World Happenings Briefly Told in 1914 Style
A snapshot of wartime news items including women offered taxi cab work in New York, coast defence soldiers, forest fire fighting drills in British Columbia, a fund for cricket gear for Army units in the UK, the death of Chief Constable Alex Bell of Scotland Yard, a rise in Australian Royal Navy personnel, Britain’s new 16 ton killer tank, US air observers at a RAF station, Wing Commander Malan’s DSO bar, floating rescue stations for RAF airmen at sea, Prince Bernhard’s Atlantic flight background, and Dr. Manion’s morale assessment of Britain after three months abroad.
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New York
Coast Defence
British Columbia
Forest Reas
London
United Kingdom
Alex Bell
Scotland Yards
Criminal Investigation Department
St .Thomas’ Hospital
Archie Faden
Royal Navy
Britain
Ministry of Supply
United States
Royal Air Force
Bahamas aiding Britain with war materials effort
Nassau residents gather and ship metal and food to support Britain as the Bahamas war materials committee mobilizes volunteers. Landmarks from Nassau and Andros island, including a German gun and a pirate era cannon, are sent to be melted or repurposed. Surplus crops are stored at an old plant for processing. Labor and transport are donated, keeping collection costs low, and the effort has earned praise from the British ministry of supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahamas
Nassau
Rawson Square
England
Andros Island
Neville Chamberlain
British Ministry of Supplies
Australian private manufacture yields first antitank gun
The minister of munitions describes a historic private industry effort in Australia producing a British designed antitank gun. Sixty firms across three states designed 3500 parts with all steel and tooling sourced in Australia. The weapon reportedly penetrates German armor and signals a major cooperative national achievement.
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Australia
McBride
Whch
Libya
Surprise Sour Cream Pudding Brings Bran To Dessert
Recipe notes a pudding style dessert using sour cream and All Bran. It suggests serving in upside down squares hot from the oven to turn sour dispositions sweet. Ingredients include shortening brown sugar sugar vanilla egg salt All Bran baking powder milk flour sour cream. Bake 350 F for about 45 minutes yields nine 3 inch squares.
Britain’s War Device Warns of Approaching Planes
A secret wartime device that detects incoming aircraft is described as a useful borrowable technology. The note mentions its potential to alert callers and suggests borrowing it. The excerpt then shifts to a science aside about planets deriving heat from the sun rather than internal warmth.
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Britain
Silent Conscience Trainability in Swan Eygnets
A quirky note asserts swan offspring are called eygnets and bemusedly claims the conscience can be trained to stay quiet during business hours. The fragment hints at playful linguistic tidbits without broader context.
Health safeguards urged by Vital Interest League in Canada
The Health Safeguard theme from Vital Interest highlights the need for stronger Dominion health measures. It urges universal pasteurization, toxoid vaccination, nutrition education, periodic medical exams, and early diagnosis to reduce sickness, death, and losses in industry. Ontario’s pasteurization lead is noted.
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Canada
Health League of Canada
League
Ontario
Toronto
Hitler’s Reichstag pledge to Russia on nonaggression pact
Adolf Hitler declared that Germany would not export its doctrine to Russia and that future conflict between the two nations would benefit others. He announced a tentative pact excluding force between them and warned Western powers that any attempt to alter it would fail, signaling a major future shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichstag
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Russia
Brain weights and textile term explained in brief note
An 85 year old man’s brain weighs three ounces less than at age 20 and a woman of the same age weighs four ounces less. A fabric term is described as not silk where a thread of one color is shot through the warp of another color. 2420
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Buckram
Liverpool
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A. G Malan
Channel
Prince Bernhard
The
Yands
Atlantic
R. J Manion
Hitler
Paul
Mpure
Hurch
Titus
Paul Hide
Plato
CR Erdman
Banff Springs Hotel
Mickie
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