Light From Below at One Girl Mine Rescue
Betty Knox descends into the No. 3 drift with Joe Blades to aid Jeff Logan and Dr. Carney during a cave in at the One Girl Mine. Rescue progresses as air is pumped to trapped workers while tensions between Logan and Betty rush to a confrontation over a broken engagement and a missing ring.
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Ozark Mountain
Betty Knox
Jeff
Betty
Jeff Logan
Doc Carney
Joe Blades
Blades
Dr. Carney
Littl Willie Hargis
Hargis
Joe
Logan
Jake
Ontario Woman Drives Nation's Only Electric Car
Mrs. Robert Gray of Chatham Ontario at 141 William St S drives the province's sole electric car without gasoline ration constraints. Aged over 80 she maintains city and country trips in the 1919 electric vehicle powered by 42 two‑volt batteries weighing 1400 pounds and marketed by her husband the former motor car maker.
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Chatham
Ontario
Robert Gray
William St. S
Smiling at a Mockery Landlord and a Taxing Irony
A collage of jokes about money, parenting, and everyday quirks. Jesters range from landlords preferring tenants who never move to a grass widow with hay fever and a laughed at medical fix, to a mother refusing travel with son’s college bills. Humor lands in quick quips and social quirks.
Prisoners In Japan Mail And Relief Efforts Discussed
Prime Minister King told the House of Commons he hopes to establish a regular mail and relief supplies service for Canadian prisoners of war and nationals interned in Japanese territories. Proposals involve delivery via Vladivostok or another Soviet port with pooling of goods for allied and Canadian use.
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King
House of Commons
International Red Cross
Vladivostock
Japan
Ottawa Journal
Mobile Field Hospital Aids D-Day Airfield Casualties
The mobile field hospital unit of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, commanded by Wing Commander J M Mickey Growse of London Ontario, treated over 100 front line casualties since D-day plus one near Normandy. Nurses Molly Mulholland and Pitkethley were among Canada's first servicewomen on the beachhead.
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Airtfields
RCAF
Mobile
Normandy
J M. “Mickey” Growse
London
Ont
Growse
Chick” Church
Perth
Rc.a.f
Molly
England
2Nd Tactical Air Force
Harrow
Britain
Belgians greet American airman after raid on Brussels
Eyewitness account from occupied Belgium describes an American parachutist bailing out during a raid on Haren near Brussels. He landed on a roof on Avenue Rogier, was boomed by a cheering crowd as German troops attempted to arrest him, and Belgians pelted the car with bouquets as the airman was taken away.
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New York
Belgian Information Centre
Belgium
Haren
Brussels
Avenue Rogier
Bee Division Demonstration Apiaries Across Canada
The Bee Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms Service maintains experimental and demonstration apiaries at farms and stations across Canada in addition to the central apiary at headquarters at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
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Bee Division
Dominion Experimental Farms Service
Canada
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Deerskin Handbag Weapon Used in Soldier Shooting
A deerskin handbag concealed a pistol used to wound several American soldiers. The assailant gained access by smiling at the victims before firing, according to a New York Times report.
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New York Times
Safety First Flooded Farmlands Warn of War Aids
A Canadian farm safety feature urges farmers to reduce preventable accidents to ease labor shortages and boost food production. It notes machinery and livestock as top causes and calls for regular hazard checks and fire prevention. Nearby Dutch reports claim 300000 acres flooded by anti invasion measures, threatening multi millionE quantities of wheat beans fats sugar fruits and potatoes.
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Canada
Netherlands
Ons Volk
Our People
Laird Cregar Drops Weight After Social Snub
Hollywood actor Laird Cregar, seen in The Lodger, reportedly shed from 350 to 260 pounds after overhearing a remark at a crowded social event. The remark, pointing him out to another, allegedly motivated his weight loss.
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Laird Cregar
Marguerites Cookies With Bran And Nut Meats Recipe
A recipe for Marguerites cookies uses All Bran cereal brown sugar and chopped nut meats. Mix eggs flour baking powder salt and sugar then fold in bran and nuts bake in muffin pans at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes dust with powdered sugar yields two dozen cookies.
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Pade In
Landford
Denver
Maud
Mrs. Smith
Jenny
Willie Brown
Bobby
Willie
Mummy
Ethel
Mobile Field
Rcaf Nversing
BEF Research
Holland
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Ane
British Consols
Export & Legion Cigarettes
the MacDonald Tobacco Company
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