World Happenings Briefly Told In A Distant War Era
A Liverpool firm makes tires to self inflate and seal punctures. From D day to Sept 23, 1,002,955 tons of cargo were handled by Southern Railway docks at Southamp ton. Radio Tokyo warned of a Japanese rocket bomb appearing soon in the Pacific war. Wales seeks a national choir to tour battlefields for troops. Twenty one Edinburgh cooks went to London to feed repair crews. A Mun ginde postcard delivered after 39 years. Canada’s RCMP promotes A S Cooper to assistant commissioner. Japanese movement in 1944 shifted less than 1943 in British Columbia. F W Lanchester, 76, pioneer car designer, awarded James Watt International medal.
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D-day
Southern Railway
Southampter
Eng
Sleeping Sickness Vaccine Shows Promise for Humans
A joint study by the Division of Animal Pathology and Manitoba Health reports that the horse vaccine against sleeping sickness offers humans a reasonable level of protection, though response is less uniform and certain blood substances differ. The annual report suggests possible absolute immunity in infected regions.
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Division of Animal Pathology
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Manitoba Department of Health
Man
Dominion Minister of Agriculture
Watermelon seeds prized in China for snacks and seed harvest
Growers in several regions cultivate watermelons mainly for seed production while offering the fruit meat free to eat. The practice minimizes costs and labor as farmers harvest primarily to obtain seeds for sale.
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China
Timber Wolves of North America Rarely Attack Humans
The article notes that timber wolves in North America generally refrain from attacking people, contrasting with wolves in some European regions. It emphasizes typical behavior rather than aggressive incidents.
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North America
Western Canada gains new railway development leaders
Gordon M. Hutt, formerly Winnipeg assistant development commissioner, takes Montreal post as development commissioner for the system succeeding G. Ommanney. Hutt, a University of Manitoba and McGill graduate, is noted for 20 years in industrial development and Western Canada expertise. Winnipeg sees H. W. Gillis appoint W. G. Cowie as western lines assistant development commissioner. Cowie, a London Ontario native and Western Ontario chemistry graduate, previously served with Beatty Brothers and Johns Manville.
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Pacific Railway
Gordon M. Hutt
Winnipeg
Montreal
G. G. Ommanney
Railway
Mr. Hutt
C. E. Jefferson
Western
Canada
University of Manitoba
McGill
Dominion
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Hutt
Western Lines
H. W. Gillis
W. G. Cowie
Cowie
London
Ont
Montgomerys Attack Record Defies Critics in North Africa
In a Windsor Star column W L Clark defends Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, recalling his decisive 1940s campaigns in Egypt and North Africa. The piece credits Montgomery with shifting British strategy from defense to aggressive offense and shaping Allied advances into Sicily and Italy.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Egypt
Cairo
Suez Canal
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Harold Alexander
North Africa
Tunisia
Africa
Sicily
Italy
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Army war dogs trained as specialists for varied duties
Army war dogs are trained as specialists for sentry duty attack operations messenger service silent scouts casualty relief or as pack and sledge dogs.
London City Engineer outlines reconstruction plan and heirlooms
F. J. Forty, city engineer, urges balance of old and new in London recovery. He notes that from 1905 to 1935 a quarter of the city was rebuilt with taxable value around £4,000,000. He speaks to The London Society about wartime destruction and preservation of precious city heirlooms. Training of homing pigeons begins at about four weeks old.
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London
Forty
The
London Society
Admiralty charts aid seamen worldwide from 18th century roots
The Admiralty Hydrographic Department, dating to 1795, publishes and revises navigation charts used globally by ship officers. During the war it supplied up to 2,000 charts per vessel and nearly 150,000 charts for D-day operations. The department now prints over five million charts yearly and maintains a vast store, including charts nearly 300 years old.
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Admiralty
Department
Sicily
British Admiralty
Hydrographic Department
Earl Spencer
Royal Navy
Alexander Dalrymple
East India Company
Thomas Hurd
R.N
London
Ottawa Journal
England
Captain Cook
Russia
Germany
Italy
Japan
America
Crossword Puzzle From Historic Newspaper Listing Clues
A scrambled crossword puzzle grid lists horizontal and vertical clues with entries spanning numbers such as 1 4 12 13 14 15 16 18 and beyond. Several clues point to classic crossword answers like languages, minerals, planets, and common objects, while others hint at proper nouns and archaic terms.
Mars Moons Deimos and Phobos Named for War Gods
The planet Mars and its two moons are named from the god of war and his fearsome aspects Deimos meaning Dread and Phobos meaning terror in ancient myth.
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Mars
God of
War
Deimos
Phobos
New Canadians in 1939 settle near Dawson Creek
About 150 Sudetenland refugee families arrived in Canada seeking refuge from Nazi domination. They were settled on land near Tupper Creek, 27 miles from Dawson Creek near the Alberta border. Today they are substantial citizens with paid farms, neat homes, and ample farming equipment. Railroad safety has improved with passengers now three times safer than 25 years ago and railroad workers twice as safe.
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Sudetenland
Canada
Tupper Creek
Dawson Creek
Alberta
Britain to curb food black market crackdown by ex police chief
The London Daily Mail reports Sir Charles Tagert, noted for counterterrorism in Palestine and India, leads a new drive against Britain's food black market with a covert staff of former Army officers. The scope is described as a national scandal despite police efforts and prosecutions.
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London Daily Mail
Charles Tagert
Middle East
Palestine
India
Britain
Charles
Army
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British Columbia
Rockies
British Columbia Security Commission
F. W. Lanchester
By Fred Neher
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Pert
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T. Eaton’ Company
Gordon Hutt
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F. J. Forty
Ireland
Chief of the
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BY William Ferguson
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A. Robert Hutchinson
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Sarge” Hartsock
Edith Capruo
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