World Happenings Briefly Told From The Isis And Beyond
A collage of brief items including Oxford University’s Isis revival after six years, a silver Offa penny auctioned in London for £26 0, Hastings council testing beach tea services, Canada’s construction awards up by $117,070,900 from 1944, Jerome Kern gifting a song to a Navy show in Elstree, South Africa using DDT against tsetse fly, Emmanuel Shinwell warning miners of recruitment needs, a London admiralty plan for a new navy to counter the atom bomb, 13,000 women and children awaiting UK passage from South Africa, with 5,000 dependents of service personnel, and Burwell Fen’s 500-pound live bomb remains kept to spare bomb disposal teams.
Proof Of Ancient Life And Lost Civilizations Found Abroad
The National Geographic Society reports finds from 1945 across Europe Asia and Africa. Excavations for airfields in England reveal an ancient Celtic wood temple dated 500 to 300 B C. Bomb crater digs near Canterbury uncover evidence of a city founded after Rome’s 43 A D conquest. Gibraltar cave reveals fossil remains while Russian digs expose settlements tens of thousands of years old. Additional sites include a multi level town near Baghdad and a pre bronz e age settlement near Haifa. A Ton in southern Mexico marks an eight mound ancient city tied to Olmec to Mayan culture migration. North Polar expeditions place the north magnetic pole in Sverdrup Islands near Boothia Peninsula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. National Geographic Society
England
Canterbury
Gibraltar
Russia
Laptev Sea
Siberia
University of Chicago
Bagdad
Haifa
Beth-Yerah
Sea of Galilee
Mexico
National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution
Gulf Coast
North Polar
North Magnetic Pole
Sverdrup Islands
Boothia Peninsula
Farther’s Vow in Rainlashed Farewell
After a tense quarrel the husband declares he is leaving forever to seek wild adventure. He contemplates the jungle or stormy seas as the source of new memories, then changes course noting the rain as a lucky factor before ending at the door.
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Henry
Had Minds Made Up War Plans Found in Secret Documents
Evidence from German and Japanese secret documents shows deliberate war preparations. The text argues that appeasement by democratic nations might have altered the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moo
Arctic Skipper Nielsen Nears Retirement After Four Decades
Captain Jens Ole Nielsen, 61, a veteran Hudson Bay sailor from Moosonee, has spent 42 years at sea, commanding shipping on northern bays and rivers. He has never captained an ocean-going vessel, plans four more years at the helm, and recalls wartime dog-sled journeys and a life among Eskimos and fur traders.
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Jens Ole Nielsen
Hudson
James Bays
Atlantic
Clementine
Timmins
Moosonee Post
Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Severn
Nielsen
Canada
Lady Head
England
Moosonee
Revillion Brothers
Skipper Nielsen
Mossonee
Chariton Island
Great Whale River
Hudson's Bay
Revillon
Saskatchewan Indians form federation to press rights
Delegates from Assiniboine Saulteaux Cree and Sioux tribes meet at the Legislative Buildings called by Premier T C Douglas to unify tribes into a single province wide Indian Federation. The new body will express and advance Saskatchewan Indians views while allowing membership in existing organizations.
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Saskatchewan
Qu’Appelle
Legislative Buildings
T. C. Douglas
Prince Albert
United States
Douglas
Toughen penalties for concealed gun carry says Edmonton Journal
The Edmonton Journal argues that unlawfully carrying a gun marks a potential murderer and urges harsher punishment. It predicts Canada will see a homicide rise unless gun tote- rs are punished more severely. The paper calls for immediate, strict measures against concealed weapon carriers.
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Edmonton Journal
Canada
New Gramophone System Promises Home Symphony Quality
An English record company announces a new recording system and a new gramophone. The combined gramophone and records claim to deliver music of unprecedented clarity and realism, allowing symphonies to be heard at home as in a concert hall.
Thrifty weekly menus with ration tips and leftovers
Festive season notes a meal plan using chicken roast Sunday and cream sauce Tuesday. Leftovers become croquettes with mushroom sauce. Lamb chops make a Monday stew, while a beef and veal loaf plus liver adds nutrition. Bacon buys yield ration change for future meals.
Plastic Eyes to Replace Glass Ones for Gurkha Soldiers
The Optical Appliances Section of the Ministry of Pensions plans plastic eyes, replacing fragile glass eyes once issued to war casualities. Glass eyes, once common, faced breakage risk, but the new model aims to reduce failures while the industry kept supplying about 10 000 wearers before the switch. Two Gurkha volunteers asked an NCO about jump heights and were told 500 feet. they balked at 300 feet, learning parachutes would not open in time at lower drops.
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Ministry of Pensions
Manchester Guardian
India
Sky Troops
N.C.O
Anton Mussert Sentenced to Death by Dutch Court
The Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert received a death sentence from a Netherlands court after his wartime collaboration. He had betrayed his country by aiding Germany and anticipated a German victory, a belief now deemed a fatal miscalculation.
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Anton Mussert
Netherlands
Germany
Corn broom import subsidy ends raising prices
The prices board announced higher costs for corn brooms after the subsidy removal. Expect about 28 cents more for $1 brooms and roughly 42 cents for the larger $1.50 kind. The note mentions the invasion port and a landing plan of 40,000 men daily from England to France on D-day.
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England
France
Health Week Sets Focus on Disease Prevention in Canada
The Health League of Canada designates February 3 to February 9 as Health Week to promote national, community, and personal health. It highlights the cost of sickness and urges cooperation from churches, schools, clubs, and organizations to spread disease prevention messages. National Social Hygiene Day on February 6 initiates another anti venereal disease campaign aligned with U S efforts.
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The
Health League of Canada
Canada
Health League
League
United States
Bungalows From Scrap Turn Out UK Prefab Homes
Arthur Woodburn says five major UK bomber factories now build prefabricated houses from aluminium scrap. Aluminium from old aircraft will yield about fifty thousand bungalows in the next year or two as Britain converts war materials to housing. A Blackpool aluminium house is unveiled as the first, with a radar note on speed of signals.
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United Kingdom
Arthur Woodburn
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Woodburn
Blackpool
England
Sugar rationing defended by Canadian official in Montreal
Very Necessary H J Hobbins, deputy sugar administrator for the prices board, said in Montreal that calls to end sugar rationing in Canada are absurd. He cited South American surplus stocks and higher South American prices as evidence that rationing remains necessary.
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H. J. Hobbins
The
Prices Board
Montreal
Canada
Hobbins
Ottawa
Ross M. Brown
South America
Brown
Combined Food Board
B C Holly Greeted Eastern Holiday Tables
Vancouver News Herald notes B C holly decorates mantels in frozen east homes and tops plum puddings at festive dinners. Easterners see B C as a holly Christmas symbol, contrasting with misty frosty mornings back home.
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B.C
Vancouver News Herald
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Oxford University
Isis
Offa
Mercia
London
Council of
Hastings
Eng
Maclean Building Reports
Jerome Kern
Elstree, Eng
Zululand
Emmanuel Shinwell
Durham
London Daily Mail
Admiralty Commission
Britain
South Africa
Burwell Fen
Arctic
Capt. Nielsen
Lontora
Ichicken
By Fred Neher
Reg'lar
Zoolie
Gene Byrnes
CANAD
Jéan Goppert
la Guardia
New York
Lieut
Goppert
Frozen East
BY William Ferguson
Europe
U.S
Guis
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