British mine detector helps win in Egypt report
British information services say a hush hush mine detector played a major role in victory in Egypt. Navy Minister Macdonald urges postwar naval expansion for Canada. Reuters notes many wrecked vessels at Tobruk as the 8th Army advances. ATS women banned from walking arm in arm in the northern command. France’s arms magnate Charles Schneider dies in Paris. Mixed signal units formed in Britain to release men for service abroad. New air express links three nations for rapid transport.
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Egypt
Royal Signals
ATS
Britain
Gay Doll Wardrobe Pattern 4248 by Anne Adams
A pattern for a complete doll wardrobe 12 to 22 inches tall. Available as Pattern 4248 with easy sewing and printable yardages. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man for order, include size name address and number. Even a doctor will tell you the best thing to take when you are run down is the license number.
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Santa Claus
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Faversham’s Squaw Man Criticized by Barbershop Style
In St Louis William Faversham’s role in The Squaw Man drew little notice of his acting. A morning critic detailed his hair and neck shaving while a later cub reporter asked his thoughts on the review. Faversham quipped that a barber was the first to critique the play. Also a winter drive claim links ten miles of summer wear to one mile of winter wear.
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William Faversham
St. Louis
Faversham
United States
Guerrillas Hit Greek War Effort Amid Casualties
The Sault Daily Star reports Greece’s war continues with 30 000 guerrillas and 3 000 British and Anzacs still in action. An Italian Black Shirt High Command document in London says the guerrillas are well armed and trained, ready to strike at strong targets including military garrisons. Christmas seals fund tuberculosis surveys in Mexico.
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Sault Daily Star
Greece
Black Shirt High Command
London
The Mission Of The Church Devotional Lesson Guide
A Sunday school lesson outlines church discipline from Matthew 18 with private reproof, then group involvement, then church involvement, culminating in excommunication for unrepentant sin. It contrasts Luke and Proverbs on rebuke and secrecy, and cites Acts 1:8 on the Great Commission to witness from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
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Jesus
Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
SMILE AWHILE Hilarity From Army Banter And Domestic Skits
A series of light vignettes features a sergeant and orderly debating wartime thrift in Greece. A roadside snapshot moment shows an autoist joking about family and soldiers. Domestic jokes include a son studying for a degree and a husband wary of a wife's will.
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Greece
American editor denies keeping safe for scrap drive
An American editor asserts he did not give his safe to the scrap drive and says the rumor holds no more substance than the items within the safe. The editor states there is nothing of value left to surrender and dismisses the accusation as baseless.
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Bank
Hank
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Canada
George Palmer
Tobruk
the &Th
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Northern Command
Charles Eugene Schneider
France
Paris
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New Air Express
Mexico
Mickie
Canadian Pacific Railway
John
George
Will
Green
By Fred Neher
Gene Byrnes
The
Dominion
Hamilton Storonto
Montreal
Troubelot
Medford
Massachuse
Europe
Mary D. Swanson
Esac
Icaho
By William Ferguson
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