Canadian Save the Children Fund joins world aid effort
The article discusses Save the Children efforts to foster international cooperation among nations and people. It highlights the Canadian Save the Children Fund formally joining the International Save the Children Union in Geneva, noting thirty one countries participate and that the group aims to help children facing want and disease.
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Save the Children Fund
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Geneva
Canada Fund for Save the Children Extends Help Abroad
The Canadian Save the Children Fund, now incorporated under Lady Alexander of Tunis, with Mr Justice A C McRuer as national chairman, allows subscriptions to be earmarked for children worldwide. Past contributions include 235,890.48 since 1916 and 93,381.51 in 1945 to Europe for food and medicine, with Manitoba Red Cross adding 20,000. The aim is to aid Canadian children and children abroad, fostering humanitarianism and world citizenship.
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Canada
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Europe
Manitoba
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Red Cross Society
Justice ‘McRuer
Canadian Fund
International Brotherhood of Man
Miraculous Healing At Lourdes Shrine Confirmed
The Bureau of Verification announced the official registration of a miraculous healing at the Lourdes shrine. Eleven physicians attested to the complete recovery of Francois Pascal, a child who had been blind and paralyzed before a pilgrimage in 1998.
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Avenues
France
Bureau of Verification
Heaing
Lourdes
Francois Pascal
First Woman Bank Teller Passes Away in Vancouver
A pioneering female bank teller, the first of her sex in the country, has died in Vancouver at age 60. She helped usher in wartime changes, with women taking cash handling roles as shortages rose. The obituary notes her trailblazing career and the broader shift in banking staffing.
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Vancouver
Dublin Helps Harvest With Vast Volunteer Movement
Eire's townsfolk volunteered in rain drenched harvests, including stenographers soldiers civil servants bricklayers and carpenters. Dublin workers provided 120000 man days aiding farmers and easing tensions with farmers toward volunteers especially women who worked all day milking cows stocking grain and assisting with meals.
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Fells
Witty Rural Church Jokes and Wordplay Fragments
A rural English vicar scoffs at a small find of two buttons as the collection totals rise to seventeen shillings and three pence, while a parade of brief exchanges covers courtship, dignity, cats, hair tonic and a factory tale. The humor leans on puns and light heartbreak.
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England
Gems of Thought and Civic Duty Across Quotes and Science
A compilation of aphorisms from Shakespeare to Jefferson and Eddy, urging duty, rights, progress, and public safety. It references liberty and the pursuit of happiness, calls for rising to meet national needs, and adds a stray line noting lithium as the lightest solid element.
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Jefferson
Mary Baker Eddy
Sydney Smith
Brooke
Immigration Figures Show Increase in Canada
Immigration to Canada in the first six months of 1949 totalled 21 8 18, a 14 percent rise from the same period last year. Most newcomers were wives and children of immigrants, with 24 900 from English Scottish Irish or Welsh backgrounds and 2 24 from the United States. Ontario welcomed 14 325 new residents, while manpower from the western provinces ranged from 2 112 to 3 788. Avowed Canadians returning from the U.S. totalled 1 737.
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Work Is Ending as Canadian Postal Corps Winds Down
Ottawa reports the Canadian Postal Corps completed a vast behind the scenes effort during wartime. At peak about 3,000 men moved letters parcels and cigarettes to India’s rapidly moving armed forces. The unit was to end this month but its life has been extended to year-end.
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Ottawa
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Burglars Crack 217-Foot Safe In Restaurant Heist
Four hours of effort culminate in burglars opening a 217 foot square safe at a restaurant. They rolled, battered, and pried it with iron bars and kitchen knives before it yielded. Officers report cash and jewelry totaling $3,000 stolen in the early morning burglary.
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Home Made Soap Recipe From Portland Home Economist
Portland readers learn a home soap recipe from Mary Cullen, a state home economist. The method uses animal fat, lye, water, borax, and ammonia with careful handling to produce hard soap. The article notes alternative formulas and cautions about lye safety and aluminum.
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Portland
Mary Cullen
Oregon
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Economist
Woman Finds Hidden Stockings in Chair Drawers
A Caraigan housewife notices a hole in a chair bought for a sale steps on her thumb and pulls out 64 pairs of pre war silk stockings. A breadboard can be kept from skidding on a smooth table when jar rubbers are glued to its under surface.
Backward Seating Flight Tests in United States
An Air Transport Command experiment aboard a standard C-54 sent passengers from Washington to California with all seats reversed facing the tail. The study aims to test safety theories by distributing deceleration shock across the body during rough landings, comparing with earlier sleeper planes.
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Washington
California
Air Transport Command
United States
Four Men Arraigned After Egg Store Fight Scrambles Brooklyn
In a Brooklyn Queens night court four men were arraigned on assault charges after a brawl at a butt and egg shop. Police say about 3600 eggs were smashed and the scene deemed a scrambled mess. A defence lawyer called it "That's no york" while another quipped the incident as the biggest omelette in Brooklyn history. They were paroled pending another hearing Tuesday.
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