World Happenings Briefly Told From Global Front
The Swiss radio reports Albert Lebrun sought refuge in a neutral country while France tightens borders to visa holders tied to the German embassy in Vichy. The Suderoy is renamed HM S A S Parktown in honor of a losses at Tobruk as Eden and de Gaulle sign Madagascar sovereignty pact. Ethiopia declares war on Germany Italy and Japan. Canada plans 10 000 food parcels to Greece through the Red Cross. Italian minister Botas laments wartime damage to art treasures from Allied bombing.
Button-front dress pattern for children’s sizes 2 4 6 8
Anne Adams Pattern 4213 offers a button-front dress with ric rac trim for easy self‑dressing. Available in sizes 2 4 6 8, with fabric yardage listed and price of 20 cents in coins. Send size 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
Market Baskets Reflect Families Nutrition Standing
Canadians observe market baskets to gauge diet quality during a nutrition campaign. The piece contrasts a pale tired shopper with one buying fruits vegetables milk whole grains and oats showing better choices and lower cost, endorsing Ottawa's Official Food Rules. It cites a Prime Minister speech linking diet to national effort.
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Canada
Butter and Cheese Production Hit Record Highs in 1941
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1941 butter production at 285,848,196 pounds, value $93,199,557, and 32.6 cent average price. Cheese output rose to 151,865,538 pounds valued at $24,727,037 with 16.3 cent average. Ontario Agriculture College trains 100 youth in farm machinery repair as war demand reduces metal supplies. 240 more apply for courses as officers plan regional instruction. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
Ontario Agriculture College
Guelph
Ontario Agricultural Representatives
Canada Bank of Montreal President Praises War Economy
Huntly R. Drummond reviews Canada wartime economy at the Bank of Montreal 125th annual meeting. He credits industrial expansion, tax and price controls, and public cooperation, urges swift removal of controls after the war to convert factories to peacetime production, and notes government financing through taxes and loans.
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Bank of Montreal
Huntly R. Drummond
Drummond
Canada
Selected Recipes Include Breads And Glider Details
A collection of recipes lists ingredients for flour baking powder salt cinnamon mace graham flour raisins corn syrup milk and mazola with steps to mix bake and mold. It also includes a separate butter honey milk All Bran and flour mix for a steamed mold dessert and notes a surprising line about gliders reaching 400 miles and 22 000 feet. Yield six servings.
Sunday School Lesson on Romans Be Not Overcome by Evil
This lesson passage from Romans 12 urges consecration to God as a living sacrifice. It connects doctrinal grace with practical living, urging believers to renew their minds and seek God’s will, avoiding worldly fashions and embracing holy service. A final odd note mentions a whale with a 12 by 18 feet mouth.
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Paul
Dr. Jowett
Air and ventilation urged for health by Canadian league pamphlet
A Health League of Canada pamphlet distributed in wartime factories emphasizes indoor air as a health factor. It warns infection, dust, and fumes can travel through air, advocates home ventilation, proper heat and humidity, and a 68 to 70 degree daytime temp with furnace checks to prevent illness and absenteeism.
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Health League of Canada
Wealth Hidden in London Safe Deposits Worth Billions
Locked in thousands of small underground compartments in London are valuables valued at over two billion dollars. The stash includes gold silver notes and art treasures stored in safe deposits across the city.
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London
Cork Forests of Algeria Hold Large European African Share
The highlands near the Algerian coast contain about one fourth of the cork forests of Europe and Africa, highlighting the region’s significant natural resource.
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Algeria
Europe
Africa
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Albert Lebrun
French Republic
France
Vichy
Tribune de Geneve
Suderoy
Hmsa.s. Parktown
Tobruk
Anthony Eden
Charles de Gaulle
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Fred W. Routley
Canadian Red Cross
Greece
Shakespeare
Milton
Tennyson and Keats
Education
Botas
Mickie
Nutrition Services
Ottawa
By William Ferguson
Sea
Galilee
Ps Dees
Joe
Graham
Dorothy MacRae
Nursing Services
Canadian Army
Dynamic Christian Living
By Fred Neher
Pip
Health League
MAH Pop
Gene Byrnes
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