Tax Inventor and Disappearing Dog On The Marigold
A passenger learns of a traveling ship’s odd figure, a self styled tax inventor and his dog Masterpiece. The scheme proposes a world copyright tax on marriage licenses to fund government revenue while the dog vanishes amid a police warrant, revealing a defense tactic against taxation.
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Mar
Tig
Earuth
Theo
Trenhing Lane
Basie
United States
Canada
Mexico
Central
South America
Hesmup
Fast Mountain
Aly
Australians Bring Aid and Kindness to Borneo Villages
Jack Fleming reports from the Mets Herald on Australian troops aiding native communities in Borneo. Locals recall generous acts of food, clothing, and gifts, with children greeting soldiers as friends. Villagers propose allowing Australians to stay, praising their benevolence and the lasting goodwill created.
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Boren
Chas
Barnes
Tuan
Borneo
Jack Fleming
Mets Herald
Tr Division
Army
Australia
Canadian Winter Carnival Promises Peaceful Tourist Season
The article describes a 1946 tourist season centered on Gus popular resort in the Canadian Rockies. It highlights winter sports including skiing skating curling hockey and broom ball, with events extending from December 26 to March 3 culminating in a Carnival Queen crowning. It notes hot springs dancing dinners snowshoeing and theatricals as side attractions and frames peace after five years of war as a national mood.
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Namie
Doxara
Phelie
Fur Coats Debate Reflects Canadian Identity
A fragment discusses fur coats as winter wear in Canada with slogans about national practicality and tax policy. It contrasts luxury usage by elites with broader national realities and hints at a public debate during a wartime era. The piece mentions Peterborough.
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Canada
Peterborough
Cultivated laughter as a social tonic
The excerpt extols laughter as a two edged weapon and a contagious tonic for hard times. It urges cultivating joy to cheer oneself and others and notes that laughter invites a positive response from the world. It mentions cactus and green growers in passing.
Prisoners Driven Off Cliff by SS Guards at Mauthausen
Witness Alois Hoellriegel testified at a war crimes tribunal that in 1941 at a quarry near Mauthausen a group of eight prisoners were beaten by SS guards and hounded toward a 125 foot cliff then hurled to their deaths. He described guards calling it playing paratrooper as the men fell from the quarry.
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Mauthau
Themelves
Alois Hoellriegel
Siegearld
Despera
Diet and physique gaps in British schoolchildren
Dr E M Milligan reports that public school boys are heavier and taller than elementary pupils at ages 11 and 14, with protein and calorie shortages impeding growth. The findings inform debates on free meals in council schools and reflect broader wartime and health initiatives.
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Britain
E. M. Milligan
Pike
Iain
Pattern patterns and wartime notices in Winnipeg newspaper
Fragmentary auction and pattern notes reference Kadress and Anne Adams patterns with style numbers. The text mentions public locks damaged by air raids and a council bid to regulate time accuracy by Greenwich, reflecting wartime restrictions and civic measures.
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Kadress
Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Mebermot Ave
Danny Smeome
Britain
Herological Societies
Greenwich Time
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Mame
Tars
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CWLC
Women's Army Corps
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Cpl
Brshaw
Henribourg
Cpl Smith
Saskatoon
Set Burton
Carell
Waterton Park
Alta
Whitney
Valjean
JP Scott
Calgary
WAC
Alberta
Canadan Women's Army Corps
Dominion
Western Canada High School
Armed Forces
Depot
Regina
Margaret Lucyie
Victoria
Tpr
Alexander Lask
Darren Watton
Dean Armstrong
Quota Club
Drake Hite
Santa Claus
Burch
J. Kirkeh
Mev D. Wallis
Mies Mar
Royal Air Force
North Pole
Boothia Pensaular Exchange
Bolivia
Congress
Vas
Man Amon
Anse Adams
Lydia E Pinkham ‘i
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