Homer Wins Track Race and Faces Turmoil of Love
Homer clears every hurdle to win a track meet and returns to his job as he encounters Helen and Diana Steed. He learns Hubert Ackley apologizes after a race rivals become friends while Homer weighs love and mortality.
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Ulysses
Homer
Helen Elliot
Hubert Ackley
Grogan
Helen
Hubert
Ackley
Marcus
Sue
Love and war set the stage for a life changing choice
In chapter scenes Homer contemplates love and loyalty as Spangler proclaims a romance with Diana. Grogan muses on sacrifice and a world improved by effort while Spangler declares impending marriage proving love reshapes destinies. Homer weighs what is real in growing up.
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Grogad
Homer
Spangler
Willie
Grogan
Diana
Corbetts
Tom Spangler
Mr. Spangler
Sun Dance Returns as Bannack Shoshone Honor Rites
Fort Hall Idaho reports the sun dance continuing with middle aged men and squaws leading the two day rite. Dancers abstain from food, drink limited water, and perform from Bannack Creek to Buffalo lodges to seek health and rainfall for crops.
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Fort Hall
Idaho
Bannack Creek
Buffalo Lodges
Buffalo Lodge
Boys Help Farmers Wages Earned By Farm Commando
Toronto 13 year old Ralph Truro joins farm commandos during summer holidays and donates every cent to War Savings Stamps Certificates and Victory Bonds. He saved from a service station job and plans to use funds for education while dreaming of becoming a pilot.
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Ralph Truro
Toronto
Ralph
St. Brigid's School
Air Force
Gearing Dental Public Health to Meet Wartime Conditions
W. J. Pelton of the U S Public Health Service outlines a plan to improve dental service during wartime. He urges distributing dentists to civilian and vital war areas, expanding school dental programs, utilizing all professional personnel, and limiting refined dental appliances to serve the most patients.
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W. J. Pelton
D.D.S
P.H
U.S. Public Health Service
American Journal of Public Health
Canadian Sergeant Record Camera at Sicilian Landing
Sgt Allan Grayston of Montreal one of the first Canadians ashore in Sicily. He carried a motion picture camera to record the landing of Canadian assault troops as part of twelve photographers documenting Sicilian operations. Grayston, Ottawa native educated in Montreal, joined the 17th Hussars and later the Royal Montreal Regiment.
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Allan Grayston
Montreal
Associated Screen News
Sicily
Grayston
Ottawa
17Th Hussars
Royal Montreal Regiment
W. P. Grayston
Glass wedding dress turns heads at St Giles Edinburgh
Miss Helen Nairn Munro, lecturer in glass etching, wed Prof W E S Turner of Sheffield University in a six yard pale blue spun glass gown. Her hat shoes and handbag were also glass and the dress featured glass painted flowers. The piece notes the novelty of a glass wedding and warns about preserving crops in Victory gardens and cleaning up after harvest to deter pests.
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St. Giles
Edinburgh
Helen Nairn Munro
Edinburgh College of Art
W. E. S. Turner
Glass Technology
Sheffield University
Peterborough Examiner
Victory Garden
Britain loses farmland to war and industry while yields rise
The article notes a net loss of agricultural land in Britain to military and industrial use despite a 70 percent rise in soil output since before the war. It also mentions Borneo's proboscis monkey with a long nose that must be held aside while eating.
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Britain
Borneo
International Red Cross
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