World Happenings Briefly Told
Britain forbade travellers to carry food to Eire the regulation aims to prevent any drain of Britain’s food. The first all-Canadian airman concert party is forming in Britain with auditions among overseas RC APC personnel. The BBC reported Britain building six new warships for the Greek navy. Wing Cmdr Max Aitken was awarded the DSO for destroying 12 German night raiders. The Peterhof palace has been destroyed by the Germans near Leningrad. US shipyards completed 71 ships in July, a new steel tonnage record. Hundreds of women are being recruited for canal barges on Britain’s inland waterways. Aneta says 1,460 Dutch hostages have been seized by German authorities since May. Canada’s plant protection division warns of Japanese beetle infiltration from the United States.
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Britain
RCAP
Aneta
Netherlands
Unknown Norwegian Hero in Stockholm Story
From The Wrong End From Stockholm details a Norwegian hero in Trondheim during a German propaganda screening. Nazi soldiers distribute food to Norwegians as the hero's voice booms from the darkness, exclaiming the film is shown backward.
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Stockholm
Trondheim
Cotton cavalcade pattern 4124 by Anne Adams
Gay Young Cotton join the cotton cavalcade in pattern 4124. Describes skirt revers sleeves trimmed with banding or ric rac. variant without banding may be sleeveless. Sizes 12 14 16 18 20. size 16 uses 3 1 2 yards of 35 inch cloth plus 1 1 4 yard contrast. Send 20 cents to pattern dept Winnipeg Winnipeg. Man. Diamonds near Brazil valued for hardness.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspa Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Newfoundland Lieutenant Led Improvised Gun Sail Across Atlantic
A Newfoundland navigator who became a commander led a Canadian corvette across the Atlantic in wartime using a trimmed telephone pole as a four inch gun while en route to Britain. He later clashed with a major British aircraft carrier in a river harbor and survived.
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Newfoundland
St Lawrence
Atlantic
Canada
Britain
Royal Navy
American airmen adapt to Spitfire flight training in Ireland
Young American fliers at a British air base in Ireland learn to pilot Spitfires under RAF instructors. They chafe at tea breaks, while an American doctor notes the value of tea as a moment to rest and exchange ideas. Despite the pause, the pilots quickly rack up hours and praise the aircraft as outstanding in combat.
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Ireland
R.A.F
Lieut
Gene Keyes
Cleveland, O
Mao
RCAF
No. 3 Wireless School
R.C.A.F
Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. A. Davidson
Neepawa
H. A. Wilson
J. Crossley
Minnedosa
H. C. Ray
C. P. Tyler
J. M. McGillivray
Baked Fruit with Cereal Crust and Lemon Spice Sauce
Fruit halves are lightly baked in a buttered dish after being rolled in crushed corn flakes. The dish is dotted with butter and baked at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. Serve with Lemon Spice Sauce.
Simple Fruit Sauce Topping Recipe
Mix sugar and cornstarch then gradually add fruit juice and cook until the sauce is clear and slightly thickened. Stir in butter lemon juice nutmeg and salt. Pour over baked fruit and serve.
Right jaw asymmetry tied to race findings says scientists
Scientists report that the right side of the jaw tends to be longer than the left across all races. The old time image of a tank only as water for horses is noted as a bygone notion.
Survive to Endure Czech Nation Through Ages of War
The piece portrays Czech resilience amid repeated ravages from the Thirty Years War to World War I and World War II. It notes Bohemia’s population decline, cultural suppression, language suppression, and later role in dismantling empires and Hitler’s Reich alongside the Allies.
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Bohemia
Hapsburgs
United Nations
Third Reich
Hitler
Austria- Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Wooden tires debut on Halifax streets in taxi trial
Halifax introduces wooden automobile tires in a taxi firm trial to keep taxis running after rubber tire restrictions. Made from birch sections bolted together and costing $41.95 each, the tires reportedly delivered a good ride but produced an awful noise as an official noted the outcome.
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Halifax
Sunday School Lesson Blessed Are Peace Makers
Devotional lesson cites Genesis 26 echoing Matthews gospel. Peace makers theme highlighted with Matthew 5 9 and cross references to Matthew 5 38 45 for conduct and mercy.
Isaac Refuses to Quarrel in Gen Desert Well Tale
A sermonic summary of Isaac’s peaceful handling of envy as Philistines fill his wells. He re digs Abraham’s wells at Gerar names them Esek Sitnah and Rehoboth, finding room and blessing through yielding. The piece concludes with a reflection on faith creating space for all. The note adds that topaz derives its name from Topazas in the Red Sea.
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Isaac
Abraham
Abimelech
Gerar
Hebron
Beersheba
Lot
Rehoboth
Dividends from Health Highlight Industrial Wellness
Health Magazine argues adequate in factory health measures cut absenteeism and wage losses. It cites Canada’s nine and a half days lost per worker yearly, costing over 50 million dollars in wages and about 75 million in production. Implementing health exams, proper job placement, hygiene education, and accident prevention boosts efficiency and reduces turnover.
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Canada
Division of Industrial Hygiene
Department of Pensions and National Health
Ottawa
Victor G. Heiser
National Associations of Manufacturers
United States
The
Health League of Canada
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Eire
British Broadcasting Corporation
CBC
Cmdr
Max Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
Peterhof Palace
Peter the Great
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Agriculture Department
Gay Young
Cotton
Brazil
Nerows Atlantic
BY William FerguSon
Celestial Partners
Beatrice
Nebragka
Huntington
Indiana
Moone Sun
Baby Whale
Cale Minian
Owy Coss
By Fred Neher
Survive! of
Topazas
Red Sea
Reg
Pinhead
Gene Byrnes
Uealth “En Fenty Slaw
Mickie
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