Homer Wins Hurdle Race and Learns Love and Rivalry
Homer clears every hurdle to win a race and meets Diana Steed then faces Helen Elliot and Hubert Ackley in a birthday telegram incident. He questions love and friendship, recalls family memories, and considers fate and enemy turning to ally as he ponders soldiers and death.
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Homer
Miss Hick
Helen
Diana_ Steed
Tom Spangler
Tom
Mr. Spangler
Darling
Spangler
Ulysses
Helen Elliot
Hubert Ackley
Grogan
Helens House
Hubert
Ackley
Marcus
War and love weigh on a young man’s path to adulthood
Grogan counsels that dying can serve a greater plan while Homer confronts weighty questions about love, duty, and growing up. Spangler reveals Diana’s affection and impending engagement, prompting Homer to ponder real love and its impact on his future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grogan
Homer
Spangler
Willie
Diana
Corbetts
Tom Spangler
Mr. Spangler
Sun Dance Persists At Bannack Creek And Buffalo Lodges
At Fort Hall Idaho the sun dance continues with middle aged and squaws performing while Bannack and Shoshone men serve in the armed forces. Dancers fast for two days and three nights, receive water from swamp reeds, and seek health and crop prosperity.
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Fort Hall
Idaho
Bannack Creek
Buffalo Lodges
Buffalo Lodge
Boys Help Farmers Wages Earned By Farm Commando Buy War Savings Certificates
Ralph Truro a 13 year old from Toronto joins Farm Commandos during holidays. He saves every cent in War Savings Stamps and Certificates and bought a Victory Bond. He aims to help bring home soldiers and plans to use earnings for high school and university. He learns to drive horses and milk cows and aspires to be a pilot.
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Ralph Truro
Toronto
Ralph
St. Brigid's School
Air Force
Jim
Gearing Dental Public Health for Wartime Needs
Public Health Service official W J Pelton argues for priority dental care in extreme wartime conditions. He urges distributing dentists to critical areas, expanding school services, using sub professional staff, and limiting refined dental appliances to serve the most people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Pelton
D.D.S
M.S.P.H
U.S. Public Health Service
American Journal of Public Health
Canadian cameraman among first ashore in Sicily invasion
Sgt Allan Grayston of Montreal, former Associated Screen News cameraman, is among the first Canadians to land in Sicily with a motion picture camera to record Canadian assault troops. Twelve photographers are documenting Sicilian operations. Grayston, Ottawa native educated in Montreal, joined the 17th Hussars and later the Royal Montreal Regiment. He was chosen for the Canadian Army Film Unit in 1941 and is the son of Montreal photographer W P Grayston.
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Allan Grayston
Montreal
Associated Screen News
Sicily
Grayston
Ottawa
17Th Hussars
Royal Montreal Regiment
W. P. Grayston
Glass wedding in Edinburgh hats the spun glass gown story
An English paper reports Miss Helen Nairn Munro, lecturer in glass etching, marries Professor W F E S Turner at St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh. She wears a six yard pale blue spun glass dress with glass accessories and painted glass flowers. The piece notes a glassy union with a witty warning against fragile romance.
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St. Giles
Edinburgh
Helen Nairn Munro
Edinburgh College of Art
W. F E. S. Turner
Glass Technology
Sheffield University
Peterborough Examiner
Britain loses farmland to war and industry as yields rise
The article notes that Britain's agricultural land loss to military and industrial use surpasses gains from three years of marsh reclamation. It also reports a 70 percent rise in soil output over pre war crops. It then mentions Borneo's proboscis monkey with a long nose that must be held aside while eating.
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Victory Garden
Britain
Borneo
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Canadian Shredded Wheat Company
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Glass of Fashion
International Red Cross
Legion
Daily Mail
W.W. C. MacDonald Inc
P. O. Box
Place d'Armes
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