Mastery In The Air Shapes Battle Against Nazis
Aeroplane magazine honors Britain's air power progress in war weeks. It notes four motor bombers and advanced fighters strengthen striking power while praising Beaufighters for daylight and night roles and the allied industrial support from the US and Russia.
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Britain
Aeroplane
Russia
Middle East
England
Crete
Germany
Marne
Somme
Ypres
Verdun
Princess Elizabeth Attends Private Buckingham Ball
Princess Elizabeth, 15, attended her first formal ballroom at Buckingham Palace hosted by the King and Queen. She wore her first long party dress and danced with Guards officers and other guests, sometimes partnered by her father. A West End band played fox-trots waltzes and rumbas until 2 a.m. The princess left after midnight.
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Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Three Phrase Cycle Echoes Past Slogans
A compact reminiscence of triple motifs and paired clichés. The piece juxtaposes familiar triads such as Faith Hope and Charity and Love Honor and Obey with political and social phrases like Rum Romanism and rebellion and wine women and song.
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Tag
Migration routes of palm warblers cross in Georgia
Palm warblers wintering in Louisiana migrate to Labrador to nest while those wintering in the Greater Antilles spend summer in northwestern Canada. The two routes intersect in Georgia, creating a shared migratory crossing.
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Louisiana
Labrador
Greater Antilles
Canada
Georgia
Britain to feed Germany after war plan revealed
London reports reveal Britain and allies are stockpiling supplies to feed Europe at war end. Discussions with governments set to assist Axis countries, including Germany, to prevent future plague of famine and to shape a new postwar order.
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London
Europe
Britain
Dominions
United States
Germany
Order of Freedom
Underground Moscow Shelters Turn Cultural Hub At Night
Thousands seek shelter in Moscow subway during air raids and fill the tunnels for entertainment. Concerts films and lectures play as subway traffic stops at 8 pm and women and children are admitted after 8 30. People wait for alarms and pass time listening to music watching films or readings while vendors sell books magazines and refreshments.
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Moscow
Carrot Lollies Spark Oslo Protests and Health Doubts
In Oslo demonstrations target German officials over wartime policies. The item notes Norwegian discontent linked to “carrot lolly pops” sold to English children and described as Vitamin A carriers with a carrot on a stick and sugar coating. The piece links these to ill health among German commissars and wartime policy.
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Oslo
Lessons From France Shape Soviet Response To German Drive
A Soviet front informant reports German invasion tactics copied from France but revised after early failures. Germans advanced with tanks and motorized troops, while infantry trailed, a pattern Moscow says proved weaker in the east. Russians now keep tanks brief ahead of infantry and rely on night assaults to seize and repurpose captured armor.
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Hitler
Red Army
France
Desert Baseball Promoter Leads British Troop Exhibition
An English colonel, once in command of Canadian troops in England, promotes a desert baseball game near the Pyramids. The scene features British desert troops playing ball in a historic setting while noting cats' bite-free rattlesnake defense and the vast reach of modern telescopes revealing hundreds of trillions of stars.
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England
Webster’s Secret Voyage and Lord Brougham Misunderstanding
While Secretary of State Daniel Webster visited London he and the American Minister were brusquely received by Lord Brougham. The minister corrected the misperception, revealing Webster’s identity and prompting a gracious reception thereafter.
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Daniel Webster
England
London
Lord Brougham
Webster
Mr. Webster
United States
Remarkable Lancashire Postwoman Keeps Delivering Mail
Miss Jane Preston of Cockerham in North Lancashire has completed 45 years of service delivering Post Office mails, covering nearly 140000 miles in clogs. At 68 she plans to continue, walking about ten miles daily through Pennine foothills and Morecambe Bay, earning the nickname Old Jane.
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Jane Preston
Cockerham
Lancashire
Preston
Jane
Pennines
Morecambe Bay
Evolution and early helplessness in creatures cited
The text notes that more evolved animals are more helpless at birth. It also states earthworms aid soil health by pulling leaves into their burrows.
Spread Motif Pattern for Baby Embroidery Design
Fun to do cute embroidery motif suitable for a crib or carriage cover. Pattern 7070 includes a large motif 13 by 14 inches with five smaller motifs about 5 by 6 inches, plus color schemes and stitch illustrations. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 Dermot Avenue Winnipeg Man for the pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Union
Dermot Avenue
Man
Alice Brooks
Parachute Silk Demand Drives War Production
The article notes silk use for parachutes could reach millions of yards to meet wartime goals for the United States and Britain. It describes parachute construction, testing, and safety standards, including 24 panels, 96 pieces, three twists on suspension lines, and drop tests from 100 mph at 500 feet. It also mentions silk substitutes and factory shifts to parachute work.
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United States
Royal Air Force
Rudolf (Hess
St Thomas Times-Journal
Sensible suggestion frees boy trapped in steering wheel
In Detroit a boy poked his head through a steering wheel while returning from a shop trip. A father and a policeman failed to free him until a doctor and then a mechanic used a blow torch to cut the wheel. A bystander suggested shoving the boy through and it succeeded.
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Detroit
Inscription Found After Weight Drops At Bohemia Station
A railway passenger dropped a heavy weight on a counter at Hradec Kralovo station causing the top layer to crack and reveal a stone piece bearing the inscription Here lies the the body, exposing a fragment of memorial wording in Bohemia.
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Hradec Kralovo
Bohemia
World at War Silent Warning on Global Strife
On the eve of Poland invasion anniversaries the National Geographic Society notes 1.7 billion people, four fifths of the world, are at war amid economic strain and scarce ease. The piece links daily ease to wealth, urging awareness of global conflict.
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Poland
National Geographic Society
Squirrels Charm Ontario Audiences and Cause mischief elsewhere
The piece notes squirrels delight in summer diversions from Ontario to Omaha and South Carolina. It describes a squirrel nibbling an apple on a tree limb in Ontario, then causing home damage in Omaha by tearing a curtain scratching wallpaper and chewing a radio. In South Carolina many squirrels allegedly ingested insulation containing lead, affecting telephones.
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Ontario
Omaha
South Carolina
Toronto Star Weekly
Manitoba beaver taken on plane to new game preserve
Eight beavers from southern Manitoba were moved by air to the 1 000 000 acre Fisher Bay game preserve near Winnipeg. Deputy minister D M Stephens of natural resources accompanied the transfer to study dam building impacts on several hundred acres along the Pembina River.
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Manitoba
Pembina
D M_ Stephena
Fisher Bay
Winnpeg
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