World Briefly Told: wartime Britain and allied efforts
World brief items report Britain to adopt coupon free blue uniforms for farm workers and Parliament voting to fund Big Ben repairs after last year’s bombing. Australian Women’s Army Service to bolster anti aircraft units. Canadian seeds campaign to aid Soviet Russia. Duke of Windsor helped fight a $1,000,000 blaze in Nassau. 14 buildings razed. Jewish Congress cites over 1,000,000 Jews killed amid German domination. Bricks salvaged from bombed British houses used in RAF airport foundations. Canadian wheat supplies fall sharply from peak.
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Britain
Big Ben
Australian Women's Army Service
Duke of Windsor
Nassau
World Jewish Congress
Germany
RAF
Birthday Fortune Card Reading Parlor Ad
A Winnipeg newspaper ad promotes a 32 page booklet on Birthday Fortune reading. It describes shuffling, card meanings, and sample fortunes like the Five of Diamonds and Two of Hearts. It invites readers to send 15 cents to Home Service Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serker
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Busy-Day Dress Pattern by Anne Adams 4102
Pattern 4102 offers a collarless shirtfrock with yoked back bodice and front yokes in points for misses and women's sizes 14 through 40. Size 16 uses 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba with size name address and pattern number.
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Anne Adams
Winniper
Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Air Training Plan graduates listed from Dafoe school
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduates named from No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School Dafoe Sask includes air gunners Sinclair Sorin Side San Siltinetton Sasi Siren Hoberta Wesver Birnie Xe WSeon and Fer iran with unclear dates and spellings due to damaged text.
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No. 5
Dafoe
Sask
Sinclair
Man
Sorin
San Siltinetton
Sasi Siren Iit
Dragon
San. Hoberta
Sun
Se. Wesver
Birnie
Xe Wseon
Iran
No. 11 Service Flying Training School staff list Yorkton
An OCR heavy note lists personnel and assignments for No. 11 Service Flying Training School in Yorkton Saskatchewan and No. 4 SFTS Saskatoon. It names pilots instructors and staff such as J Le Amend E Chambers H Hankey and G Gilmour among many others across several towns including Lloydminster Prince Albert Morden and Saskatoon with scattered abbreviations and locales. The fragmentary record resembles a roster of names and postings rather than a narrative report.
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No. 11 Service Flying Training School
Yorkton, Sask
Lac
J. le Amend
Illinow
Kemet
E. Chambers
Lloydminster
Sasi Pac
Creanan
Ceylon
Hankey Bae
Huowely
Hunt
Jon
Swift
Kc. GA. Johnson
Elk Point
Alta Hag BS
Kemp Gan
St. E. Prince Albert
Lake
Pre Mi Rionibgh
Tater
Atty AG Ta Niegaarden
Abernethy Sask
Ae x Ieee
Grngherd
North
Carman
Man Te J
O'Doningth Taber
Alte
Wy Ay
Alig Tae Patternon
Sark
Hox
Coleman
Sunday School Lesson and scattered notes on Bible themes
The fragmentary text cites Ezekiel 18 4 Genesis 3 and 1 John 1 15 22 with a devotional bent and mentions a serb meeting Feria enero sabiety and references to serpents Satan. It ends with a stray line about railway locomotives weighing over 250 tons.
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Eerie Bee
Feria
See
Eee
Ieee
Rome
Proper food and health to win the war, Toronto talk
Dr. F. F. Tisdale told the Board of Trade Club of Toronto that diet quality dictates national health and wartime potential. He warned one third of Canadians are under nourished, citing vitamins B1 and C deficiencies in middle income families and urging a normal diet with milk eggs meat vegetables raw fruit and whole grains plus vitamin D in winter. He urged treating vitamins as food, not drugs, and noted boiling times affect vegetable value.
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F. F. Tisdale
Hospital For Sick Children
Board of Trade Club of
Tor
Toronto
Tisdall
Saul Iff
U.S. Blacklist Expands to 9000 Entities Across Oceans
The United States expanded its economic blacklist to 86 Iran and Iraq linked entities, 142 in Spain Portugal Switzerland Sweden and Turkey, plus 308 more in 13 American republics, totaling about 9000 persons and corporations deemed enemy operatives barred from trade.
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U.S
United States
Iran
Iraq
Andorra
Spain
France
Liechtenstein
Portugal
Switzerland
Sweden
Turkey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Soviet
Russia
Dominion Bureau ‘of Statistica
RCAF
No. 5 Air Observer School
R. Retherston
Nanton
Arta
Honland
Valen
Mietcher
MPS
Mane
Gilmour
Hythe
Alta
EAC & Fe Gotte
Sceptre
Sash
By Fred Neher
Canada
Mickie
Reg
Sae
Gene Byrnes
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