World Happenings Briefly Told
The piece lists varied wartime and postwar notes including Britain hunting boar in Germany to protect crops, Norwich street safety success, Col Julian Taylor receiving the CBE for aiding prisoners with artificial limbs, female deputies in the Italian assembly, Canadians’ war savings and debt data, Viscount Alexander’s retirement to half-pay, milk rationing schemes for schools, and ship to shore telephony resuming with ocean liners after six years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Food
Great Britain
Farmers Seek Fair Prices Through International Federation
The Farmers Advocate notes hunger abroad and scarce granaries, urging fair farm prices without strikes. Local producers join provincial and national federations and form an international body to secure living standards based on production costs and avoid the 1930s purchasing-power downturn.
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Federations of Agriculture
No Frills For Them Alexander Children Are Being Brought Up In Proper Way
The two sons and daughter of Viscount and Lady Alexander of Tunis travel to continue a vice regal tour carrying their own luggage. Hotel staff rush to help but they are waved away by the governess who says the children are being raised properly. A train companion notes the children do not know their father is famous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Tunis
Calgary
Japan Aware of Gas War and Allied Retaliation Fear
Col Geoffrey Marshall, an American chemical officer, said Japan prepared to use gas but refrained fearing wholesale Allied retaliation after reviewing a Japanese chemical warfare report. He noted Japan knew its islands were indefensible from gas drenching by air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Col
Geoffrey Marshall
Cereal Based Dishes From Appetizer To Dessert
A recipe feature promotes Bran cereal as a flour saver and versatile ingredient from appetizers to desserts. It includes ham and pork cakes with peach halves, a plum cake method using soaked bran, and a plum sauce for serving. The text emphasizes bran’s nutlike crispness and accessibility as flour substitutes.
Pattern 4720 Frock and Bolero Ensemble From Anne Adams
Advertisement for Pattern 4720 offering a cow-easy frock and bolero design with inset midriff. Sizes 12 14 16 18 20, size 16 requires 39 inch fabric yardage. Order by sending 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address size and style number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Notable Facts From Ancient Roads To Modern Myths
A compilation of diverse statements notes the Appian Way’s ancient paving, Croesus as inventor of money, and a skewed weight shift from equator to pole. It also mentions a Dutch camp observation, a Guatemalan marriage practice, a large Big Ben pendulum, and four million Americans visiting Canada annually.
Summer Child Care Advice From Health Magazine
Dr J Harry Ebbs of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children urges early bedtimes for older infants during hot nights and brief lakeside baths. He advises light dress, gradual sun exposure, lukewarm sponge baths, boiled water in heat, simple foods, careful milk preparation, and strict routines to prevent diarrhoea, vomiting, colds, and fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Harry Ebbs
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Ebbs
Toronto Hospital
Canada Seen Fast Becoming A Drunken Nation
Halifax report cites James A. McEachern of the Sons of Temperance warning delegates at the SSth annual session that Canada is heading toward a drunken nation. He argues the facts must be faced and not minimized. Delegates from the United States and several Canadian regions attend the meeting. H. W. MacDonald welcomed Nova Scotia attendees.
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Halifax
James A. McEachern
New Brunswick
The
Sons of Temperance of North America
Canada
United States
Ontario
Maritime Provinces
H. W. MacDonald
Nova Scotia
Delicate Cornea Transplants Performed at Johns Hopkins
Portions of the corneas from a Shreveport donor were transplanted into three Johns Hopkins patients after processing at the Eye Bank for Light Restoration Inc. The corneas arrived by plane from New York in sealed containers and the donor’s name was not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Shreveport
Johns Hopkins Hospital
New York
Eye Bank For Light Restoration, Inc
Lifeboat Rescues Sark Bakery Bread Crisis
The Guernsey lifeboat Queen Victoria saved 500 people from hunger when Sark's sole bakery failed. In rough seas the vessel went out and delivered three boxes of supplies to the tiny island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guernsey
Queen Victoria
Isle of Sark
Rapid Deterioration Across Time and Debt
The Peterborough Examiner quotes a historical remark that before contact Indigenous peoples ran the land with no debt taxes or strikes and notes modern decline after discovery. It adds the diamond etymology from Adamas meaning undefeatable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Peterborough Examiner
Simple Language Boys At English School Advised To Use Plain Speech
Sir Ronald Storrs urged King Edward VI school pupils to avoid pretentious terms and favour direct speech. He warned against calling ordinary items by fancier names and cautioned against claptrap phrases and overuse of words like actually and definitely yes.
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Bury ST. Edmunds
Suffolk
England
Ronald Storrs
Cyprus
Rhodesia
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British Army of the
Norwich
Julian Taylor
Constituent Assembly
Revenue Department
Ilsley
London Gazette
Viscount Alexander
Dundurn
Camp Dundurn
Army Cadet Corps
Billy Samborski
Sturgis
Joe Baxter
Lemans
G. A. H. Trudeau
C.B.E
Military District No. 12
Maj
P. C. Jardine
Boyd Tucker
Star City
Moose Jaw
HAM Bran
Agee
Pekanbaroe
Netherlands East Indies
Croesus
Lydia
Christ
Guatemala
Equator
London
Ugarh League
U.S
Adamas
By William Ferguson
Aesyde
Aleutians
Randolph Field, Tex
Elmer
Reg'lar Fellers
Gene Byrnes
By Fred Neher
Will -Yum
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