World Happenings Briefly Told
Dr Augusta Stowe Gullen, first Canadian woman medical degree holder, died in Toronto. Direct telephone service linked New York and Moscow. three minute call costs 21 dollars. Britain and Ireland milk scheme feeds millions of schoolchildren daily. Sweden reports 222 merchant vessels lost in war totaling 577000 gross tons. Unemployment benefits paid in June and July totaled 1772 and 1087. Britain donates 130 valuable books to Monserrat Abbey library reconstruction. Poor Man’s Valuer and Poor Man’s Lawyer’s Association formed for war damage help. Despite reduced traffic, Britain reports more road deaths than in peacetime urging prudent driving.
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Britain
England
Wales
Scotland
Sweden
Swedish News Exchange
Churchill cites Garibaldi curse in Quebec broadcast on Mussolini
In a Quebec broadcast Prime Minister Churchill referenced the "curse of Garibaldi" aimed at Mussolini and his son in law Ciano. The remark echoed Garibaldi's 1854 letter praising England and offering Italian support if needed, describing England as a refuge for the oppressed.
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Italy
Churchill
Quebec
Garibaldi
Mussolini
Ciano
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Tynemouth
England
How to Make Slip Covers for Chairs
Learn a simple pin on method to create smart slip covers by wrapping fabric over chair backs and seats with a four inch tuck and neat welting. Send 15c to Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man to receive a full instruction pamphlet.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Klet
Battered satchel yields sixty dollar windfall for Los Angeles man
Leroy R. Cortell bought a battered satchel for 15 cents from a passerby who needed coffee and doughnuts. While cleaning the bag he found three folded bills totaling $60, which he later resold to a friend for 25 cents.
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Leroy R. Cortell
Los Angeles
Cortell
Invasion Barges Latest High And Wide Rail Loads
Canadian National Railways moved an unprecedented single unit freight shipment described as high and wide. The convoy included an army laundry unit a 60 foot tug marine boiler a large shipyard propulsion unit and a record tank carried on multiple flat cars.
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Canada
Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Owen Sound
C_N_R
Seaboard
Largest hospital in Palestine arrives from Eritrea
Lancet reports the best American hospital in the Middle East has arrived in Palestine from Eritrea. It staffs 24 specialists and three dentists with 1,000 beds, plus dedicated departments and utilities. An YMCA enquiry at Waterloo Station reveals a Canadian asked if Oak Apple Day is still observed at Chelsea Hospital. the worker secured a ticket for him.
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Lancet
Middle East
Palestine
Eritrea
Chelsea Hospital
Y.M.C.A. Enquiry
Waterloo Station
London
Charles II
Boscobel
Royal Hospital
Chelsea
Wren
Nell Gwynne
Y.M.C.A
Teaching Christianity in Public Schools Proposes Curriculum Change
Advocates say youth must be taught to advance Christian civilization and view education as its first defense. They argue Christian instruction from the Scriptures should have a prominent place in public school curricula. Also notes rationing of wheat and rice in Bombay, India. Buy war savings stamps regularly.
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Bombay
World’s toughest wood found for tool handles in India
Experiments at the Forest Research Institute Dehra Dun identify a tree in the Anageis-sus family yielding the world’s strongest wood for heavy striking handles. Another family member provides handle wood as strong as hickory. Yemen highlands have produced coffee since Mahomet's time. Suez transit average is 11 hours 31 minutes.
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India
Forest Research Institute
Dehra Dun
Yemen
Arabia
Mahomet
Suez Canal
Sunday School Lesson on the First Commandments and Worship
The Golden Text declares worship must be in spirit and truth. The lesson reviews Exodus 20:3-7 and Matthew 4:10, 6:9 alongside John 4:21-26, emphasizing the Decalogue and the prohibition of idolatry. It contrasts worship of Jehovah with mammon and earthly powers, and notes the risk of image worship and false ideals.
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God
Jehovah
Egypt
Luther
Marriage of Clementine Hozier to Winston Churchill
Margaret Aitken recalls in Toronto Saturday Night how Clementine Hozier wed Winston Churchill in 1908 though friends thought him unfit for politics. News notes her husband’s fortunes rising and falling to the peak of power amid repeated political reversals.
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Toronto
Margaret Aitken
Clementine Hozier
Winston Spencer Churchill
Seventh Earl of
Airlie
Clementine
Miss Hozier
Churchill
Crossword Puzzle Clues From A Historical Page
A list of crossword prompts includes items such as Cereal grasses Abundant To become insipid and various other clues like Ship channel Spanish gentleman and Identical No 4s. The page also features entries for animals plants and abstract terms with several Hindu related terms and everyday nouns.
Eight-Leaf Clover Found in British Columbia
Mrs Edward Heed of Kettle Valley BC asks if an eight leaf clover brings double luck after finding a large fully developed specimen in Nicholson Creek district interior BC. The note credits King George V as a model of service and farming.
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King George
British Columbia
Edward Heed
Kettle Valley
B.C
Canada
Nicholson Creek
Hermit on Welsh Mountain Lives on Raw Food Five Years
Joseph Lloyd James has shunned cooked meals for five years, living on a Welsh mountainside and subsisting on produce from his small holding with no rations. He claims rations do not trouble him and maintains a diet of raw foods.
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Joseph Lloyd James
A Sensible Judge Heads Campaign for Juvenile Court Appointments
London’s oldest magistrate Sir Cecil Bigwood, 80, leads a campaign to appoint young magistrates who understand children’s problems. He refuses to sit in a children's court himself.
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London
Sir Cecil Bigwood
Cecil
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Augusta Stowe-Gullen
New York
Moscow
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Spain
Monserrat
Poor Man's Valuer Association
Poor Man's Lawyer's Association
The
Law Society
Ministry of Transport
Home Service
Hospital
BY WiLliam Ferguson
Pliz
Theodore Darrah
Eroge
Puss
Gene Byrnes
Rioskilish
Fio
Goddess of Agriculture
George
George V. Ormsby
By Fred Neher
Pips
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