World Happenings Briefly Told
The ministry of food ordered con focation after March 10 of all gifts of tea from abroad addressed to individuals and weighing more than two pounds. An extra hour of daylight was announced in Britain for May 3 to Aug. 9. Approximately 140,000 Malians have been prisoners of war. War Secretary David Margesson reported to the House of Commons. The King decorated 2000 service members at Buckingham Palace. A aviation mechanics school in Cartierville enrolled 450 trainees. United Air Lines said a chartered flight from Chicago to Boston covered 890 miles in 3 hours 55 minutes at 227 mph. Tea rationing begins April 5 at two ounces weekly for adults and one ounce for children. Hugh Dalton affirmed the blockade policy restricting U S ships from supplying German-occupied areas.
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Ministry of Food
Britain
Africa
David Margesson
House of Commons
Buckingham Palace
Dominion
Quebec
Cartierville
United Air Lines
United
Chicago
Boston
Hugh Dalton
United States
Opening shot fires at Toronto Irish Rifle Club range
Sir William Mulock, 97, fired the opening shot in the new Toronto Irish Rifle Club range. Captain T. F. I. Vamplew tested the bullseye, as Mulock urged all to learn weapon defense while expressing unlikely fears of Italian aggression and future defenses.
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William Mulock
Irish Rifle Club
Toronto
T. F. I. Vamplew
Sir William
Lord Provost Faces Protest Over Air Raid Shelter
Glasgow civic gallery basement became a public air raid shelter sparking protests that it is sacrilege to place living people with valuable pictures. Lord Provost Dollan affirmed that alive McPherson mattered more than dead Rembrandts. The Battle of Big Horn occurred June 25, 1876 with Custer and his men killed.
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Dollan
Glasgow
Scotland
Civic Art Gallery
McPherson
Rembrandts
Big Horn
Custer
Canada’s 1940 oil and gas output rises sharply in 11 months
Canadian crude production for January to November 1940 reached 7.98 million barrels, up 88 percent from 1939. November output was 893,438 barrels, with Alberta dominating at Turner Valley and other fields. Natural gas in November totaled 3,896,425 thousand cubic feet, up from 3,461,149 in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta
Turner Valley
Red Coulee
Wainwright-Ribstone
del Bonita
Lloydminster
Vermilion
Bureau
Simple Exercise for Slim Calves and Hips Adopts Easy Routine
A home health ad promotes a 32 page booklet Best Exercises For Health and Beauty with daily leg, waist, and arm routines. It offers further booklets on gardening decor budgeting curtains and piano playing for 15 cents each from Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Nazis In U S Urged Invasion Threat By Ex-Reichstag Member
Gerhart Segar, once a German Reichstag member and now a political refugee, told the American Association of School Administrators that about a million Nazis are in the western hemisphere and ready for an invisible invasion of the United States. He said he escaped a concentration camp in 1933 and has lived in New York for six years, arguing that Germans in America may rally to Hitler if he remains strong in the war.
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Gerhart Segar
Reichstag
American Association of School Administrators
Kiddie Frock Or Play-Dress Pattern 4472 By Anne Adams
Anne Adams offers Pattern 4472 with a dress and a sun-style for children sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. The easy panel lines feature lace edged yoke and sleeve tabs, with a back bow sash and decorative front panel. Send 20 cents and write size name address and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Pure Seed With Losses From Inferior Seed
Farmers in the Melfort area suffer hidden loss from impure seed, especially in wheat oats and barley. Using mixed seed lowers yield and quality, reducing grades and prices. Maintaining pure seed is cost effective versus losses from inferior stock, says W T Burns of the Dominion Experimental Station.
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Melfort
Sask
W. T. Burns
Dominion Experimental Station
Mel
Experimental Farms News
Escape Nazis Eleven Novik family arrives in Vancouver
Thirteen members of the Norwegian Novik family flee occupation for a new home in Vancouver after a 7000 mile journey by train and a 75 foot fishing schooner voyage via the Panama Canal. Led by Peter Novik the group plans to join British Columbia’s fishing fleet while their boat had aided Allied efforts earlier.
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Vancouver
Peter Novik
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Norway
Noviks
England
Canada
Peter
British Columbia
The Lord's Supper Prelude and Covenant Meaning
A devotional meditation on Luke 22 14 20 and 22 19 20 contrasts Jesus desire for fellowship with his disciples before his suffering. It explores memory through the Passover meal as a pledge of faith, covenant, and forthcoming sacrifice, urging personal contemplation of Jesus as Mediator Redeemer Friend and King.
