War Friction and Censorship From a Canadian Shore
A Northwestern dispatch warns of wartime secrecy across Canada. It notes censors review writers work and travelers hear warnings about sharing military details. The piece reflects on war’s grim reality, contrasting peaceful seascapes with global conflict and the need to guard information.
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Scissors
Mr. Scissors
Breer
Canada
Boston
Hawaii
Canadian Seaboard
New York
Explosive Rivets Cut Time in Aircraft Assembly
The article describes explosive rivets built with a tiny charge in the rivet shank. After placement, heat triggers an explosion that expands the shank and seals the rivet, saving labor on sheet metal assemblies. It notes origin in 1921 and hints at further automation possibilities.
Yankee Doodle and the General’s Strict Muster
A humorous verse recalls General Lear doubly scandalized by soldiers and pretty girls in shorts during golf and parade. The piece gibes at rigid manners, marching 15 miles to camp, and the clash of army propriety with flirtatious scenes.
Chuckles in Camp Wheeler amid a wary retreat
Corporal Strickland and his squad maneuver near Camp Wheeler Georgia as Abraham Chernok a New York trainee of short stature becomes trapped in a deep wide ditch. He rages inside the ditch seeking a route out while the others watch.
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Camp Wheeler
Strickland
Abraham Chernok
New York
Chernok
Parisian Night Club Romance Fraught With Hidden Ties
Lita Damson and Jerry Lane perform as the famed dance duo at the Parisian, yet backstage weariness grows. Ruth Eustace, Ruth’s admirer Ken Richards, and Jerry’s cooling affection reveal entangled desires, masking the couple’s fading love and a restless drain of glamour.
Irresistible Wife in a World of Affairs
Ruth Eustace hosts a glamorous party as Ken Richards declares lifelong search and love. Ruth questions her marriage to Jerry while Lita and Jerry drift through a terrace kiss, revealing coldness behind passion and an exhausted, loveless life amid luxury. Page 9 continuation promised.
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Jerry
Ruth
Ruth Eustace
Lita
Ken
Nita
Ken Richards
Pagi 9
Modern woman’s life aided by mechanized home tasks
An essay on how household work is increasingly done with modern appliances and routines. It contrasts past savors of domestic labor with today’s machines, noting washing machines, stoves, and dishwashers ease chores while men help with dishes. It also introduces the Ladies of the Grail and Bishop Sheil’s push for social reform through lay women.
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Anna
Father
Annas
Nuns Embrace Modern Dress for Service in Chicago Area
Cardinal Mundelein applauds the Ladies of the Grail as they begin training near Chicago on a 115 acre Doddridge Farm donated by Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil. The group pledges chastity poverty and obedience while focusing on social service to working girls and urban poverty.
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Sheil
Catholi Church
United States
Netherlands
Limburg
Chicago
Jesus
U. S
Ly¢wine van Kersberger
van Kersbergen
Mundelein
Cardinal Mundelein
Ladies of the Grail
Bernard James Sheil
Doddridge Farm
Precedent for General Lear in '17
Two Kansas officers from Fort Riley in 1917 faced hazing during training by Captain Berkeley Merchant. A marching punishment of double time under heat produced a disciplined turn for weary soldiers, ending with a silent, exhausted barracks arrival and a debate over its propriety. The tale recalls endurance under harsh drill.
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Harrison Glidden
Leslie E. Edmonds
Glidden
Edmonds
Cer
Fort Riley
Berkeley T. Merchant
Merchant
Golden Be Highway
U. S. 40
Merchan
Catain
Invasion of Russia prompts questions about vast land
The article questions Germany's aims in invading Russia, recalls a historic Moscow march, and asks how the United States compares in size to the USSR and the distance from Leningrad to Vilnius, inviting readers to seek answers in Moscow.
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Germany
Rus
Europe
Moscow
Russia
United States
Union Soviet Socialist Republics
Leningrad
Vilavostoki
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Amarillo
Texas
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
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John McCarty
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Britain
Belshazzar
East Coast
Edgewood Arsenal
New Jersey
Chemical Warfare Section
Army
Gulf and Pacific
Central States
Henry McLemore
Sea
England
General Lear
Jim Coon
Lita Damson
Jerry Lane
Everbody
Henry Schlensker
By Donna Ashworth
Christian Science Monitor
Dorthea Kahn
Time Magazine
Topeka
Vast
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