Hatred Grows in Occupied Lands During War Years
Dozens of reports describe German rule in Czechia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and France. Occupiers enjoy privileges while locals face shortages and repression. resistance appears through posters, whispers, and bold acts as civilians seek to undermine Nazi control. Meanwhile, Allied troops and mail innovations, like photo filmed letters, signal changing communications amid global conflict.
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Germany
Holland
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
France
Amsterdam
Poznan
England
RAF
Royal Air Force
Brussels
le Pays Reel
Churchill
A Well Trained Servant
A Rhinebeck Gazette note extols newspaper advertising as a quiet helpful service not intrusive or obstructive. It compares ads to a well trained servant always ready to assist without interrupting daily life or enjoyment.
Grandmother earns private pilot license in Bristol
Mrs Alfred Zachary aged 49 and grandmother of four obtained a private pilot license in Bristol Virginia after 35 hours of instruction the minimum. She is a staff member at Sullins College and hopes to become a flight instructor to teach young men to fly. Florida and Mississippi require only one license plate for cars. The best part of education is self taught.
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Alfred Zachary
Bristol
Zachary
Sullins College
Nantwich Residents Paid To Live In Historic Plan
In Nantwich England residents were paid to live as a unique town policy. Born locals and long-time taxpayers received annual sums from Beam Heath revenue, varying from 2.50 to 6.25. After losing the tract under the Enclosure Act in 1803 the town recovered the land by 1823 and set up a trustees committee to rent it and distribute the proceeds.
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Nantwich
England
Britain
Beam Heath
Overseas Appointment for Lt Col Milton F Gregg V C
Lt Col Milton F Gregg V C sergeant at arms of the House of Commons is named to command an officer cadet training unit in Great Britain. He rotates from command of the West Nova Scotia Regiment after recovering from a hospital illness. Ottawa reports the posting.
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Milton F. Gregg
V.C
House of Commons
Great Britain
Ottawa
Gregg
West Nova Scotia Regiment
Historic Cairn Relocation at Kaministikwia Portage Site
The Department of Mines and Resources reports relocating the historic cairn and tablet marking the Kaministikwia Portage near Fort William Ontario. Erected 1927 at Pointe de Meuron erosion endangered the old cairn, a public-spirited Fort William group funded a new cairn on Crown land donated by J. K. McG. Gibson. The new site at Broadway Avenue and Pointe de Meuron road visibility will aid travellers. The Kaministikwia Portage marks a historic canoe landing used since 1688 by de Noyon and later explorers and fur traders including Lord Selkirk, who wintered there in 1816–17.
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Department of Mines and Resources
Pointe de Meuron
Fort William
Ontario
J. K. McG. Gibson
Broadway Avenue
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Great West
Jacques de Noyon
Rainy Lake
Lord Selkirk
de Meuron
Red River
Seven Oaks
Famous English Novelist Walpole Admits Bachelor Life
The Woodstock Sentinel Review notes Sir Hugh Walpole, the English novelist who died recently, never married and lived in bachelor apartments in London. It recalls his remark that constant questions from a partner would wear on him and suggests bachelorhood may not be a true choice, while praising home and family as civilization’s foundation.
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Si Hugh Walpole
London
Sir Hugh Walpole
Woodstock
Pineapple Doilies Crochet Pattern 6983 Sale Notice
Here is a simple yet exquisite crochet pattern for pineapple design doilies made in fine cotton. Pattern 6983 includes instructions illustrations stitches and a photograph of daily with required materials. Send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man to obtain the pattern.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Public Interest In Salvage Campaign Supported By Weekly Press
Canadian weekly newspapers sustain public interest in the National Salvage Campaign. William Knightley cites strong local committees, editorial support, and daily reports as driving efforts to collect metals, rags, and paper. Poets’ verses are used to boost fundraising while Canadians are urged to participate directly in salvage work for war production.
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Canada
Weekly Press
William Knightley
Knightley
Sundo Products of
Toronto
Mr. Knightley
Germany
Berlin
Hamburg
Hitler
Stories From France Passive resistance in London reports
Free French circles recount resistance acts against Nazis in occupied and unoccupied France. Paris cafes display German belts and pumps as French imitate the gesture, a German officer wears a paper reading De Gaulle Temm while Parisians read De Gaulle t aime. A punishment in Caen forces 200 repetitions of Mes sieurs les Allamands. The article notes the Great Harry as Henry VII's 1500 ship and Shanghai hosts a circus with a cannon-shot man.
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London
France
Paris
Boulevard St. Michel
de Gaulle
Factory turns out 3,000,000th shell with king watching
A home counties plant produced its 3,000,000th shell of a specific type as the King observed. The factory relied heavily on machinery of German manufacture supplied to Britain before the war, a fact noted in reports. The Nile valley of Egypt is said to contain about 54 pyramids.
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Home Counties
Britain
Nile Valley
Egypt
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By Alma S. Wittima
Middle East
Pnaghad
Wavell
United Kingdom
British Isles
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Florida
Mississippi
United States
Death Valley
Calif
Joseph Haerens
Adolf Hitler
Kaministikwia
Portage Historic Site
Hugh Walpole
Royal Navy
Silent Service
Admiralty
John Cashe
Daily Herald
Winston Churchill
Naval Staff
Navy
War Cabinet
Rome
Harry
Henry VII
Shanghai
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