Centurion Famed Dummy Battleship With Remarkable Career
The HMS Centurion, longest serving dummy ship in the Royal Navy, appears as a flexible auxiliary. It served as a wireless target, maintenance vessel, dummy HMS Anson, and ultimate Gooseberry harbor blockship for Normandy, surviving air attacks and delivering decisive deception.
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Centurion
Devonport
Anson
Normandy
Cape of Good Hope
Bombay
Mediterranean
Malta
Gibraltar
Many Smiles and Kangaroos From Our Dumb Animals
The piece argues smiles are rare except in innocent or at peace faces and criticizes overextended fiction uses. It then notes kangaroos comprise over a hundred species with varied sizes, swimming ability, tree climbing, and bold combatants.
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Sarnia
Record-Setting Diver Piccard Plans Deep Sea Descent
Professor Piccard, famed for his 1931 stratosphere ascent, has built a cabin to dive to 14,000 feet in the equatorial Atlantic. He aims to break the depth record previously held by Beebe, with a film record of deep sea life.
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Professor Piccard
Beebe
Piccard
Atlantic
Brantford Police Court Praises Youthful Manners
Magistrate Gillen commends a young principal for polite conduct in Brantford police court. He notes it is refreshing to hear the word sir from a youth, a rarity amid modern insolence and confused notions of courtesy. The quote echoes a Hamilton Spectator remark on respect and independence. The piece also touches on lime use to counter soil acidity in agriculture.
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Brantford
Gillen
Hamilton Spectator
Visitor To The Orient Praises Chinese People And Cities
Letters from Earle R. Buckley, Y.M.C.A. worker in Chungking to Springfield, Mass, describe Chinese friendliness, young faces energized by war, and helpful locals. He notes the open market, high prices for goods, and abundant consumer items in Chungking shops, contrasting wartime austerity with Western expectations.
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Earle R. Buckley
Y.mlc
Chungking
Springfield
Mass
China
Roosevelt Memorial Statue Planned for Grosvenor Square
Franklin D. Roosevelt will be honored with a standing statue in London’s Grosvenor Square. Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick was appointed to the monument as the Roosevelt memorial committee chose the square for its wartime American official activity. Duke of Westminster will convert the area into a public park.
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London
Grosvenor Square
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Reid Dick
Roosevelt
Time Marches On From The Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun reflects on progress and modern life as electricity and science replace old comforts. The piece muses that traditional fires and sulphur are relics of a bygone era, while discontent with antique notions yields to new technology.
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Vancouver Sun
Hens Missing in English Countryside Causing War Bond Banter
In England during the D-Day wait Canadian troops were generally well received though rare incidents occurred. An English widow claimed hens vanished from her flock of sixteen. the colonel addressed the battalion and later Mrs Jones reported her hens had mysteriously risen to twenty nine.
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England
Canada
Dress worn by Queen Elizabeth moved to Toronto museum
Souvenir dress of gold and pearl on white satin from the 1939 royal tour, a gift to Canada, has been transferred from public archives to the Toronto museum. State Secretary Martin ordered the move to allow public viewing in Toronto, with no trans-Canada tour planned. The dress cost $20,000 and was sent by Queen Elizabeth in 1940.
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Holland
Canada- Netherlands Committee
Norman Phillips
The
Maple Leaf
Delmenhorst
Germany
North Africa
Italy
Maj
Phillips
Queen Elizabeth
Ottawa
Toronto
Martin
Canada
Home Aid Accent Patterns for Dressing-table Skirts
Instructions 7448 outlines making dressing-table skirts bedspreads stool covers and other useful home articles. To obtain this pattern send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Oldest Working Horse Black Person Dies at 51
Black Person, acclaimed as likely the world’s oldest working horse, died at 51. Owned by John Croker of Footscray Melbourne Australia, the animal was still at work when it moved too slowly into the path of a bus.
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von Scheer
Jutland
Michigan
City of
USA
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Dardanelles
John Croker
Footcray
Melbourne
Australia
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Winston Churchill
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Shaw, Saville and
Albion Line
SS. Pakeha
S.S. Waimana
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Mamari
Hermes
Firth of Forth
Scapa Flow
Scapa
Low Countries
Harwich
Ministry of War Transport
Indian Ocean
Suez Canal
French
HMS Centurion
Viscountess
Alexander
Rose
Shane
Brian
Viscount Alexander
Halifax
Orient
New York
YMCA
Wall Street
America
Elizabeth
Alice Brooks
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