Social Week end Visits Highlight Town Gossip
Miss Frances Hurst returns from Mindemoya for the weekend as nurses and residents from Toronto and Montreal visit friends and relatives here. Locals include Mr and Mrs McDonald in Guelph, Mrs Wansbrough’s family in Toronto, and several guests at Moorecroft and the homes of Gibbons and Richardson. This weekend features reunions with Kitchener area families and celebrations for Mrs H Moore’s eighty seventh birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Scott
Lorna Dillane
Barbara Arnott
David Richardson
T. P. Robinson
T. A. Moore
Norme
Dorothy Moore
Toronto
Moorecroft
W.H. Speight
Aimee Speight
H. P. Moore
Card of Thanks for Mrs Cameron Ramshaw
Mrs Cameron Ramshaw deeply appreciates the kindness shown by neighbors and friends after the sudden death of her husband. The support has been a great comfort during this bereavement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron Ramshaw
Swiss Farmers Fight Hail With Rocket Barrage
Swiss farmers used hail rockets near Spiez to create air holes in the clouds, raising the temperature to keep hail from forming. The blasts opened gaps about a kilometer wide, but regions outside the range still suffered heavy hail and crop damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barne
Switzerland
Spiez
Stockholm Liquor Monopoly Cuts Individual Rations
The Swedish state liquor authority lowers personal distilled alcohol quotas from four to three quarts per month in peacetime. The move tightens access to spirits for consumers across the country amid wartime measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
CTP
Cheap But Chic For Farmerette
Riviera fashions return to the farm with a terry robe in red and white. A chambray work apron with aide pockets and a two piece cotton corduroy suit are featured. Also shown is a corduroy tam and a collegiate style nightshirt with lopped knae—off design details blurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Riviera
Grandpa
School club sport notes highlight gymnasts and badminton
The piece discusses junior and senior boys and girls tackling new gymnastic moves, a revived Badminton Club with old and new members, and social efforts by the Ladies Auxiliary and Y’s Men to provide meals. Table tennis grows in popularity as space is expanded for players and a Monday calisthenics class is proposed for teens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Norm
Y's Men
Y's
Downstaira
Plasto Will Diverts Estate From Public Stocks
Peter Plasto directs in his will that his estate of £114000 be diverted from public stocks or funds to avoid government ruinous war or socialism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Peter Plasto
Crimea
Rostov
Kharkov
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Leg Fitting by British Craftsmen Aids War Injured
The Royal Air Force drops Wing Commander Bader’s new artificial leg in northern France. In London a hundred citizens weekly fit artificial legs for servicemen and civilians, with 3090 workers in wood leather and metal. Since 1934 the workshops supply all UK Ministry of Pensions legs and parts to Dominions and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Air Force
France
Bader
Ds.o
D.F.C
London
Ministry of Pensions
Dominions
United States
J. E. Hanger
D.S.O
Eashier
Nazi Slave Army in Germany’s War Economy
Report notes the Berlin regime mobilizes 1.4 million prisoners of war and 1.5 million foreign civilians into industry and agriculture, signaling a vast slave labor program aiding the Nazi war effort across occupied territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
CPT
Berlin
Peport
Germany
Weekly War Commentary on Moscow defense and Allied responses
Evacuation and troop movements described with focus on Moscow defense against Nazi thrusts from north west and south. Reports note Soviet resilience amid heavy German pressure and warnings of renewed offensives as Axis forces consolidate in Ukraine and Donets basin. Also covered are reprisals in occupied Europe, Yugoslav resistance, and Allied shipping losses including the Lehigh and Bold Venture with U.S. piracy stance quoted from President Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rostov
Ukraine
Kharkov
Moscow
Capltit
London
Germany
Stallito
Donets
Marshall Spmeon Budenny
Kar F. Holtz
Nantes
France
Cetnik
Save
Drina
Serbia
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Montenegro
Yugoslavia
Otto von Stuelpnagel
Holtz
England
United States
Atlantic
Iceland
Ward
Lehigh
Bilbao
Africa
Roosevelt
German Bands Return Instruments to Prison Camp Stalag XXA
Red Cross ships complete instrument sets to Stalag XXA as eight of ten craftsmen turn to aeroplane parts and munitions. Larger camps receive weekly bands with 3 violins 1 viola 1 concert flute 1 clarinet 1 oboe 1 bassoon alto and tenor saxophones 1 guitar trumpet trombone and drums. Regimental bands are revived as in 1914 and 1916 efforts, while British instrument makers again struggle to meet demand for music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Stalag Xxa
Germany
Kitchener
Breen O Rourke wedding at St Josephs Church Acton
A quiet ceremony was performed at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Acton on Wednesday morning October 15. Sheila Rosaleen Breen daughter of Mr and Mrs James Breen became the wife of Dorsmond O Rourke. The bride wore a wine crepe suit with navy accessories and was attended by her sister Mrs R G Nystrand Kirkland Lake. Mr Kevin Green, brother of the bride, was best man. Irene Mulholland played the wedding music. A wedding breakfast followed at the bride's home for the bridal party and immediate family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kevin Green
Irene Mulholland
Fire Bomb Alarms Tested To Detect Bomb Impact
Britain considers automatic fire bomb alarms to warn the moment a device enters a building. A research committee reports on detectors that are triggered by circuit rupture or by light from the blast, aiming to ring before fire starts. The effort is standardized by the British Standards Institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Ministry of Home Security
Institution’ of Electrical Engineers
Bolton couple remanded for absence from unit
A. W. Bolton and his wife from the Auxiliary Training Service faced court for being absent without leave from their posts. The report notes their status as private and wife within the service.
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Bolton
Eng
Auxilary Training Service
Trison
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frances Hurst
Mindemoya
Delaine Gibbons, R.N
A. Kenneth McDonald
Mr.Little
Everton
Beverley Arnold
Acton
Frank Day of
Rockwood
Mrs. Wansbrough
Kenneth McDonald
Guelph
Morrell
Gordon Ragnovaldson
Marilyn
Annie Somerville
John Harvey
Messrs
Roy and
Harold Wansbrough
Robert Currie
Milton West
Angus McDonald
Dolly Varden
Harry Harding
Burns
Sarnia
R. Price
A. McEachern
Young Street
Grace Murphy
Margaret Robinson
Addie Cooney
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Thomas Gibbons
Handy Crean
George Wallace
Clothes Shop
Yonge St
Yuko
Mill Street
Mr. and Mrs. Dacosiz
C. K. Stevenson
Milton
Conault
Erin
Completa
Boy Hindley
Bette Davis
James Cagney
Dizzy Doings
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
Gene Autry
Fox News
Mary Dugan
Robert Young
Luraine Day
Popular Science
Ught
Mlea
Instiution
Man and
Wife A.W
B.D. Rachlin
Cambridge
Coppley
Noyes & Randall Ltd
Hamilton
Sen
MR. R. E
MacKenzie Cambridge
Navy
Boya Krush
Elliott Bros
Canada
Prices and Trase Board
Lewubetteres'y
Arasis
Rik
Worenes
Wasing Capsel
Hadev
Colin
Elabots
Wil
Adedig Teleabeia
Tay
Esiles
Lavelie
Vancouver
Edmonton
Regina
Winnipeg
Halifax
Saint John
Charlottetown
de Bemis —Onvawa, Cirtind
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