World Happenings Briefly Told From War Front to Market
A wartime briefing notes Army requisition total now exceeds 200000 in Canada. Sugar beet production rose 608000 tons this year, up 28 percent from 473200. Air raid casualties in Manchester total 559 killed and 1778 injured since the war began. A 12 penny black stamp from 1851 sold for about 656 dollars. D-Day aircraft with jeeps and six pounder guns were Halifaxes. London news reports John Harding 19 pleaded guilty to counterfeiting, learned coin making from a former Scotland Yard man. A fund aims to restore Norwich's St Julian Church destroyed by enemy action two years ago. Canada’s external trade outside gold rose to 478.5 million in October from 425.8 million, a 12.4 percent year‑earlier gain.
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John Harding
London
Scotland Yard
St. Julian
Norwich
Norfolk
Mother Julian
Waste Paper At War Drives Demand Urges Bundled Salvage
Ottawa official of the National Salvage Division urges Canadians to save all clean unused paper and bundle it for local drives. Newspapers, letters, cereal boxes, envelopes and posters are needed to speed wartime packaging and produce cartons and other battle necessities.
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National Salvage Division
Ottawa
Canada
A Useful Product Castor Oil Gains Favor In Brazil
A useful product castor oil has reached high production in Brazil. It offers advantages for aircraft engines due to very low freezing point high adhesiveness heat resistance and low residue and gasoline solubility.
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Brazil
Real Lifesaving Birds and Monkeys in Jungles
Birds and monkeys save cokners lost in the jungles by watching their eating habits. The creatures choices guide men in identifying edible berries and fruits and spotting poisonous varieties.
Sunday School Lesson Behold Good Tidings For All People
Gospel lesson outlines Luke 2 8 12 Hebrews 1 1 4 I John 1 1 4 Devotional reading Isaiah 53 5 13 approved by church leaders and prepared for weekly service.
Explanations and Comments Tidings of Great Joy for All People
Excerpts discuss Luke 2 birth narrative and Hebrews 1 1 4 commentary. Highlights include Mary and Joseph’s 80 mile journey to Bethlehem and the nativity, the shepherds and angels, and Christ as superior revelation over Judaism through Christ as fullness of divine Sonship.
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Cesar Augustus
Mary
Joseph
Nazareth
Bethlehem
David
Jesus
Richard Roberts
Christ the Lord
Josus
God
Christ
Pepper's Lost Glory in Early Britain Food Taste
Pepper was once highly prized in early Britain not as a seasoning but as a rare tidbit served after meals. Its exclusive status reflected scarce imports and prestige attached to the spice during that era.
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Great Britain
Beau Brumme Lived Last Decade in Caen Asylum
Beau Brumme spent the final ten years of his life in Caen where he resided in an insane asylum before his death there.
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Beau Brumme
Caen
Scots Probe Canada War Effort Through Curiosity
Edinburgh residents asked Sgt Anita Polybank of the Canadian Women's Army Corps about life in Canada immigration jobs and the army girls work during a Edinburgh exhibition on the Canadian War Effort. Her visit from London marked the CWACs sole representation at the Allied Nations display amid strong Scottish interest.
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Canada
Thousand Islands
Sgt
Anita Polybank
C.W.A.C
Victoria
B.c
Edinburgh
Sgt. Polybank
London
A Room of One's Own for Postwar Peace
Peterborough Examiner argues that every citizen should have a private room to retreat to a quiet, contemplative space. The piece contends such space supports sanity and balance amid intense modern life, noting many would value privacy even if unused by some.
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Peterborough Examiner
Roosevelt Warns UNRRA Faces Europe Hunger Threats
President Franklin Roosevelt reports to Congress on UNRRA efforts amid war-ravaged Europe. He cites 100 million liberated peoples needing aid to reconstruct, with vast food and clothing shortages, lice-borne disease rise, and large-scale postwar relocation as the greatest migration in modern times unfolds.
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Europe
United Nations
Roosevelt
Congress
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Forest Economic Administration
FEA
UNRRA
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Italy
Ethiopia
Far East
Sutton place name distribution across England analyzed
A study catalogs nearly fifty locations bearing the name Sutton in England, either as a stand alone parish or combined with other elements. The report highlights how common the name is across counties and its use in multiple place types.
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England
Sutton
Woman Battle Ready Home Builder in Toronto
Mrs. Mary Taylor handles a demanding plant job and caring for four children while building a house in Toronto without help. She learned by doing, laying the concrete block foundation, steps, woodwork, and basement floor during spare time, saying it’s not much harder than running a household.
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Mary Taylor
Toronto
Mrs. Taylor
Our Crossword Puzzle No 4914
Crossword clues span vehicles to Greek letters and place names with many entries across horizontal and vertical directions. The puzzle lists numerous definitions including famous families, mythological figures, and everyday objects, typical of a New York style contest.
Oil Bearing Seed Crops Lead Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Dominion statistics show Manitoba and Saskatchewan produced most of Canada’s oil bearing sunflowers and rape seed in 1944. Sunflower output reached 8.5 million pounds, led by Manitoba with 5.65 million, while Saskatchewan produced 2.85 million. Rape seed total 6.6 million pounds, Manitoba at 4.2 million and Saskatchewan 1.92 million, with Ontario 390 thousand.
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Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta
Quebec
Ontario
Briefest summing up by Lord Bramwell in court
A famous English judge Lord Bramwell delivered brief summings up in two cases. In one, after counsel said the defendant did not call, he exclaimed Phew and urged the jury to consider their verdict. In another, he stated he would leave the case in eight words.
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Lord Bramwell
Bramwell
New Kind of Bread Promises Two Weeks Freshness
After the war, a bread that stays fresh for two weeks is being developed. British Army girls are producing this processed bread and it was supplied to invasion troops landing in Normandy.
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Normandy
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