Jerusalem Fall and Allenby Entry Ended Turkish Rule
A 1917 account recalls General Sir Edmund Allenby and British troops entering Jerusalem by Jaffa Gate after defeating Turkish forces. The entry fulfilled a prophecy and led to rapid Allied advances in Palestine, with assurances to protect sacred sites and improvements to sanitation and water supply.
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Meat saving stews and thrifty recipes amid rising prices
The column offers low cost dishes using beef cuts and pantry staples, including Mongoose Stew, Sunday Supper Weiner beans, Priority Beef Pie, and Thrift Spanish Rice. It also promotes fat recycling for glycerine and home tips from readers, plus broadcast notes on Alan Young and conductor Erle Wild.
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Soeai
Man Sentenced for Looting Handbags at London Station
A man received four months hard labor after being found guilty of stealing 30 handbags at a London station. The trial on the LSIS railway theft case noted loot valued at about £1000 or more per day was involved.
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London
LSIS
House Plants Need Consistent Care
Watering and ventilation are essential for house plants. Avoid overwatering, ensure drainage, and admit fresh air regularly. Maintain humidity with pebble trays under pots and keep windows ventilated without direct cold drafts. This advice comes from a Dominion of Agriculture circular on plant management.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Doubling Up In Weeklies In Wartime Manitoba
Wartime conditions force co operation among Manitoba weekly papers as rural publishers share plants. The Minnedosa Kibune prints the Shoal Lake Star alongside its own paper, and The Hartney Star moves offices to Deloraine Times. The Hartney editor bids farewell to Hartney after a quarter century. The Winnipes Tribune notes staff limits in weeklies and recalls a humorous quote from William Allen White about kindness to a cold delivery rider.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Minnedosa ‘Kibune Ds
Shoal Lake
Hartney Star
Hartnes
Deloraine ‘Times
Hart~ney
Winnipes Tribune
William Allen White
Emporia Kansas Gazette
Boas
Weather and social security notes in wartime Canada
A rural column recalls January storms and a fatal truck train crash on icy crossings. It discusses Beveridge social security ideas, hopes for pensions for the elderly, and wartime inflation controls impacting dairy supply and farm machinery shortages.
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USA
Phe
Sir William Beveridge
Beveridge
British Isles
New Zealand
Australia
Canada
Charlhda
Public demand for restraint on farm production urged
The article urges discouraging plans for higher output next year and calls for voluntary publicity to ease on farm produce. It notes the W. P. T. E. foresees whipping cream rates likely to be forbidden soon, a move described as a positive step forward.
School for Miners in Cardiff Teaches New Labor Force
In Cardiff Wales a special one month course trains boys to become miners. The program aims to ease the mining manpower shortage by producing a steady stream of new labor. Students receive 38 shillings per week while leaving school. They then move to work under veteran miners.
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Cardiff
Wales
Minera
Salute Pioneer Sir Stenton Cooke Dies at 68
Sir Stenton Cooke, 68, secretary of the Automobile Association and father of the crossroads salute, died in Guildford England. He placed uniformed scouts at crossroads to salute horseless traffic to ease prejudice against newfangled buggies, aiding road courtesy.
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Guildford
England
Stenton Cooke
Automobile
Association
Ater Lan
Paris Officials Launch Eat More Rats Campaign
A Lisbon based Daily Mirror dispatch reports Paris authorities starting an eat more rate campaign. A Paris Academy of Medicine member is quoted saying rats are edible and even better than pork or rabbits.
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Daily Mirror
Lisbon
Paris
Academy of Medicine
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