Picket Marshal to assume role as governor general of Canada
World happenings brief notes that Picket Marshal Alexander will take the Westin idea when he assumes his Fest as governor general of Canada. Other items include Amunciated Press distributing world news to Turkish papers, unions in Nie geri, US cotton exports to Japan, and naval operations updates.
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Alexander
Westin
Canada
Cot TV Purdy
Artham
Norfolk
Turkey
United States
Japan
General MacArthur
Montreal
Bottles Adrift Show Wide Ocean Drift in Long Voyage
A British newspaper notes the unpredictable journeys of ocean bottles. A letter in a bottle sent from South Australia reached Aylesbury after 28 years, while other bottles drifted from Dorset to New Zealand in eleven months and from Cape Town to Port Philip in seven.
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South Australia
Aylesbury
Studland Bay
Dorset
Christchurch
New Zealand
Capetown
Port Philip
Australia
South Africa
Shetlands
Stewart's Island
Simpson
Manchester Guardian
Easy cross stitch fruit motifs pattern 7301
Simple embroidery guide offers seven fruit motifs averaging 4 by 8 inches. Children can enjoy this fun project. To obtain pattern 7301 send twenty cents in coins by stamp requests. Include name and address clearly for delivery.
Costly War Shown In BIS Report Exceeds Past Conflicts
The Bank of International Settlements released a report indicating the recent war cost the world treasuries about 680 billion dollars, over four times the 1914 18 cost, excluding property damage production losses relief and neutral losses, signaling ever higher war costs and potential for even costlier future conflicts. Snakes in China use venom as defense with a 78 leaf wooden mechanism dating to 100 BC.
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Bank of International Settlement
Winnipeg Tribune
China
A New Year healthful eating plan with weekly meals
A guide to shaping a week of meals around meat rations and simple dishes. Sunday dinner suggests minute steaks with rice and creamed celery, Monday features sausage and cabbage, Tuesday offers broiled fish and carrots, Wednesday uses lamb chops and kidney in a lamb stew, Thursday reuses leftovers with a tossed salad, Friday emphasizes dairy and eggs Florentine, and Saturday proposes a beef burger with tomato sauce. The plan ends noting a remaining token budget for the week.
Englishman Willett who sparked daylight saving
Sir William Willett born 1856 in Farnham Surrey proposed daylight saving after noticing blinds drawn at Chislehurst common. A builder by trade he urged Parliament in 1908. the idea passed in 1916 after world war pressures. He died a year earlier and is memorialized by estate lands, a granite obelisk, Willett Way, and the Daylight Inn with a sun sign.
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Kent County Journal
Sir Wiliam Willett
Farmham
Surrey
Willett
Chislehurst
Kent
Chislehurst Common
Robert Pearse
Certai
St. Nicholas
Tional Trust
Willett Way
War brides in Canada prefer Canadian life over Britain
Vancouver Sun notes rumors of war brides wanting to return to Britain are unfounded as about 9,000 British girls married Canadian soldiers in three years and only 29 sought return passage. It says most brides remain with their husbands, happy in Canada, and questions whether any country offers a better chance for family happiness.
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Canada
Britain
Vancouver Sun
Icicle Tale in Sunny Hong Kong turns to myth
A legend recounts a single icicle found by a coolie on a water pipe outside a hotel at the hilltop above Hong Kong. He rushed downhill to show it, but the melting ice vanished before the town could witness its rare glow, leaving locals laughing at the chilly tale.
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Hong Kong
Postwar Britain Antiques Market Sees Rising Prices
Sothebys and Christies report renewed American buying and a surge in values for ordinary items. Chippendale tables, writing desks, Dresden china, and small furniture now fetch far higher prices, with many pieces doubling or quadrupling prewar levels as markets anticipate a broad boom in the United States within years.
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Gates
Britain
United States
Léndin
Sotheby's
Christie's
Anid
Des Graz
Christies
Alec Martin
Gainsborough
Lost Treasure Founders Dead Hid Treasures From Oxford Museum
Two men who knew the hiding place of Oxford museum treasures are dead. Dr. RT Gunther the curator and Albert Joyce the janitor hid ten astrolabes Cardinal Wolsey’s clock face and ancient watches at war onset. Their secret dies with them. London Daily Mail.
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Oxford Museum of History and Science
Cardinal Jolsey
RT. Gunther
Albert Joyce
Cardinal Wolsey
Dr. Gunther
Mr. Joyce
London Daily Mai
Diamond Jubilee Ceremony Weighing Aga Khan London Diamonds
Special crash proof containers in Britain will carry thousands of diamonds to India to weigh the Aga Khan at his diamond jubilee ceremony in Bombay and later in Dar es Salaam. About 40 000 followers are expected and Ismaili followers have raised substantial sums for the celebrations.
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Aga Khan
Britain
India
London
Bradbourne Stadium
Bombay
Dar-es-Salaam
Fast Africa
Africa
Asia
Europe
Tetanus treatment questioned by University of Cincinnati doctor
Dr. WA Altemeier of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati General Hospital reports in JAMA on 16 tetanus cases. He says penicillin has no effect on Clostridium tetani toxin and that tetanus remains a CNS infection.
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Aourdur
Perutlan
WA. Altemeter
University of Hinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati General Hospital
Journal of the American Medical Association
Altemeier
Toronto
The
Health League of Canada
Health
Plastic Car Bodies Within Two Years Predicted
Aviation engineer William B. Stout forecasts major automakers will build cars with plastic bodies within two years. He says these will be lighter and more economical, with drivers gaining much better visibility, reducing reliance on guesswork and potentially preventing many accidents. A Buffalo Courier Express note adds that in China dancing is part of a soldier’s training.
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William B. Stout
Mr. Stout
Buffalo Courier. Express
China
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