War news and postwar notes from various fronts
Royal Australian Air Force gains through June 1544 with 10 814 total casualties. British commander Brig J M Rockingham led Boulogne assault. UK to buy 50 000 tons Canadian frozen beef in 1944 and 60 000 in 1945. POW count in US on Oct 11 300 382 with 248 205 Germans 51 034 Italians 1 143 Japanese. Paul Langevin returns to Paris as director of physics and chemistry. Telephones spreading to out of the way countries. Fiji Islands Albania Belgian Congo Iceland Nigeria counts. German iron mines near Algrange converted into bomb proof factories.
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United Kingdom
The
War Department
United States
Fiji Islands
Albania
Belgian Congo
Iceland
Nigeria
Army medical officer promotes to command Shilo Camp
Major Michael David Mitchell of Maple Creek Saskatchewan gains acting lieutenant colonel rank and commands Shilo Camp Military Hospital and serves as camp medical officer. The Defence Department notes interwar updates on training and welfare including prisoner of war internment practices and improvements in wounded service member care and climate acclimatization.
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Michael David Mitchell
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Maple Creek
Sask
Chilliwack
B.C
Shilo Camp Military Hospital
Shilo Camp
Man
Defence Department
Robert Stephen
Ottawa
Base Post Office
National Defence Department
Stephen
Sunday School Lesson for October 22
Golden text from John 8:32 declares truth frees the follower. Lesson surveys Deuteronomy 6 4 9 Proverbs 9 10 Matthew 7 7 12 Luke 6 39 45 and II Timothy 2 15 with devotional reading Proverbs 3 13 26.
Real estate pitch lists nearby factories and wind clues
An agent bluntly warns a buyer about drawbacks observing that the north borders civic gas works, south has a synthetic rubber plant, east a vinegar works, and west a glue manufacturer. He adds advantages like cheap rent and a quick sense of wind direction.
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Civic Gas Works
Exhibition of Canada photos opens in Rio de Janeiro
An exhibition of photographs of Canada opened in Rio de Janeiro sponsored by the Canadian Embassy and Instituto Brazil-Canada. Canadian Ambassador Jean Desy and many diplomats attended. The display, provided by the Canadian Government, features wartime scenes, industry, agriculture, and scenic views of Canada.
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Canada
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Instituto Brazil-Canada
Jean Desy
Diplomatic Corpu
Dominion
Canadian Agricultural Engineering Committee Meets in Ottawa
The National Committee on Agricultural Engineering held a three day Ottawa session at the Dominion Department of Agriculture to address engineering problems faced by Canadian farmers. It recommended the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Services focus on farm machinery supply and distribution soil conservation farm housing and rural electrification.
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National Committee On Agricultural Engineering
Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
National Advisory Committee On Agricultural Services
Trust buys historic Culloden stone for Scotland
The British National Trust has purchased the Cumberland Stone once stood upon by the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden. The acquisition also includes nearby clan graves as part of the heritage move to preserve the historic battlefield site in Scotland.
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Cumberland
Duke of Cumberland
Culloden
Prince Charles Edward
Scotland
British National Trust
Clanamen
Acquired Taste Thoreau Cronyn’s Newspaper Route
Thoreau Cronyn once managing editor of Collier’s developed a taste for paper work after reading the Springfield Republican. He became a blind newspaper reader earning 25 cents a week in his hometown of San Diego California.
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Thoreau Cronyn
Collier's
Springfield Republican
San Diego
Cal
Art treasures hidden near German lines revealed by BBC despatch
Vaughan Thomas recounts how an old man protected priceless Italian artworks including Botticelli Primavera Giotto Cimabue and Fra Angelico in a village house within 2000 yards of enemy lines. Allied authorities moved the works to safety as the battle approached. A note mentions mud at ocean depth being transparent.
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BBC
Vaughan Thomas
France
Thomas
Botticelli
Giotto
Fra Angelico
Coins of early England minted as halves or quarters
In early England coinage, issues were sometimes cut into halves or quarters to provide smaller denominations. This practice reflects the primitive monetary system and evolving trade needs of the period, illustrating how value was made portable in daily commerce.
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England
British Barter Room Offers And Odd Exchanges
The London Daily Mail reports on barter culture in Britain with odd trade requests in the want columns. A Lady seeks to swap peach bed linen and pure silk lingeries for nylon stockings or honey, while a Victorian cheese-diary is offered for a dozen new handkerchiefs. An agony column lists varied appeals from frying pans to old shirts repurposed into blouses for a public school boy.
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London
London Daily Mail
First Time Women In France Win Right To Vote
France sets February 1 as the date for the first regional elections marking women’s entry to the ballot. National elections are postponed until the return of nearly two million prisoners from Germany.
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France
Germany
Canadian army records lowest tuberculosis rate in war era
Defence HQ notes a markedly low TB rate among troops with only 684 overseas cases and 18 deaths in four years of war. Col. J D Adamson cites contrast to 1914-18 losses and only 85 new cases discharged in 1949. Other notes mention linen absorption and higher vitamin B needs for men.
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Defence Headquarters
J. D. Adamson
Army Medical Services
Canada
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J. M. Rockingham
British Columbia
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Medical Corpa
Greenland
India
Cornl Strand
Zex
Oliver Cromwell
Jesus
Western Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Winnipeg
Calgary
American Locomotive Works
General Electric
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Caren
New Serrey
Y William Ergueon
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