World Happenings Briefly Told
The New Zealand government will shift men from public works to farm work to boost production. Alberta reported fur output valued at 1 245 129 dollars for the year to June 30, up about 190 000 from the prior year. Politiken reports Berlin began transporting 655 000 Jews to a Polish reservation. Robert Ley announced a 10 hour day in essential industries. Germany seeks Roumanian oil monopoly as part of a Balkans trade push. Arctic air routes to China India and Russia may form soon. Canadian and British navies' members will receive Christmas cards from the King and Queen. Bulgarian workers in Hermann Goering steel plants were mistreated and underfed. The Aga Khan has cut racing investments during the war. A London Ontario resident received a Scotland sister letter with a small ad offering rooms to let near air raid views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Politiken
Berlin
Poland
Robert Ley
Germany
Oliver Stanley
Board of Trade
House of Commons
Balkans
Vilhajalmur Stefanason
China
India
Russia
Ministries of War and Commerce
Hermann Goering
Aga Khan
Mst
Evacuation Widower Invents Self Car Washing Method
A London widower facing household burdens devised a novel washday method. He buys soap powder and bathes with the clothes in hot water, finding it easier than bending over a tub, remarking his wife never thought of it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The High Silk Hat and Its British Roots
The bowler or derby originated in Britain over sixty years ago crafted by William Bowler of London to a Norfolk farmer design. It spread to Canada and symbolized solidity and lofty social standing while being handmade and linked to John Hetherington’s early topper.
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William Bowler
St. Swithin's Lane
London
Britain
Canada
John Hetherington
Antoine Gibus
Precautions Issued On Telephone Use By Defence HQ
Defence headquarters warns all ranks that conversations on telephones may be overheard and no subject of value to the enemy should be spoken on an open line. The warning notes the possible loss of many lives and copies are being placed on military phones everywhere. Honey ants served at Mexican wedding banquets.
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Defence Headquarters
Dust storms may spread mold causing year round hay fever
Dust storms sweeping across the western United States and Canada carry billions of microscopic mold particles that can trigger hay fever. Research by allergists at a Southern Medical Association meeting notes mold particles may be as important as pollen and are present year round, affecting those sensitive to both allergens.
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United States
Canada
Association of Allergists For
Southern Medical Association
Midwest
Marie B. Morrow
E. P. Lowe
University of
Well-Deserved Honor for Windsor Publisher Herm an
The Windsor Star founder W F Herman is praised as a public-spirited publisher whose civic advocacy helped Windsor advance. The new Windsor airport will be named after him to memorialize his contribution and remind future generations of his service.
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Windsor’s
W. F. Herman
Lethbridge Herald
Windsor Star
Windsor
Herman
Selected Recipes for Cherry Pie Filling and Bake
A recipe guide outlines cherry pie preparation with canned cherries cherry juice starch syrup cinnamon and pastry method. It includes filling on pie shell heating juice thickening adding syrup and baking at 450 to 325 degrees then cooling and topping with whipped cream or pastry lattice.
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Benson's
Canada
Fluffy Cottage Pudding With Apricot Cream Topping
A vintage style pudding recipe using Swans Down cake flour baking powder salt butter sugar milk and vanilla. The batter is moistened with milk and flour alternately then heated until smooth and baked in a greased pan at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes. Serve hot with Apricot Cream Topping.
Morrison Orders Butter and Lard Rationing Declared
British minister of food W S Morrison said his ministry has decided to ration butter and lard. He stated North Sea shipping losses will not affect the decision. The ministry now imports most foodstuffs and has contracts for meat cheese and lard with South American and Empire nations. Current measures function satisfactorily.
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W. S. Morrison
North Sea
Food Ministry
Army Rations Show Rich 1939 Menu For Canadian Troops
The 1939 army ration provides meat three times daily with vegetables cereals soup bread and fruit. New recruits adapt quickly though appetite surges early then settles. Ottawa district menus feature porridge bacon and beans for breakfast roast beef and mashed potatoes for dinner cold beef and prunes for supper with weekly fish mutton pork and canned vegetables.
