World Happenings Briefly Told
Mary Countess Minto, widow of a Canada’s early governor general, died at Godalming Surrey. The Channel Islands cattle herds were moved to England before German occupation. Britain rejected Gandhi’s non-violent resistance idea for Germany. Canadian newspapermen need U S permits. London Gazette lists 272 nationals granted British nationality in May. Viscount Fincastle, 82, killed in France. A $1,000,000 Canadian Red Cross hospital handed to the RCAMC in London. Monastery lands distributed to landless peasants in Bessarabia. Red Army entered Bessarabia in June. Ontario Gov’t turns 70 acres of hospital farm at London to Dominion for assembling military vehicles.
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United States
Washington
External Affairs Department
London
Viscount Fincastle
France
Queen's Own Highladers
Eighth Earl of
H. C. Nixon
Ontario
Dominion
Lawless Assassins Sermon Echoes in Times of Trial
The Manchester Guardian cites Sydney Smith’s sermon on Invasion urging patience and noble action as a warning that lawless assassins have long troubled lands. The text frames a century-old warning as timely for the nation, stressing character over fear and demanding endurance.
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Sydney Smith
Manchester Guardian
Polish settlers in Canada total about 155000
The Colonization Department of the Canadian National Railways reports about 155 000 Poles in Canada with 65 percent living on farms while the rest work in heavy industries. It notes about 5 000 Poles in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta have proved strong tillers of the soil turning land into productive country. Also mentions Swedish timber impregnation with arsenic to protect spruce wood, a Forbes Australia race requiring catching grasshoppers, and a Dutch motorist claiming 300 000 miles travelled in search of something without finding it.
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Canada
Colonization Department
Canadian National Railways
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Singapore
Just A Year Ago And the People Cheered book review
P. C. R. in the Vancouver Province describes R. K Carnegie head of The Canadian Press Ottawa bureau as Andy a lifelong newspaperman who chronicles King George and Queen Elizabeths 9 900 mile royal tour through Canada and the United States in a plain unpretentious tone. The book compiles notes and musings from the pilgrimage just over a year past.
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R. K Carnegie
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
George
Elizabeth
Ottawa
Andy
Carnegies
Vancouver
Button Front Shirtwaister by Anne Adams pattern 4489
Summer dress pattern 4489 offers a button front design with panelled front and back skirts optional horn pockets. Bodice is bloused and darted at shoulders, collar and short sleeves suit fabric or contrasting edge. Sizes 16 to 46, fabric yardage listed. send 20c to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Aims Identical Says The Legionary On Nazi Parallels
The Legionary argues that Nazi Germany mirrors the Mongol empire with seven centuries of separation. It claims Hitler shares Genghis Khan’s aims and methods, portraying both as efficient, treacherous, and malignant destroyers and butchers with deceitful, savage strategies.
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Hitler
Genghis Khan
Possible Class Riot Over Surnames in Waynesburg High
Ruth Nichols names Phillips in a Waynesburg Pennsylvania classroom causing tension. Thirteen students are titled Phillips with six boys and seven girls in Miss Nichols’s class.
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Ruth Nichols
Canada’s 1940 C N E Poster Urges Shared War Effort
The 62nd Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto promotes unity and work for all ages during the crisis. It notes an expanded British Section to boost Inter Empire Trade and that federal troops will be at summer camps while the fair runs from August 23 to September 7.
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Toronto
Canada
C.N.E
Outdoor grills and radio era notes in a Canadian column
The piece notes households adopting outdoor grills to beat the kitchen heat, cites ads for portable and built in grills priced from 3.50 to 49, and imagines backyard entertaining. It also surveys divergent reception of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, praises radio use in World War I and modern command, and profiles Helen Keller 60 and her active life with Braille work and music.
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Helen Keller
Chief Part of Wisdom Reverence for God in Sunday Lesson
Sunday lesson centers on godliness as profitable for both current life and the life to come. It cites scriptures from Proverbs 17 to 3 5 6 and Galatians 6 7 9, warning against drunkenness, stressing obedience to parental instruction, and the spiritual harvest from sowing good deeds.
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Isaiah
Salt Facts Stir Curiosity From A Winnipeg Free Press Note
The piece notes world salt consumption at about 30 million tons and explains how salt could fill a 30 foot thick layer over a square mile. It highlights salt coming from mines and brine, mentions Bohemia, and asserts Windsor Ontario has enough Canadian salt to last the world nearly 100 000 years if other sources failed.
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Europe
Bohemia
Louisiana
Canada
Windsor
Ontario
Winnipeg Free Press
Elevator shoe maker works overtime in Brockton market
A Brockton Massachusetts outfit that makes what it calls an elevator shoe with inner lifting construction found a broad market beyond theater workers. The firm reports thousands of Americans from all walks of life want to appear taller, keeping the factory operating long hours.
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Brockton, Mass
German factory workers told to wear felt slippers at work
Workers at a leather factory and its offices in Germany are instructed to remove their shoes and don felt slippers while on duty aiming to reduce damage from leather residues and improve cleanliness. The directive affects all employees and includes strict adherence during production and administrative hours.
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Germany
Health League of Canada editorial urges sustained wartime health spending
The Health League of Canada editorial argues that wartime health conservation must not be cut. It warns that reducing health expenditure increases illness and costs, calls citizens to a unified health effort, and says victory hinges on home front health as in the war abroad.
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Health League of Canada
Germany
Cancer articles offered free by Health League of Canada
Readers may obtain a valuable set of articles on the cause and control of cancer free of charge by writing to the Health League of Canada Dept. W.N.Y. at 111 Avenue Road Toronto Ontario. Include a request for Dr. McCullough's articles and print name and address clearly.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N.Y
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Ont
New Method Marks Timber with Paint Gun
About 3,500 marriages are dissolved in England and Wales every year. A new method of marking timber is to use a paint gun, instead of an axe.
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England and
Wales
Mind as a Bank Account Proverb
A saying compares the mind to a bank account where one cannot withdraw what was not deposited. It emphasizes the value of input and effort shaping future returns.
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Chantecler
Mary Countess Minto
Godalming
Surrey
Jersey
Channel Islands
England
Islands
Great Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahatma
Lawless Assassins
Forbes Australia
Camaor
Abe Lincoln
Raymond Massey
Illinois
RKO Radio Studios
America
New York
Frisco
Over the
Scott
Portland Oregonian
Wealth League
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
Mickie
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