London sees currency controls amid refugee response
Bank of England suspends dealings in French francs with only bona fide refugees allowed to hold French notes. Belgian cabinet minister Henri Jaspar pledges the refugee government will continue the fight against Germany in a London radio address. Nursing sisters from Toronto and Winnipeg visit Cliveden as guests of Lord and Lady Astor. American Red Cross forms a London committee and pledges $1,000,000 for Britain relief. Salvation Army officer Charles T. Rich dies in London after leading western Canada work. Oxygen lifeline for paratroopers via a 25,000 foot drop touted by the American Association for the Advancement of Defence in Seattle. Sir Harry Oakes and Lady Oakes donate 22,800 for a fighter plane in Nassau Bahamas.
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London
Bank of England
Henri Jaspar
Minator
Germany
American Red Cross
American Red Cross Committee
Great Britain
Charles T. Rich
Salvation Army
Britain
Snce
Canada
American ‘Association For the Advancement of Defence
Seattle
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Sir Harry
Lady Oakes
Nassau
Bahamas
Ontario
Pattern 4467 Gress dress promises slender silhouette
The Anne Adams pattern 4467 from Gress highlights a wide front waistband, a gently flared skirt, and slimming panels. Features include decorative side gathers at a sweetheart neckline, puffed sleeves, and a crisp trimmed look. Available in sizes 34 to 46 with a 36 taking 34 yards of fabric. send 20 cents for a line, name, address, and style number to Annecy Ave E Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Annecy Ave E
Winnipeg
Fates of a Great Lakes liner told as ships halves fuse
A historic three funnel liner now under wartime service is being cut in half at an Ontario shipyard. Acetylene torches fracture the midsection while rivets blow away and a cofferdam blocks flooding. The beam is split, water is managed, and the two halves will be sent to Montreal to be spliced back, the stern and prow rejoined, then the ship sails again for Allied duties.
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Ontario
St. Lawrence
Cleveland
Duluth
Montreal
Tage
Great Lakes
Food shortage in Belgium prompts Red Cross aid in rural areas
Observers in Brussels report a serious food shortage in Belgium under occupation. The Red Cross distributes bread, biscuits, condensed milk and dried foods while sugar butter eggs and cured meat remain scarce in rural regions as the kingdom adjusts to German occupation.
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Red Cross
Belgium
Brussels
Little Kingdom
British lion aroused as Adolf’s ambition face new challenge
The Kingston Whig Standard notes that despite temporary gains, it would not be surprising if Adolf’s aim to become a lion tamer wanes as the British lion finally stirs.
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Kingston Whig-Standard
Adolf
Etiquette Guide Offers Help For Dances And Dates
A 32 page Home Service booklet from the Winnipeg News paper Union advises young men and women on proper manners for dances theatres restaurants and travel. It covers accepting compliments and graceful behavior and offers other etiquette topics with a 15 cent price and additional booklets on manners languages and health.
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Fin
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Early Panama Canal Visionary and Global Trade Notes
A compact history recalls Phillippe BunauVarilla from boyhood plans to head a French firm in Panama exploration, his role in promoting the canal route, and his sale of rights to the United States for 40 million dollars. The piece also surveys silk usage in parachutes, wartime silk trade metrics, demographic trends in Britain, and nascent tech ideas like hydroponics and magnesium sea mining with speculative ocean wealth.
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United States
Panama
Nicaragua
Bunau-Varilla
Bunau- Varilla
Job upright under trial sunday school lesson
Golden text proclaims Job sinned not and did not charge God. The lesson covers Job 1 2 and Romans 8 30, detailing Job as perfect and upright, faithful amid affliction. Satan challenges God, Job endures boils and ashes, while his wife and three friends arrive to comfort but speak little, showing grief and steadfastness.
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Job
Geo
Satan
Job Ain
Eiphar
Rhu
Bitdad
Zophar
Class Distinction Is Character Not Wealth Or Status
A Bishop of Ely Dr B O F Heywood condemned artificial social ranks at the Ely Diocesan Conference. He urged people to value individuals by character, not cash, recalling remarks on upper and lower classes and asking who truly deserves esteem amid laborers and workers in danger.
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England
United Kingdom
Delnig
Ely
B. O. F. Heywood
Manchester church hosts sermon with Swift as background
An organ in a Manchester church provided musical background for a sermon by Rev. W. Rowland Jones. The sermon noted that Dean Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, was a church dignitary two centuries ago, with references to jazz and dance tunes eluding numbers.
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Gulliver
Manchester
England
W. Rowland Jones
Dean Swift
Truth, justice and freedom must be defined, Hutchins warns
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago says in a broad forecast that truth justice and freedom will prevail only if their meanings are understood, and he contrasts this with nations the Poles Deeds Norwegians Dutch and now the French.
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Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Health League warns children on safe swimming practices
Health League officials urge caution for young swimmers this summer. They advise practicing basic motions on a stool to build habit, then confining lessons to supervised pools until proficiency. Open pools are preferred. avoid rivers and polluted waters. swimming is strenuous and should be done in moderation.
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Ofciais
The
Health League
Canada
Readers can obtain free articles on Cancer control
Editorial note invites readers to write to The Health League of Canada in Toronto to receive a valuable set of articles on the cause and control of cancer. Send name and address clearly to Dept. W.N. Road, reCullough's.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N. Road
Toronto
Doctor’s Latin Prescription Note Reveals Bil Language
A physician writes a Latin prescription, reflecting medical shorthand often unreadable to lay readers. The exchange underscores the barrier between clinical notation and patient understanding, highlighting the need for clearer communication and translation of medical instructions.
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Count de Lesseps
Panama Canal Company
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