World Happenings Briefly Told
An Amazon parrot in London speaks French and English. Canada reports sugar beet production unchanged from last year. Canada's veterans affairs department launches a drive to find work for about 9,000 older veterans. About 25,000 children greet the royal family enthusiastically in Pretoria. Gen Arthur Blair T dies in Scotland. Sugar rationing affects Toronto children’s dental health. Warspite’s steering wheel given to King Haakon. Britain to spend about 500 million dollars on raw materials in North America this year. Alberta pest officials expect light crop damage from grasshoppers.
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Arthur Blair T
Drumdernies
Nairn
Scotland
Toronto
Edmund A. Grant
City Health Department
King Haakon
Norway
George
Britain
Canada
United States
Hugh Dalton
Alberta
Appetite Not A Reliable Guide To Safe Nutrition
Scientists say appetite misleads on what to eat due to individual habits and food processing. A diet based on proven nutrition rules is urged for Canadians to study and follow.
War Cry tops Salvation Army religious periodicals
The International Salvation Army publishes more than 100 religious periodicals with The War Cry as the best known. Each issue reaches about 1,638,446 copies and contains no advertising.
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The
International Salvation Army
War Cry
Britain’s Helicina Becomes Modern Fast Tanker
The St Thomas Times-Journal reports the tanker Helicina, laid down for speed to outpace submarines, as the world’s most modern vessel of her kind. On its Southampton to Curacao run, the ship completed the voyage in just over ten days, shorter than the previous 15 to 16 day norm, and features individual cabins with desks, beds, reading lights, and connected crew messes for joined recreation spaces.
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Southampton
Curacao
West Indies
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Letters from China to Canada costs 5500 stamps
A Toronto report notes it costs 5500 Chinese stamps to mail a letter from China to Canada. Rev D Stringer of the Scarboro Foreign Missionary Society cited a letter sent from Cheking Province bearing 27 stamps as the example showing the rate in Chinese currency equaling about 44 cents in Canadian funds.
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Toronto
China
Canada
Rev
D. Stringer
Scarboro Foreign Missionary Society
Cheking Province
Plantigrade animal walks flat footed described
A plantigrade animal is defined as one that walks flat footed, with the term explained as describing animals that bear weight on the entire sole of the foot.
Crossword Puzzle Clue List
A scrambled crossword puzzle with many broken clues includes entries such as a night trip for pleasure, a storehouse in Russia, a capital city item, and various vertical hints like a tree type and a lake white fish. The grid appears incomplete with misspellings and fragmentary phrases across horizontal and vertical sections.
Mental strain linked to arteriosclerosis risks in men
A Canada Can report notes excessive mental work more often triggers arteriosclerosis than heavy physical labor. It describes arteries as rigid beads and explains how reduced blood flow causes varied symptoms including memory loss, sleep issues, irritability, and despondency when brain arteries are affected.
Heredity and infections linked to arterial disease findings
The article notes heredity as a factor in the disease while typhoid fever rheumatism scarlet fever diphtheria and influenza are blamed for artery changes. Infected teeth tonsils sinuses gall bladder prostate or appendix may trigger causes. Diagnosis is readily made by a physician and treatment should be directed by him.
British Children Must Stay In School To Fifteen
London law raises the school leaving age from 14 to 15 affecting about 130,000 children who would have left this fall. Government leaders call it an investment in the nation’s future amid manpower shortages. About 390,000 children will turn 14 this year, per the Education Ministry.
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London
Ministry of Education
Education Ministry
Easy Method Of Growing Grass
A report describes a device of strips of paper with seed and fertilizer that are laid on the ground. The strips are covered with soil and watered, the paper dissolves and the seed grows grass in four to five days, promising a quick garden boom.
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Brandon Sun
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Veterans Affairs Department
Pretoria
Doris Duke
Harper's Bazaar
New York
Honolulu
Paris
Miss Duke
Soviet Republic of Armenia
Ruth
Josh
Alaska
Shetland
Ireland
Giri
Ln Ta
By Fred Neker
BY William Ferguson
Napoleon
England
English Channel
NEA Service, Inc
T. M. Reg
U. S. Pat
Jack Croom
Joe
Margarita
Little Reggie
Reginald
Aint
By Chuck Thurston
Peggy
Cence
Abou
Ae Reaction
Lessen
Les Carroll
Council of the
French Republic
Gaston Monnerville
French Guiana
Socialist Party
France
Monnerville
DeGaulle
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