Daughter of Destiny World of music and black lace at the club
Devona, anonymous at the start, endures a tense life as Dona Carlotta at El Mexicano. Macias pressures her with gifts and leverage while she fears his motives and the looming break in their contract. Dale Brasher arrives uninvited, confronting a recreated past.
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Club
el Mexicano
Devona
Jose Macias
Manuel
Macias
Sweetie Pie
Jardiniere
Dale
Brasher
Mr. Brasher
Inter nationalism as world peace pattern urged by Canadian minister
Hon Leighton McCarthy told the South Carolina society and Press Association that Canada and the United States have forged a new inter national pattern for permanent world peace through intermarriage and cross border business, stressing voluntary coexistence without foreign control. He argued force is not the solvent of international relations while noting over 10 million American workers rely on automobiles for commuting.
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Leighton McCarthy
Canada
United States
South Carolina Society
South Carolina Press Association
McCarthy
Belgian War Veteran Charlies Plancke Stuns Crowd On Talbot Street
A 68-year-old Belgian war veteran named Charlies Plancke attracted a large crowd in St Thomas Ontario with claims of changing height at will and two backbones after being struck by lightning in Belgium. He demonstrated through a 16 inch hoop and a 16 by 20 inch cage, insisting he travels to fall fairs to perform free shows with his portable apparatus. Plancke noted doctors could not explain his abilities and hinted he would travel from Port Stanley to perform. India’s population share and Richard Hoe’s rotary press mention close the passage.
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Charlies Plancke
Talbot Street
St. Thomas
Ont
Belgium
Plancke
Port Stanley
Port
Scrap iron drives fuel Canada war mills
Canada’s war industries ramp up production as scrap iron drives spread nationwide. A photo shows an electric crane hoisting scrap to munitions plant furnaces, with the iron later destined to become 500-pound bombs for Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Germany
Kaiser’s South American alliance plan with Britain in 1901
Lord Middleton details in Records and Reactions a Kaiser proposal to Britain to back a German territorial claim in South America. He envisioned a joint alliance to deter the United States, enabling German troops and a 500000-strong German population, with Britain keeping Russia at bay. Lord Salisbury dismissed the idea, not reporting to the cabinet.
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London Times
Osborne
Lord Middleton
Britain
Germany
South America
England
United States
Kaiser
Russia
Lord Midleton
Lord Salisbury
Quotations on Charity and Benevolence Across Authors
A collection of maxims from Adam Smith Thackeray Quarles Mary Baker Eddy Richter and Middleton praising selflessness. The lines urge humility benevolence justice and aid to others as central to human virtue.
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Adam Smith
Gilead
Golconda
Mary Baker Eddy
Farmer Antoin Devaux Upholds Gas Regulation In Alberta
Antoine Devaux a Alberta farmer towed a stranded motorist to Calgary after refusing to sell gasoline before the allowed hour and leaving a drum of fuel secured on his truck. He explained he would not engage in bootlegging and kept the drum intact as he drove away.
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Antoine Devaux
Cheadle
Alta
Devaux
Red Deer
Calgary
Macleod
Mr. Devaux
Mr. Bevaux
Oldest Mexican pawnshop marks 166th anniversary
Monte de Piedad in Mexico City, a government pawnshop believed to be the oldest in the Americas and a aid to stranded visitors, recently observed its 166th anniversary. The item also mentions a remark about Hitler seeking peace via a Russian adventure illustrating the low value of his signature and notes Saudi Arabia’s desert landscape.
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Monte de Piedad
Mexico City
Americas
Hitler
Learn to Dance the Waltz With Easy Footprints
A Winnipeg Home Service feature offers a 32 page booklet teaching the waltz and other popular steps with footprint diagrams and quick instructions. It promises smooth weight shifts and light movement for romance and includes a mail order request for 15 cents plus a list of additional booklets available.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Fire Watching Kin George Mocked by Memoir
A London correspondent recalls King George's fire watching habit and his grandfather King Edward VII’s hands on approach. An anecdote recounts the Prince of Wales pausing at a blaze and gifting a cigar and monogrammed case after a journalist said he would keep the memento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Edward VII
London
Ottawa Journal
Fleet Street
Prince of Wales
Singing the National Anthem and the Balloon Barrage
The text notes a common mispronunciation in the National Anthem ending with God save our King rather than God save the King. It contrasts this with London’s World War II balloon barrage later evolving from 35 balloons to hundreds.
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King
God
London
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Miss Innocence
Freda Camp
Freda
Louis Quinze
Dana
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Fellows
Dale Brasher
Main Street
India
Richard Hoe
Food For Canada's War Mills
Teath
Sky Rocket
Urricane
Catalina
St. Lawrence Starch Co., Limited
Port Credit
Thackeray
Richter
Middleton
Alberta
Saudi Arabia
Home Service
Edward VI
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