The Fascist Dream of a Mighty Roman Empire Shattered
The piece argues Mussolini squandered Italian wealth on Libya and East Africa for a grand empire, funding costly fortifications, roads, and settlements that yielded little defense or profit. With the war, Libyan colonists suffer, Balbo’s death halts driving plans, and Italy faces vast losses, mirroring a fallen imperial dream.
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Mussolinis
Roman Empire
Italy
Africa
Libya
Duce
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Marshal Balbo
Italian East Africa
Abyssina
Italian Africa
Dodecanese Islands
Albania
British Mothers Praised For Courage Of Child Refugees
Charlotte Whitton highlights 700 British mothers sent to Canada with children. Many found jobs and supported families, some trained in stenography and accounting, while others became dressmakers. Some mothers return to England for war work after children are placed in good homes.
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Canada
Charlotte FE. Whitton
The
Canadian Welfare
Chicago
Miss Whitton
England
Africa
Telegram Singing Prank Ends With Employee Departures
Parents of a college student in an eastern city paid a dollar and a half for a singing telegram meant for dinner. A messenger boy quit after being asked to sing, and a second boy also resigned when told to perform the stunt.
Stamp Market Routinely Sells Large Benign Stock
About 100 million United States postage stamps are sold yearly not for mail use but for collectors and dealers stocks.
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United States
Apple Pie for Breakfast Sparks Vermont Hotel Menu Change
A Vermont hotel defies breakfast norms by listing apple pie on the menu after patron pressure. Health authorities say morning pie is acceptable and many eat breakfast with coffee or juice. The note also mentions New England customs and a brief geography fact about Welland canal linking Erie and Ontario.
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Vermont
Emily Post
New England
Kitchener
British Free Agent Philby Released From Prison
Harry St John Philby the Arabian explorer and former British political agent in the Near East is released from a British prison under emergency defence regulations. An authority says this will bolster Britain’s effort to win Arab support and he is expected to return to the Near East to advise Arab leaders including Ibn Saud. Philby, who opposed Britain’s entry into the war, had collaborated with Lawrence of Arabia and became an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s king, a convert to Wahabi Islam and the only Englishman permitted to reside in Mecca.
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Harry St. John Philby
Near East
Philby
Lawrence of Arabia
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Moham
Holy City
Mecca
Two New Innovations Noted By British Officer
A British officer cites two German campaign innovations in Greece: fast light tanks armed with two pounder guns and parachutes possibly opened by an explosive gust. He notes parachutists near the Corinth Canal were dropped from a very low altitude.
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Greece
Corinth Canal
Amarillo Man Reunited With Lost Hotel and Car in L A
Jack Armstrong of Amarillo Texas misplaced his hotel and his automobile in Los Angeles. Police located both after persistent prompt calls, finding the hotel where he was registered and the car parked nearby.
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Jack Armstrong
Amarillo
Tex
Los Angeles
Armstrong
The Walnut Tree’s Age Reveals Valuable Heartwood
The valuable heartwood of a black walnut tree does not develop until the tree is 80 to 100 years old. The man who makes the worst of things usually gets it.
His and Hers Towels Pattern 6959 For Weddings
Transfers include 12 motifs from 4% by 5 inches to 5 by 10 inches with embroidery stitches and color schemes. Pattern 6959 costs 20 cents in coins and requires a request to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Salvage Crews Repair Damaged Vessels and Keep Shipping
Salvage teams saved 66 ships last year, repairing a destroyer, a large merchant vessel, and a tanker among others. They towed, patched, pumped, and refloated through fires, bombs, and gales, keeping critical wartime tonnage afloat and out of loss.
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Sheas
Civilian Unbeatables Honored for World War II Rescue Acts
The British Official Gazette lists civilians awarded the George Medal for bravery during air raids. Examples include Liverpool constable Thomas Davis who crawled into a rubble hole to support debris and save lives, and Assistant Nurse Mary Newman who freed a boy from a wrecked house while debris and a gas leak threatened her. Walter Field and Owen Parsloe also aided a Bromley collapse victim by tunneling and jacking the wreckage to release a pinned woman.
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Thomas Davis
Liverpool
Mary Newman
Southampton
Walter Field
A R P
Owen Parsloe
Bromley
Field
Parsloe
Hitler
New York Times
Smoke Signals Recalled To Reach Indian Recruits
The article recounts smoke signals used to summon Christian Island recruits to military headquarters after failed communications. Major W. M. Thompson received a draft in April. Three Indians volunteered to serve and crossed icy water by rowboat to reach the mainland despite impassable roads and unsafe ice.
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Christian Island
Georgian Bay
Penetanguishene
W. M. Thompson
D” Company
2Nd Battalion
Grey and Simcoe Foresters
Cedar Island
Beeble Plain Straddles US Canada Border Split Town
Beeble Plain lies half in Vermont and half in Quebec with a post office built directly on the boundary line between the United States and Canada.
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Beeble Plain
Vermont
Province of
Quebec
United States
Canada
Three Generations in London Bombing Tragedy
A bomb destroyed a London home killing three children their parents and grandfather in one night. A separate note claims a snail on an isolated plane climbs to the highest point never the lowest, illustrating a paradox.
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London
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Taffrail
Admiralty
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