World Happenings Briefly Told In War News
A digest of diverse items notes the British army’s operations on the Rhine and crop damage in Germany, Norwich street violence, a CBE award for Julian Taylor, Italian constituent assembly elections with women among deputies, Canada’s wartime savings and net debt figures, Viscount Alexander’s retirement to half-pay, milk distribution plans to schools, and the resumption of ship to shore telephone links with ocean liners after six years.
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Norwich
England
Julian Taylor
Canada
Sissey
London Gazette
Viscount Alexander
British Ministry of Food
Great Britain
Farmers Seek Fair Share Amid Global Hunger Fears
The Farmers Advocate notes hunger abroad and pressure on prices. Farmers insist on a fair consumer share to maintain urban living standards, leveraging local, provincial, and federation bodies and now an international group. They favor negotiation over strikes to ensure prices reflect cost of production.
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Federations Ofgriculture
No Frills For Them Alexander Children Are Being Brought Up In Proper Way
Viscount and Lady Alexander of Tunis raise their children to be independent. In Calgary the two sons and a daughter carried their own heavy hand baggage as hotel staff offered help, the governess noting they are being brought up properly. A fellow traveler said the children do not know their father is famous.
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Alexander
Viscount
Alexander of
Tunis
Calgary
Japan feared gas attacks and refrained from using it
Col Geoffrey Marshall, an American chemical officer, said Japan was prepared to use gas but refrained after reviewing a Japanese report on chemical warfare. He noted the Japanese feared wholesale Allied retaliation and believed their island empire could not be defended against air drenching.
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Japan
Geoffrey Marshall
From Appetizer To Dessert Bran Cereal Recipes Featured
A vintage style note extols ready to eat bran cereal as a flour saver for many dishes from appetizer to dessert. It includes ham and pork cakes with peach halves and a plum sauce muffin recipe, emphasizing versatility and simple steps using bran, dried fruit, and basic baking methods.
Simple Distinction Pattern 4720 Sew-Rasy Frock and Bolero
Anne Adams promotes Pattern 4720 a sew-rasy frock and bolero ensemble in sizes 12 14 18 20 with size 16 highlighted. The ad notes 39 inch yardage and requests 20 cents in coins for the pattern plus name address and style number to Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper McDermot Ave Winnipeg 16.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermot” Ave. E
Items Of Interest In a Dutch Concentration Camp Near Pekanbaroe
A sanitized read presents a mosaic of historical claims from a camp near Pekanbaroe in the Netherlands East Indies where Dutch women reportedly captured rats to feed children. It also recounts ancient routes like the Appian Way and Croesus’s coin invention, and notes on weighing at the poles, the Big Ben mechanism, and travel to Canada by Americans.
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Pekanbaroe
Netherlands East Indies
Adequate Rest and Care for Children in Summer
Health expert Dr. J Harry Ebbs of Toronto Sick Children Hospital urges parents to adjust summer routines for infants and young children. He recommends earlier bedtimes, cautious bathing, careful sun exposure, ample plain foods, boiled milk, hydration with extra water, and a stable daily routine to prevent heat related health issues and illnesses.
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J. Harry Ebbs
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Ebbs
Toronto Hospital
Simple Language Boys English Advised To Use Plain Speech
Sir Ronald Storrs spoke to King Edward VI School boys at Bury St Edmunds warning against pretentious speech. He urged direct usage such as boots over footwear and pyjamas over slumberwear, and offered don’ts like avoiding rodent executive and overuse of actually or definitely yes.
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Bury ST. Edmunds
Suffolk
England
Ronald Storrs
Cyprus
Rhodesia
Canada Heads Toward Drunken Nation Says Temperance Leader
Halifax reports from the 98th annual Sons of Temperance session where Grand Worthy Patriarch James A. McEachern stated Canada is rapidly becoming a drunken nation while the United States also faces alcohol concerns. Delegates from Ontario and Maritime provinces attended as H W MacDonald welcomed them.
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Canada
Halifax
James A. McEachern
Patriach
New Brunswick
The
Sons of Temperance of North America
United States
Ontario
Maritime Provinces
H.W. MacDonald
Nova Scotia
Delicate Operation Transplants Corneas at Hopkins
Johns Hopkins Hospital announced corneal transplants using eyes from a deceased donor in Shreveport. The corneas, bequeathed by a man who died there, were processed by Eye Bank for Light Restoration and flown from New York in sealed containers after death.
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Baltimore
Shreveport
Johns Hopkins Hospital
New York
Eye Bank For Light Restoration, Inc
Sign Torn Up Noting Old Exchange Rate Parity
The image shows a cigar store clerk tearing up a sign that announced the old exchange rate of 10 percent premium on US funds. Now at parity with the US dollar, the sign is obsolete and no longer in use.
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Exange
Deterioration of America since discovery
The reteroorough Examiner recalls a time when Indians supposedly governed without debt taxes strikes or coupons and women did all the work. It argues the nation has deteriorated since then while noting the diamond’s name derives from the Greek Adamas meaning unconquerable.
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Reteroorough
Adamas
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