World happenings briefly told in wartime items
President Roosevelt backs a world monetary conference with a date set. Manitoba Red Cross gives 15000 to national fund at Winnipeg conference. India builds airframes with over a million workers. King loans heirloom medal to Salute the Soldier exhibition in Windsor. Canada controls fuel allocations. Britain halts tire requisitions temporarily. Montgomery’s flag sold for Churchill aid fund. Indian shipyards run at full capacity with 300 vessels planned. US Navy reveals periscope fish eye camera for enemy hits and sinkings.
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India
Windsor
Eng
of Controller
Canada
Royal Air Force units form fishing fleet in North West Australia
Fifteen Royal Air Force units in North West Australia organized their own fishing fleet to diversify meals. Each unit appoints its own fishermen, led by a skilled amateur angler, to provide variety in their menu.
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Royal Ascensian Air Force
Australia
Angler
Son Reunited With Family After Nine-Year Absence
A day-long vigil at a Spryield New Brunswick dockside ends with Pte. Thomas Williams from Winnipeg returning aboard the hospital ship Lady Nelson. He is greeted by Mr and Mrs Alfred Williams and their year-old Spryield child. Williams, invalided home from England after years of service in the First Great War, is pictured embracing his mother as his father looks on. The reunion almost failed when Mrs Williams’ failing eyesight missed the stretcher to the hospital train. The officials recovered the moment and the family met their son.
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Lady Nelson
Alfred Williams
Spryield
N.B
Thomas Williams
Winnipeg
Williams
England
Windsor destroyer’s wartime record at Dunkirk
One of the first destroyers to reach Dunkirk the Windsor made a wonderful record during the war. In eight months she steamed 30 000 miles and in one month completed 4060 miles. In 1941 a six month commission involved 19000 miles and in 1942 she logged another 24000. Also notes the invention of zero by ancient Hindu mathematicians as a landmark achievement.
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Dunkirk
France
Old Windsor
Red Poppies Bloom Across Italy and Across Europe
Spring brings red poppies in Italy while Allied soldiers advance through blood stained fields. Poppies extend across Europe including England where plants stay low and not tall. Astronomers in 1935 measured a star cluster about a billion trillion miles from Earth.
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Italy
Europe
England
OUReen PUZZLE x x x 488 vertical clues
A scrambled word puzzle showing numbered clues with broken entries such as To poke and South American language joined by repeated text blocks and numeric extras, plus irregular terms like Traded and Dignified, seeking cohesion across a dense, garbled clue list.
Australia hits 1000th Beaufort aircraft milestone
Australia reports rapid expansion of aircraft output with at least two plants turning 1000th plane over to the Royal Australian Air Force. The Federal Department of Aircraft Production, manufacturing Beaufort bombers, delivered its 1000th aircraft as early as last November.
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Australia
Anuunery
Royal Australian Air Force
Federal Department of Aircraft Production
Finland relies on farming and dairying for most livelihoods
The article states that over 3.5 million Finns primarily earn their living through farming and dairy work, highlighting agriculture as the dominant economic activity in Finland.
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Finland
Paul Pleads For Runaway Slave In Philemon Letter
Sunday school lesson outlines Paul and Timothy in prison sending greetings to Philemon and his household. It highlights Philemon’s charity and hospitality, Onesimus as a convert, and Paul’s plea for forgiveness and reconciliation through Christian love and loyalty among believers.
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Paul
Philemon
Timothy
Christ Jesus
Apphia
Arenippus
God Our Father
Lord Jesus Christ
Philemmon
Moffatt
Christ
Onesimus
Matthew Henry
Jesus Christ
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Roosevelt
Manitoba Junior Red Cross Society
National Red Cross
Britain
Ministry of Supply
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Churchill
United States Navy
Great Britain
Enger
Afria
West Africa
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