Global briefs mix fisheries values and diverse notes
The report cites Canada’s 1944 landed value for deep sea fisheries at 42 100 900, compares 1943 at 37 900 060, mentions gold regilding for Jerusalem’s Aksa Mosque, notes Maori exile Tawera Moamoa’s death, and lists repatriation wishes of 30 German nationals near Montreal. Other items cover Spain bottle production, rare books auction in London, Lady Banting earning a medical degree, Cardiff police scholars, and a GM Fisher Body instrument aiding navigation in bombers.
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Canada
Prime Minister King Buys Suspected Van Gogh Painting
An art expert asserts Prime Minister King spotted a forged Miller signature on a landscape piece sold in Toronto. Investigators confirmed the work is by Van Gogh, and experts valued the canvas at about eight thousand dollars, far above the purchase price of thirty dollars.
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Mr. King
van Gogh
Toronto Financial Post
Columbus Uses Magnetic Compass First In Practical Travel
Christopher Columbus pioneered practical navigation with the magnetic compass guiding his voyage. The breakthrough aided his transatlantic route and defined early maritime exploration.
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Christopher Columbus
Engineers View TCA Operations During Winnipeg Visit
About 200 delegates of the Engineering Institute of Canada toured Trans-Canada Air Lines facilities at Stevenson Field in Winnipeg. The display featured the D C 4 M super liner with four Rolls Royce Merlin engines and 44 seats, to be built in Canada for trans continental and oceanic service after the war with flight instruments and radio gear shown.
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Engineering Institute of Canada
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
T.C.A
Stevenson Field
W. F. English
TCA
J. T. Dyment
Institute
E. P. Featherstonhaugh
University of Manitoba
Vitamins versus natural foods questioned in nutrition talks
Dr. L A Maynard argues against overreliance on vitamin shots and promotes producing foods of superior nutritional quality from farm to table. Canada endorses obtaining all requirements from natural foods through proper choices, supported by the Canadian Council of Nutrition. Lt Gen Adrian de Wiart, prisoner in North Africa, escaped multiple times and was flown to Portugal with the Italian Peace Delegation.
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Hamlet
Heaven
Canada
Department of National Health and Welfare
Adrian de Wiart
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Middle East
North Africa
de Wiart
Italy
Britain
Portugal
Winnipeg Builds 570 Homes in 1944 Amid Shortage
Despite labor and material shortages, Winnipeg completed 570 new homes in 1944. The city faces a need for 700 more dwellings to ease the housing shortage. The British Empire owns about 670 million sheep, half of the world total.
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Winnipeg
Dominion statistics show 1944 economy at record high trend
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that Canada’s economic trend averaged higher in 1944 than in any comparable period in the nation’s history.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
Chinese Platoon Seeks Pacific War Chance
An all Chinese Canadian Army platoon of forty eight volunteers has completed basic training at Maple Creek Saskatchewan. Led by L Cpl Louie Victor a veteran guerrilla fighter who hopes for an effective role in the Pacific theatre. The average recruit age is about twenty one. Training officers praise the unit as good soldiers with resolve and humor.
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Maple Creek
Sask
Pacific Theatre of War
China
L.cpl
Louie Victor
Canada
Tree Storage Cellar at Sutherland Boosts Tree Shipment
The Dominion Forest Nursery Station at Sutherland Saskatchewan unveils a 110 by 20 by nine foot tree storage cellar with annex to packing shed, capable of holding 1.5 million trees. It eases labor at shipping time and allows flexible spring shipments for Prairie Provinces farmers. Deciduous trees are free to farmers. evergreens cost $1 per 100.
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Dominion Forest Nursery
Sutherland
Sask
Prairie Provinces
Indian Head
Freak Weather Presses Britain With Storms And Cold Snap
In the seven days before December 16 Britain logged two hurricane force gales along coasts a sunny spell a year’s worst fog freezing northwest temperatures and milder spring like warmth in the south reflecting volatile late autumn weather patterns.
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Britain
Filthy Books sparks protest call by Canadian health chief
Dr Gordon Bates of the Health League of Canada in Toronto criticizes recent best seller titles as frankly filthy and questions why parents and clergy have not protested. The report also notes India’s history dates back to 4300 BC.
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Gordon Bates
Health League of Canada
Toronto
India
Chicago Library Fines Reach New High in 1944
Chicago patrons paid record overdue fines totaling 129699.25 in 1944, beating the prior peak of 1930 by about 16000 dollars. The same year saw circulation higher than 1944 by four million volumes, with most modest borrowers returning books, as only one in 2080 borrowed volumes is lost.
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Chicago
Paris Pawnshop Opens in 1624 and Closes Next Year
The first pawnshop started in Paris in 1624 but shut within a year as locals struggled with the legality and acceptability of charging interest.
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Paris
Forgiveness the Core of Christian Call to Mercy
This sermon outlines forgiveness from Matthew 6 14 15 and Matthew 18 21 22 35. It contrasts Christ's unlimited forgiveness with the Talmudic idea of finite pardon and cites Tennysen to urge boundless mercy toward offenders.
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Charles Reynolds Brown
Jesus
Maple Leaf Forever Inspired by Leaf on Schoolmaster
A Toronto schoolmaster, Alexander Muir, reportedly received the maple leaf inspiration as a large leaf settled on his shoulder while walking a leaf strewn street in autumn 1867. The national air grew from that moment and became a symbol of Canada.
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Canada
National Air
Toronto
Alexander Muir
Crossword Puzzle Clues: Horizontal and Vertical Lists
A readable cryptic style puzzle list with numbered horizontal and vertical clues including parts of speech, translations, and common crossword terms. It presents a crossfill challenge covering languages, flora, numerals and classical references.
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England
Aksa
Jerusalem
Tawera Moamoa
New Zealand
Montreal
Germany
Spain
Hubbard
London
Lady Banting
Sir Frederick Banting
University of Toronto
Cardiff
Wales
Fisher Body
General Motors Corp
Ath
By Fred Neher
Mrs.pip's
Courtland
Reg'lar Fellers—Wholesale
Gene Byrnes
The
Children’s Fund At
Michigan
L. A. Maynard
United States Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory
Ithaca, NY
Canadian Council of Nutrition
Sutherland, Sask
BY William Ferguson
Cello Hane
Wei Ass
Hiobo
God
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