World Happenings Briefly Told Snapshot of Postwar Events
Dispatches note Henri Laureys new in Lima. Brazilian patrols to guard south Atlantic. a German POW captured by British forces in France. Portugal denies Nazi asylum. HMS Tactician returns after 5,000 miles in 19 months. 20,000 Chinese homeless from Yangtse slum fire. Churchill contemplates civil aviation ministry for postwar air transport. 200 German POWs farming in Saskatchewan harvest. France plans national reconstruction under planned economy. Canadian army men want jobs, not charity, says Dr Corbett.
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Henri Laureys
Peru
Lima
Canada
South Atlantic
E. A. Corbett
Canadian Association For Adult Fandation
Toronto
Vancouver
Canadian farms brace for winter labor push
A Department of Labour spokesman says Canadian farms will supply winter labor for essential industries. About 100000 farm workers were recruited last winter and similar numbers are urged again. Workers will be needed in meat packing, mills, and forestry across provinces as threshing and harvests finish.
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Department of Labour
N.ss
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Minister of
Europe
Fragmented wartime road talk and toy doll clue
A garbled excerpt mentions Europe after the war, a family car needing relearning to use roads, and a peculiar toy marble doll found in Tar Spain. An infant believed to have fed around 300 AD is connected, though details are unclear.
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Europe
Christian Science Monitor
Tar
Spain
Canadian officer plotted Arnhem Red Devil rescue mission
Lieut Kennedy of the Royal Canadian Engineers directed the entire Canadian plan to extract 2,500 paratroopers at Arnhem. Small boat crossings were carried out under heavy fire to move troops across the lower Rhine and complete the rescue operation.
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Jet
Arnhem
Lieut Kennedy
Royal Canadian Engineers
Lower Rhine
Americans Enter Maginot Line Unscathed After Four Years
The Maginot line reportedly survived the war with no battle damage. American troops entered peacefully and found the facilities operational including a diesel plant powering lights and radiators. An underground electric train carried soldiers, with showers, a bar area, and a French custodian noting a 580 franc debt left by Germans.
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Maginot Line
New York Herald Tribune
Water diviner named water consultant in Norfolk council
Jabez Warnes of Vo wins official title as water consultant to Freebridge Lynn Rural Council in Norfolk England.
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Jabez Warnes
Mme
Freebridge Lynn
Norfolk
England
True Source of Gladness and Temptation in the Wilderness
Sunday School lesson explores seeking heavenly riches over earthly gains, the psalmist’s trust in God, and Jesus answering temptation with scripture. It highlights consecration as a daily act, urging believers to present their bodies as a living sacrifice to God and to live holy in all actions. Set in a devotional tone with biblical references and closing note from Old Lansdale, Bucks.
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Jesus
God
Paul
Rome
Perennial wheat discussed for Canada’s prairies
Agriculture experts in Russia grew perennial wheat in well watered areas and debated its value for Canada’s western plains. A chief difficulty on the prairies is insufficient rainfall, though the wheat could prove useful in irrigated regions.
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Russia
Canada
Prairies
Ship Cattle By P One Job Seven To Australian Air Men In India
Australian air crew in India conducted a cattle airlift to Burma. Camouflage involved dyeing white animals with permanganate to appear dark, then loading them into planes and securing them in bamboo stalls. Mules and ponies were also flown, though cattle posed more challenges. Buy War Savings Stamps.
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India
Burma
Puzzle grid from 1906 obfuscated puzzle text
A scrambled 1906 puzzle list with both horizontal and vertical clues, including drink, war god Sitartan, languages, celestial terms, places, and various word definitions. The readable lines show clues for across and down entries, with several garbled phrases and mis-spellings indicating OCR damage.
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France
Portugal
BBC
Tactician
Aree
Yangtse River
Churchuft
Creon
Great Britain
A. Leon
Skatchewan
Gen. de Gaulle
Lille
Red Devils
Viermans
Old Lansdale
Bucks
By William Ferguson
Oman
Reg'lar
Sitartan
Arabian
Tober
Mohammed
Ecrusn
Canton
Japan
Syimbot
Mtinivin
Coe
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