World Happenings Briefly Told
Mansard’s editor Perci val Cornelius retires after 29 years guiding the official record of British parliamentary debates. A Chinese despatch warns of a meningitis epidemic sweeping Hangchow near Shanghai. Saskatchewan hog numbers rise 59.5 percent to 2,182,400 in December. Navy Minister Macdonald says nine Canadian sailors are prisoners of war. Oslo seminary closure halts Norwegian clerical training. Japan mobilizes merchant seamen and students into its navy. Hydrogenation of coal eyed by a special lab for munitions needs. Britain to buy Kenya flax output for canvas tents and gear. A mural honoring the RCAF opens at Toronto Union Station. Mrs Nancy Johnson of Philadelphia credited with the ice cream freezer invention.
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Mansard
Percival Cornelius
Hangchow
Shanghai
Navy
Macdonald
Oslo Theological Seminary
Norway
Montreal
Tass Pews Agency
Japan
Asakmi
Mines and Resources Department
Howe
Anne Adams Pattern 4580 and 4589 for Misses and Women
This week features Anne Adams patterns 4580 and 4589. The 4580 frock offers a cheerful light hearted style with contrast trimming and quick assembly. Pattern 4589 comes in sizes 12 to 42 and includes misses and women's sizes with yardage details for size 16. Order forms request name address size and style number with twenty cents by mail to Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Rationing Time Table for April 1944
Rationing timetable lists barter coupons 6 87 58 84 88 86 57 expiring April 30. Preserves orange coupons 17 18. sugar red coupons 30 31 valid April 13. Peas and coffee yellow coupons 7 30 and 31 valid April 20.
Marvelous Technique by British Anti Aircraft Crews
British gun crews score a dramatic victory over a Me 410 off London coast. In pitch darkness they downed the aircraft from an altitude over four miles with only 30 rounds after gruelling gunnery training since 1940.
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London
Offer to blind a soldier shocks readers in wartime letter
A 25 year old Mrs Charles W Venard of Livonia NY allegedly offered to blind a navy torpedoman aboard ship in a letter to Set Forest Vesler. Vesler, blinded by shrapnel over Europe, was profiled in a London news story. Separately, Pilgrims harvested the first Thanksgiving wheat in a cemetery.
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Charles W. Venard
Puzzle Seeks Answers For Mixed 13 17 19 Clues
A puzzle page lists numbered clues including 13 Smudge 17 Ship's officer 19 Row 22 Opera by Verdi 23 Roma highway 26 To consider 27 Greeting 29 Observed 31 To mix 33 Silk 34 Sprinted 36 Larke Oriental tambourine 8 Thick slice 41 Rejects 3 Vapor 48 Thome 49 Peruvian Indian 50 Missile 52 To grudge 64 Country in BE pe 65 Swedien territorial division 87 Menagerie 58 Elongated
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Swedien
Christ Risen Sermon Note on Mark Sixteen
Sunday school lesson explores Mark 16 1 8 devotionals from Psalm 73 23 and 1 Corinthians 15 emphasizing the resurrection. It recounts the women visiting the tomb finding the stone rolled away a young man in white delivering news Jesus is risen and urges belief and preaching to the disciples.
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Lord Jesus Christ
Corinthians
Christ
Risen
Marys
Salome
Jesus
Peter
John
Jesus Christ
Britain’s War Losses and Aircraft Decline Elucidated
The piece notes Britain has lost 38 300 pilots and aircrew killed 10 400 missing and over 10 000 aircraft since the war began. It also reports 41 000 Royal Navy officers and men lost, about 30 percent of prewar strength. Marine engines demand extreme precision.
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Britain
British Isles
Royal Navy
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RCAF
Canada
Toronto Union Station
Nancy Johnson
Philadelphia
BY William Ferguson
Fye
Barricuda
Vastelovazt
Bilal
By Fred Neher
Junior
Sister
Nest
Jimmic Dugan
Temo
Gene Byrnes
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