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Matthew
Jesus
Moses
New German Mine and Camouflage Tactics Reported
A first officer in an east coast Canadian port notes a new German mine exploded by ship propeller vibrations and claims Nazis camouflage planes as Spitfires. He says the de Gausse nullifier by Britain will be countered and recalls a convoy sighting where a decoy Spitfire was shot down within 100 yards of a merchant ship.
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Norway
Naturally Left Handed Lord Baden Powell Ambidextrous Leader
The text notes Lord Baden Powell was naturally left handed, his mother tried to change it, Ruskin intervened, and he became ambidextrous. He wrote and drew with his left hand and could shade with his right. He quit smoking to shoot better without tobacco. Parasol ants carry leaves over their heads like umbrellas.
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Lord Baden-Powell
Ruskin
Queen Victoria Rupees Recalled in India and Ceylon
The article notes old coins in India with Queen Victoria on them are recalled in both India and Ceylon. It states Victoria died in 1901 and references the long tenure of these coins in the region.
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India
Queen Victoria
Ceylon
Victoria
New Zealand Flying Doctor Agnes Bennett Seeks War Work
Dr. Agnes Bennett, nearly 70, joined the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in the first Great War and sailed aboard an 11,000 ton ship as a doctor. She retired four years ago but became a flying doctor in North Queensland, flying about 200 miles to reach patients at lonely farms and cattle stations, calling herself evergreen.
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Agnes Bennett
New Zealand Army Medical Corps
Wellington
Bennet
Queensland
Passing Of A Pioneer At Local Hospital
Sev ered from the long trail days of the seventies dies in a local hospital. John Pambrun a scion of a Pam brun once holding a seigneury in Vercheres and son of a Hudsons Bay factor was born at Lac La Biche eighty five years ago. He served with Prince Albert and Battleford volunteers and was in the Battleford assembly in October 1879 as a member of the first militia company west of the Red river.
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Battleford
John Pambrun
Pambrun
Old Vercheres
Hudson's Bay
Lac la Biche
Prince Alpert and
Battleford Volunteers
North West Territories
Red River
Bush Pilot to Begin Canadian Filming Next Summer
Bush Pilot will shoot background scenes in Canada with Royal Canadian Air Force cooperation. Permission granted with restrictions as Warner Brothers develops a picture about Canada's pioneer airmen linked to the Commonwealth air training plan. Hollywood names such as Errol Flynn Cary Grant Burgess Meredith and possibly Olivia de Havilland are speculated for roles.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Warner Brothers
Air Force
Errol Flynn
Cary Grant
Burgess Meredith
Olivia de Havilland
Record Largest Tree Cut Down in Lynn Valley
British Columbia lumbermen report the Lynn Valley Douglas fir as the record holder for the biggest tree. It stood 417 feet tall with a 25 foot diameter and 77 foot circumference.
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British Columbia
Lynn Valley
Spider anatomy note on legs and eyes
A factual note states that a spider has eight legs and six to eight eyes. The datum is basic arachnid biology without further context or dates.
Decline of Typhoid Fever Across North America
The article notes a dramatic drop in typhoid mortality from about 34 per 100 000 at century start to under 1 per 100 000 in 1939 in the United States, and similar improvements in Canada including Ontario and Saskatchewan. Improvements stem from health education, hygiene, clean water, and pasteurized milk, with wartime inoculation of soldiers cited.
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North American
United States
Canada
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Common gardening mistakes and seed sowing tips
The article outlines beginner errors planting too early and too deep or too close, stressing frost risk and replanting. It covers seed depth guidance, spacing tricks, lawn sowing timing, bed preparation, and hot bed use with horse manure for early plants.
Gay Spring Styles with Bright Colors Launched in Britain
Compare two headlines from Windsor Star London and Cincinnati. Britain introduces gay spring fashion with bright colors to move away from war themes. In Cincinnati a historic musical festival is postponed due to alarming world and national conditions.
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Windsor Star
London
Britain
Cincinnati
USA
Pins Used in England Before the War
Before the war England consumed massive pin supplies estimated at 5 600 000 000 pins each year. The figure indicates the scale of daily domestic and industrial use prior to national conflict.
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England
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U.S
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