Harbor Drama Turns on a 50-Pound Red Fish
Walter Williams helps Dean provoke the game warden over a 50 pound red fish during a yacht club outing. The incident costs Walter his job as Ellen and her father discuss a new boat and potential future together. The boss plans to fire Walter tomorrow after a tense day.
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Walter Williams
Blain
Ellen Blain
Dean
Walter
Beat
Deer Island
Mr. Blain
Ellen
Boat Company
Yacht Club
Zeppelins Fire London Raid of 1915 Drops 90 Bombs
The 1915 German Zeppelin raid on London marks early use of incendiaries by air power with one airship dropping ninety fire bombs, signaling a new tactic in aerial warfare.
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London
Treasure trove uncovered in Austrian Alps by U.S. troops
The state treasure of Hungary weighing heavy in gold, art, and jewels, hidden on a Spital Am Pyhrn mountain site, was unearthed by the U.S. 80th Infantry Division. It included 29,900 kilograms of gold bullion, bank note plates, Reichsmarks, and royal treasures guarded by Hungarian officials. Germans fled as Allied forces arrived.
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Hungary
U.S. 80Th
Spital Am Pyhrn
William J. de- Huszar
Chicago
Budapest
Royal Bank of Hungary
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Gestapo
80Th Division
No Illusions on Peace From Wartime Mindset
H V Morton reflects in the BBC Life at Home series that Britain faces tough peace after war, noting demobilization memories, the false hope of a Golden Age, and the need for leadership vision faith truthfulness self sacrifice and a new moral code.
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H. V. Morton
B.B.C
England
Buttonfront Frock Pattern 4649 Advertised for Winnipeg
Pattern 4649 offers a dress with front skirt gathers to hide figure faults and a contrast binding. Available in sizes 12 through 40, with size 16 requiring 2% yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg Man. mail delays may occur.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Retribution and Justice for Nazi War Crimes
The Toronto Financial Post notes that while punishing all Nazis may be unlikely, the current climate is worrisome for many as Mussolini and others face consequences. It argues for thorough, prompt accountability to deter enemies and show that justice, not persecution, is prevailing.
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Mussolini
Toronto Financial Po#t
Japan's World Conquest Claims In 50 Years
Colliers notes Japan seized 2,796,600 square miles of land in the past five decades and ruled 368,212,000 people across eight nations. It lists territories including Guam Wake and the Philippines and claims Japan controlled 21 percent of the world’s population a year ago.
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Japan
China
Britain
France
Thailand
Russia
Portugal
Netherlands
United States
Guam
Wake
Philippines
Branding for Cattle Identification Sparks Hide Quality Debate
The article discusses minimizing branding impact on hides by using small marks placed on ears jaw neck shoulder thigh or rump. It notes Western Canada semi ranch conditions require identification and cites Brazil’s 1939 law banning body branding. Only brands within a 41% inch circle may be used on the cheek neck or leg below the belly line.
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Canada
Brazil
Selected Recipes For Fruit Cakes With Nuts And Cherries
A detailed fruit cake recipe lists butter sugar eggs milk vanilla lemon juice and mixed dry ingredients with flour cornstarch baking powder plus glace cherries citron peel orange peel lemon peel almonds and walnuts. The batter is baked in two 8 by 8 by 3 inch pans at a slow oven for several hours after creaming and folding.
Dutch Workers Bury Whole Plane To Save Secrets
Dutch factory workers in Amsterdam during the German occupation secretly assembled an entire Fokker plane from stolen parts and buried it on factory grounds to preserve manufacture details for Allied inspection after liberation.
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Fokker
Amsterdam
Wartime brides surge as air force fundraisers rise
A campaign in Johannesburg to raise £200,000 for the South African Air Force and the RAF reports that more than 2,900 British airmen have married South African women. The article notes many American and Canadian soldiers also taking British and Australian wives.
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Johannesburg
RAF
English court clears teachers of caning assault case
An English court acquitted two school masters of assaulting an 11 year old boy by caning him. It found the caning not excessive. The Brockville Recorder and Times laments that the cane and strap have fallen out of favor, arguing harsher discipline would curb juvenile delinquency.
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Brockville
Four nations border the Black Sea
The Black Sea borders four nations Russia Turkey Romania and Bulgaria. The note appears to be a simple geographic fact with no further context or events.
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The
Black Sea
Russia
Turkey
Romania
Bulgaria
Letters Across the Channel Bind Britain and America
An Empire Digest note reports about 700,000 American soldiers send letters weekly to British friends while 700,000 Brits write to U S soldiers on the Western Front. The 1.4 million weekly letters symbolize a lasting bond between nations never seen before.
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English Channel
Britain
U.S
America
Empire Digest
Physical chemistry clears raindrops from pilot turret
Scientists report a method using physical chemistry to dispel raindrops that collect on an airplane pilot’s turret, reducing vision obstruction and improving flight safety amid turbulent weather.
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Goering
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Germany
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Sherbourne St
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