World Happenings Briefly Told
Dr. Augusta Steve Guillen the first woman to earn a medical degree at a Canadian university dies in Toronto. Direct telephone service linked New York and Moscow with a three minute call costing 21 dollars. Britain’s milk scheme now serves millions of children daily in England Wales and Scotland. Sweden’s merchant fleet lost 222 ships totaling 377000 tons since war start. Unemployment benefit claims rose in June and July per Dominion Bureau. Britain gifts 130 books to Monserrat Abbey to aid library rebuilding. Poor Man’s Valuer and Poor Man’s Lawyer’s Associations formed in London. Traffic deaths rise as public urged to adopt sane road habits.
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Augusta Steve Guillen
Toronto
Britain
England
Wales
Scotland
Sweden
Swedish News Exchange
Churchill notes Italian plight referencing Garibaldi curse
In a Quebec broadcast Prime Minister Churchill linked Italy's troubles to Mussolini and his son-in-law Ciano. He alluded to Garibaldi's 1854 letter praising England and warned of a wronged ally if England needed help.
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Italy
Churchill
Quebec
Garibaldi
Mussolini
Ciano
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Tynemouth
England
How to Make Slip Covers featured in Home Service
Simple guide for transforming chairs with pinned fabric, including pin spacing, cutting, and welted seams. Sends 15c for a copy of How to Make Slip Covers from the Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. Include name, address, and other details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Looted satchel yields sixty dollars finds in Los Angeles
Leroy R. Cortell of Los Angeles bought a battered satchel for 15 cents from a passerby who claimed he needed coffee and doughnuts. While cleaning the bag he found three folded bills totaling sixty dollars tucked inside.
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Leroy R. Cortell
Los Angeles
Cortell
Invasion Barges Highlight High And Wide Rail Loads
Canadian railways meet wartime transport challenges with oversized shipments daily. The CN Railways moved a 150-ton tank on three flat cars from Montreal to Sarnia for a synthetic rubber plant and now transports invasion barges and other large items such as an army laundry unit a 60 foot tug marine boiler and a record breaking tank on a continental route.
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Canada
Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Montreal
Sarnia
Canadian National
Owen Sound
C.N.R
Seaboard
New Palestine Hospital Arrives With 1000 Beds
The Lancet reports a major American hospital arriving in Palestine from Eritrea. It is staffed by 24 specialists three dentists and a full nursing corps. With 1000 beds the complex may become Palestine’s largest hospital occupying 30 four ward buildings on a hill with dedicated water supply laundry and extensive medical departments.
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Lancet
Middle East
Palestine
Eritrea
Teachings to safeguard Christian civilization in schools
Teaching Christianity and training youth are urged to defend Christian civilization through education. The argument states that the first line of defense is education and Christian teaching should hold a prominent place in public school curricula. The note also mentions rationing in Bombay, India and encourages buying War Savings Stamps regularly.
Oak-Apple Day Curious Inquiry At Chelsea Hospital
An Ottawa reader asked at the YMCA Enquiry Bureau at Waterloo Station if Oak-Apple Day is still observed at Chelsea Hospital. The clerk confirmed the tradition endures and secured a ticket for the visitor to attend.
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Chelsea Hospital
Ymca Enquiry Bureau
Waterloo Station
London
Charles II
Boscobel
Royal Hospital
Chelsea
Wren
Nell Gwynne
Y.M.C.A
World’s toughest wood found for tool handles in India
Experiments at the Forest Research Institute Dehra Dun identify a tree of the Anaggeicus family as yielding the world’s toughest wood for heavy striking handles. Another family member provides handle wood as strong as hickory. Yemen’s inland highlands have produced coffee since Mahomet’s time. Suez transit averages 11 hours 31 minutes for the 101 mile canal.
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India
Forest Research Institute
Dehra Dun
Yemen
Arabia
Mahomet
Suez Canal
Sunday School Lesson on Worship and the First Commandments
A devotional study on John 4:23 24 and Exodus 20 1 7 explaining the Decalogue and the exclusive worship of Jehovah. It contrasts idolatry with modern venerations of mammon rank and power, urging true worship in spirit and truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Jehovah
Egypt
Luther
Eight-Leaf Clover Found in British Columbia
Mrs. Edward Heed of Kettle Valley BC reports finding a large fully developed eight-leaf clover in Nicholson Creek district interior BC. She asks if an eight leaf doubles luck and whether this is the first such find in Canada or anywhere. George Ormsby notes King George as a model farmer and a leader in postwar land use.
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Edward Heed
Kettle Valley
B.C
Canada
Nicholson Creek
Hermit on Welsh Mountain Lives on Raw Food Five Years
Joseph Lloyd James recounts a hermit lifestyle on a Welsh mountainside with no rations for five years. He subsists entirely on produce from his small holding and eats only raw food.
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Joseph Lloyd James
A Sensible Judge Heads Campaign For Juvenile Court Appointments
London's oldest magistrate Sir Cecil Bigwood, 80, leads a campaign to appoint young magistrates who understand children's problems to juvenile courts. He refuses to sit in a children's court.
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London
Sir Cecil Bigwood
Cecil
Crossword puzzle clues and solution hints from a newspaper page
A vertical list of crossword clues covers topics from cereals to archaic pronouns with numbered entries. The page includes definitions for words such as goddess of agriculture, beverage, shelter, and various descriptive terms, plus a final answer 484 solution.
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Goddess of Agriculture
Clementine Hozier and Winston Churchill Union
Margaret Aitken writes in Saturday Night about Clementine Hozier marrying Winston Spencer Churchill in 1908. Friends doubted her choice, deeming him lacking wealth and political prospects, yet his career rose and fell before reaching the pinnacle of power.
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Toronto
Margaret Aitken
Clementine Hozier
Winston Spencer Churchill
Seventh Earl of
Airlie
Clementine
Miss Hozier
Churchill
Porpoise Devours Its Weight in Fish About Every Two Days
A brief note states the porpoise consumes its own weight in fish roughly every 48 hours. The message also urges readers to buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Moscow
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Spain
Monserrat
Poor Man's Valuer Association
Poor Man's Lawyer's Association
The
Law Society
Ministry of Transport
Home Service
Hospital For
Bombay
BY William Ferguson
Boao
MIT
King George
British Columbia
George
George ¥. Ormsby
Tion
Lal
By Fred Neher
Pips
Gene Byrnes
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