World Happenings Briefly Told
Experts discuss using searchlights for postwar street lighting in Britain. The Duchess of Gloucester opens a second Canadian Red Cross Maple Leaf club in London. Sweden contracts two 7 000 ton cruisers for the navy. Half a million British workers may farm during holidays. Knox says US Navy to grow beyond 1942 fleet. CBC plans on front line radio broadcasts with Canadian troops. Roosevelt signs bill to appoint women physicians to military medical corps. BBC notes Australia cannot supply Britain 75 000 tons of butter. South Africa enters standard time as clocks go back. Paris reports widespread evacuation of children due to feared Allied air raids.
Shirtfrock Pattern 4341 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4341 offers a well proportioned shirtwaister with front buttons and a neat collar. available in women's sizes 34 through 46 with 3% yards of 35 inch fabric for size 36. Send 20 cents and order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Union. mail delays possible.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Long London queues form for Choice horse fillet steak
Reports show long lines outside London shops for Choice horse fillet steak sold at 25 cents a pound. The Food Minister is asked to ration it to reserve funds for feeding cats and dogs. The Hawaiian alphabet is noted as the world’s shortest with 12 letters.
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London
Sound investment buy War Barings Certificates
The notice promotes purchasing War Barings Certificates as a solid investment option. It emphasizes reliability and potential returns for investors.
Gardening Notes on Starting a Garden with Ready-Mought Plants
If starting now, use well started plants bought from florists or market gardeners. Start with flowering and vegetable plugs from nurseries, transplanting with blooms removed to avoid growth delays. Use sprayed or dusted pest controls to tackle fungus aphids rust wilt and caterpillars before they spread.
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Canada
Old Nails Save Steel For War Production
Officials from National Salvage Headquarters in Ottawa say turning in old nails as scrap could free 100000 tons of metal for war production. War-time demand has boosted nail consumption from 1.5 million kegs to nearly 2.9 million as packing and building for wartime needs rise.
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National Salvage Headquarters
Ottawa
Canada
Smiles and Snappy Quips Across a Wartime City
A fragmented column mixes a Manchester furniture store hit by Nazi bombs with witty banter and courtroom quips. A Berlin branch remark, a judge and prisoner exchange a joke about a $10 loss, and a minister’s wife recalls a daughter’s musical prize alongside a farmer’s blue ribbon pig.
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Manchester
Berlin
Auction of Homing Pigeon for RAF Pigeon Service
A pigeon delivered to the Mobile Selling Centre in London was sold on condition it be handed to the Royal Air Force Pigeon Service. The bird was auctioned twice and fetched the equivalent of 1100 dollars.
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London
R.A.F
Witty Exchanges and Humorous Vignettes Spark Laughs
A collection of dated quips and dialogue sketches features a vicar planning his son’s publishing path, a mother and child, a desert island sailor’s tall tale, a military wedding joke, a maid’s clocking in, and a breezy physician’s consult. The pieces lampoon everyday life with light humor and social satire.
Major General Roberts Named Commander of Canadian Reinforcements
Major General J. H. Roberts D.S.O. named commander of all Canadian reinforcement units in the United Kingdom. Roberts earned the D.S.O. for gallantry at Dieppe. He hails from Kingston Ontario but was born in Pipestone Manitoba.
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J. H. Roberts
D.S.O
United Kingdom
Gen. Roberts
Dieppe
Kingston
Ont
Pipestone
Man
King says British Empire and British Commonwealth interchangeable
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that the terms British Empire and British Commonwealth are used interchangeably in line with Churchill’s view. He stressed that what the British nations stand for matters as they unite for human liberty.
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Mackenzie King
Pouliot
House of Commons
Churchill
Montreal Gazette
Sunday School Lesson May 2 Devotional at Sea
The text centers on John 21 and Peter's restoration after denying Jesus. Jesus questions Peter about love, three times, paralleling his three denials, and then commissions him to feed the sheep. The piece contrasts Greek verb nuances of love and emphasizes obedience, faith, and service as proof of love.
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John
Christ
Sea of Galilee
Peter
Jesus
Simon Peter
Simon
Definite Answer Urged In Interview Report
A man awaiting a director interview reports two men exiting an inner office one lecturing the other sternly. The speaker chides Harry for shilly shallying and urges a definite yes, no, or perhaps decision with the wholesale firm.
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Harry
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Britain
Red Cross Maple Leaf Club
Duchess of Gloucester
Neutral
Sweden
Gothenburg
Navy
Frank Knox
United States Navy
CBC
James S. Thomson
Roosevelt
Army and Navy Medical Corps
BBC
Australia
South Africa
Paris
LCAF
Victor Mulhall
Weyburn
Sask
Leonard Plishka
Myrnam
Alta
Hamburg
Mulhall
R.C.M.P
Plishka
Normal School
Mer
By William Ferguson
Ot A
Little Laura
Mickie
By Fred Neher
Gene Byrnes
Pud
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