World Happenings Briefly Told
Britain bans travellers from carrying food to Eire to prevent food drain. The CBC reports Britain building six Greek navy warships. Wing Cmdr Max Aitken earns the DSO for destroying 12 German night raiders. Peterhof palace has been destroyed by Germans near Leningrad. U S shipyards set a world steel ship construction record in July with 71 cargo ships and tankers. Canals recruit hundreds of women for Britain's inland waterways. Dutch hostages total 1 460 seized since May by German authorities per Aneta. Canada fears Japanese beetle infiltration from the United States as plant protection officials grow concerned.
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United States
Aneta
Netherlands
Unknown Norwegian Hero Sparks Film Reversal Comment
An excerpt from The Wrong End From Stockholm tells of a German propaganda screening in Trondheim. A Norwegian hero cried out from the dark that the film was shown backwards while Nazi soldiers distributed food to the crowd.
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Stockholm
Trondheim
Cotton cavalcade pattern 4124 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4124 offers a cotton skirt revers sleeves with optional banding or ric rac. Version may be sleeveless. available misses sizes 12 14 16 18 20. Size 16 requires 3 1 4 yards 35 inch fabric and 1 2 yard contrast. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. Rock near Brazil diamonds valued for hardness.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Union
McDermot
Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Newfoundland Lieutenant Commands Improvised Corvette Across Atlantic
A Newfoundland lieutenant during the early war piloted a corvette across the Atlantic with a wooden telephone pole mounted as a pretend gun due to lack of forward armament. The vessel, later joined to the Royal Navy, narrowly avoided a clash with a major British aircraft carrier, prompting a sharp exchange between the two ships before safely mooring upriver. The officer, now a commander, remains named in many retellings.
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Newfoundland
S St Lawrence
Atlantic
Canada
Britain
Heutenant
Royal Navy
Americans Learn Spitfires in Ireland Amid Tea Time Fuss
American airmen under R A F instructors at an Irish base rapidly learn to fly Spitfires and rack up flight hours. They object to daily tea breaks, while an attached American doctor defends tea as a productive, relaxing pause to share ideas. The pilots praise the Spitfire as among the best they have flown.
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Ireland
R.A.F
Lieut
Gene Keyes
Cleveland, O
Teta
Baked Fruit with Corn Flake Crust and Lemon Spice Sauce
Pear or peach halves are coated in crushed corn flakes, placed in a buttered dish cut side up, dotted with butter, and baked at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. The dish is finished with a Lemon Spice Sauce for serving.
Basic Fruit Sauce for Baked Fruit
Mix sugar and cornstarch then add fruit juice gradually and cook until clear and slightly thickened. Stir in butter lemon juice nutmeg and salt. Pour over baked fruit and serve.
Unequal Jaw Length Noted Across Races by Scientists
Scientists report that the right side of the jaw tends to be longer than the left in all races. The text also recalls days when tanks were used only to hold water for watering horses in the horse and buggy era.
Survive! Czechs face repeated wars yet endure
The article recalls Bohemia after the Thirty Years War when 800000 Czechs remained from 3000000 inhabitants and cultural life was crushed yet the people endured. It notes their role in World War I as a force against the Hapsburg monarchy and their vow to resist Hitler and the Third Reich with the Allied nations.
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Bohemia
Hapsburgs
United Nations
Third Reich
Hitler
Austria- Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Wooden Tires debut on Halifax streets disappoint taxi officials
Halifax taxis test Birchwood tires costing 41.95 each. Officials note they provide a good ride but make a terrible noise and did not turn out well, as rubber tire restrictions leave several taxis laid up.
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Wooders
Halifax
Peace Maker Lesson From Genesis 26
Sunday school lesson centers on Matthew 5 9 and 38 45 with golden text Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God The devotional reading follows Genesis 26 highlighting patience and faith in difficult times and promoting reconciliation themes.
Isaac Refuses to Quarrel and Re-Digs Wells in Gerar
A biblical meditation on Isaac yielding rather than fighting. He re-dug Abraham’s wells, named Esek Sitnah and Rehoboth, after Philistine disputes over water. The piece contrasts patience and gentleness with modern incivility, urging peaceful, faith-centered living and shared space.
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Isaac
Abraham
Abimelech
Gerar
Hebron
Beersheba
Lot
Esek
Rehoboth
Topaz Named After Island Topazas in Red Sea
The gem topaz derives its name from Topazas, an island in the Red Sea, which was the first locality to produce the gem.
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Topazas
Red Sea
Dividends from Health and Industrial Wellbeing
The Health League of Canada urges factories to adopt health measures to cut sickness absenteeism, noting nine and a half lost days per worker annually and a possible 75 million dollar annual wage loss in Canada. Adequate health programs improve efficiency, reduce accidents, illness, and turnover, and studies cite substantial savings per 500 employees.
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Canada
Division of Industrial Hygiene
Department of Pensions and National Health
Ottawa
Victor G. Heiser
National Associations of Manufacturers
United States
The
Health League of Canada
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Eire
RCAF
British Broadcasting Corporation
CBC
Max Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
Peterhof Palace
Peter the Great
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Agriculture Department
Plant Protection Division
Gay Young
Cotton
Brazil
Saired
Atlantic En
Doe
R.c.af
No. 3 Wireless School
Manitoba
J. A. Davidson
Neepawa
H. A. Wilson
J. Crossley
Minnedosa
H. C. Ray
C. P. Tyler
J. M. McGillivray
BY WiLliam Ferguson
Huntington
Indiana
Beatrice, Nebragka
Moone Sun
By Fred Neher
Survive! of
Wealth League
Mickie
Reg
Pinhead
Gene Byrnes
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