Hat and Heartbeat in Caplan's Hat Shop
Luella Grayson borrows a hat to charm a two headed Irishman she met, then helps a shy customer choose a blue accessory for a dress. She manipulates prices to boost sales, dreaming of a nicer life as the call from Mrs Daniel O'Hara hints at consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uella Grayson
Luella
Caplan
Dan ‘O'Hara
Dan
Reddy Office Supplies
Fanny Vinebere
Fanny
Imost
Caplan’s
Fanny Vineberg
Daniel O'Hara
Shirt shortage delays shirt stocks replenishment
Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials warn Canadians face months of delays as shirt production rises but cannot meet demand. Returning servicemen, scarce shirtings from the United States and Britain, and a shortage of skilled labor constrain supply, with trained collar makers in short supply and slow to train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prices and Trade Board
Canada
States
Great Britain
Mussolini Widow Granted 15000 Lira Monthly Pension
Italian authorities grant Donna Rachele Mussolini a 15000 lire monthly pension after Bank of Italy Naples confiscates over 2 million lire in her name. She and her two youngest children Romano and Anna Maria are currently interned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna Rachele Mussolini
Duce
Naples
Bank of Italy
Aftonbladst of
Stockholm
Donna Rachele
Romano
Anna-Maria
The B N A Act a glimpse of Canada’s founding charter
A reporter describes the original British North America Act 36 Vict No 8 as kept in the Victoria Tower, noting its binding, inked date of March 29 1867, royal assent inscription, and care by Parliament officials. The piece explains the act’s flat vellum format, safeguards, and the necessity of sworn copies while originals stay secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Mouse
Tomas
Canda
Canada
New Brunswick
Victoria Tower
Parliament Buildings
J. G. Shaw Lefevre
Brooklyn Girl Writes Immigrant Life Book Wins Big Prize
Jo, a 32 year old daughter of immigrants born in Brooklyn, wrote an immigrant life book in an attic. With $10 weekly income shared with her parents, she won a $10,000 Harper and Brothers prize among 300 entries. The anonymous donors backed unknown artists, and Jo’s manuscript, read at the last moment, became a masterpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gil
Sinclair
Brooklyn
Amrica
Harper and Brothers
Winnipeg Free Press
Smile a While and Quick One Liners Gag Page
Humorous vignettes and quips from an old era feature lines about Irish maids calling officers by wrong ranks, a doctor claiming weight loss through mental focus, a nervous entertainer bowing, and a comic exchange about a nudist colony and arrests. A shelf clock in a lift yields a clock inquiry, a Tennessee woman ages without cars, and a jab at civilization noting missionary vanity.
Meat Loaf Sausage with Wheat Crust Instructions
A compact recipe set outlining sausage meat mix with egg salt pepper and crushed whole wheat breadcrumbs. Forms into a loaf, bakes at 400 F for 60 minutes, with a potato crust option using cornflakes paprika and salt then baked at 495 F for about 35 minutes. Produces about 6 to 8 servings.
Sleeping beauty nightgown pattern for Winnipeg
Anne Adams promotes pattern 4603 a dainty empire waist nightgown with lace edged scallops and a thick belt. Sizes range 12 to 40 with 3 yards of fabric for size 16. Send 20 cents, name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg. Residents in Ford Green endure wet feet as floods make only upstairs rooms usable. Chinese celebrate Christmas with Cheng Dan Jieh and a Tree of Light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Ford Green
England
Stafford Shire
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Royal
Blue
Chicane
Frederick Griffin
Toronto
Ont
Newry
County Down
Ireland
Mussolini
Hallan
B. McCutchan
Portland
Oregon
McCutchan
Chicago
B.N.A. Act
Buckley
Rustic
London
Missus
Thers
Tennessee
Swith
Dutary
Lydia B. Finkiarn
Pika
P| Sloan
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