Devotion to Polish King Shapes Polish Hero
Stanislaw August Poniatowski died in 1798 as Poland’s last king. A descendant, Prince Marien Andre Poniatowski, fled from France to Britain in 1940 and joined the Polish army. He earned a commission and, at 22, led action on the Western Front, sacrificing for a homeland he never knew.
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Stanislaw August Poniatowski
Poland
Marien
Andre Poniatowski
France
Britain
Poniatowski
Buffalo Courier Express
Canada Walk to honor wartime ties with Holborn
London County Council and Holborn Borough Council plan naming the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields Canada Walk to celebrate cordial wartime ties with the Royal Canadian Air Force and Holborn citizens. A maple tree planted there was a gift from Ottawa mayor and citizens, planted by Holborn's mayor Alfred Wilfred E. Mullen.
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London County _Council
Rolborn
L.C.C
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Holborn
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Ottawa
Ontario
Holborne
Alfred Wilfred E. Mullen
French attempt to seize Australia ends with British capture
Napoleon planned to establish Terre Napoleon in Australia. French forces landed and named the colony, while the amateur naturalist commander hunted butterflies inland. The British countered and captured the entire garrison.
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Napoleon
Australia
Terre
The Judas of the Yellow River Mission
American pilot Boyd Carr lands near a mission on the Yangtze river bank where rebels attack. He confronts Soo Ling his childhood friend and translator who allied with rebels to protect his own skin, later aiding Boyd to escape by triggering the dike to flood the level.
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Boyd Carr
Yellow River
Tts
Boyd
Soo Ling
Ling
Sho Ling
Seo
300
Otter
Soo
China Soo
Anne Adams Pattern 4897 Suit Sizes 11 to 18
Pattern 4897 from A Man's Suit offers sizes 11 through 18 with 54 inch fabric. Send 20 cents in coins to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba for Size Address and Style II orders at 73 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg. Mails may delay pattern delivery.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Dame May Whitty Demonstrates Civility Testy Sales Interaction
Dame May Whitty, near eighty, visits a New York department store. A curt salesgirl confronts her about status, prompting the star to insist on civility and equality in a brief exchange.
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Aay Whitty
Engnsa Aetress
New York
Tam
Dame May Whitty
Canadian scholar granted shotgun permit for explosive work
Wright, a Toronto professor of chemistry who developed RDX, the world’s most powerful military explosive, has become a Canadian and received a shotgun permit after a prior refusal. The case highlights his lab work and regulatory approval status.
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Secret Wright
University of Toronto
Beaver Beavers Shape Waterways In Algoma Region
A Sault Ste. Marie Star excerpt discusses beavers influencing water flow and moisture to support streams and downstream power projects. It recounts a case where two Algoma men considered a canoe route blocked if beavers were trapped, highlighting beavers’ role in maintaining water levels for transportation and scenery.
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Sault Ste. Marie Star
First Plantings Divide Vegetables Into Three Groups
Garden notes describe three planting groups: hardy crops that tolerate frost, semi hardy crops needing light frost, and tender plants that cannot endure frost. It advises staggered sowings of beets radish onions peas and greens, plus early mid and late varieties to extend harvests. Nursery stock guidance stresses immediate planting and careful handling to protect roots and ensure root stability.
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Europe
Canaan
Powerful Microscope Aids War Effort At McGill
An electron microscope capable of 50 000 magnification was stalled and tested at McGill University and will be used in war related scientific study. It weighs about three quarters of a ton and sits in a six and a half foot cabinet. Only other unit of its kind in Canada is at the National Research Council in Ottawa. Engineers from R A Victor installed the device calling it a large vacuum tube like those used in radios.
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McGill University
Canada
National Research Council
Ottawa
R.A. Victor
Mrs Churchill to Visit Russia With Soviet Red Cross Aid
Mrs Winston Churchill accepted an invitation from the Soviet government and Red Cross societies to visit Russia early in the spring. This will be her first trip to Russia after she helped inaugurate the Red Cross Aid To Russia fund, which by year end had raised about $27 million and shipped roughly 15 000 tons of medical supplies to the USSR.
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Winston Churchill
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Ussr
Russia
Churchill
Red Cross Aid
Giant Chinese green walnuts towed from two to two and a half feet
6O LONG WAY Giant Chinese green walnuts measure two to two and one half feet long, two and one half inches in diameter, and weigh more than three pounds each.
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ROYAL
London
Dominion
Wspaper
Sloan
Liniment
RDX
The
Beaver
Montreal
Red Cross
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