Springfield Leader publication overview and staff
The Springfield Leader is an independent weekly newspaper published Tuesdays serving the Eastern Manitoba Springfield district. It is produced by the Springfield Leader Limited and printed by The St. James Leader in St. James Manitoba. Alfred W. Hanks serves as Managing Director and Publisher in St. James.
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Springfield Leader
Manitoba
Springfield
Springfield Leader Limited
St. James
Canadian clothing drive aims to aid war-torn Europe
William M. Birks urges Canadians to join the National Clothing Collection from June 17 through June 29 to provide used coats, shoes, and wearables for relief in Europe. Local committees will collect, store, and ship garments to regional warehouses for overseas distribution, with donors allowed to include messages of goodwill in pockets of garments.
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Europe
William M. Birks
Canadian Allied Relief Campaign
Canada
Why Leave Out Veterans Ottawa urged funding broadened
Ottawa has not replied to recommendations to broaden veterans assistance legislation to include grants for men seeking to enter the tourist business, with provincial governments also involved.
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Ottawa
Sober Beverage Statistics Reveal Canada’s Lower Drinking Rates
A Financial Post summary notes official data showing Canada’s beer and hard liquor per capita consumption lagging behind the United States and United Kingdom. In 1944 Canada drank 14 gallons per person, UK 95.4, US 24.5. US led hard liquor at 1.66 gallons, about five percent of UK, and three times Canada. The National Breweries report adds that 1945 taxes totaled 17.9 million, over three times salaries, and tax burden exceeded dividends, implying tax as a brake on control.
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Ontario
Washington
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
U.S
U.K
Financial Post
Tryst with Me Amid War Echoes from 1942
Poignant wartime verse recalls lovers in Camberwell as St Nazaire battles rage overhead. The speaker pledges to reunite with their loved one despite roaring shells and scorched skies, promising a shadowed meeting once more.
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Camberwell
Veterans Affairs offices fill seven floors of Winnipeg building
The Commercial Building houses seven of eight floors for the Department of Veterans Affairs with Rehabilitation Centre services on the second and third floors. The second floor holds chief administrative offices, receptionists, the Superintendent, Welfare Officer and Training Division Supervisor. Interviewers and counsellors assist with educational, vocational, and welfare issues. The third floor includes the Re-Establishment Credit Division for credit use guidance, offices for home buying and tools, and Veterans Insurance experts. Also on the third floor are the Winnipeg Council on Rehabilitation with Colonel F. K. Wilson, the Area Rehabilitation Section for out-of-town veterans, and the Regional Public Relations Officer, all aiding in postwar reconstruction and outreach.
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Department of Veterans Affairs
Rehabilitation Centre
Credit Divsion
Winnipeg Council On
F. K. Wilson
DVA
Winnipeg
The World Of Wheat GROW VEGETABLES TO HELP EUROPE
Contending on European food needs, former U S president Hoover in charge of relief reports child mortality under two in Europe and Asia already at 250 per thousand with further deaths anticipated.
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Europe
Mr. Hoover
United States
Asia
We Must Grow Larger Vegetable Gardens to Aid War Effort
The speaker urges conservation of food and growing bigger vegetable gardens to free more wheat and meat for overseas shipments. City residents plan larger plots while farmers can do so with less effort. The author recalls farming methods of long row spacing and using equipment between rows to reduce hand hoeing.
Radar Aids RAF Deliver News and Mail to Europe
Radar apparatus enabled the Royal Air Force to drop twenty one million newspapers and nearly fifteen hundred tons of mail and freight to British forces in Europe over six months. In fog or poor visibility, bundles were released blind with perfect accuracy.
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R.A.F
Europe
Sherlock Holmes and the Solar System musings
The essay uses Holmes as a lens on knowledge and ignorance, arguing education shapes happiness and that superstition births science. It traces how childhood wonder fuels ideas, notes astrology as precursor to astronomy, and suggests modern physics questions space and time while Conan Doyle explored deeper human mysteries.
