HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD IN WORLD NEWS ITEMS
Dewson of Leytonstone marks 50 years as a ringer at St John’s Church. Canada to add judges and raise Supreme Court salaries. NEC laboratories ready for full jet engine testing. Japanese bridge collapse kills ten, injures three near Tokyo. Edison descendant Michael Sloane dies in Austrian Alps. Vatican reports 4223 million Catholics, up 119 million since 1920. England and Wales show 3.38 million surplus women. 1947 totals 19.885 million males, 22.268 million females. Norway radios pass 700,000 licenses, up 15 percent in a year.
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England
Wales
Cat Reunites With Family After 16 Days Away
Barbara Hickman of Waterloo recovers pet cat Mickey after the family’s Stratford visit left the cat missing for sixteen days. Mickey walked back into the Hickman home to reunite with the little girl.
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Cat
Barbara Hickman
Waterloo
Mickey
Hickman
Stratford
Barbara
Oil Tenders Closed On Indian Reservation
Ottawa reports tenders closed for permits to explore oil on an Alberta Indian reserve along the Calgary Edmonton line. Interest follows a dry well and officials note years of prospecting with no commercial discovery yet. Companies pay ten cents per acre for a one year exploratory permit.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Obama Reserve
Calgary
Edmonton
Britain Granted Funds to Buy Canadian Pork Under Marshall Plan
Washington reports Britain received 12.2 million US dollars in Marshall Plan funds to purchase Canadian pork, worth 13.42 million Canadian dollars after currency devaluation. The grant, the largest in over three months, brings total ECA grants for Britain to Canadian agricultural commodities to 62.2 million in the last month, with earlier approval for 50 million of Canadian wheat. Shipments are not dated, but delivery of the meat is expected by year end.
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Washington
Britain
Canada
U.S
Economic Co-operation Administration
ECA
Recovery Agency
Calgary Banff route chosen for Trans-Canada highway
Alberta government selects the Calgary Banff Big Bend route for the Trans-Canada highway through the province. Sen. James A. MacKinnon says Ottawa was informed of Alberta’s decision.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Calgary- Banff-Big Bend
James A. MacKinnon
Ottawa
Dominion
Sen. MacKinnon
Dogs Train at Saskatoon Farm School for Kennel Teams
The School for Dogs at Watson Saskatchewan trains 26 canines from U S kennels including hounds pointers and setters on a vacant local farm as the daily bell rings.
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Watson
Sask
United States
Portable concrete incinerator for domestic refuse disposal
A diagram and description show a small portable incinerator built from precast concrete slabs bolted together. It details materials such as cement sand gravel metal rods and expanded metal grate, plus a mortar mix of one part cement to two parts sand and three parts stone. It notes air intake space and curing time before use versus brick construction.
Crosswords Puzzle Clues Mixed From Historic Page
A fragment lists many crossword hints and clues including words like Verily To vex To say and See Philippine tribesman Hint To ascend and Note of scale. The garbled OCR shows a mix of across and down prompts with partial entries and unclear formatting.
Feeder Cattle Sell Fast At Auction On Manitoulin Island
In five hours Duncan A. Brown sold 2 696 head for 368 822 dollars at Little Current Manitoulin Ontario's sixth annual feeder and stock cattle sale. Average price 14 90 top 21 50 low 12 10. Five loads went to Harrisburg Pennsylvania one to Buffalo New York rest to western Ontario Madoc and Carleton. Manitoulin cattle praised for quality disease free gains. fourth general TB test shows three reactors two herds infected of 25 000 head.
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Duncan A. Brown
Little Current
Manitoulin
Ont
Harrisburg
Penn
Buffalo
Ontario
Madoc
Carleton
Manitoulin Island
W. §. MacMullen
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Radar detects gallstones with sonar technique
Washington report says Dr. George D. Ludwig of the Naval Medical Research Institute Bethesda Md announces high frequency sound waves can be sent into body tissue without injury and echoes from particles are recorded. The radar method can locate gallstones and small shell fragments and other foreign substances.
TRY AND STOP ME! Bennett Cerf humor piece
Aly Khan passes a fable to Irving Hoffman about a mouse turned successively into a cat a dog and a tiger. The magician ends with the line the mouse has a heart of a mouse and cannot be helped. Will Rogers Jr memory notes his shirt tails were tucked by lace edging.
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Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Irving Hoffman
Will Rogers
Will
New Air Line Serves Edmonton Oil Regions Route
Terrell C. Drinkwater, president of Western Air Lines, announced a new Edmonton to Texas and Oklahoma oil region route. The service may begin by early next year.
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Edmonton
Texas
Oklahoma
Terrell C. Drinkwater
Los Angeles
Western Air Lines
Western Canada Sound With Savings Deposits
During a Westward tour, Bank of Montreal president Mr. B C Gardner said western Canada remains sound with rising prairie savings deposits since 1939. He predicted more American investment and warned export markets and devaluation pose mixed prospects for Canadian agriculture and manufactured goods. Gardner noted Britain’s Marshall Plan wheat aid and stressed export dependence on foreign markets.
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B.C. Gardner
Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Regina
Canada
Prairies
Gardner
Washington
Britain
Coyote war to use 1080 poison in province
The provincial Game Commission will deploy sodium fluoroacetate, known as 1080, as a new and deadly tool against coyotes. Experimental control zones will cover eight to 12 municipalities in the southeast and southwest, with precautions to protect people and non-target wildlife. If successful, the measure could save ranchers money and be expanded to other infested areas.
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Regina
E. L. Paynter
Mr. Paynter
Game
Paynter
Parking cop issues own car ticket in Montgomery
Police officer Roland L. Banville wrote a parking ticket and left it on his own car. He said in police court he did not recognize his license number on the new vehicle.
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Montgomery
Ala
Roland L. Banville
Call for Free Currency Markets and End to Government Control
The speaker argues against government management of foreign exchange and monetary policy. They contend that currencies should find their own natural relationships without state intervention, advocating for free market mechanisms in currency exchange.
Weekly Tip for Bathing Babies Cites Elbow Test
A home care note advises parents to test bath water temperature by immersing the elbow to ensure it is comfortably warm for a baby. The tip emphasizes a safe, gentle check rather than a thermometer.
Mallard Band Found on Hunter Near Gilbert Plains
Frank Howelko, a local baker, bagged a mallard shot near Gilbert Plains on October 4. The bird carried a band from Kingsville Ontario bearing the number 48. A stray line about Pele at Kilauea is noted.
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Gilbert Plains
Man
Frank Howelko
Jack Miner
Kingsville
Ont
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Dewson
St. John's Church
Leytonstone
Supreme Court of Canada
National Research Headquarters
NEC
Jinten River
Tokyo
Michael Edison Sloane
Thomas A. Edison
Austrian Alps
Vatican Radio
Norway
Calgary-Banff
Furiner
South Ameri
Fis
By Bennett Cerf
Western Canada Sound
B. C. Gardner
Rexccsox
James Persy
Marine Corps
ZOOCO
Pacific Ocean
NEA
Rocky Mountain States
Sauer Adeline Gear Hal
Coerace Serings
Cofarico
Little Reggie
Margarita
Priscilla
Lold
Fouse
Priscila
Y al Vermeer
Pele
Kilauea
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
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