Benes Urges Allies to Topple Nazi Regime for Peace
Eduard Benes, exiled former president of Czecho Slovakia, said the Allies must not fail in toppling Nazism. He argued every state bears government responsibility and called for European solidarity, a recreated League of Nations, and guaranteed freedom for smaller Central European states.
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Eduard Benes
Czecho-Slovakia
Arm of Justice
Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Chemistry In Agriculture Marks A Century Of Fertilizer Industry
The article notes 1940 as the 100th anniversary of Britain's chemical fertilizer birth and honors Dr Frank Thomas Shutt CBE. It discusses Western Canadian use of chemical fertilizers, soil composition, and conditions for optimal application, tracing the development of fertilizer science from 18th and 19th century discoveries to modern Canadian industry.
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Canada
Great Britain
Frank Thomas Shutt
C.B.E
Dominion
Europe
Mr. Shutt
Helleiger
German Soldiers Play Long Distance Chess by Postcards
The Greater German Chess Association reports 200 Westwall soldiers are playing three concurrent games each via postcard moves. British ships transit through the Panama Canal in 1938 totaled about 1,500, averaging four daily crossings.
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Greater German Chess Association
Westwall
Panama Canal
Anxious To Please and Odd Tales From Town
Maud frets over Fred whose engagement to the vicar's daughter triggers oddities like wearing collars reversed and stained glass windo ws in his new car. The piece notes German wages for last year showing 63 percent earned under £100 and only 8 percent received £5 weekly.
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Fred
Maud
Peregrine White Born On Mayflower Voyage
Child Peregrine White born aboard the Mayflower during its historic voyage to America. Separate note mentions winter weather can reduce battery cranking ability by 50 percent or more.
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America
Peregrine White
Sky Writer Luke Newhouse Joins Finnish Air Force
Luke Newhouse, a Dutch-Canadian sky writer rejected by the RCAF for his eyes, has joined Finland's air force after leaving Canada. With about 450 official flight hours, he hopes to equip Finns to catch Russian attention and plans to obtain gear in Scandinavia. He formerly ran a flying school in Montreal and Toronto, and as a boy near the German border recalls postwar pistols sales.
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Finland
Newhouse
Luke
Canada
R.C.A.F
Selected Recipes Bake With Raisins and Syrup Filling
A raisin filling recipe uses 114 cups seedless raisins and 1 cup boiling water. Sugar, corn syrup, starch, eggs, butter, lemon juice, and rind are added then the mixture thickens and bakes between two crusts.
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St. Lawrence
Durham
Layered Peach and Raspberry Mold Dessert
Simple layered mold using Jell-O peach and raspberry flavors. Arrange peaches in a mold, pour heated Jell-O, add raspberries, chill until firm, unmold, and slice. Garnish with whipped cream or serve as a salad with mayonnaise. Serves six.
Byrd Reports New Antarctic Peaks Near Marie Byrd Land
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd announced to the U S Navy the discovery of unknown mountain peaks in Marie Byrd Land during a three hour reconnaissance flight. The find lies near the coast Byrd first charted from the air in 1929 and confirms Sulzberger Bay is larger than previously mapped with a large bay east of Cape Colbeck also observed.
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Richard E. Byrd
United State Navy
Marie Byrd Land
Antarctic
Admiral Byrd
United States
Byrd
Sulzberger Bay
Cape Colbeck
Rise Early to Do Our Hardest Work Before Breakfast
A concise maxim about prioritizing strenuous tasks at dawn. Emphasizes discipline, productivity, and starting the day with effort. The quote frames getting up as the critical step to accomplish demanding work before breakfast.
Turks Hope Anzacs Fight On Their Side
The passage notes a shift in sentiment as Turks anticipate that the rugged Anzacs may align with them in fighting, suggesting changing loyalties or strategic cooperation amid ongoing conflict.
Cree Indians near Nelson House aid Red Cross drive
About six hundred Cree residents near Nelson House Manitoba contribute to the Red Cross by donating a fur bearing animal pelt each. The furs will be sold to traders and the proceeds forwarded to the Red Cross, per Indian Affairs reports in Ottawa.
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Nelson House
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Canada
Indian Affairs
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Red Cross
Adequate Reason Mother Advises Daughter on Street Conduct
A mother scolds her 18 year old daughter Sally for turning to look at a stranger on the street. Sally replies with a playful but evasive line about whether the man is looking back to see her looking. The exchange skews toward a moral lecture on propriety.
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Sally
Harvard and Rochester Highlight Vast Lilac Collections
Harvard University houses 417 lilac varieties while Rochester, New York, maintains 390 kinds in its distinguished lilac collection, illustrating regional interest in diverse flowering shrubs.
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Harvard University
Rochester
New York
Deserves No Sympathy Thyssen Exiled From Germany
Kingston Whig-Standard notes Fritz Thyssen, once a major Nazi financier, now a Swiss exile. It argues he bears responsibility for supporting the Nazi rise and weapons work, and urges caution about praising him until a genuine change of character is shown. It adds a stray statistic about cats and milk in the British Isles.
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Fritz Thyssen
Switzerland
Thyssen
National Socialist Party
Germany
Hitler
Nazis
Goering
Kingston Whig-Standard
British Isles
Ancient swinelike elothe rium with three-foot skull
A prehistoric elothe rium, a swinelike mammal from Earth’s distant past, possessed a skull exceeding three feet in length indicating a remarkable cranial size for its era.
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Elotherium
Readings From Tweedsmuir Speech At Scouts Banquet
In Toronto the last writings of Lord Tweedsmuir Canada’s late governor general were read at the Boy Scouts Association banquet. His unfinished speech urged tying Scout training to youth challenges and praised the Scouts moral and physical discipline as a foundation for future success. He predicted wartime air efforts will yield a strong peacetime air force and urged guiding youths toward constructive paths after the war.
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Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
Boy Scouts’ Association of Canada
Toronto
Lady Tweedsmuir
Viscount St Davids Serves as Batmen for Royal Engineers
A Welsh peer, Viscount St Davids, acts as batman for a Royal Engineers padre. When the padre sought mobile cinema for troops, St Davids purchased it. He became a batsman because he was the only squad member who could drive a car to assist the padre.
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Royal Engineers
Wales
St. Davids
Woman buys wrong horse ticket at Hialeah mutuel
At Hialeah Florida a woman asked for Bow Wow a mutuel clerk said no such horse exists. She then asks for Will Woof Woof and the horse wins the Flamingo Stakes post race.
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Hialeah
Florida
Goats Raised Mainly for Milk and Hide Byproduct
Goats are bred primarily for milk production with hides serving as a secondary product, reflecting their value in dairy output alongside byproduct use.
Clerical Workers in England Exceed Forty-Two Percent Women
A report shows that more than 42 percent of England's clerical workforce are women, highlighting gender parity progress in administrative roles across the country.
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England
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London
All-Bran
Sky
Raisin
Double “Scoxter
Boy Scouts’ Association
Batman
Padre
Appleford Paper Products
Appleford Paper Products Ltd
Winnipeg - Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
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