All That Glitters Chapter XXVI
Ransome and companions search a deserted broom corn field for clues to Tamar’s disappearance after a suspected forced landing. They find a bent gold ring, learn a truck driver was forced to aid the criminals, and are warned of a bomb threat as they race to Shadwell and a potential hostage ransom.
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Dick Sheridan
Rawson
FBI
Ransome
Tamar
Knox Randolph
Taylor
Shadwell
Randolph
Ranny
Phoebe
Yassuh
Tahlahneka
Knox
Bud
Hell
Smile Awhile Comic Snippets From a Daily Page
A collage of light jokes and quips from a newspaper page. Wry exchanges feature a teacher and student, a visitor and hostess, a waiter with a tiny steak, and a hotel operator. Observations span marriage Hollywood gossip and farming quips with a playful, old time tone.
Sailors Heroism Recalls Battleship Sinkings In World News
CBSs Cecil Brown recalls the Prince of Wales and Repulse disaster, praising the heroism of sailors amid oil, sickness, and noise. He highlights Morris Graney saving comrades on a raft and Admiral Phillips taking the ships out in Singapore. Brown notes the final act on the Wales bridge as water rose.
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CBC
Tel
CBS
Cecil Brown
Liberty Magazine
Nelson
England
Brown
Morris Graney
Graney
Tom Phillips
Singapore
Prince of Wales
Far East
Captain Leach
Wales
Phillips
Leach
All Bran Refrigerator Rolls Recipe for Hot Days
A compact home recipe for All Bran Refrigerator Rolls. Mix shortening sugar All Bran and salt with boiling water then cool add eggs yeast and flour. Chill overnight then form in muffin pans, let rise, and bake at 425 degrees for about 15 minutes. yields about three dozen rolls.
Sticky job saves rationed sugar from wrecked warehouse
The London Times notes that British salvage crews have saved nearly three-quarters of foodstuffs damaged by air raids. A large sugar stock survived in a basement after sheds burned, described as a very sticky task. Treacle formation occurs when sugar rains, but ongoing salvage minimizes wastage as refined sugar is processed.
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London Times
Amber Fossils Reveal Insects From Ancient Forests
Fossilized Baltic amber specimens in the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto reveal perfectly preserved prehistoric insects. The piece mentions amber’s global finds and its link to ancient forests. A separate note cites a four motor troop transport for wartime needs and a quip on chairmen.
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Baltic
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto
CBC Overseas Unit aids troops with weekly troop broadcasts
A small CBC unit from the Programme and Engineering Division coordinates life abroad for Canadian listeners by arranging and recording weekly personal greetings from soldiers sailors airmen nurses and workers in England. Names of participants are released to the Canadian Press to appear in papers days before the broadcast and later broadcast after News Analysis.
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CBC
Corporation
Britain
Canada
England
Ottawa
C.D.T
D.T
CBE
Watrous
Regulated Canada Bans Raw Garbage Feeding for Pigs
A joint paper by Dr. T. W. M. Cameron and Dr. M. J. Miller before the Royal Society of Canada in Toronto compared pork safety. It notes Canada has a regulation banning feeding pigs raw garbage, while the United States shows about 17 percent infection with trichinosis compared to Canada’s one percent.
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Canada
United States
T. W. M. Cameron
M. J. Miller
Royal Society of Canada
Toronto
An Imposing Total Cleaning Windows On One Man
The Manchester Guardian correspondent describes a neighbor's house with 26 downstairs windows and 22 upstairs windows. Each window averages 22 panes, totaling 3 456 panes and 13 824 corners to desmudger. With two sides per pane the task doubles to nearly 28 000 pane corners to tackle.
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Manchester Guardian
French saboteurs blow up radio transmitter
French saboteurs failed to shut Radio Paris but destroyed the German propaganda transmitter instead, cutting off broadcasts and signaling active resistance.
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Par.s
Save Old Rags They Are Desperately Needed Por War Purposes
War era appeal urging every household to donate rags and woollens for war production. Ottawa Salvage Director cites rags for aircraft wipers and army workshops aboard ships. asks careful packing and separation of clean and soiled materials and direct delivery to local salvage organizations or dealers.
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Ottawa
Overcoming Nerves and Daily Health Problems
A 32 page booklet by a famous physician explains causes of nerves and how diet and exercise aid serenity and vitality. Learn to manage stress, sleep, meals, and leisure activities to improve health. Send 15c to Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for a copy. Also notes New York City has over 665000 buildings.
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John
Mary
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
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Royal NS
Duck Point Rd
Duck Point
Sheridan
Ene
Jes
Natcheral
Robert
Siri
Enel
Hollywood
Betty
Bentover
Commerial Aviation
America
Dr Hardware & General Stores
Chester House
Home Service
New York City
Lydia FE Pinkham
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