World Happenings Briefly Told
Jamaica's sugar crop this year will exceed 176000 tons the largest for several decades announced. A special police squad patrols the East End Newcastle England every Sunday to curb street gambling. A vast network of research centres and laboratories spread through out the Soviet union is working on atomic energy secrets. Great Western Railway locomotives in South Wales coalfield are being converted to oil. Mrs Emma Chapman Algarkirk Lincs England who died aged 102 worked in sugar fields until last year and walked a mile to draw her pension. £3000 ($12000) platinum flown London to Rio by British South American Airways. Thousands of packets of rationed dried egg powder fell from a passing truck in Bristol. Hugh Savage publisher Cowichan Leader Duncan BC said a distinctive flag must be chosen by those versed in heraldry. Winston Churchill named in the Golden Book honoring Britain's wartime leader for helping form the Jewish brigade group.
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East End
Newcastle
England
Soviet Union
Emma Chapman
Algakirk
Lincs
Two Ways To Do It Pattern 4941 for Girls
Two pretty styles for Pattern 4941 a tulip festooned sundress or trim jumper. Blouse is cut in one piece. Sizes 2 4 6 8 10 with yardage details and price 20 cents. Send name address size and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Handwritten Books Precede Printing in Europe
Before printing arrived in Europe in the 15th century, books were copied by hand and bound by monks. The era relied on scribes and scriptoria, producing unique manuscripts and shaping medieval knowledge.
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Europe
Meet Mrs Anasazi The Lost Race Of Early America Revealed
Tucson report details the unearthing of Mrs Anasazi a 600 year dead figure by anthropologists led by Dr Emil Haury at Point of Pines Arizona The 1300 A D household woman is depicted with rouge turquoise jewelry and shell beads her one room home featured ladder access and stone furniture She and her husband supported a thriving community of about 5000 people before mysterious abandonment remains a science puzzle today
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Tucson
Arizona
CP Feature Service
Ottawa Evening Citizen
Murray Sinclair
Anasazi
Emil Haury
Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona
E. B. Sayles
Dr. Haury
Mail in Sky: New Flying Postal Cars Attract Youth
The New York World Telegram reports plans by the Post Office Department and Air Transport Association to use 38 foot flying packets modeled after mail cars. Clerks may soon sort in the sky as motors roar toward the stratosphere.
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Post Office Department
Air Transport Association
New York World- Telegram
PLAN BIGGEST TELESCOPE TO HONOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON
British optical engineers aim to build the 100 inch telescope as a national memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. The project is estimated to cost between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000 and would take several years to complete.
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Isaac Newton
Immunization Push Urges Parents to Protect Children
The Health League of Canada with Health and Education Departments and media calls for immunization against diphtheria whooping cough scarlet fever and smallpox amid rising polio cases. It notes yearly deaths from whooping cough and diphtheria and urges parents to vaccinate now with health departments and physicians ready to assist.
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Health League of Canada
Departments of Health and Education
Keeps Young Brantford
One of the best known acrobats of the nineties and a world famous entertainer, Charles Hacker, at 81, still enjoys robust health. Resident of Brantford for 50 years he was once partner in the first and only head to head balancing act on wheels. The average amount of electricity in a lightning flash is far less than the amount that can be charged into a storage battery.
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Brantford
Charles Hacker
Crossword Puzzle Clues Across and Down
A mixed set of crossword hints includes merchandise animal reputation and various clues across and down. Answers reference familiar terms, places and objects such as church festival exclamation and elements like calcium symbol in a compact grid of themed entries.
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Zeus
Jacob
Calgary Restores Dinosaur Past With Plaster Frieze
Calgary presents life like plastic dinosaurs along Bow River on St George's Island. A huge herbivore dominates the view with a car driving beneath it while ferocious beasts stand nearby. Real fossils and bones are kept in two outdoor glass cases. The display marks the city’s originality and progress.
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Calgary
Ottawa
National Museum
Dominion
Red Deer River
Drumheller
St. George's Island
Bow River
Choice Now Is Christ or Chaos Says Sudbury Priest
The Rev J J OLeary warned at St Clement s Church that Sudbury residents risk uprising against clergy and said the diocese faces a dangerous fifth column He urged deeper prayer for peace and warned of another war likely to be fought on Canadian soil unless devotion increases
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Sudbury
Empire Victory sails for 1946 Antarctic whale season
The 21,846 ton Empire Victory, the world s largest cargo ship, departed Liverpool to lead the 1946 47 Antarctic whale season. It carries converted U boat hunting gear and six infantry landing craft to tow captured whales among its 12 whale catcher boats. India claims the world s largest irrigation system.
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Liverpool
Eng
Whale
Empire Victory
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Vicks
Vicks VapoRub
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Iil
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Christ
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