World Happenings Briefly Told
Scotland Yard probes reports that many Italian waiters in West End hotels are Fascist. Canada reports production of a Browning 30 caliber tank machine gun. Berlin notes Japan faces electric power shortages triggering nonessential shutdowns. Police shootout in Versailles over anti Nazi signs. Montreal institute theft targets wheels and tires. Moscow cites German shootings of French POWs at Stettin.
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Scotland Yard
West End
New Surplice Line Dress Pattern 4134
Anne Adams Pattern 4134 offers a slimming surplice line dress with waistline buttons and a pointed collar. Available in misses and women sizes 16 through 42. size 16 requires 4 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents with name address and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Smile a While Quick Wits and One Liners in a Laughing Sketch
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and puns on language, politics, cooking, and daily life. Jokes touch on English quirks, nautical mile length, oysters, spelling, family Christmas plans, poultry quips, props and social missteps. The pieces entertain with witty wordplay and situational humor.
Captain questions private over toothbrush size
The captain inspects and asks Private Brown for his toothbrush. Brown produces a large scrubbing brush and calmly explains he takes his teeth out, prompting the captain to shout and Brown to reply he cannot fit the brush in his mouth.
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Brown
Candle wax coating for battery terminals described
A simple corrosion protection method coats battery terminals with melted candle wax. Hold a lit candle sideways above each terminal and let the wax flow over all exposed metal surfaces until fully covered.
Record of Sales Rationing to Aid Tea Limits in Yukon Arctic
Officials project rationing will curb tea and sugar use in Yukon Mackenzie district and eastern Arctic where 15 000 residents will have purchases recorded rather than ration cards. Mounties Eskimos missionaries and Indians will have purchases tracked as US engineers and workers on the Alaska highway fall under the remote area ruling and avoid ration cards.
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Yukon-Mackenzie
Arctic
United States
Alaska
Finnish Food Shortage Triggers Barley Seizure and Beer Ration Cut
The Finnish government confiscates 2,000,000 kilograms of barley set aside for malting due to food shortages and eliminates the monthly beer ration. Electrical researchers develop U shaped ultraviolet lamps to sterilize milk bottles both inside and out in one step.
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Finland
Lesson On Tolerance For Survival Of Civilization
A Chicago forum sponsored by the Pastors' Institute of the Chicago Theological Seminary brought together a Catholic priest Rabbi Samuel Blumenfield and Rev DeWitt Turpeau Jr to discuss religion s role in combating intolerance at the University Church of the Disciples of Christ The speakers held firm to their beliefs while stressing that all men are brothers and that justice is indivisible by race or creed
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Chicago
Pastors’ Institute
Chicago Theological Seminary
University Church of the Disciples of Christ
Austin C. Schmidt
Samuel M. Blumenfield
DeWitt Turpeau, Jr
Chicago Sun
Jacob Reunites With Esau At Mahanaim In Gen 32–33
Sunday school lesson analyzes Jacob fleeing to Mahanaim meeting Esau with four hundred men. He prays to God claiming help beyond his own cunning, then meets Esau who embraces him after the brothers exchange gifts. Jacob remains cautious yet grows into a prince with God.
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Mahanaim
Jacob
Esau
God
Jehovah
Abraham
Isaac
Peniel
Seir
Plan for U S child health and wartime welfare urged
Dr. Martha M. Eliot of the US Children's Bureau argues in Survey Graphic for immediate action to halt loss of physicians and nurses from underserved areas and to create a nationwide plan. She calls for day care centers, an emergency mobile corps, immunization campaigns, a nationwide school lunch program, volunteer training, and an expanded school medical service to ensure healthy children and a prepared wartime generation.
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America
Martha M. Eliot
US Chilren
England
Eliot
Christmas May Return to Arizona Mining Post Office
The bureau of mines reports a copper mine once serving Christmas in Arizona may reopen. If the mine prospers, the post office once a favorite destination for Yule cards could be revived.
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Arizona
Bureau of Mines
Local Paper Faces Rising Costs and Ad Printing Needs
Town newspaper editor warns readers that the price of the paper only covers part of expenses. He emphasizes the necessity of selling ads and printing services to keep the paper afloat and the town informed.
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Ireland
Food Corp
Ottawa
Dominion Marketing Service
Canada
Howe
Edmonton
Calgary
Department of Education
Berlin
Tokyo
Japan
Paris
Versailles
Deaf and Dumb Institute
Montreal
Moscow
Stettin
Jim
John
Della
Della Katessen
Jones
Mary
Private Brown
No. 3 Wireless School
R.C.A.F
J. B. Schappert
Margo
Sask
BY WiLliam Ferguson
OF Young
James Naismith
EZ Kocer
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Lake Winnipeg
Nelson River
Hudson Bay
Eility League
Gram
By Fred Neher
Ray
Gene Byrnes
Mickie
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