The Honor Of Yee Shan Yee
Yee Shan Yee hides his shame by returning to honor through a risky act of mail fraud that exposes a gambling ring. Stephen Holiday, now district attorney, learns who framed him and uses the stolen money’s trace to uncover the scheme. Yee's sacrifice restores his dignity and secures a wedding gift.
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Stephen Holiday
Stephen
Vee
Missy Alice
Stephen Manly
Alice
Steve
Hami
Yee
China
America
Kwantung Province
San Francisco
Tim Donovan
Safety carpet marks Lords stand limits in historic chamber
A red bordered carpet in the house of lords marks the boundary where members may stand when addressing the body. The feature is believed to date to when swords were carried, helping ensure a safe distance during possible altercations.
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House of Lords
Charcoal’s Role From Gunpowder to Hospital Stoves
Scientists praise charcoal as a shield against gas and a key filter in Teapuirator. Charcoal’s use spans gunpowder history to modern explosives, furnace temperature control, and even hospital portable stoves. British burners cultivate wood, build conical kilns, and grade coal from two inch lumps to dust for medical use.
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Roger Bacon
Imiade
Britain
Four Erps films added to Saskatchewan school library
The Department of Education announced four new Visual Education films by Erps on Canada’s four sections Pacific Prairie Industrial and Maritime Provinces. Additional films from the National Film Board cover Niagara Peninsula Prince Edward Island glass forestry cooperation and North American Indians. One third of U S land area is government owned.
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Canada
Erps Film Company
Saskatchewan
Department of Education
Pacific Province
Prairie Provinces
Maritime Provinces
National Film Board of Canada
Niagara Peninsula
Prince Edward Island
Modern war correspondent born of danger and grit
Dave Boone in the New York Sun compares the current war reporter to past eras. He says today’s journalist faces constant danger, becoming a commando with a typewriter and a ranger with a pad and pencil.
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Dave Boone
The
New York Sun
Children’s Clothing Exchange Aids Wartime Mothers In England
The Women’s Volunteer Services run a children’s clothing exchange that lets mothers trade outgrown clothes for others. Its wartime success prompts calls to continue the scheme after the war to aid large families.
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Children’s Clothing Exchange
England
Women's Volunteer Services
Canada Faces Paper Shortage for War Effort
Salvage waste paper remains Canada's top need with a demand of 20,000 tons monthly. Shortages slow vital paper products for war such as newsprint wrappings bags cardboard and old magazines and corrugated boxes.
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Canada
Combating the Housefly Through Community Action
The housefly spreads disease and contaminates food by breeding in filth and transferring bacteria via its body. Public health guidance urges destroying breeding sites through proper waste disposal and improved sanitation. A free leaflet from the Dominion Department of Agriculture explains methods to protect food and seal entry points.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Pattern 4799 playsuit and coordinating jacket set
Simple to sew pattern 4799 offers a playsuit with a trim jacket and button-front skirt. Available in misses sizes 12 through 20 with size 16 using 17% yards of 35 inch fabric for top and shorts. Send 20 cents and include size name address and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Indian Army Medical Corps expands field units and nursing service
The Indian Army Medical Corps now has 300 major field units and attaches an Army Nursing Service. Women doctors and nurses, as well as men, are eligible for service wherever Indian units are in action. Many new medical schools have been opened.
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Indian Army Medical Corps
Army Nursing Service
They Learn Fast Boys Ask Rescued Airmen For Gum
After bailing out of a Fortress over enemy territory the crew landed in their dinghy and walked ashore to a South Coast promenade. A crowd of youngsters pressed around asking, Have you any chewing gum, mister.
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Brighton
Sergeant Douses CWAC With Hose At Currie Barracks
A Calgary sergeant gardener aimed a hose at lilac bushes outside officers’ quarters and threatened to drown the next CWAC. A khaki skirt appeared, and the officer, Major Doris Weston, revealed the crown on the epaulet. She apologized, saying she would have done the same. In Regina, Captain Patricia Hamel leads a CWAC unit bidding during a bridge game.
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Currie Barracks
Calgary
CWAC
Doris Weston
113 Depot Company
The
O.C
Patricia Hamel
Regina
Sask
CWAC troupe disbands as members join war effort
Dorothy Sage leads the Victory Entertainers mobile recruiting unit through Saskatchewan while the CWAC group dissolves. L-Cpl Margaret Young shines at a Fort Garry sports program with multiple wins. Beverly Moyston and Frerill Jones, Jamaica natives, enlist in CWAC and plan study in Canada after the war. Mace is a spice noted in the text.
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Dorothy Sage
Saskatoon Sask
Victory Entertainers
CWAC
N.C.O
Dorothy
L-Cpl
Margaret Young
Kelwood
Man
Fort Garry
Margaret
Beverly Moyston
Frerill Jones
Jamaica
CWAS
Toronto
Pte. Moyston
Pte. Jones
Jeeps with light blades used as snow plows by Canadian army
Jeeps fitted with light blade plows are in service with the Canadian army for snow clearing. The improvised equipment supports operations in harsh winter conditions, enabling mobile snow removal by frontline units.
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ROYAL
Mane Basi
Yee Shan Yee
United States
Canadian Army
L. M. Kirkwood
Lieut
R. C. Hilborn
R. Fraser
G. L
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