Daughter of Destiny chapter on Macias and Devona transformation
Devona awakes with Macias guiding her back to health and hunger, then offers work with his strolling players. He selects costumes for her, plans a dinner and shows influence over her soon to be public persona. Devona fears the implications while unsure how far she can resist Macias.
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Devona
Macias
Manuel
Joe
Macas
Senor Macias
Mr. Macias
Dele Brasher
Douglas Raebourne
Miss Raebourne Faces Unnamed Endurance Test
A telephone summons Miss Raebourne to meet a waiting gentleman in the hotel lobby. She prepares with gloves and powder, steels herself, and descends by elevator to face an uncertain ordeal as the scene ends with tense anticipation.
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Miss Raebourne
Olly
Red Cross to Pack Five Thousand Prisoner Food Parcels Weekly
The Canadian Red Cross will pack and ship five thousand prisoner of war food parcels weekly for Australian soldiers held by the enemy in the East. Distribution shifts to Canada due to shipping difficulties, with parcels packed in Montreal and sent to Lisbon. The Australian Red Cross will cover costs and set the prisoner count until exact figures are known.
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Canadian Red Cross Society
Australian Red Cross
Melbourne
Fred W. Routley
Canada
Australian Society
Montreal
Routley
Canadian Red Cross
Lisbon
Canadian Society
Germany
Alfred G. Brown
Planes Set Up Quickly In Middle East Assembly Yard
Six men need about eleven hours to unpack assemble and prepare a Tomahawk fighter plane for takeoff under American technical supervision in the Middle East Royal Air Force crews race to fly the war machines while Egyptian workers unload crates near date palms and water buffaloes.
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United States
Middle East
Royal Air Force
Nutritionists urged for federal and provincial health effort
The Canadian Home Economics Association will petition authorities to appoint trained nutritionists to the federal health department and provincial bodies to promote instruction in food values and efficient meals in every home as an urgent war measure. Miss Harlow presented the committee report and the convention endorsed the Winnipeg resolution supporting government backing for trained nutritionists. The note adds a railway engineer remark and a line on okra being cotton seed pod.
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Canadian Home Economics Association
Department of Health
Association
Miss Harlow
Victorian Order of Nurses
Montreal
National Council of Women
Winnipeg
Identification Of Plants For Expert Verification
Ottawa issued instructions for sending weeds and garden plants for identification to the Dominion Botantist or Horticulturist at Central Experimental Farm. Send multiple parts, keep numbered sets, and include sender name and address inside each parcel.
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Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Botanist
Dominion Horticulturist
Central Experimental Farm
Canada
Dominion
Conscience and Conviction Across Historical Voices
A collection of quotes on conscience from Tryon Edwards Benjamin Franklin George Washington Mary Baker Eddy James A Garfield Punshon and Napoleon. The excerpts contrast religious guidance moral fire political courage and personal integrity across eras and leaders.
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Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Mary Baker Eddy
Reed links German fear to Britain bomb threat in Europe
Douglas Reed argues in the Canadian Churchman that German troops and civilians across Holland Poland Norway Czecho Slovakia Yugoslavia and Germany harbor latent fear of unarmed populations. He claims a major reversal would spark defeatist sentiment and boost Britain as Hitler pledges final victory this year per St Thomas Times Journal.
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Holland
Poland
Norway
Czecho-Slovakia
Yugoslavia
Douglas Reed
Germany
Britain
Hitler
St. Thomas Times Journal
Halifax council approves sailors home project in Allied Merchant Seamen's Club
City council in Halifax approves plans for a new sailors home to be known as the Allied Merchant Seamen's Club. A humorous exchange about cooking and saving money accompanies the note on the project. Also mentions an average silk length in a silkworm cocoon of about 1,526 feet.
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Navy League of Canada
Allied Merchant Seamen's Club
Halifax
Lawyers Among Signers of the Declaration of Independence
The item notes that 34 of the 56 signers of the U S Declaration of Independence in 1776 were lawyers. It underscores the legal profession's prominent role in early American political life.
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U.S
Birthday Fortune Card Reading Promises Fun And Insight
A Home Service feature explains birthday fortune reading using a card deck from a red Queen to a 15th card with fateful cards like the Five of Diamonds and Two of Hearts. It offers a 32 page booklet on complete Birthday Fortune methods plus other 15 cent booklets such as Self Instruction in Shorthand and Games and Stunts for Two.
Captains of the Clouds RCAF Film Planned by Warner Brothers
Hollywood reports Warner Brothers will film Captains of the Clouds featuring the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Lead roles go to James Cagney George Brent and Dennis Morgan with sequences shot in North Bay Trenton and Ottawa. Norman Reilly Raine wrote the script.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Hollywood
Capital
Warner Brothers Inc
Canada
Captains of the Clouds
R.C.A.F
James
Cagney
George Brent
Dennis Morgan
North Bay
Trenton
Ont
Ottawa
Norman Reilly Raine
Medal Gifted to Greek Minister for War Relief
Viscount Cecil sent the Greek minister in London the gold Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded in 1937 as a contribution for the relief of Greek suffering in the war.
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Viscount Cecil
London
Odd Animal Flight and Historic Stone Classifications
A set of brief, disparate oddities: quail roosting in star-like formations with heads outward. a Connecticut town losing telephone service after bees built a honeycomb in a control box. Romans classifying gemstones by depth of color as male or female. and King George of England surrendering prized hunting rifles to anti parachute troops.
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Connecticut
George
England
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McDermot Ave. E
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