World Happenings Briefly Told
Britain plans pension starts in October and appoints Sir Charles Arden Clarke as governor of Sarawak. Woolwich Arsenal gears for production of taps and utensils as wartime priorities ease. Reintegration and pensions, prisoner counts, royal transport costs, and scholarships frame a snapshot of postwar shifts and international ties.
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Charles Arden Clarke
Basutoland
South Africa
Sarawak
Britain
Woolwich Arsenal
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Allied finds salvage Bach to Brahms manuscripts in Germany
The Berlin State library treasures by Bach Beethoven Mendelssohn Mozart and Brahms were recovered across Germany by Allied forces. Key items include Bach Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion, Beethoven Fourth Symphony and Violin Concerto, Mozart Figaro segments, and Mendelssohn music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Brahms
Berlin
Germany
Brahm
Schloss Banz
Franconia
Bethoven
Beuron
Magdeburg
Gruessau
Silesia
Grim wartime service for nine Dutch Canadian nurses
Nine Dutch Canadian women recount grim wartime duties after serving in the Dutch armed forces across Australia, Batavia, Java and Indo China. Some worked in prison camps after Japan’s surrender and cared for starved prisoners while facing last-ditch fighting with Japanese forces and tensions with British and Indo-Chinese nationalists.
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Canada
East Indies
Dutch Information Service
Montreal
Australia
Batavia
Java
Indo-China
New York
Dominion
Suzanna
Christine Prins
Suzanna Prins
Oldest British locomotive saved from scrapping
The 1857 built Jane, Britain's oldest locomotive then in service, was rescued by Great Western Railway from being broken up after retiring in 1945. It formerly served the Wantage Tramway Company. Mixing penicillin with ice cream enables oral administration.
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London
Jane
Great Western Railway
Wantage Tramway Company
Private meteorologists grow in numbers and reach
The Ottawa Citizen notes rapid advances in weather forecasting during the war and rising private involvement. In the United States benefits from forecasts total about three billion dollars yearly as private meteorologists join industry use in baking, film, airlines, textiles and other sectors. Canada lags with costly equipment and staff needs, no private shops yet.
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United States
U.S. Weather Bureau
Army and
Navy Meteorologists
New York
Weather Bureau
Canada
Montreal
Ottawa Citizen
Iced Tea Origin Story From 1903 St Louis Exposition
An English tea commissioner at the 1903 St Louis Exposition promoted India and Ceylon black tea with a Moslem style pavilion. Missouri’s record heat drove him to serve cold tea, which curious fairgoers enjoyed. Demand grew, and iced tea became a popular summer thirst quencher.
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North America
St. Louis
Calcutta
India
Ceylon
Missouri
St. Louis Exposition
New Wood Based Material Used in Munich Homes
A Munich firm uses a new wood shavings and scrapings material for small one family houses. The material is formed into two inch thick plates and covered with thin cement coatings.
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Munich
Germany
Eye Lens Continues Growing Throughout Life
The lens of the eye gradually increases in size as a person ages, a process ongoing from birth onward. This growth affects eye focusing and may influence vision changes over time.
Pasteurization campaign gains nationwide push in Canada
Toronto meeting of the General Council of the Health League of Canada urges all provinces to enact compulsory pasteurization laws. Dr F F Tisdall notes pasteurization preserves nutrition. Ontario’s 1938 law cut typhoid and death rates and infant mortality. The group applauds Vancouver Hum boldt Sask Campbellton for passing by‑laws.
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General Council
The
Health League of Canada
Toronto
League
Ontario
F. F. Tisdall
University of Toronto
Tisdall
A. E. Berry
Ontario Department of Health
Berry
Vancouver
B.C. Humboldt
Sask
Campbellton, N.eb
Alaska Highway Tourism Forecast Faces Early Hurdles
The Department of the Interior forecasts rising tourist travel on the 1600 mile Alaska Highway in 1947. A review notes existing traffic but traffic is not yet open to general tourism due to missing facilities like filling stations repair shops and lodging along the route from Alberta through British Columbia Yukon to Alaska.
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Washington
Alaska
Department of the Interior
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
The Next War A Vivid Picture Of What May Happen
The Ottawa Citizen imagines a future war dominated by long range missiles and atom bombs. It envisions underground rocket bases across North America a central defence HQ radar networks and a global cascade of nuclear exchanges ending in military rule and depopulation.
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United States
Canada
Ottawa Citizen
Bell Labs unveils Soon To Television tube for long distance TV
Bell Telephone Laboratories announces a new vacuum tube named Soon To Television A. It promises an electronic super highway for communications enabling cross country television and long distance short wave telephone. The device could handle over 10 000 conversations or about a hundred million telegraph words per minute, or several dozen TV shows at once if traffic grows large.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
New York
Toronto boy builds 32 inch reflector telescope
Peter Harris 13 year old president of Leaside Astronomy Club plans a home made telescope. He outlines options from buying a reflector for hundreds of dollars to building one himself using a barrel thick plate glass and emery powder. He aims to create a 32 inch reflector this summer.
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Toronto
Peter Harris
Leaside
Peter
Espionage Work Urges U S To Build Counter Spy Network
The Daily News editorializes on Ottawa Royal Commission findings urging the United States to create a large peace time espionage organization. It cites a Russian network in Canada and broader Communist links here, noting only Lieut. Nicolai Redin has been charged and arguing for aggressive counter espionage.
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New York
The
Daily News
Royal Commission
Ottawa
United States
Canada
the News
Nicolai Redin
New Green Buffalo Sugar Coupons Replace Beavers
The ration administration and Prices Board issued new green buffalo design sugar coupons for temporary ration cards. Both buffalo and beaver coupons are now valid documents for temporary ration card holders.
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Ration Administration
Prices Board
Victory gardens feed nations with daily campaigns
Eight million tons of food were grown in victory gardens due to daily newspaper campaigns in Canada and the United States.
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Victory Gardens
Canada
United States
The Medicine Cabinet Perils And Precautions
A Brandon Sun note warns that many homes keep aging medicines in medicine cabinets where corks corrode and ineffective storage can turn tonics into poisons. Evaporation may alter contents, risking tragedy if old drugs are not purged and replaced. wash out bottles and drain contents rather than trashing them.
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Brandon Sun
Manuscripts Found of German Composers Discovered
Allied authorities report that manuscripts by Bach Beethoven Mendelssohn Mozart and Brahms once in the Berlin state library have been found in different parts of Germany. The British news service in Germany relayed the discovery.
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Bach
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Brahms
Berlin
Germany
Gulf Stream Distance and Speed Vary By Up To A Hundred Miles
The Gulf Stream can shift annually in how far it lies from the U S eastern coast by as much as 100 miles and also varies in speed and width according to recent observations.
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Gulf Stream
United States
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