World Happenings Briefly Told Across Continents
Boer War veteran Robert Beott 67 returns in AC2 after passing medical. Irish potato growers urged to boost crops to ship 100000 tons next autumn to Europe. London Daily Express claims 2.5 million daily circulation, 850000 more than New York Daily News. Netherlands Brigade members train in London firefighting for Holland. Major Patricia Curtis, BC lawyer, serves with Canadian Army JAG. Britain to US liaison on postwar trials for Japanese and German war criminals. Maj Gen Wilhelm Hansteen, 47, Norway’s WW2 commander, qualified as paratrooper. Post: 5373021 pounds air mail carried in year to March 31, up from 541625. Maple Leaf newspaper made honorary member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Bay War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Bire
Europe
London Daily Express
New York Daily News
Patricia Curtis
New Westminster
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Ottawa
Anthony Eden
Commons
Britain
United States
Wilhelm Hansteen
Fm Commons
Maple Leaf
Italy
Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association
Queen Honors Airplane Crew By Queen Wilhelmina
Three Trans-Canada Air Lines crew members were honored by Queen Wilhelmina in Ottawa for piloting the plane that carried the Queen from Ottawa to an East Coast port last July on her return to Britain. Captain W. W. Fowler of Sackville New Brunswick co pilot Arthur J. Tomkin Medicine Hat Alberta and stewardess Bias M. Clinch St George New Brunswick received gold pins bearing the Royal cipher. Porter, with TCA since 1927, is assistant operations manager in Winnipeg. Tomkin joined TCA in 1941 and Clinch joined in 1942 after training in Saint John.
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Mae
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Queen Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Ottawa
Queen
Fan East
Britain
Dominion
W. W. Fowler
Sackile
Arthur J. Tomkin
Medicine Hat
Alta
Bias M. Clinch
St George
Winnipeg
Miss Clinch
Saint John, N.B
General Hospital
Airline
Parasol Linked to Queen Victoria in Great Exhibition Comeback
A parasol once carried by Queen Victoria at the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park has been sold to the chairman of the British Red Cross. The white China silk parasol features green silk lining and a richly embroidered floral design with a carved ivory handle shaped as a Chinese dragon.
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Queen Mary
Red Cross
Queen Victoria
Hyde Park
Watchful Sunday School Lesson on Temples and Prophecy
Devotional notes discuss Mark 13 1 37 and Matthew 13 10 prophecy of Jerusalem s fall. It contrasts Jesus warning against false messiahs with guidance to endure persecution and preach the gospel to all nations during trials. Mention of Josephus and war era events appears alongside a postwar India V C presentation in New Delhi.
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Jesus
Josephus
Jerusaleen
Mount of Olives
Rad
Peter
Herod
Paul
Felix
Intestar
Agrippa
Nero
Chiat
Boone
Rationing Time Table Update for Butter Meat and Preserves
Rationing schedule lists Butter purple coupons 52 53 valid March 2 with 4 55 by March 16 and 56 57 by March 20. Meat blue surtax coupons 41 42 43 44 valid March 2 9 16 23, and 45 by March 30. D orange preserves coupons 14 15 16 valid March 2. Tea coffee BE yellow coupons 3 4 valid March 2 and 5 6 by March 16.
Britain’s War Power Surges Beyond 1918 Output
Britain mobilizes vast manpower across Army Navy and Air Force in the present conflict. War factory production now dwarfs 1918 output as domestic workers contribute at a scale surpassing all belligerents, including Germany.
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Britain
Germany
Great Britain population and distance from Germany noted
The article cites Britain’s population of 43,000,000 and its proximity to German forces within about 20 miles, reflecting on strategic implications amid Charlemagne's burial at an upright position.
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Great Bsrtain
Crossword Puzzle Snapshot NL 4970 Horizontal Clues and Fragments
A crossword puzzle snippet from NL 4970 listing horizontal clues such as Leopard Mee eat and Rare articles with partial entries like 8un god and 18 Brasil. The grid shows damaged entries including Mesopotamia 20 Religious and 22 Ostrich like bird portable across.
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Mesopotamia
Brasil
Membr
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Robert Beott
London
Holland
Bay War Savings
Victoria
Jutland
CNET
Crature Falls
By William Ferguson
V.C
India
New Delhi
Chhelu Ram
Rajputana Rifles
Jemadar Gaje Ghale
Royal Gurkha Rifles
Charlemagne
Odin
Actinium
By Fred Neher
Jae Moen
Gene Byrn
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