World War Happenings Briefly Told
More than 600 Danish nurses asked to serve at the Finnish front with a Red Cross ambulance. Sixteen were selected. Britain has bought over £21,000,000 in defence bonds and war savings certificates. Australian employers who dismiss workers under compulsory training face prosecution. Alberta ranchers gain about $175,000 from the 1940 cattle quota to the United States. Paris council renames Moscow Street Helsingfors Street and bars Communist members. Atlantic coast grain elevators hold over 15,000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat likely for the United Kingdom. Canadian Red Cross grants $5,000 to aid Finland via Dr. Routley in England. A stained glass window honors Sir Robert Borden in Ottawa. A mental clinic opens at Sheffield to teach a simple mental drill for war stress.
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Defence Department
Alberta
United States
Paris
Moscow St
Helsingfors St
Atlantic Coast
United Kingdom
Canadian Red Cross
F. W. Routley
England
Finland
British Women Volunteers Praised In Civil Defence Evacuation Report
Dowager Lady Reading hails the evacuation of women and children as the greatest movement of people in the country. The Women s Voluntary Services for Civil Defence reports September enrollments exceeded 96 000, taking total volunteers since 1938 to nearly 500 000. In London 11 000 were interviewed in September, with as many as 1 000 processed in a day.
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Lady Reading
Women's Voluntary Services For Civil Defence
London
Opportunity for Farmers to Supply Britain's Bacon
The Financial Post notes Canada can expand hog production, especially in Alberta, to become Britain's primary bacon source. Grain-to-meat efficiency favors western farms, with a live weight of pork equal to four to five times the grain weight. Wheat quality remains feedable, needing significant price rises before hogs become uneconomical. Maine uniquely borders only one other state.
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Britain
Alberta
Financial Post
Tokyo Barges House Over 60000 Residents
Industry and economy drive competence while barges in Tokyo serve as homes for more than 60,000 residents. Cleopatra is cited as Egypt’s last queen in historical notes.
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Tokyo
Cleopatra
Egypt
Bird Banding And Wartime Listening Posts In Canada
Canada conducts year round bird banding with about two hundred volunteers under the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Over 16 years roughly 380000 birds have been banded and 25000 recoveries recorded, with collaboration from the United States. Wartime listening posts in Britain monitor worldwide broadcasts, with 40 monitors and 25 messengers relaying 15000 word summaries to government offices daily.
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Canada
DoMinion
National Parks Bureau
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington, D.C
United States
England
British Broadcasting Corporation
Ministry of Information
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Danzig
Take it away from nerves join clubs and health advice
A Home Service appeal urges nervous individuals to engage socially through clubs or church groups to reduce isolation and improve health. It promotes walking, fresh air, and foods rich in vitamin B, and advertises a 32 page booklet by a physician on nerves and healthy living plus other inexpensive booklets available from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Scientific bakers in Wales make bread from oat flour
Oatmeal bread fans hailed by the Scots now gain news from Wales where scientific bakers report bread made from oat flour. It promises several advantages in food value over ordinary wheaten bread.
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Family Herald
Weekly Star
Scientific Bakers of
Wales
Jaws Generate Electricity While Eating
The text claims jaws produce electricity during eating with a range from a fraction of a volt to a volt per bite. It references a curious figure and appears as an isolated, odd fact without verifiable context or provenance.
French Ace Impresses German Air Force at Brest
German pilots hailed a lone French single seater as a new Richthofen after he shot down their largest ship in a Brest air battle. He later delivered a bag of fallen German fliers’ belongings with a note reading a Frenchman not an enemy, a chivalrous gesture praised by German crews.
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Richthofen
Brest
Siegfried Line
Radio Sets Reach About Twenty-One Million Homes
A report states that roughly 21.5 million American homes are equipped with radios, indicating broad access to broadcast programming across the country. The statistic highlights radio as a widespread household feature in the era.
