World Happenings Briskly Reported From Across Nations
The ministry of food ordered confiscation after March 10 of all gifts of tea from abroad addressed to individuals weighing more than two pounds. Tea will be rationed starting April 5 at two ounces weekly for adults and one ounce for children. Britain announced an extra daylight period from May 3 to August 9. About 140,000 Italians are prisoners of war in Africa. The King decorated 300 service members at Buckingham Palace. A aviation mechanics school opened at Cartierville with 450 students. United Air Lines reported a three hour, 55 minute Chicago to Boston flight on a new 890 mile route at 227 mph. Hugh Dalton affirmed the blockade policy restricting US ships from supplying German-occupied territory.
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Ministry of Food
Britain
Africa
David Margesson
House of Commons
Buckingham Palace
Dominion
Quebec
Cartierville
United Air Lines
United
Chicago
Boston
Hugh Dalton
United States
Opening shot fires in Toronto Irish Rifle Club range
Sir William Mulock aged 97 fired the first shot on the No 4 target at the Irish Rifle Club range in Toronto. T. F. I. Vamplew, the captain, checked the bullseye and brought the target back. Mulock urged defence readiness for any future threat and speculated on unlikely Italian invasion.
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William Mulock
Irish Rifle Club
Toronto
T. F. I. Vamplew
Sir William
Rejoinder on public air raid shelter in Glasgow gallery
Lord Provost Dollan faces protest over converting the civic gallery basement into a public air raid shelter calling it sacred to protect art. He asserts living McPherson valued over dead Rembrandts. Also notes the Battle of Big Horn occurred June 25, 1876 with Custer and his men massacred.
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Dollan
Glasgow
Scotland
Civic Art Gallery
McPherson
Big Horn
Custer
Canada crude oil and natural gas output for November 1940
Canada produced 883 438 barrels of crude oil in November 1940, up from 817 596 in October and 731 209 in November 1939. Alberta dominated with 77 165 barrels in November 1940, including Turner Valley 872 256. Red Coulee 985. Wainwright Ribstone 2 415. Del Bonita Lloydminster and Vermilion 1 506. Natural gas output in November reached 3 896 425 cubic feet, versus 3 461 149 in November 1939.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta
Turner Valley
Red Coulee
Wainwright-Ribstone
del Bonita
Lloydminster
Vermilion
Bureau
Home Service Exercise Ad Promises Slim Legs and Health
A Winnipeg Newspaper Union notice advertises a 32 page booklet Best Exercises For Health and Beauty and additional titles for 15c each. It claims daily practice can slim calves hips and waists and improve posture and nerves.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
A Kiddie Frock or Play-Dress Pattern 4472
Anne Adams offers two kiddie styles from Pattern 4472 a dress and a sun-dress with panelled lines easy to stitch. Lace edged yoke tiny sleeve tabs bow sash decorative front panel point and optional self fabric ruffing. Sizes 2 4 6 8 10. fabric yardages given. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Escape Nazis Norwegian Family Reaches Pacific Coast
Thirteen members of a Norwegian family led by Peter Novik arrived in Vancouver after a 7000 mile journey. They traveled across the Atlantic in a 75 foot fishing schooner now sailed to Vancouver via the Panama Canal. Men will join the British Columbia fishing fleet.
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Vancouver
Peter Novik
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Norway
Noviks
England
Canada
Peter
British Columbia
Nazis in US warned of invisible invasion by German refugees
Gerhart Segar, former Reichstag member and now political refugee, told the American Association of School Administrators that a million Nazis exist in the western hemisphere ready for an invisible invasion of the United States. He escaped a 1933 German concentration camp and has lived in New York for six years. He warned that while the fifth column may dwindle if Hitler loses, more Germans in the country may join his cause if he remains strong.
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Gerhart Segar
Reichstag
American Association of School Administrators
Naturally Left Handed Lord Baden-Powell ambidextrous after Ruskin’s intervention
The late Lord Baden-Powell was naturally left handed. His mother tried to break the trait until Ruskin intervened. He then became ambidextrous and wrote with his left hand while drawing and shading with his right. He quit smoking as it hindered his shooting.
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Lord Baden-Powell
Ruskin
Parasol Ants Carry Leaves Like Umbrellas
Parasol ants raise broad leaves over their bodies while foraging, using them as protective umbrellas during movement. Researchers note this behavior helps shield workers from rain and sun as they traverse vegetation.