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Ottawa
Good Letter Writing Made Easy from Winnipeg
A promotional Home Service piece urges readers to improve letter writing with tips on tone and grammar. It advertises a 32 page booklet and several 15 cent booklets on health beauty weaving and candy making.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Girdle Waist Pattern for Misses Dress by Anne Adams
The Anne Adams Pattern 4290 offers a practical yet fashionable dress with a broad waistband and a shaped collar. It can be made as a housefrock with contrast details or a smart street dress in one fabric or wool plaid with velveteen bodice. Available sizes 14 to 42, 32 yards 35 inch fabric for size 16. send 20 cents to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Newpaper Union
McDermot Ave
Clearing house trains Empire air pilots in Canada
Wing Commander R. Collis leads a manning pool at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto to train thousands of mechanics and aeronautics experts for Empire air service. About ten skilled ground crew keep each airplane ready to fly, with hundreds of youths from across the Dominion joining the program as a steady turnover of skilled airmen is anticipated.
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R. Collis
Toronto
Empire Air
Canada
The
Dominion
Silk Arrival in Rome Traced to Early Empire years
The article notes silk was unknown to Greeks and entered Rome in the early days of the empire, marking a shift in trade and cultural exchange with Asia.
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Rome
Empire
Niagara Falls Ranks Eleventh in Actual Height
Niagara Falls, though globally famed, ranks eleventh by actual height in a list of world waterfalls. The report contrasts fame with measured drop and notes other falls exceed its height.
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Niagara Falls
Sunday School Lesson Devotional Reading and Verses
Golden text and lesson themes from Revelation 22 17 and Matthew 10 are presented with accompanying devotional readings Psalm 103 1 5 and 8 12. The card emphasizes listening and inviting devotion as spiritual practice for readers.
Disciples Sent Forth To Proclaim Kingdom of Heaven
Explanations on Matthew 10 1 8 9 33 and 35 39 describe Jesus sending disciples with minimal gear warning of persecution and danger and urging trust in God. They should be wise as serpents harmless as doves and not fear those who oppose them while God watches over even sparrows and the hairs of their heads.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus
God
Miracle brain surgery restores paralyzed man in Toronto
C Matthews once a railway brakeman paralyzed for 24 years now walks normally after Dr. D W Pratt removed silk rubber from his brain at St Michael's hospital Toronto. Struck by stone in 1915 while working on a railway line his condition worsened after 1917 operation. Matthews calls the result a miracle and says he is well again.
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C. Matthews
D. W. Pratt
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto
The
Toronto Star
Matthews
Stone
Hamilton
Pratt
Canadian Forces to Continue Education During Service
Continue Education for young men in Canada's naval land and air forces will be possible thanks to a collaboration of the Canadian Legion War Services educational branch and the Canadian Association for Adult Education. Supported by nine provincial education departments, universities and municipalities, with localities considering correspondence courses toward matriculation and a bachelor of arts degree.
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Naval
Air Forces of
Canada
Canadian Legion War Services
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Departments of Education
Dominion
Bovey
Vitamin A and eye fatigue improve enamel quality
Mansfield Ohio plant managers used carotene in oil to treat eye fatigue among color matchers. After two years, rejects due to off color dropped from 1.7 percent to 0.3 percent, finished enamel quality rose, and annual waste in defective ranges fell, saving up to 5000 dollars.
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Westinghouse
Mansfield
Ohio
Ralph T. Bisbee
Porcelain Institute Enameling Forum
Ohio State University
Readers urged to request Dr McCullough cancer articles
Editorial note invites readers to obtain the complete set of Dr McCulloughs cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont. The notice provides a postal call to action and a distribution address for the collection.
Canadian bishop lauds Sudeten Germans settling Peace River district
Rt. Rev. Arthur Sovereign of Athabasca praised newcomers at a Montreal service club. He cited 500 Sudeten Germans and 152 families arriving this summer, saying they would likely become good Canadians and urging Canadians to share vast open lands to prevent European dictators from coveting them.
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Peace River District
Dominion
Arthur Sovereign
Athabaska
Montreal
Sovereign
Czecho-Slovakia
Europe
Asia
High School Paper Prompts Burum Hat Challenge
Journalism instructor Harold Burum promised to eat his hat if students published on time. They succeeded, and he kept his vow by drinking a straw hat brew. As a chemistry teacher, he stirred a mixture that turned to sandwich spread and he ate it on crackers.
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Harold Burum
Burum
If the Earth Halted Its Orbit The Sun Orbits Halt?
A hypothetical scenario explains that if Earth stopped orbiting the sun gravity would pull it inward, causing a descent toward the sun within a couple of months. The concept illustrates orbital mechanics and gravitational forces.
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New Zealand
Ont
Scotland
Mexico
Criss Cross
Home Service
Land
Air Forces
NEW International Harvester Company Building
International Harvester Company
Bathurst Street
Stewart
Wellington Streets
International Harvester
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
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