World Happenings Briefly Told
The War Production Board ends civilian radios and phonographs after April 22. Britain aids Greek armed forces via lend lease. Italian losses in the Balkans total about one thousand dead and wounded in three months. Romania reports four girl students court martialed for forced labor. No steel for baby carriages and lawn mowers. Manitoba rejects fishing recruitment for Pacific work. A British radio Oberammergau marks a historic direct depiction of Christ on stage.
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Oberammergau
Christ
Britain
Public School and High School Plays Listings for teachers
Mary Ellen Burgess mails a catalog of plays suitable for public and high school grades. Listings include Nine New Plays for Children from Rose Fyleman, My Little Play Book, Pattern Plays, and Eight Modern Plays edited by John Hampden. Prices range from 20 to 45 cents, with royalty options from French Sauce and additional titles like Daisy's Ball and Racketty Packetty House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Fyleman
Cinderella
Father Christmas
Shoemaker
Billy Goats Gruff
Snow White
Rose Red
John Hampden
Princess and
the Wood Cutter
Robin Hood
Micheal
Eldorado
Catherine Parr
David Copperfield
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd
Wellington St. West
Toronto
King Chancellor
Sabra
Make a New Apron Wardrobe Pattern 4803 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4803 offers A B and C apron designs for daily use heavy tasks and tea occasions. Sizes small to large available with yardage details and lace edging. Send 20 cents and write size name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
High Heel Shoes and Wedges in 18th Century Europe
European fashion in the 1700s featured high heel shoes and wedge styles. Historians note heel height varied by region and social status, with ornate designs reflecting courtly taste and practical limits for walking and riding.
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Europe
Don’t Add Sugar to Tea, Says Official Taster
Official C J Brown of the Department of National Revenue advises against sugar in tea to enjoy real flavor. He notes that avoiding sugar could save about 32 000 tons of sugar for other uses if two of three sugar users quit.
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C. J. Brown
Department of National Revenue
Fighting Services
Jesus Questions disciples on his true identity
In Caesarea Philippi Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is and then who they themselves think he is. Peter proclaims him the Christ, the Anointed One, while Jesus explains the Messiah must suffer and die for the Kingdom to come, marking the first explicit cross-centered message.
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Jesus
Messiah
Mark
Cesarea Philippi
Luke
John the Baptist
Elijah
Peter
Christ
Farm Land Values Rise Across Canada in 1941 Estimates
Canada wide farm land values increased to $25 per acre in 1941 from $24, with gains in New Brunswick Nova Scotia Quebec Manitoba and British Columbia. Alberta held steady while Ontario and Saskatchewan fell by one dollar. The national average remains well below pre 1929 levels.
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Canada
Maritime Provinces
Quebec
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Final Commando Raid On Norway Ends On Schedule
The British Navy raid on Norway last December 31 went “according to plan from beginning to end” though an officer admitted a minor hitch arriving at 8:31 instead of 8:30 AM. The operation finished early at 2:45 PM instead of 3:00 PM.
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Norway
Air ministry bans airscrew term from official use
The British air ministry forbids the word airscrew to avoid confusion with aircrew. Propeller will be the accepted term in all official correspondence and speech. Separately, Tambora in 1815 erupted ejecting about 38 cubic miles of solid material in the Netherlands East Indies.
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British
Air Ministry
Tambora
Netherlands East Indies
Health in Industry Focus of Toronto Postgrad Course
A three day post graduate medical course at the University of Toronto addressed health in industry with emphasis on wartime industrial work. The program, open to medical graduates and industrial physicians, followed by a nursing course and covered major lost time causes such as respiratory and skin diseases.
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University of Toronto
School of Nursing
J. G. Cunningham
Division of Industrial Hygiene
Ontario Department of Health
Cunningham
Ontario
Golden Sponge Cake and Coconut Crisps Recipes
Selected recipes outline a Golden Sponge Cake and Coconut Crisps with detailed ingredients and steps. The sponge uses eggs, sugar, almond flavoring, pastry flour, starch, salt, baking powder, butter, and hot milk, baked 30 minutes at 300 then 325 degrees. The crisps mix butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, egg, oats, cocoanut, pastry flour, and baking soda, baked 12 to 15 minutes at 300 degrees, yielding about eight dozen cookies.
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Benson's
Canada
Mazda
Not Classed As Official Oliva Dionne Faces Gas Rationing
Noted father of quintuplets Oliva Dionne will receive the same gasoline allotment as other pleasure drivers when rationing starts April first. Dionne had sought category C as guardian of the quints, but Ottawa classified him in category A with an annual 300 to 380 gallon entitlement. The text adds a aside about speaking kindly to a child and a Bolivia cathedral with 12,000 capacity.
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Oliva Dionne
Mr. Dionne
Quints
Ottawa
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States War Production Board
Germany
Washington
Russia
Palkans
Great Britain
London
Bucharest
FR. Kilbourn
Department of Munitions and Supply
Daily Mail
By William Ferguson
England
Texas
Mexico
United States
Lone Star
Zenius
Maine
By Fred Neher
Neal LN Ee Endlann
Father of
Patra
la Paz
Bolivia
Reg'lar Fellers
Gene Byrnes
Millers P
Mickie
Royal Order OF Good Fellers
Evry
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