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Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes
Conan Doyle
Spiri
Wartime Prices Advice Column Clarifies Controls
The column answers reader questions on ceiling prices for cars and meals, butter spoilage, maple syrup coupon validity, and nylon stockings price ceilings. It explains that dealers cannot coerce purchases, notes low butter stocks and export needs, and directs inquiries to Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for official guidance.
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Prices and Trade Board
W.P.T.B
Services Administration of the Board
United Kingdom
Europe
Britain
Prices Board
Canada Meat Consumption in 1945 per Capita
Total civilian meat consumption in 1945 estimated at 136.5 pounds per person, about 18 pounds above the pre war 1935-39 average but 13.3 pounds below 1944. Pork decline drives the drop with 1945 pork at 10.6 pounds less than 1944's 61.4. Lard use in 1945 is 5.9 pounds per capita, down 2.4 from 1944 but above the prewar 3.9.
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Canada
Farm land values in Canada hold steady at 1944 level
The average occupied farm land value in Canada in 1945 was 30 per acre, unchanged from 1944. Six provinces posted increases, while Ontario and Quebec showed declines, offsetting gains due to Ontario and Quebec’s large land shares. Provincial values: Prince Edward Island 43, Nova Scotia 41, New Brunswick 42, Quebec 57, Ontario 57, Manitoba 2, Saskatchewan 18, Alberta 20, British Columbia 67 per acre.
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Canada
Dominion
Ontario
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Mystery of the Universal Theory Eludes Scientists
The text hints at a lingering puzzle about a universal theory that remains unsolved by both the narrator and the scientists, leaving readers with questions about the nature of reality and scientific limits.
Canada poultry numbers fall from 1944 to 1945
A December 1 1945 survey shows total Canadian farm poultry at 57 447 000, down 13.7 percent from 66 604 200 a year earlier. Hens and chickens drop 13.2 percent to 53 717 700 from 61 918 300, while turkeys 2 555 500 vs 3 275 000, geese 553 000 vs 632 500, and ducks 616 000 vs 778 400. The Poultry Division emphasizes breeding stock quality, egg production, and price distribution from Experimental Farms and Illustration Stations.
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Poultry Division
Experimental Farms Service
Canada
Joint Operations in Cooperative Agricultural Projects
Interesting cooperative efforts are described by the Division of Horticulture Experimental Farms Service. It partners with provincial agriculture departments and the Canadian Seed Growers Association to organize quality vegetable seed stocks for production. It collaborates with Ontario Agricultural College on orchard nutrition and with the Division of Botany on strawberry breeding for disease resistance.
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Division of
Experimental Farms Service
Departments of Agriculture
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Ontario Agricultural College
Division of Botany, Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
PROTECTS LIVE STOCK IN CANADA DISINFECTION SUMMARY
Government report shows 135,026 empty stock cars and 28,188 disinfected during the year ending March 31, 1945. Ministerial Order 37 mandates cleaning at designated points for arriving empty stock cars and trucks that have carried livestock. Work overseen by Contagious Diseases Section Health of Animals Dominion Department of Agriculture.
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Veterinary Director General of Canada
Health of Animals Division
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Fruit Growers Learn From Informal BC Sessions
Informal talks by entomologists to interior British Columbia fruit growers draw large crowds. The Okanagan Agricultural Club organized meetings across 17 centres to teach fundamentals of stone fruit and apple culture to many newcomers and experienced growers alike.
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British Columbia
Okanagan Argicultural Club
Entomology Meetings Held Across Seventeen Centres
At all 17 centres six meetings were conducted over three consecutive days with sessions in the afternoon and evening. Emphasis was on insect pests and demonstrations of mixing newer spray preparations. The gatherings proved popular and a 1947 reprise has been suggested, though BC entomologists favor limiting such sessions to every three to four years to free researchers for ongoing work.
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British Columbia
Canada Tightens Cattle Quarantine Rules on Bangs Disease
Amended sections 39 and 58 of the quarantine regulations require cattle six months or older to bear a veterinary blood test certificate for Bangs disease within sixty days of export. Cattle without certification may be detained for testing. reactors are slaughtered or returned. Infected cattle and non inbred yearlings face permanent marking and immediate slaughter or return to origin under inspection.
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Canada
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Bang
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