Old Coins In India and Ceylon Refer to Victoria Rupees
Coins in India and Ceylon are revived as Victoria era rupees. Queen Victoria died in 1901 and the article notes her long tenure and the reuse of her name on currency.
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India
Victoria
Ceylon
Pure Seed With Losses From Inferior Seed
Farmers in the Melfort Sask area suffer unseen losses from impure seed. W T Burns notes many sow wheat seed containing multiple varieties and oats and barley seeds are often mixed. Impure seed lowers yield and product quality, reducing grades and prices, with high quality seeds like Banner and Victory oats and O A C 21 barley emphasizing the need for pure stock to maximize returns.
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Melfort
Sask
W. T. Burns
Dominion Experimental Station
Mel
Experimental Farms News
Evergreen Doctor Defies Age In War Service
New Zealand's Dr Agnes Bennett, near seventy, joined the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in the first Great War. Though she retired four years earlier she sailed from Wellington as a doctor aboard an 11 000 ton ship and later became a flying doctor in North Queensland. She recalls flying 200 miles to reach patients in wild, lonely regions and says she would not rest on her laurels.
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Agnes Bennett
New Zealand Army Medical Corps
Wellington
Bennet
Queensland
Pioneer Battleford veteran John Pambrun dies at 85
Passing of a veteran links Battleford’s early days to the seventies. John Pambrun, son of a Hudson’s Bay factor born at Lac La Biche, died in a local hospital at 85. He served in the Battleford assembly in 1879 and as a founding member of the first militia company west of the Red River.
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Battleford
John Pambrun
Pambrun
Old Vercheres
Hudson's Bay
Lac la Biche
Prince Albert and
North West Territories
Red River
The Lord's Supper Covenant Meal and Remembering Jesus
The article reflects on the Paschal Supper with Jesus and his disciples, emphasizing his longing for fellowship before suffering. It explains the bread as his body and the cup as the new covenant in his blood, urging personal acceptance and remembrance through the sacrament. The piece stresses that the Lord's Supper binds believers to trust, love, and obedience to Christ in anticipation of his death.
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Matthew
Jesus
Moses
New German Vibration Trigger Mine Threatens Ships
A Canadian port officer reports Germany has developed a mine that detonates from ship propeller vibrations. He notes Britain’s de Gauss nullifier counters magnetic mines and predicts an eventual British solution. He also describes Nazi camouflaged planes mimicking Spitfires and a false Spitfire shot down near a convoy.
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Germany
Norway
Bush Pilot to Film Canadian Background Scenes Next Summer
Co operation with the Royal Canadian Air Force enables production to begin in Canada next summer for Warner Brothers flying picture Bush Pilot. Air force officials say permission is granted with restrictions. The story centers on Canada’s pioneer airmen and links to warflight training under the Commonwealth plan. Hollywood stars such as Errol Flynn Cary Grant Burgess Meredith and possibly Olivia de Havilland are mentioned for roles.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Warner Brothers
Air Force
Errol Flynn
Cary Grant
Burgess Meredith
Olivia de Havilland
Record Years Largest Tree Cut In British Columbia
British Columbia lumbermen report the Lynn Valley Douglas fir as the record largest tree. The tree measured 417 feet tall with a 25 foot diameter and a 77 foot circumference.
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British Columbia
Lynn Valley
Spider Facts Briefly Noted
The short note states a spider has eight legs and six to eight eyes. The number 2402 follows as a final figure in the fragmentary text.
Typhoid Fever Death Rates Plummet in North America
The article notes a dramatic decline in typhoid deaths across the United States and Canada from the early 1900s to 1939 and 1938, crediting cleaner water, pasteurized milk, health education, and wartime inoculation of soldiers for typhoid and paratyphoid. Ontario shows especially low rates.
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North American
United States
Canada
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Gardening mistakes new growers should avoid this season
The guide warns beginners against three common errors: planting too early, too close, and too deep. It advises sowing hardy vegetables and grass when ground is fit, spacing seeds properly, and using sand to ease spacing for tiny seeds. It also covers lawn seed timing, soil preparation, and hot bed starting in March with horse manure heat.
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Windsor Star London notes gay spring styles with bright colors to escape dull war themes in Britain. Cincinnati reports a historic musical festival postponed due to alarming world and national conditions.
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Windsor Star
London
Britain
Cincinnati
U.S.A
England Used Billions In Ping Before the War
The record notes that prior to the war England engaged in a high volume of ping activity, totaling five thousand million per year, reflecting a large-scale digital or signaling practice.
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England
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