World Happenings Briefs From Across the Globe
A village in Berkshire England received an orchard as a memorial to a farmer alderman. Europe’s Marshall Plan spending nears three trillion dollars of its own money per a US survey. Field Marshal Montgomery urged continued US aid to Europe to deter further wars. Adult education expands in Kashmir with forty training centres moving after each course. Chinese Communists ban Boy Scouts, claiming they aid fascism and imperialism. Australia’s 1949 wheat harvest may reach 260 million bushels, second largest in Dominion history. Manitoba awards Rhodes scholars including Murray Rhodes Smith son of Education Minister C Rhodes Smith. Manitoba tourism hits a record high with about 15 million dollars spent by visitors. Chicago police seek the owner of a lost artificial leg found on a busy street and kept safe for recovery.
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Murray Rhodes Smith
Winnipeg
Manitoba
C. Rhodes Smith
J. 8. McDiarmid
Awake! Awake! A Morning Of Duty And Dawn
Poem lines celebrate a brand new day and the call to arise and fulfill duties. It images morning light, rising banners, and life ahead as people are urged to begin their tasks. The verse emphasizes waking, purpose, and daily work.
Canada population rises to 13 636 000 on Sept 1 1949
Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada’s population at 13 636 000 as of September 1 1949, with a gain of 87 000 during the summer months. Quarterly estimates are being prepared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Bureau
Mechanical Wood Splitter From Old Gas Engine
A labor saving wood splitter can be built from an old gas engine. The fly wheel should be 40 inches in diameter or more and a 6 to 10 horsepower engine is ideal. The splitter uses a heavy 12 inch square splitting block, a notch for the fly wheel rim, and a lead filled axe head bolted to the rim.
Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed From A Historic Page
A scrambled crossword style list presents horizontal and vertical clues across varied topics. The readable items include references to ancient money law officers, energies, gods, poets, clothing measures, and animals with partial wording and misspellings.
Other Christmas Days
The piece reflects on Christmas memories across Canada from past wartime to postwar years. It honors kindness, hospitality, and gifts that created memorable family moments, urging readers to give to others and cherish blessings as Christmas 1949 approaches.
Canada May Cut Wheat Shipments to United Kingdom
Ottawa report says a suggestion was raised at the Dominion provincial agricultural conference that Canada reduce next year’s wheat shipments to the United Kingdom to preserve dollars for Canadian bacon purchases. The 1949-50 wheat contract calls for 140 million bushels at $2 a bushel. The bacon contract ends this month, exporting 160.009 million pounds at $36 per hundredweight. Canada has shipped about 60.0009 million pounds so far this year.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
Gardiner
Dominion
U.K
Federal Agriculture Department
Frank Shefrin
Mr. Shefrin
School Children Outpace School Building Program
Victoria British Columbia Education Minister W T Straith said the province faces rapid school growth that outstrips building capacity. A Langley school designed for 690 pupils recently welcomed 900, while Vancouver’s enrollment jumped from 125 500 to 169 000 in three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B.C
British Columbia
W. T. Straith
Architects’ Institute of B.C
Straith
Langley
Vancouver
Canada Opens Trade Office in Spain
Canada creates a trade commissioner's office in Madrid to push new markets. E. H. Maguire, previously in Chile, appointed to lead the post starting February. Sulphuric acid or glycerine applied to windows claimed to prevent frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Spain
Ottawa
E. H. Maguire
Chile
Madrid
Expert Sees Balanced Farming as North American Solution
In Ottawa US agriculture expert James E. Crosby argues balanced farming blends science with life goals to raise living standards for North American farmers. He spoke at a veterans land act meeting tied to the 10th annual Dominion provincial agricultural conference, urging crop rotation and modern knowledge use. The report notes his address alongside conference activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
United States
James E. Crosby
Missouri State Agriculture Extension Department
Veterans Land Act
Crosby
Gems of Thought and Columbus Payment
A collection of quotations on kindness from Irving, Ladder, Eddy, Brooks, and Prentice highlights. The note adds that Christopher Columbus received $320 for discovering America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
America
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Wokingham
Berkshire
Emgland
Europe
Viscount Montgomery
Kashmir
India
Boy Scout Movement
Canton
Australia
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
By Jane Dale
England
Prince Albert
Queen Victoria
Ortan
Severs Wood
God of Love
Mountai Range
California
Rockfish City
Seoul
Cottequlal
Eraente
Paul Lefebvre
Hughenden
Alberta
Johnson
Washington Irving
Mary Baker Eddy
Richard Brooks
George D. Prentice
BY William Ferguson
Kware Koantn
NEA Service Inc
M. Reg. U
Elmer
Cincinnati, Ohio
Little Reggie
Margarita
Reggie
Priscilla
al Vermeer
Tomagine
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