World Happenings Briefly Told
No women’s division in interim or permanent Royal Canadian Air Force disclosed in Ottawa. Britain to speed up telephone service by releasing 1 100 switchboard operators. France urges United States to increase wheat shipments to keep bread unrationed. In Toronto 3 107 people were arrested for drunkenness Jan 1 to Sept 30. 665 women. Plastic material shoes to go on sale in Britain in 1946. Soviet shipyards designing Red Fleet ships. UK food ministry notes 58 percent rise in filler foods consumption this year. In Soviet occupied Germany 7 000 large estates redistributed to 281 155 small farmers.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Ottawa
Germany
Junkers
Glory to God in the highest
A devotional study of Luke 2 14 the Christmas message to the world. The shepherds witness an angelic vision the glory of heaven visible and the message of salvation proclaimed to all people. The sign is the Babe in swaddling clothes in a manger with a heavenly host praising God.
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David
Christ the Lord
Christ
Luther
Message In A Bottle Finds Its Way Home
Roy McIntyre, son of Mr and Mrs Raymond E McIntyre, served in the Canadian Navy and cast a bottle with his name and address overboard 200 miles north of Norway. The ship returned from Murmansk in February this year and a Belfast letter dated August 27, 1945 reports the bottle was picked up August 17 about two miles east of Portrush, County Antrim, North Ireland.
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Roy McIntyre
Raymond E. McIntyre
Norway
Murmansk
Roy
Belfast
Ireland
Bob Quigg
Portrush
County Antrim
North Ireland
LED SHELTERED LIFE OF VICTORIA BEFORE QUEENHOOD
Victoria spent her early years never sleeping outside her mother's room and could not speak to any adult or friend without her mother or governess present, a restrictive upbringing shaping the future monarch.
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Victoria
Pansy Among Oldest Cultivated Flowers
The pansy, one of the oldest cultivated flowers, belongs to the violet family, highlighting its long history in horticulture.
Ration Week Menu Delights With Meat Coupons
A family of four plans meals around weekly meat coupons. Sunday features a three pound veal roast, Monday uses leftovers with vegetables and cream sauce, Tuesday offers fish, Wednesday lamb chops, Thursday braised beef short ribs, Friday unrationed chicken, Saturday sausage, and Sunday chicken pie with three tokens saved for emergencies.
Britain Recalls Wartime Furniture Shortages and Rules
A detailed account describes how newlyweds face permit requirements and shortages as they furnish a first home in Britain. Utility furniture limits, priority coupons, and long delivery times shape early postwar living, with prices given for dining and bedroom suites and household items despite low purchase tax.
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Britain
Board of Trade
Reversed Situation Shocks Albuquerque Rent Scene
George C. Taylor of Albuquerque says a landlord evicted four families to raze an apartment building for a business site. One tenant bought a house and then evicted the landlord renting the unit.
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George C. Taylor
District Rent Authority
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Paradise word meaning royal park and enclosed garden
Paradise is a Persian term meaning a royal park or enclosed pleasure garden. The phrase carries historic sense of a cultivated, secluded space associated with beauty and serenity.
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Paradise
Hale’s Advice Urges Upright Outlook and Help to Others
Edward Everett Hale urged readers to look up and ahead, look outward not inward, and lend a hand. The quotation emphasizes forward focus, social responsibility, and constructive action.
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Edward Everett Hale
Scarcity of Desired Jobs Across Regions
The Ottawa Journal argues that full employment does not imply jobs people prefer and that workers must take available positions. It notes ads for 5,000 bushmen and shortages in mining and lumber work, suggesting society moves toward obligatory work in a collectivist state and across regions there is a mismatch between jobs offered and jobs wanted.
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Dominion Department of Labor
Ontario
British Columbia
Ottawa Journal
Memorial Planed for Chelan Bus Victims Kindling Local Drive
Planning Memorial School children in Chelan Washington started a drive to build a memorial for 25 classmates drowned when a school bus plunged into Lake Chelan during a snowstorm. The memorial may be a bed in a hospital or a children's playfield as sponsors noted. Final services were held beside the lake for nine victims not recovered with flowers sent from across the nation and Chelan children's Christmas savings funds.
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Chelan
Wash
Lake Chelan
Canada to continue meat rations praised by Prime Minister King
The St. Catharines Standard reports that Europe’s reports praise King’s announcement that meat rations will continue in Canada. The paper frames it as Christian decency and welfare for women, children, and men, noting no signs of malnutrition in the Dominion.
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Europe
King
Canada
Dominion
St. Catharines
Master Plan Would Propose International Police Force
The Times despatch from London reports Britain aims to back a master plan for scientists and experts to establish an international police force to control weapons of mass destruction. It notes Winston Churchill as president of the British section and Attlee as vice president, with unclear support from the leaders.
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Herbert Morrison
Britain
New York Times
London
Times
New Commonwealth Society
United States
Canada
Winston Churchill
Attlee
the Times
Taking Special Courses and Self Training Leads Youth
The article praises self training and special courses as a modern success, noting young people readiness to prepare for future work and run things soon. It suggests they will avoid previous mirages and learn from past mistakes, with a nod to Benjamin Franklin's bifocal spectacles as an aside.
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Victoria
Britain to import no prefabricated houses from Canada
London reports that Britain will not import prefabricated dwellings from Canada under the housing program due to shipping, transit breakage fears, and a general dislike of timber houses. Sweden supplies about 5,000 units for Scotland while UK production increases to meet demand.
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Britain
Canada
London
Dominion
Ministry of Works
United Kingdom
Europe
Sweden
Scotland
United States
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Toronto
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Davisville Hospital
Fletcher Christian
By Fred Neher
Collection Agency
Department of Labor
Russia
Hamilton
Ont
A.C
D.C
Soviet Union
Canadian
Dnieprostroi
Schenectady
N.Y
Benjamin Franklin
By William Ferguson
Caxs
Peg.s.q. S.A. T
Garber Shiop
GIMG
America
NEA Service
T. M. Reg
U. S
Betty Hahl
Poughkeepsie
Reg'lar Fellers
Joe Miller
Gene Byrnes
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