Anabel West Helps a Struggling Girl With a Hat
A shabby job seeker enters Anabel West’s tiny millinery shop pleading for a repaired hat before a noon interview. Anabel reworks a black felt into a sunny Easter turban with a gardenia, offering payment later. The girl returns with a new job and a singing praise for her hat’s role as an Easter dividend.
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West
Anabel
Annabel
Annabel Ald Aalde
Thomis
Anabel West
Eryone
Prt
Annabel West
Huston
Apachel
Amber
Eneter
Anabel Weat
Loor
Ron Lettio
Finuon
Sou
Iis
Week at Ottawa covers farm policy and war effort
Ottawa report outlines MPs' recess plans with focus on 1941-42 farm policy and wheat acreage reductions. Prairies push for acreage limits and summer fallow. farmers plan crops as deficit budget debates loom. Butter prices and dairy board min price talks highlight wartime agriculture priorities.
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Ovfawa
Prairie Provinces
Peace River
British Columbia
Y House
Asley
Commons
Mark Senn
Son
Haldimand
Ontario
Canada
New Democracy
Harry Tlemier
Dairy Products Board
National Dai Council of Canada
Quebec
Maritime
Canadian Dairy Farmers’ Federation
Blind Cumberland man braves snow for war weapons week
London reports a blind Cumberland man identified as Jonathan trudged from farm to farm with a collie, collecting 610 pounds for district war weapons week. He brailled an accurate account listing each contributor name and address and detailed every subscription action for Britain’s National Savings effort.
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London
Cumberland
Lord Kislderaley
Britain
National Savings Committee
Kinderalvy Gald
Jonathan
Carlisle
Newfoundland man finally enlists on 27th try
Lewes England reports that CPa Michiel Lawlor a Newfoundland fisherman and Canadian iron worker and coal miner tried to enlist 26 times before being accepted on his 27th attempt.
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Lewes
England
Cpa
Michiel Lawlor
Newfoundland
Canadian Regiments Hold St Eloi Craters in Great War
The report recalls the 2nd Canadian Division at St Eloi in northern France where craters created by German mines produced a brutal, protracted fight. It notes initial German gains, repeated counterattacks by the 6th Brigade, relief by the 4th, and finally recapture with heavy casualties. Veterans praise and blame are weighed by Sir Max Aitken with remarks on artillery and supply failures.
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St. Elo
France
Terenti
E.W. Turner
St. Eloi Mound
Gune
Robert Reale
Tien David Watson
Sth
Vancouvery
Winnipeg
Ontario
New Brunswick
Nova Statn
St. Eloi
2Nst
Shelters Belt Plan Quietly Expands Across Plains States
The nationwide shelterbelt project aims to plant 35 million trees this spring and total about 200 million trees in six years to form natural wind and weather barriers. The belts stretch across eastern North and South Dakota, Nebraska, central Kansas, western Oklahoma, and a strip of Texas, protecting nearly 28,000 farms and totaling about 16,600 miles.
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Lincoln
Neb
Prairie States
Sateips
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Astrip
Texas
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the Free Press
Ottawa
Lloyd MacDonald
Faroe
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Trey
St. Eloin
WW. Gordon
6Th Brigade
D. B. Ketchin
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Air Lines
Teyas
Carroll's
Fearman
Chase & Sanborn
McCormick’s Dairy
Waston
Lave
BERNS
Libby
Haddie
Old Colony
Odsex
Aoe Zzoo
BOC
Concentrats
Heeyts
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