World Briefs from The Swiss Radio and War News
The Swiss radio reports Albert Leteun the last president of the French republic hid in a neutral country. France blocks entry except visaed travelers via the German embassy in Vichy. Eden and de Gaulle sign Madagascar sovereignty accord. Ethiopia declares war on Germany Italy and Japan. Greece to receive 16000 Red Cross food parcels. Italian air raids damage art treasures mocked by Botas. Suderoy renamed HMA S8 Parktown honors Tobruk loss.
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Albert Leteun
French Republic
France
Vichy
Tribune de Geneve
Button-Front Dress Pattern for Toddlers and Girls
Anne Adams Pattern 4213 offers a button-front dress with ric rac trim for easy making. Available in children sizes 2 4 6 8 with yardage requirements and contrast options. Send 20 cents to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba with size name address and pattern number.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Market Baskets Reflect Canadian Nutrition Standards
A nutrition campaign illustrates how family food choices reveal diet adequacy. Observers note that baskets heavy with refined staples plus fruits, vegetables, milk, and whole grains indicate better health potential, while missing nutrients signal deficiencies. The guide urges using Canada's Official Food Rules to plan menus and menus. The Prime Minister ties diet to national effort.
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Canada
Nutrition Services
Ottawa
Butter and Cheese Production Set Records in 1941
Canadian creamery butter output reached 285,848,196 pounds in 1941, up from 264,723,669 in 1940, with a record value of 93,199,557 dollars and an average price of 32.6 cents per pound. Cheese production totaled 151,865,538 pounds, up 6,527,000 from 1940, valued at 24,737,037 dollars with an average price of 16.3 cents per pound.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario farm machinery instructors trained at Guelph
One hundred young mechanically minded farmers completed a special course at the Ontario Agriculture College in Guelph under the Ontario Agricultural Representatives branch. The program aims to train instructors to teach short courses across the province amid metal shortages for war needs. 240 applications have been received. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Ontario
Ontario Agriculture College
Guelph
Ontario Agricultural Representatives Branch
War Time Economy Canada Reviewed By Bank of Montreal President
Huntly R. Drummond reports Canada’s wartime economy shows robust industrial growth and heavy taxes and controls. He urges early removal of controls after the war to let private enterprise convert factories to peace time production while preserving sufficient reserves. He notes industry serves the war effort and praises public cooperation and tax-funded loans to support national needs.
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Bank of Montreal
Huntly R. Drummond
Drummond
Canada
Graham Raisin Bread and Bran Budget Pudding
Selected recipes include Graham Raisin Bread using graham flour raisins and corn syrup with spices baked in a leaf pan. Bran Budget Pudding combines butter honey milk All Bran flour and raisins steamed in a mold for two hours served with hard sauce.
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Mazda
Gliders reach 400 mile flights and 22000 foot peaks
Gliders have occasionally soared as far as 400 miles and climbed to altitudes around 22 000 feet, demonstrating notable endurance and performance in soaring disciplines.
Sunday School Lesson on Romans Life and Service
A devotional study links Romans doctrine to practice urging consecration to God as a living sacrifice. The message cites Romans 12 1 2 9 21 and Philippians 3 7 14 while contrasting sanctification with daily service and warns against worldly influence. The lesson ends with an odd whale size fact to illustrate vastness.
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Paul
Dr. Jowett
Air quality as health defense urges better home ventilation
A Health League of Canada pamphlet for wartime workers promotes fresh air as a health factor. It warns that air can carry infections and irritants, urges good home ventilation, a daytime 68 to 70 degree temperature, and furnace checks to seal leaks, noting contaminated air raises illness and absenteeism.
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Health League of Canada
Wealth Lays Hidden in London Safe Deposits
Locked away in thousands of underground compartments in London are assets valued over 2 billion dollars in gold silver notes and art treasures.
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London
Cork Forests of Algeria Hold Substantial European Reserve
Highlands near the Algerian coast harbor about one fourth of Europe and Africa cork forests. This notable share underscores Algeria's role in regional cork production and forest ecology.
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Algeria
Europe
Africa
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Parktown
Tobruk
Anthony Eden
Charles de Gaulle
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Fred W. Routley
Canadian Red Cross
Greece
Shakespeare
Milton
Tennyson and Keats
Education
Botas
By Anse Adams
Mickie
By William Ferguson
PS Par
Baer
Sea
Galilee
Graham
Dorothy MacRae
Nursing Services
Canadian Army
Dynamic Christian Living
By Fred Neher
Eo Vital Interest
Gene Byrnes
Mah Pop
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