World Happings Briefly Told Highlights
Sub Lieutenant Stuart Grant Moore of the Royal Canadian Navy has been mentioned in despatches with home in Vancouver. Australian government requisitions tea supplies from merchants and retailers. Prof W L Carlyle retires as Duke of Windsor ranch manager in Pekisko Alberta after 25 years. Switzerland begins meat rationing and bans livestock slaughter without permission. Captain Archibald Donald of Montreal, whose ship fought a Nazi submarine, awarded the Order of the British Empire. Manitoba plans postwar public works to create employment. Nearly 200,000 Canadian airgraph messages to the UK since last November. Ogden shops at Calgary, a prairie arsenal by Canadian Pacific Railway, produces naval guns, per Sir Edward Beatty.
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Stuart Grant Moore
Royal Canadian Navy
Moore
Vancouver
W. L. Carlyle
Duke of Windsor
Pekisko
Alta
Ogden
Calgary
Prairie Arsenal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Edward Beatty
G.B.E
Goering Party At His Palace Sparks Guarded Feasting
St. Catharines Standard reports a grand party at Hermann Goering’s palace near Ber Mn with Italian oysters and French champagne on the menu. A heavy guard surrounded the palace to prevent public view of the guests and their feast amid ongoing wartime luxury for top Nazi officials.
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Goering
Ber- Mn
St. Catharines
Italy
France
Flaps Aid Bombing Dive Speeds and Accuracy
Scientific American notes that in high speed dives the danger lies in recovery and centrifugal forces. Flaps or air brakes help limit diving speed, reducing recovery radius and allowing bomb release closer to the ground with greater hit certainty.
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Scientific American
Food for the Workers at Canadian explosive plant
Thirteen tons of potatoes, twelve tons of meat, two tons of butter and seventeen kinds of vegetables are needed each month to feed 4,000 meals daily at a large Canadian explosive selling plant. The text underscores the farmers’ crucial wartime role.
New Anne Adams Pattern 4993 for Calico Frock
The Pattern 4993 design by Anne Adams offers a long waisted frock made from inexpensive calico or gingham. Side bodice sections dip below the waist for a modern line, with optional contrast yokes sleeves pockets and belt. Pattern sizes range from 14 to 42, and a 16 requires 3.5 yards of 35 inch fabric and 2 yards interfacing. order by sending 20 cents and details to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
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Anne Adams
Anne ‘Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Times Have Changed Barber Talks Lose Spark in Portland
The Portland Oregonian notes barber shop conversation has shifted away from politics religion and sports with barbers less inclined to chat unless invited. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands made her third voluntary blood donation aiding the Royal blood donor service amid wartime needs.
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Portland Oregonian
Juliana
Netherlands
New Safer Powder From Universal Powder Co
Universal Powder Company near Olympia Washington announces a new safer powder without nitroglycerin. Vice president F Ramsey says the firm has no military orders and that contractors run the plant. A secret formula enables a machine gun bullet to be fired into the powder without an explosion. detonators can still cause one.
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Universal Powder Company
Olympia
Wash
F. Ramsey
Ramsey
Traveler’s Pitch Sparks Banter on Orders and Chaos
A manufacturer hired a new traveller and described the previous man as entangled in disorder. The applicant quipped he would extract an order from chaos, joking he could manage it if he kept the chaotic worker for a week.
Mighty Works of Jesus in Winds and Demons
Sunday School lesson distills Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee and casting out demons at Gadara. It notes disciples’ fear, Jesus’ rebuke, and the demonstration of power over nature and evil as described in Matthew Mark and Luke with devotional pointers from Psalm 19.
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Jesus
W. W. Sidey
Lake of Galilee
Mark
Son of God
Selected Recipes for Round Steak and Graham Muffins
Two recipe blocks describe a round steak dish baked with mustard corn starch salt pepper Mazola onion carrot tomatoes and corn syrup baked 1 1 2 hours serves four followed by Graham muffins using Crown Brand syrup egg salt raisins graham flour sour milk all purpose flour baking soda baked 20 minutes yields 12 large or 18 medium muffins. South Wales is a town in New York state. Bumblebees begin work when two days old 2454.
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Benson's
Canada
Mazda
Narcotic situation improves in Canada during war says CMA editorial
An editorial in The Canadian Medical Association Journal credits wartime effects for a tighter narcotics supply in Canada. It notes RCMP and Narcotics Division efforts reducing illicit morphine heroin and cocaine, with higher prices and more careful prescribing. It cites Toronto data showing addicts used 76 physicians and 54 names to obtain several drugs.
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Toronto
Federal Report
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Switzerland
Archibald Donald
Montreal
John Bracken
Manitoba
Atlantic
United Kingdom
Bouhers
Beveee
Asne Adams
By William Ferguson
Rerans
Vig
Gene Byrnes
By Fred Neher
Fred Bach
South Wales
New York State
Ae Nese
Palace of the Louvre
Paris
National Art
Museum of
Mickie
Mary
Cory
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