Anne Adams pattern 4171 housedress for misses and women
Anne Adams offers pattern 4171 a buoyantly youthful housedress with princess lines and scalloped neckline designed for a slim silhouette. The full length matching easy ironing flat then quick donning. sewing instructions included. Sizes 14 to 44 available. 20 cents to order plus name address and size details to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Think For The Children Safety Message From A L Potter
A.L. Potter of Independence Kansas urges drivers to slow and give children a wide margin of safety as they may stop turn back or change direction when crossing streets Protect the children with careful driving and anticipation in traffic situations.
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A. L. Potter
Independence
Kansas
U.S.A
Long Rudders on Portuguese River Vessels Outsize Ships
In Portugal river boats sport notably longer rudders than their ships, affecting steering dynamics and vessel design.
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Portugal
After a difference of opinion in a democracy it needn't pause
A reflective line notes that in a democracy disagreement should not halt the society from moving on including the duty to honor those who died. The opening suggests resilience and continuity amid political divides.
Sunday School Lesson Christmas Theme
A devotional note outlines a Christmas lesson centered on the prophecy that a child will lead. It cites Isaiah 11:6 and parallels Matthew 1 18-25 18 1 14 19 13 15 with a devotional reading from Isaiah 65 17-20. The material highlights faith and guidance through the infant Jesus for Sunday worship.
Marys Son and the Child's Door to the Kingdom
The text contrasts Mary’s birth of Jesus with the future impact of the Christ child and cites Jesus teaching that entering the Kingdom requires humility like a child. It emphasizes docility, open-mindedness, and unspoiled spontaneity as the gate to faith, warning against ambition and self-importance.
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Mary
Jesus
Bethlehem
George Jackson
Matthew
Heaven
Capernaum
Mount of Transfiguration
Kingdom of Heaven
Francis Greenwood Peabody
Canadian crews help lead air war at Kiel and Berlin
A Canadian led the air raid on the Kiel Canal early in the war and another Canadian navigated the leading machine on the first British aircraft flight over Berlin. The piece notes pilots are going places as in the Great War.
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Kiel Canal
Berlin
U S Salt Production Split Between Dry Salt and Brine
The United States mines over eight and a half million tons of salt annually with about half harvested as dry salt and the other half produced from brine.
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United States
Safe and cheap method to disinfect dishes in wartime
A medical correspondent asks for safe dish disinfection. The answer says chemical sterilization is unreliable and costly, often smelly and unsafe. Boiling water or live steam provides a simple rapid and completely effective alternative, assuming fire is available.
Cancer articles collection offered by The Health League
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont.
Finland as buffer and Baltic state in European balance
The piece argues Friendly Nations Finland has long been a buffer or no man’s land between Russia and Sweden, with Finnish independence shaping ties to Sweden and Norway. It notes Finland as a Scandinavian and Baltic state guarding Europe against Russian imperialism and Communism, in line with wider European interest.
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Finland
Norway
Sweden
Soviet Union
Poland
Austria
Europe
Manchester Guardian
Engineer Durkel earns Croix de Guerre for rescue
An Alsatian locomotive engineer named Durkel, speeding near battle lines, halted his train to aid a crashed French observation plane. He dragged an unconscious officer from the flaming wreck as a German fighter attacked, earning him France’s Croix de Guerre for heroism.
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Durkel
Many Names for Mankind Dwellings Across History
A survey notes how human shelters span a wide range from simple huts to grand mansions. The text lists dozens of terms including cottages flats inns inns lodges palaces and huts to illustrate the diversity of living spaces used by people.
A Bridegroom Exchanges Good Quarters for Half Love
A brief quip defines a bridegroom as a bachelor who trades good quarters for a better half.
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Red Cross
Congregation of All Saints’ Anglican Church
Sir Robert Borden
Sheffield
Dr. F. Kennedy
Maine
Union
the Listening Post
Home Service
Cheery Princess Houspp Rox H
the Child and
Turkey
Dominion Department of Agriculture
North America
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth
Mass
Py Dr.ilw
S. M‘cullough
Health League
South America
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