World Happenings Briefly Told
A string of short items covers wartime events and oddities from UK and abroad. It notes Restoration work on over 150 Donbass coal mines, Milton’s Paradise Lost vellum edition auctioned in London, and a Paris dispatch on daily deaths in France. Brazil gifts US coffee valued at 5 million dollars while North Africa shipping losses run at 14 percent. Duchess of Kent sells furniture after air raid damage. Charles Fennel dies in England after selling savings certificates. Vanilla beans need sun curing and nightly protection.
Crochet hat and purse pattern 7673 from Winnipeg paper
Crochet pattern 7673 offers a jaunty pill box hat and matching handbag in worsted or cotton. Directions list materials and stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern Nuri at 17 McDermot Avenue E. Name and address requested. Dickens biography note follows non sequitur.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Demand Cash Flights With Gen Force Credit Pause
Lyons silk manufacturers, major suppliers to Germany for parachute stock, suspend material over unpaid contracts and seek cash-and-carry terms. Domecq sherry, a famed Spanish house, rejects a £10,000 order from a German buyer after insisting on 50 percent cash on delivery, which the German firm could not meet.
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Lyons Silk
Germany
Domecq Sherry
Spain
London Daily Sketch
Parables Teach by the Seaside in Sunday School
The lesson centers on Jesus teaching by the sea after the religious leaders opposed him. He tells the parable of the Sower with seed sown on four soils, explains the seed as the Word of God, and warns how soil conditions such as hardened wayside ground rocky soil and thorny fields affect growth.
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Jesus
Flying boats used by Allies and Italians in war missions
The Northwest Africa Air Force Coastal Command says a luxury flying boat built for Benito Mussolini is now used on special Allied missions. A sizeable Italian fleet of flying boats aids sea rescue operations. Sugar is noted as a exceptionally pure chemical substance.
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Northwest Africa
Air Force
Coastal Command
Benito Muscotini
The
Alles
Unsuspected saboteurs disrupt Danish railway line
Danish Listening Post reports railwaymen in uniforms secured a nano car and placed time devices along four miles of track in Jutland aiding German troop traffic. Guards saluted the saboteurs as traffic halted for a week. Louis XIV reportedly spent over 40 million on Versailles gardens.
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Trafic
Jutland
Law rescinded after women proposed and men fined
A medieval sounding law in Seouana granted women the right to propose but fined a man based on his estate unless he proved betrothal to another. The law was later rescinded by an all male legislature. The British national exchequer has received over £57 million in interest free loans.
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Seouana
Crossword Puzzle Snippet with Mixed Clues and Numbers
A fragment of a crossword puzzle list with numerous clues and mis-typed words. Includes entries for Across and Down, many garbled terms, partial phrases, and scattered numbers indicating grid positions and lengths. The readable items show a mix of old style puzzle formatting and OCR errors.
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Ellen Godfrey
Sheeld, Eng
Donets Basin
Abskumov
John Milton
London
France
Tribune de
Geneva
Brazil
United States
Northwest African Air Force
North Africa
Mediterranean
Duchess of Kent
West End
Charles Fennel
Newbury
England
Charles Dickens
By William Ferguson
OM Ceer
Doath Bend, Indiana
Womsry
North Bend, Indiana
Op Safe
North Pole
Louis XIV
Royal Gardens
Versailles
NTAL
Lee
Tarmtal
By Fred Neher
Lovey
Kan How
Wien
Gene Byrnes
Bie
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