Hope For This Year’s Harvest in Canada and World Food Outlook
The piece argues Canada and the Prairie Provinces depend on foreign demand for wheat and that a strong harvest could avert global food crises. It notes Britain’s food shortages due to severe storms, European distress, and political unrest tied to hunger, urging a heavy crop to stabilize Europe and world security.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
North America
Britain
Europe
Germany
London Fashion Notes Spotlight Summer Dress Trends
In London a new wave of summer fashion features bell like skirts with stiffened canvas petticoats, off the shoulder necklines, and cinched waists. Designers showcase vivacious lines with pale pink marcella, navy and white checked dusters, white sharkskin tailored dresses, and a white marcela beach suit with knee length shorts.
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Britain
London
War Gratuities for Royal Indian Navy Personnel
Ex Royal Indian Navy officers discharged in India before May 1945 and later going to the United Kingdom or other destinations must file their claims for War Gratuity and Other Terminal Emoluments with the Accountant-General, India Office, London, not with the Commanding Officer HMS Feroze, Bombay.
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Royal Indian Navy
India
United Kingdom
India Office
London
H.m.ss. Feroze
Bombay
Jocular vignettes range from manners to mispricing
A collection of humorous exchanges and anecdotes spans wealth wishes about husbands and wives, doctors and patients, judges and prisoners, musicians and audiences, and actors in domestic and social scenes. The sketches mix irony, flirtation, and everyday wit.
Snow Geese Return After Planes Leave Winnipeg
Geese pause on Manitoba lakes and rivers this spring on northward flights for the first time since R C A F gunnery and bombing schools opened four years ago. Naturalists cite wartime activity as a possible cause but warn the birds show restlessness and unpredictable behavior.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
R.C.A.F
Macdonald
Dakotas
Iowa
Hudson Bay
Alberta
B. W. Cartwright
Ducks Unlimited
Canadian House in Dublin Haunted by Ghost Rumors
In Dublin a boxlike residence named St Brigid's houses the Canadian high commissioner W F A Turgeon. Irish servants claim the Canadian government owns a haunted house and insist three servants are needed so one is never left alone. Turgeon has not seen a ghost yet.
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Dublin
St. Brigid’s
W. F. A. Turgeon
Turgeon
Gems of Thought Moral maxims on fidelity and virtue
A collection of short quotations on honesty duty and integrity from Henry Van Dyke Longfellow Kingsley Mary Baker Eddy and Daniel Webster. The lines praise truthfulness perseverance courage patience and steady conduct as eternal possessions beyond reputation.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Snow survey aims to gauge India's water resources
A snow survey of the Himalayas measures snow accumulation at high altitudes to determine India's water resources.
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Himalayas
India
Uses Drastic Means In Trying To Regain Husband's Love
WHITFIELD Kent England Mrs Lucy Wright 45 bound over for two years after admitting to magistrates she tampered with a tractor driven by her husband in the hope Bert would break his neck. She told a reporter I love Bert and he means the world to me though he left years ago. Wright her third husband remarked Lucy shouldn't tamper with tractors.
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Whitfield
Kent
England
Lucy Wright
Bert
Wright
Lucy
Britain May Not Need Canadian Apples
The Evening Standard reported that a good British apple crop could permit avoiding Canadian imports. A ban would save nearly £3,000,000. Last year preparations for the 1946 crop were under way, but in 1947 no action has been taken yet.
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London
The
Evening Standard
Canada
Standard
Parents need Sunday school training says veteran teacher
Washington report notes Miss Bertha L. Coggswell after 60 years of Sunday School teaching believes parents require religious training as much as children. She conducts classes at the First Baptist Church and visits parents at home. She stresses memorizing scriptures to guide life.
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Washington
Bertha L. Coggswell
First Baptist Church
Feathers Take Center Stage in Melbourne Millinery Parade
Feathers replace flowers as the favorite adornment in the Melbourne Town Hall mannequin parade forecasting Australian autumn and winter fashion. Designers showcase diverse models in off the face hats with striking color combinations. Veiling remains popular, worn over the face or under the chin for a mystic air.
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Melbourne
Origin of saying easy as duck soup
The phrase stems from a pond or puddle of water humorously named duck soup. A puddle formed by rain requires no human effort, so easy as duck soup describes tasks needing little or no work.
Lima Streets Change Names by Block
A report notes that in Lima Peru most streets bear different names for each block reflecting a complex local naming pattern. The detail highlights the city’s urban layout and potential navigation challenges for residents and visitors.
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Lima
Peru
Silent Airplane Demonstrated at Langley Field
Scientists unveiled a silent airplane at Langley Field Virginia with 200 aviation experts in attendance. J F Victory of NACA said noise concerns have shut numerous metropolitan airports and lowered nearby property values. J A Shortal described the demonstrator as the first fully silenced design featuring a five blade propeller and muffler. The propeller runs slower, cutting noise by about ninety percent and the craft scarcely sounded louder than a glider at 300 feet.
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Langley Field
John F. Victory
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
J. A. Shortal
NACA
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