World Happenings Briefly Told From War and Postwar Notes
A collage of world items notes Boer War veteran Robert Beett reporting in uniform at 67, Irish potato growers asked to boost crops to supply Europe, the London Daily Express claiming the world’s largest daily circulation, Dutch Brigade training in London for future duties in Holland, Major Patricia Curtis as sole woman lawyer in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, Anthony Eden saying Britain seeks US input on postwar trials for Japanese and German war criminals, Maj Gen Wilhelm Hansteen noted as 47, Norway’s wartime invasion commander turned parachutist and 1942 commander-in-chief, a post office mail figure shows air carried mail rising to 5,373,021 pounds, and Maple Leaf newspaper honored by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association in Ottawa.
Queen Honors Airplane Crew for TC A Flight
Queen Wilhelmina honored three Trans-Canada Airlines crew members at the Netherlands Legation in Ottawa. Captain W. W. Fowler of Sackville New Brunswick co pilot Arthur J. Tomkin Medicine Hat Alberta and stewardess Miss M I Clinch Saint John New Brunswick each received a gold pin bearing the Royal cipher. Fowler began flying in 1927 and now serves as assistant operations manager in Winnipeg. Tomkin joined TC A in 1941 at Winnipeg. Clinch is a Saint John General Hospital graduate who joined the airline in September 1942.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
Queen Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Ottawa
Britain
Dominion
W. W. Fowler
Sackville
N.bs
Arthur J. Tomkin
Medicine Hat
Alta
M. I. Clinch
St. George
Wilhelmina
Fowler
T.C.A
Canada
Transcontinental Air Service
Winnipeg
Tomkin
Keewatin
Ont
Winnipeg. Miss Clinch
Saint John, N.B
General Hospital
Airline
Doctors Carry Extra War Burden Across Dominion
The piece notes doctors face heavy strain from four years of conflict and staffing shortages. General practitioners maintain full peace time services in countless communities while also handling added wartime duties and responsibilities, contending with reduced civilian ranks and heightened demands.
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Dominion
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Queen Mary's Parasol Linked to 1851 Great Exhibition
The parasol carried by Queen Victoria at the Hyde Park opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851 was sent by Queen Mary to the British Red Cross chairman. It features white China silk with green lining and an embroidered floral pattern, and a carved ivory handle shaped as a Chinese dragon.
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Queen Mary
Red Cross
Queen Victoria
Hyde Park
Destruction Prophecy and Early Christian Trials
A devotional on Mark 13 outlines Jesus predicting Jerusalem's fall and the temple's destruction while warning against false messiahs. It notes disciples facing persecution, referencing Acts and Paul's trials, and stresses the gospel's spread to all nations as their duty.
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Jesus
Josephus
Jerusalem
Mount of Olives
Temple
Christ
Theudas
Judas
Galilee
Peter
Herod
Paul
Felix
Festus
Agrippa
Nero
Money Raised by Midland Factory Charity Arts Show
Men and women workers at a Midland aircraft factory in Britain raised £100 for charities with an arts and crafts exhibition of work made in their spare time.
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Midland Aircraft
Britain
Railway Promotions and Reorganization in Western Canada
Western Region of the Canadian National Railways enlarges its supervisory staff due to wartime traffic rise. Walter C. Owens named general manager Western Region, headquartered Winnipeg, succeeding W. R. Devenish who becomes Western Region vice-president. J. F. Pringle moves to Central Region as vice president and general manager. J. P. Johnson and J. Wardlaw receive Atlantic and Central Region posts. Extensive career histories for Devenish and Owens noted, with all appointments effective February 22.
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Canadian National Railways
N. B. Walton
W. R. Devenish
Devenish
Walter C. Owens
Winnipeg
Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Canadian National
Canadian National Railways System
Walton
J. F. Pringle
Central Region
Toronto
F. L. C. Bond
D.S.O
Mr. Pringle
Atlantic Region
Moncton
N.B
Pringle
Johnson
Prairie Provinces
J. W. Wardlaw
Montreal
Wardlaw
William Roberts Devenish
Western Region
Cahir
Ireland
St. Columbia's College
Trinity College
Dublin
Canada
Maritime Provinces
Central
Western Canada
National Transcontinental Railway
Canadian National System
Canadian National Rail
Walter Clark Owens
Manitou
Manitoba
Canadian Northern Railway
Owens
Kamloops
West
Saskatchewan
Edmonton
Alberta
Western
V C medal awarded in New Delhi ceremony
The third Victoria Cross presentation parade in India since the war began took place January 5 in New Delhi before over 5,000 spectators. The Viceroy presented the VC to the widow of Company Havildar Major Chhelu Ram of the 6th Rajputana Rifles and pinned the Cross on Jemadar Gaje Ghale of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles.
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India
New Delhi
V.C
Chhelu Ram
Rajputana Rifles
Jemadar Gaje Ghale
Royal Gurkha Rifles
Iceberg Size Suggests Massive Ice Reserve
A single iceberg can contain enough ice to fill an entire square mile at a depth of 500 feet, indicating vast potential ice reserves within giant floes.
Outer World Professors Claim Germs From Space
News week reports Backman of Upsala University suggesting influenza and other epidemics may originate from germs carried to Earth by sunlight propulsion. He cites experiments claiming viruses survive near absolute zero and posits organisms could hitchhike on meteors.
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Backman
Newsweek
Rationing time table for various goods
A public rationing timetable lists Purple butter coupons S2 and Rival March 2 with further coupons 4 valid March 23 55 valid March 30 for meat butt coupons 41 42 43 44 with March 2 9 16 23 30 dates orange presence D coupons 14 15 16 March 2 red sugar coupons 27 28 March 2 yellow tea and coffee coupons 3 4 March 2 5 6 March 16.
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Orange
Crossword Puzzle Clue List and Partial Answers
A large mixed list of crossword clues and partial answers is presented, including terms for gods, metals, measures, and common nouns. Several items reference mythological figures, languages, and everyday objects, with some misprints and incomplete entries scattered throughout.
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Robert Beett
Eire
Europe
London Daily Express
New York Daily News
London
Holland
Patricia Curtis
New Westminster BC
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Judge Advocate General
Anthony Eden
Commons
United States
Wilhelm Hansteen
Maple Leaf
Italy
Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association
Queen
W. Fowler
A. J. Tomkin
I Thessalonians
J. P. Johnson
By William Ferguson
Germany
Batile
Jutland
Seevice
Mars If
Fuenza
Sweden
Upsala University
Leopardike
Mesopotamia
Bulwark
Odin
Actinium
Etter & Silkworm
The
Pacific
Alpir
By Fred Neher
Draft Board
Reg
Gene Byrnes
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