World Happenings In Brief From Across The Globe
The Stranraer town council plans to buy 100 scrapped boats and recycle aluminum for toys. Leith will import coal from Newcastle after exporting 2.5 million tons. Churchill’s memoirs reportedly near completion covering the last decade. The Oregon Journal plans rooftop helicopter coverage of news. Harold J Laski urged peace with Russia in Brussels. London tailors seek to deter dishonest cloth dealings. Canada’s shipbuilding backlog tops 110 million dollars at start of 1947.
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Stranraer
Scotland
The
Oregon Journal
Portland
Selected Recipes Pggless Chocolate Cake
A from scratch cake and quick chocolate frosting recipe set. It details ingredients and steps for a dairy based eggless chocolate cake using unsweetened chocolate milk flour sugar butter vanilla with a rapid boil frosting made from condensed milk and chocolate. Includes bake times and pan sizes for multiple cake forms.
Snowflakes as fleeting works of nature’s artistry
The Victoria Times muses on snowflakes as fragile, brief wonders formed in frost. Each flake is unique and drifts from clouds to land in a quiet, almost tangible silence, spreading a temporary white blanket that embodies nature’s harmony of line.
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The
Victoria Times
Roman Colens Coins Found in Swedish Field
Fifty six Roman gold coins dating from 400 to 475 AD were found in a field in Oland Sweden’s second largest island in the Baltic. The current gold value is about 335 dollars making it one of Sweden’s largest coin discoveries.
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Stockholm
Oland
Baltic
Sweden
Health League backs milk pasteurization nationwide
A North Battleford reader opposes pasteurization while the Health League of Canada and major medical associations press for universal pasteurization in eight provinces. Ontario already enforces laws. advocates cite raw milk risks including undulant fever from Bangs disease and other illnesses.
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North Battleford
Sask
Jerome Ternier
Health League of Canada
Ternier
Ontario
Canadian Medical Associaose
Canadian Medical Association
British Medical Association
Canadian Public Health Association
American Public Health Association
Health League
Mystery Crippler
Maclean’s Magazine
M. C. Dinberg
Less Amputations in Second Great War
Statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs compare living amputation cases in Canadian armed forces across the wars. About 2,000 amputations occurred in the recent conflict versus 3,500 in the First War, with 1,200 leg or arm losses during the North West Europe campaign.
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Department of Veterans Affairs
Langemark
Mons
Europe
Normandy
Real Co-operation in Montello City Halls Brought For Wash Machine Factory
In Montello Wisconsin the mayor leased City Hall and moved out his office to make space for a new washing machine manufacturer. The city council fire department and the library were relocated to accommodate the project, illustrating practical municipal cooperation.
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Montello
Wis
Sun substitutes for winter health guidance from Ottawa agency
Be t of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa advises maintaining sunshine vitamin intake during cold weather. Include milk cheese and fish in diet and, if needed, supplement with cod liver oil to ensure sufficient vitamin levels.
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Bet of National Health and Welfare
Ottawa
Big Ben Clock Mechanism Features 13-Foot Pendulum
The London clock Big Ben uses a 13 foot pendulum and numerals two feet high, detailing the mechanism that keeps time.
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London
Cow Wins Over Horse in Barn Fight
In East Hampton Connecticut farmer Harley Flood recounted a deadly barn fight between a horse and a cow. He said both were tethered initially but escaped when the barn opened. The horse suffered a shoulder puncture and later had to be destroyed, while the cow appeared unharmed with blood on its horn.
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East Hampton
Conn
Harley Flood
Flood
Dominion Conference Recommends Oat Acreage Increase for 1947
The Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference recommends restoring 1947 oat acreage to the 1946 level of 14,310,200 acres to meet probable feed grain needs. Domestic use dominates production with little export. Western oats face a price floor of 45 cents and a ceiling of 51 2/3 cents, plus an advance equalization payment of 10 cents per bushel on marketed oats.
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Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference
Outdoor play advice from health authorities
Health authorities approve recreation and amusement as relief from work and worry. They particularly endorse outdoor play when possible and prefer it to confined indoor activities.
Sound beam device aids blind detect obstacles
New York College professor Dr William Elkin reports three students developed a sound beam box to help the blind detect obstacles and judge distances. The unit, about the size of a flashlight, uses a directed high frequency sound beam and only signals obstacles in the path.
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William Elkin
New York College
Etkin
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Newport
Wales
Lomdon Daily Express
Winston Churchill
Leith
Newcastle
England
Harold J. Laski
British Labor Party
Brussels
Russia
Canada
Betty Margaret Pitt
New York
Wealth League
By Fred Neher
Mary Butwell
Reading
Eng
U.S
Paul Sinclair
Youngstown
Ohio
LaGuardia Field
Paul
Degliniment
BY William Ferguson
Fred Olsen
Alton
Illinois
MEA Service, Inc
M, Reg
U. S. Pat
Strader
Nacison
Little Reggie
Margarita
Mrs. van Loon
Chuck Thurston
Peggy
Waleed
Mortimer
Albert
Les Carroll
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