World happenings briefly told from Britain to Canada
Early 900 officers of Dominion forces in Britain attended an afternoon party at Buckingham Palace. An Aftonbladet report notes Swedish aviators trained to fly a heavy bomber forced down in Sweden in October. Dr Luke J Fleming died in Tarrytown. Telephone calls in Canada rose nearly 400 percent since 1929 at a Winnip er conference. Netherlands NCOs died of starvation in Altengrabow. French army in North Africa sent £000,000 francs to aid resistance in France. Denis Knowles, disabled soldier, volunteers as a coal miner to aid war effort. Universities of Britain gathered for the ninth industrial conference at Sheffield to discuss industry’s postwar role.
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Britain
Buckingham Palace
Sweden
Aftonbladet
Luke J. Fleming
Tarrytown
Troy
N.Y
Canada
Winniper
Netherlands
Altengrabow
London
North Africa
France
19Th
Denis Knowles
Great Britain
Sheffield
England
Blood donors drive 1943 calls and supply surge
In 1943 about a thousand calls for blood were made to donors on the roll of the London Blood Transfusion Service. The system now lists around 80,000 donors supplying the large outer depots.
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London Blood Transfusion Service
Rationing Time Table for Tea Coffee Sugar Butter Meat
Rationing time table lists colored coupons with validity and expiry dates for coffee and tea, sugar, butter, canned salmon, and preserves. It notes values per coupon group and cross references meat charts for values. Various coupons become valid on February 3, 10, 17, 24, and expire March 31 or February 29 as specified.
Transfigured Christ on the Mountain and the Valley
A Sunday school lesson reflects on Mark's Mount of Transfiguration and the subsequent valley encounter. It discusses Peter's confession, Jesus affirmed as Messiah, and the disciples' struggle with unbelief amid a boy's possession and the taunts of scribes, urging faith in Jesus' power.
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Jesus
Peter
Sesarea
Philippi
Christ
Elijah
Moses
Messiah
Theo Aegis
Eskimos Could Serve Postwar Canadian Aviation
Rt. Rev. A. L. Fleming, Arctic bishop, told Montreal listeners that Eskimos are noted for mechanical skill and could be trained as radio engineers, mechanics, and drivers for far north air fields after the war. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Eskimos
A. L. Fleming
The
Arctic
Montreal
Eakimos
Far North
Spectrograph History and 1860 Proposal Timeline
The spectrograph, a rapid method for analyzing minerals ores liquids and gases, was proposed for this purpose by Kirchhoff and Bunsen in 1860 and widely used from 1860 to 1920.
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Kirchhoff
Bunsen
Timepiece pioneer Eliza Belville dies at Wallington
Miss Eliza beth Belville toured London business houses for over fifty years sharing time signals. She used a 100 year old watch that kept exact time to within a tenth of a second. Three times weekly it went to Greenwich for accuracy tests. Belville died aged unknown, leaving the watch to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
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Wman
London
Elizabeth Belville
Greenwich
Belville
Wallington
Alaska Size Surpasses Sweden Norway and Finland
The Christian Science Monitor notes Alaska lies at a similar latitude to Sweden Norway and Finland and also surpasses the combined area of those three nations which together host more than 12 million people.
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The
Christian Science Monitor
Alaska
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Big Housing Proposition Hits Postwar Germany
The Journal de Geneve reports Germany will face a postwar era of monotonous barracks like dwellings to replace about 12.8 million homes already destroyed by Allied bombing.
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Journal de Geneve
Germany
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Eskimos Co
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Mali
Zoouie
Gene Byrnes
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