The Pursuit of Von Roon Through London Streets
A tall elderly man, Otto von Roon, exits the chambers and distracts two guards while a sleuth pursues him through Shaftesbury Avenue and Piccadilly. Von Roon boards a Victoria omnibus, while the hunter plans to precede him to ensure his escape route. The chase continues as both men head toward the coast, with von Roon eyeing Dieppe or Boulogne as a potential exit.
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Otto von Roon
von Roon
Shaftesbury Avenue
Chilvers
Picadilly Circus
von Koon
van Roon
Ticcadilly Circus
Criterion
Bineet
Pengte
Victoria
Vor Koon
Wiccadilly Circus
Jeron
France
Metz
Folkestone
Boulogne
Newhaven
Dieppe
Calais
England
Piccadilly Chreris
Penny For A Shave Trick At The Barber Shop
A shabby stranger enters a barber shop and asks to shave one side of his face for a penny. The barber plays along, asking which side to shave and the stranger replies with the outside. The brief prank relies on a wry misunderstanding and humor from the tableaux.
Riddling exam answer from fourteen year old clerk hopeful
In a recent exam a boy named Robert aged fourteen faced the question who would officiate if the premier and cabinet perished. After a pause he answered with a witty solution: the undertaker. Vancouver Province.
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Robert
Vancouver
Soup Pot Tips For Home Cooks In Wartime Canada
Canadian housewives are advised to use the soup pot to utilize leftovers and stretch meat. Good stock comes from bones and scraps, avoiding starchy additions, with simmering preferred over boiling. Vegetable peelings yield a clear stock. note it won t keep long.
Large Feet Doomed to Discharge at Camp Travis
Private Ivey Cleveland of the 12th company, third battalion, 165th depot brigade at Camp Travis is honorably discharged because the quartermaster could not supply size 14 shoes. He tried to wear No 14s, but military support would cost $20 a pair or require a boot maker for France, so the War Department approved discharge.
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Quartermaster Department
Ivey Cleveland
165Th Depot Brigade
Camp Travis
Cleveland
War Department
France
British Officer Questioning Ride Amid Quebec Stables
A comic panel shows a British officer scolding a raw recruit chasing a spirited horse toward a riding school doorway. The recruit jokes that the horse’s home is in Canada as the scene unfolds in a tongue in cheek Ottawa Citizen caption.
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Canada
Ottawa Citizen
Alberta Land Brings High Prices
Alberta experiences strong farm land sales with rising prices. Raymond near Lethbridge saw 2000 acres sell for 120000 dollars, while Rosebud area reports large plots trading at 50 to 55 dollars per acre. Across the province both large and small tracts are changing hands at notable gains over years past.
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Alberta
Raymond
Lethbridge
Rosebud
Freezone Lifts Corns With No Pain Says Cincinnati Authority
A Cincinnati authority says freezone can lift all corns or calluses painlessly. A small bottle costs little at any drug store and dries on contact without irritating surrounding skin. If local druggists lack freezone, request it from wholesale houses.
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Cincinnati
Exemption Rights for B C and D Men Under Service Act
Judge Advocate General Biggar states that men in medical B C or D categories who are later called may claim exemption on any grounds. Lower category men are not now required to present claims until their class is called, at which time they may present grounds as category A men. No new order has been issued.
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Biggar
Pat and Rastus exchange jibe over eye injury
A brief exchange shows Pat taunting Rastus about sharing a black eye if Pat leaves him one. The humor relies on a misdirection about eye injury and pride in a Boston dialect script.
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Pat
Rastus
Boston Transcript
War Gardening: Gardeners Mature for Even Bigger Harvests
The piece notes that last year’s war gardeners learned by experience and now must work seriously as famine looms. It cites a $350 million crop from backyard and vacant lots and predicts a harvest to exceed a billion dollars this year, aiding troops and allies while improving gardeners’ health and family meals.
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National War Garden Commission
Portlan d congressman’s humorous car depot reply
One day as he left his Portland office the late Thomas Reed was accosted by a drunken stranger who asked where to get a car for the depot. Reed answered that at the next corner two cars would be visible, take the first one and the other won’t be there.
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Portland
Thomas Bb. Reed
Mr. Reed
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