Diverse World News Fragments Surface In Briefs
Brief items report on Capada fisheries values for 1944 and 1943, Jicarat leaves for Jerusalem roof regilding, Tawera Moamoa Maori veteran dies at 68 in Britain, Germans in Montreal seek repatriation, Spain bottle production figures, first edition of Mother Hubbard sold in London, Lady Banting earns medical degree at Toronto, Cardiff police boast high education among constables, navigator instrument for B 20 aircraft produced by GM Fisher Body Division.
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Fisher Body
General Motors Corp
Prime Minister King's Van Gogh Find Baffles Experts
An art expert notes Mr. King's taste shines again as he buys a painting on Yonge Street claiming to be Miller. Investigation proves a fake signature. experts say the canvas is by Van Gogh and would fetch about $8,000.
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Mr. King
van Gogh
Toronto Financial Post
Columbus’s Early Use of the Magnetic Compass
Christopher Columbus made the first practical use of the magnetic compass guiding his Atlantic voyage.
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Christopher Columbus
Engineers Tour TCA Shops In Winnipeg Display
Nearly 200 delegates at the 19th annual general meeting of the Engineering Institute of Canada visited Trans-Canada Air Lines shops at Stevenson Field in Winnipeg to view postwar aviation plans. Pictured are W F English and J T Dyment with incoming president Dean E Featherstonhaugh and Mrs Featherstonhaugh beside a D C 4 M super liner model. The four Merlin engines airliner, designed for 44 passengers, will be built in Canada for trans continental and oceanic service after the war, as announced by Minister C D Howe.
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Engineering Institute of Canada
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
T.C.A
Stevenson Field
W. F. English
J. T. Dyment
Institute
Vitamins and natural foods stressed over fortification
Dr. L A Maynard in Michigan warns against relying on vitamin hype and insists nature offers broader nutritional value. He urges a long term program to preserve nutrients from farm to table, favoring natural foods over broad fortification. Canada aligns with this view, emphasizing obtaining all requirements from natural foods rather than chemical Vitamin addition.
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Hamlet
Heaven
Canada
Department of National Health and Welfare
Canadian Council of Nutrition
Housing Shortage and Building in Winnipeg 1944
Despite labor and material shortages 570 new homes were built in Winnipeg during 1944. Another 700 are needed to relieve the housing shortage. The article notes that one half of the world sheep population is owned by the British Empire totaling 670 million.
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Winnipeg
Crossword Puzzle Clue List From Historic Page
A dense OCR style crossword puzzle list presents a long set of across and down clues with mixed words and hints including Part of to be Japanese measure Nimrod Article Refined Artificial language Therefore To cultivate To sow To retain Of no legal force To hasten Moslem princes State of feelings Note of scale Cereal grasses Old World herb Negative Ship channels Hobo Poetic to unclose Species of fungus Woody plant Annual of parsley family To apportion Spanish article Printer s To apportion One who profits Treated Teutonic deity Europeas fish Oriental title To free from captivity Tweens To cast off To haul To plunder To pierce To move swiftly Besprinkled To venture Knobs Conjectured Large knife Liquefied Hebrew letter Hebrew god Shield Parcels of land Shakespearean character Female ruff Roman gods Anger Part of infinitive Symbol for Bickel
Difficult Prisoner de Wiart Secret Mission and Escape Trials
In 1941 Lt Gen Adrian de Wiart Churchill’s rep to Chiang Kai-shek flew to the Middle East when engine trouble forced a landing off North Africa. He was captured for the first time and endured repeated escape attempts in Italy. He twice reached liberty, nearly to the Swiss frontier, before being flown to Portugal with the Italian Peace Delegation to win his freedom.
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Adrian de Wiart
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Middle East
North Africa
de Wiart
Italy
Britain
Portugal
Canada Economic Boom Sets Record In 1944
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that the trend of economic conditions in Canada averaged higher in 1944 than in any comparable period in the nation’s history, signaling a sustained wartime economic expansion with widespread gains across sectors.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
Chinese Platoon Forty-Eight Members Have Trained For Pacific War
A forty eight member all-Chinese Canadian Army platoon completed basic training at Maple Creek Saskatchewan and aims for the Pacific theatre, nearer occupied China. L Corporal Louie Victor, aged 28, who fought guerrilla warfare in China from 1933 to 1938, seeks another chance against the Japanese. The average age is about 21. volunteers come from across Canada. Training officers praise the group as good, able, determined, and good humored.
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Maple Creek
Sask
China
Louie Victor
Canada
Tree Storage Cellar at Sutherland Expands Planting Capacity
The Dominion Forest Nursery Station at Sutherland Saskatchewan reports a new tree storage cellar capable of holding one and a half million trees. Measuring 110 by 20 by nine feet and connected to the packing shed, it speeds shipping and fits farmers spring plans. Deciduous trees are free in the Prairie Provinces, while evergreens cost one dollar per one hundred.
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Dominion Forest Nursery
Sutherland
Sask
Prairie Provinces
Indian Head
Freak Weather Hits Britain as Week Registers Extremes
In the seven days before December 16 Britain logged two hurricane-force gales along coasts, one unusually mild day, the year’s worst fog, and freezing temperatures in the northwest while the south saw near April warmth.
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Britain
Chicago library fines set wartime record in 1944
Chicago patrons paid a record 129,699.25 in overdue fines in 1944, about 16 thousand more than the prewar high in 1930. Circulation that year exceeded 4 million more than 1944. Most borrowers are honest, with only one lost book in 2,080 eventually returned to the library. Fines go to the library employees pension fund under state law.
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Chicago
Filthy Books Stirs Toronto Health Leader Critique
Dr. Gordon Bates of the Health League of Canada denounced recent best sellers as frankly filthy and questioned why parents and clergy have not protested. The report notes his remarks made in Toronto. The article also mentions a historical claim that India’s history dates to 4300 B.C.
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Gordon Bates
Health League of Canada
Toronto
Paris Pawnshop Opens in 1624 and Closes Next Year
The first pawnshop began service in Paris in 1624 but shut down after one year as the French struggled with the legality and acceptance of charging interest.
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Paris
Forgiveness Teaching From Matthew Texts And Hymns
A Sunday School lesson discusses forgiveness from Matthew 6 14 15 and Matthew 18 20 22 1 33 with devotional links Psalm 32 1 7. It explains Jesus guidance on confronting offenses and forgiving without arithmetic limits, citing Brown Jowett and a Tennyson verse urging continual mercy.
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Jesus
Charles Reynolds Brown
Peter
Maple Leaf Forever Inspired by Leaf on Teacher
In 1867 a large maple leaf fluttered to the shoulder of Toronto schoolmaster Alexander Muir as he walked a leaf strewn street, inspiring the national anthem The Maple Leaf Forever and its Canadian heritage.
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Canada
Toronto
Alexander Muir
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Brefly
Capada
England
Jerusalem
Tawera Moamoa
New Zealand
Montreal
Germany
Spain
Hubbard
London
Lady Banting
Sir Frederick Banting
Insulin
University of Toronto
Cardiff Wales
By Fred Neher
Children’s Fund At
Michigan
L. A. Maynard
United States
Soil and Nutrition Laboratory
Ithaca, N.Y
BY William Ferguson
Ayer
Insects
God
Bickel
Fis
Sutherland, Sask
India
Reg'lar Fellers—Wholesale
Jimmie
Gene Byrnes
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