Hay fever linked to asthma risk warns physician
Dr. R. F. Hughes of Hamilton notes hay fever is not harmless and warns it raises asthma risk and can complicate military exams. In 1942 he treated 235 day fever patients, with ragweed and grass pollens causing most issues. He stresses skin tests, pre season treatment, and promising relief in 80 to 90 percent of cases.
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R. F. Hughes
Hamilton
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Hayes
Hughes
World Happenings Briefly Told
More than thirty five thousand pieces of mail were dispatched to armed forces overseas in 1942. A British Ministry of War Transport order will build steel lifeboats for 125 tankers. A new factory near Chungking China produces twenty gliders monthly with silk wings and locally produced materials. An Island Sugar Cane Farmers Association forms in Jamaica to protect estate owners. The Xosa Bible in South Africa will be published after a long revision. A German machine gun bullet disabled telephone lines over a large Britain area via an overhead cable. Teak from scuttled German ships helps build a sailors chapel in Rosyth Scotland. Montreal executive M M Elliot says radio tube shortages may ease by end of 1944. The Royal Navy reports HMS Destiny towed a ship 1650 miles from Gibraltar to Britain without charts using only a pocket atlas.
Marvelous Posse Chief Carpenter's Mate Demonstrates Odd Feats
W H Blanding 41 a construction battalion veteran in Africa praised native head strength. He mailed a letter by placing it on his head under a stone weight. He then carried a 350 pound airplane engine on his head four miles to a destination. Another man hauled a dirt filled wheelbarrow on his head to the dump.
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W. H. Blanding
Africa
Belgium Railways After Occupation Slows to Eight Hours
Overseas News Agency reports to the Belgian government in exile that Brussels to Liege rail trips stretch to eight hours from two, Brussels to Charleroi to seven hours, and that Germany has seized 1,200 locomotives, 500,000 freight cars, 750 passenger coaches and 625 miles of track. Rolling stock remaining in service is in very poor condition.
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Brussels-Charleroi
Belgium
Fish that Feeds on Malana Mosquito Larvae Sets Record
A fish species introduced into Soviet rice fields has thrived by feeding on mosquito larvae, marking a successful biological control effort. The release aims to reduce malaria risk and pest problems for farmers in the region.
Deal Falls Through Over Safe Deposit Box Arrangement
Co B McKeever of Kansas City rented a safe deposit box to a new customer who immediately retrieved the box and left. McKeever insisted the box must stay in the vault for safety, declaring the deal off if he cannot take the box home, while the customer complained the bank would force repeated trips. Buy War Savings Stamps Regularly.
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Co. B. McKeever
Kansas City
McKeever
Navy adapts land based PBJ bomber for anti submarine use
The U S Navy adopts a third land based aircraft, the PBJ version of the North American Mitchell, with anti sub armament. Navy modifications remain secret but are expected to resemble changes on other land based planes.
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Navy
Austrian Fights to Join U S Air Force
Austrian immigrant Private Walter Pilpel, 21, wins approval after a lengthy battle with army officials to join the U S Army Air Corps. He fled Vienna in 1939 to escape conscription and, after visiting Naples and observing Fascism, now serves 100 percent committed to Uncle Sam.
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Walter Pilpel
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America
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U.S. Army Air Corps
English Language to Bloom in Europe After War
The Yorkshire Post predicts that about 15,000 Czechoslovak citizens will return home with strong English skills after the war, followed by English-speaking Poles Dutch Belgians French Greeks Yugoslavs Norwegians. The language will be better known on the Continent than ever before, offering a ripe opening for diplomatic and commercial leaders.
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Europe
Yorkshire Post
Surprise Boxes For Europe Freed By Allied Children
British schoolchildren in woodworking shops are assembling surprise boxes packed with foodstuffs comforts chocolates and cigarettes for distribution to European civilians when Nazi occupation ends and the Allies free the continent.
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Britain
Europe
Cannot Be Altered Price Ceiling Forbids Work
A New York City apartment, vacant with no rental prospects, cannot be split into smaller units because altering it would cost about 250 times the $1,000 ceiling. The three-floor home has 54 rooms, 17 baths, 31 closets, 68 telephones, a 10,000 bottle wine safe, a dining hall for 200 guests, and a large refrigerated vault for party flowers per Collier's Weekly.
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New York City
Collier's Weekly
Italian seizure status unchanged on seized U S property
The Alien Property Custodian Leo T Crowley states that Italy's surrender will not change the status of property seized in the United States. The declaration clarifies ongoing control and disposition rights remain in effect despite the surrender.
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Italy
United States
Office of Alien Property
Leo T. Crowley
Antarctica Ice Extent Could Encase World in 120 Foot Layer
Scientists estimate the massive Antarctic ice sheet contains enough frozen water to cover the Earth with a 120 foot ice layer if melted. The finding highlights warming implications and global sea level rise potential.
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Antarctica
Crossword Puzzle Puzzle Clues and Answers Fragment
Partial OCR of a crossword puzzle page lists numerous clues and fragments across multiple entries. The readable items include numbers for grid positions and a mix of definitions such as Comrades Defile Pecuniary penalties and Japanese drama.
Spare parts inventor helps Eighth Army keep rolling
Captain F J W Bartlett of Pontypool South Wales helped the Eighth Army in the desert by inventing a palm resin plastic to replace bakelite for rotor arms and distributor caps. He produced ten thousand rotor arms from palm resin and later developed a better plastic from trees common to the Middle East.
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F. J. W. Bartlett
Pontypool
South Wales
Eighth Army
Desert
Bartlett
Middle East
Sunday School Lesson on Fulfillment of the Law
The golden text cites Matthew 5 17 where Jesus says he came not to destroy but to fulfill. Lesson covers Matthew 5 17 20 19 16 22 and John 5 39 40 with devotional reading from Matthew 7 21 27.
Jesus Fulfills Law Not Destroys Prophets Teachings
Explanation of Jesus message on the law from Matthew 5 and 19. He renews the prophets base, then urges deeper motive beyond mere rule keeping. A wealthy man is advised to sell all for eternal treasure, but he walks away sorrowful with possessions.
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Jesus
Moses
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