World Happenings Briefly Told
A scheme to grow bananas maize tomatoes and other produce in the Omo delta Kenya is described. Churchill says women in auxiliary services will go to Europe with occupation armies. About 36 000 refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain. Attlee notes Canada will rapidly develop air transport after the war. Gestapo bans cross-frontier travel without a pass. A report envisions 100 mph motoring on 3000 miles of highways. British and Canadian troops in Sicily paid in special sterling notes by military authorities.
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Omo
Kenya
Churchill
The
Commons
Auxiliary Services
Europe
Germany
Austria
Britain
Christian Council For
Central
British Institution of Highway Engineers
Sicily
Salad-Crisp Cotton Frock Pattern 4438 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4438 offers a breezy dress with sleevelets and a one-piece shoulder yoke. Available in misses and women's sizes 14 through 40, size 16 requires fabric at 2 1 2 yards and 7 8 yard contrast. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adam
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Western Provinces Welcome War Salvage Freight Rates
National Salvage Headquarters in Ottawa issues a Salvage Priority List to boost western shipments of fats and bones, tires and tubes, metals, rags, and other scrap to support war industries. Canada aims for 35 million pounds of rendered fats annually and ten thousand tons of tires and tubes by year end.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
National Salvage
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Secret Government Documents in Britain Are Now Not Burned
Poignant verse notes how inked letters shape lives and hides secrets while a note on Britain's government documents implies a shift away from burning records.
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Great Britain
Ragusa, Marmont and the shadow of betrayal
The article recalls Ragusa's link to Marshal Marmont, named Duke of Ragusa by Napoleon. It notes Marmont's later secret convention with the enemy and his 20 000 men refusing to defend the position, casting a long shadow over French betrayal history.
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Ragusa
Napoleon
Marmont
Paris
Dre
How To Get A Raise On A New York Newspaper
Sam Bennett serves as acting city editor when dispatches report Charles Schwab becoming Steel Trust president at a salary of one million dollars a year. Bennett trims the note to a paragraph on inside pages, prompting a rebuke from the editor and a subsequent raise for Bennett.
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Sam Bennett
New York
Dispatch
Charles Schwab
The
Steel Trust
Bennett
Christian Science Monitor
Macpherson Pays Cab Fare Under Lamp Light
Late night scene with Macpherson exiting a taxi and fumbling for coins. He admits tipping driver with a bit more, noting the lamp-lit curb to ensure the extra payment is seen.
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Macpherson
Roundabout Road to the Red Sea Lesson Note
The text discusses a Sunday school lesson on Exodus 13 and 14 with Moffatt’s translation notes. It explains God leading Israelites by a roundabout desert road, training them for Canaan, Moses’ leadership with Joseph’s bones, and the Red Sea crossing including God’s rebuke and the destruction of the Egyptian army.
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Red Sea
Moffatt
Egypt
Canaan
Moses
Joseph
Pharaoh
Israel
Submarine Returns to War Trek Across Atlantic
A Dutch submarine that attacked a Japanese force and torpedoed a 14 000 ton tanker in the Java Sea over a year ago arrived in Britain after an 18 000 mile voyage from the Netherlands East Indies via the United States. The submarine is back in action in the Atlantic.
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Netherlands
Java Sea
Britain
Netherlands East Indies
United States
Atlantic
Sailors Required to Use Lemon Juice in Navy Tonic
In 1795 the British Navy made lemon juice mandatory as an anti-scurvy tonic for sailors. The policy aimed to prevent scurvy by providing a consistent citrus source to improve sailors’ health during long voyages.
The Air War and Losses Before the July 1 Raid
The piece argues that bomber losses in Germany raids are high but manageable, noting June’s total under 300 bombers and 2000+ aircrew losses. It compares aircraft losses to war costs, cites factory output of 6000 planes monthly, and suggests that production and other theatres will limit future raids, with London at stake.
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Royal Navy
Goebbbels
Germany
Somme
Britain
United States
Canada
Russia
China
Pacific
Downing London Spectator
Art Gallery Honor For C W A C Artist
Molly Lamb of the Canadian Women's Army Corps has three drawings hung in a Toronto Art Gallery. The 21 year old Galaino Island British Columbia native studied at the Vancouver School of Art and has shown in London and San Francisco. She enlisted in November 1942 and now works on mechanical drawing in Ottawa.
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Toronto Art Gallery
Molly Lamb
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
CWAC
Cpl. Lamb
A. M. Williams
Galaino Island
Molly
Vancouver School of Art
London
England
Mrs Roosevelt meets Lady Montgomery during England Ireland visit
During a stop in England, Mrs Roosevelt spoke to an elderly Irish crowd after which a woman named Lady Montgomery, mother of the Eighth Army commander, asked about relatives in the war. Mrs Roosevelt learned a soldier’s family connection and prayed for safe returns.
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Montgomery
Lady Montgomery
Eighth Army
Navy cook Edward Boswell Revives School Recipes
Chief Petty Officer Edward Boswell, the Royal Navy’s oldest serving sailor, returns to school to teach student cooks. He enlists in 1905 and shares his own salty recipes including pie, babies heads, Chinese wedding cake, bangers, and North Sea pheasants.
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Edward Boswell
Royal Navy
Navy
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Clement Attlee
Dominions
Gestapo
Christopher Morley
Polly
Gene Byrnes
Rolly
Lord Louis
A.A
Louis Mountbatten
Panama Canal
BY William Ferguson
NEW Era
Parker
South Dakota
L Reg
U.S
Pat Off
Pat
C.W.A.C
Mrs. Roosevelt
By Fred Neher
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