations
Rockefeller Centre
Harlem
U.S.C
65Th Street
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Women's Military Services Club
R.N
Atlantic
Last Famous Case of the Bella and the Tichborne Claim
The Bella vanished in a violent gale off Valparaiso with all aboard missing including Roger Charles Tichborne, heir to a baronetcy. Lady Tichborne later believed a Wagga Wagga butcher, Arthur Orton, was the claimant, leading to a famed long trial in England and a 14 year sentence for perjury.
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Bella
Rio de Janeiro
Valparaiso
Tichborne
England
Roger Charles Tichborne
Kate Doughety
Tichborne Park
Wanderer
Wagga Wagga
Queensland
Australia
Arthur Orton
Orton
Edward Kenealy
Kenealy
Arthur
Marylebone
R. M. Harrison
Windsor Star
Fight Inflation by Edna Jaques in wartime Canada
The piece notes how Canadian women mobilized to hold the price ceiling during the fall of 1941 as prices rose with war. It argues inflation endangers living standards, war savings, and soldiers families, urging continued national effort to keep costs down.
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Edna Jaques
Canada
Telegram sent to 94000 CN rail workers for Victory Loan
A telegram addressed to 94,000 Canadian National Railway workers was sent from Montreal by R C Vaughan to all National System employees urging full cooperation to ensure Sixth Victory Loan success. Teleprinters linked coast to coast carried the message, with Vaughan supervising as Beatrice Tilley watched the telegraph take shape.
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Canadian National Telegraphs
Montreal
R. C. Vaughan
Canadian National Railways
National
Canada
Victory
Vaughan
Beatrice Tilley
Poisonous Weeds Identified In Livestock Feed
The National Weed Committee finds livestock illness from feeding stuffs often due to poisonous weed seeds in the seed. Seeds like wild mustard black mustard worm seed mustard penn y cress tumbling mustard purple cockle and false flax are cited as poisonous. Also objectionable are darnel cow cockle blue burr hares ear mustard wild radish and ergotized grains.
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National Weed Committee
Overseas Parcels Test by Standing on It
The Canadian Postal Corps says the test for overseas parcels is to stand on the package. If it cannot bear a regular person’s weight, it surely cannot carry the weight of thousands of bulging mail bags sent to soldiers overseas.
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Canadian Postal Corps
Noon day meals in Britain canteens fuel worker hunger
About 3.5 million Britons or a quarter of the industrial workforce eat their midday meals in canteens daily. Scientists have shown that drinking warm milk helps induce sleep, a finding noted amid meals and labor routines.
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Great Britain
Spring Fever Remedies From Fresh Vegetables
Nutrition Services at Ottawa credits salads with boosting vitality in spring. Leaf lettuce radishes and onions from the garden along with raw turnips carrots and dandelion leaves provide vitamin rich ingredients to cure the season's malaise and bring color and energy.
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Ottawa
Old Spring Bloodletting Custom Mentioned
A historical note explains a spring practice of draining part of the blood to renew health and prevent disease, based on the belief that a healthier supply would replace the withdrawn blood.
Belgian Farmer Under Nazi Controls in Occupied Belgium
A German survey imposes a farm produce minimum and strict oversight in Belgium. Pigs and cattle are tightly monitored with ID cards and censuses. Large farm herds face compulsory redistribution. 188,000 new farm houses over twenty years are proposed, plus housing, credits, and subsidies. A rural division and farm housing advisory body are urged.
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Belgium
National Housing Administration
Department of Agriculture
Amelia Rawlings dies long-serving Windsor housekeeper
Mrs Amelia Rawlings longtime Windsor Castle house keeper and close friend of Queen Mary has died after serving over 27 years. She lived at Adelaide Cottage in the castle grounds since retirement in November 1939, a gift from the King.
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Windsor Castle
Amelia Rawlings
Rawlings
Windsor
Queen Mary
Adelaide Cottage
Castle
Red tape phrase traces to official documents binding
The saying red tape originated from the historical practice of binding official documents with red tape, a method that signified formal procedures and cumbersome government processes.
Sweetheart Pinafore pattern details and order note
Embroidered pinafore pattern 7006 offers sizes 2 4 and 6 with transfer embroidery pieces. Priced at twenty cents. mail to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number. Expect possible mail delays.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Wonders Of Nature Echoes In Fascinating Research
The piece highlights nature’s marvels from migrating gulls and fur bearing animals predicting winter to metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies and trees drawing sap. It notes hummingbirds crossing the Gulf of Mexico and butterflies communicating through solids, with mayflies lasting 12 hours and turtles up to 200 years.
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Gulf of Mexico
London Free Press
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National System
Overseas Parcels
Committee On
R.C A.F
Trenton
Ont
RCAF
Germany
Stevenson Field
Nell Ross
Vancouver
Mary Gordon
Toronto
Louise LeClair
North Rustica
P.et
Betty Dowler
Pidgeon Lake
Alta
Dorothy Winter
Regina
Patricia Annand
Truro
N.S
Alma Lauer
Rosthern
Sask
Alice Brooks
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