Love and Deception Change a Vineyard Marriage
Aunt Jane recalls Amy Lovatt's rushed wedding to Tom Baker after a ruse to test Wally Haversham's love. A thousand dollars she planned to fund a painting sale was used to push Amy toward a real match with Tom, revealing Wally's untrustworthy vanity and Amy's choice of security over romance.
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Martha's Vineyard
Jane Prentiss
Jane
Vineyard Haven
Amy Lovatt
Amy
Aunt Jane
Wally Haversham
Wally
Rascal
New York
Tom Baker
Tom
Wallace Haversham
Jack Bates
Jack
Derby Ticket Loss Sealed Fate Tale From Pett Ridge
A muffled Derby passenger explains his sorrow after selling a sweepstake ticket bought for half a crown. The horse wins, leaving him with a potential eighty five pounds, a fortune he missed. The fellow traveler calls it terrible luck, while the man concedes he feels crushed by misfortune.
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Pett Ridge
Garden Notes Plenty Of Time For Early Planting
Guidance on timing seed sowing to spread harvests through summer and fall. Avoid sowing too deep and give vegetables and flowers space to mature. Emphasizes using good seed, thinning early, and adjusting depth by seed type for successful gardens.
Gems of Thought and Moral Reflections
Excerpts from religious and philosophical quotes stressing virtue prudence and heavenly hope. Includes Matthew 12 35 Epicurus Pascal Theodore Parker W White and Mary Baker Eddy reflecting on character, pleasure, life, and divine plans.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Strict Regime Shaped Victoria’s Early Years
A Leeds Yorkshire Post report notes Queen Victoria grew up under an austere routine. Officials kept her status secret to prevent vanity, delaying her knowing she would wear a crown. She slept near her mother until adulthood and spoke with adults only with consent.
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Victoria
Leeds Yorkshire Post
Long Railway Career Ends as CN Engineer Retires
Samuel Lees, Montreal native and locomotive engineer for Canadian National Railways, retires after over fifty years in railroading. He began in 1892 with the Montreal Warehouse Company, joined Grand Trunk in 1898, and became an engineer in 1904. In 1939 he piloted the Royal Train for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth from Ottawa to Brockville.
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Samuel Lees
Canadian National Railways
Lees
National
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Ottawa
Brockville
Canada
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
King George V
Queen Mary
Victoria Bridge
Montreal
Pattern 4698 for misses and women sizes 12 to 48
This week’s Pattern 4698 offers a side buttoning design in misses and women sizes 12 through 48. Uses percale or chambray fabrics with rayon option. requires 3 4/4 yard for size 16 at 35 inches. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 4698 with name address size and style number.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Teachers And Taxes in Canada Strain Salaries
The Winnipeg Tribune argues financing education by realty taxes burdens sparse districts and slows teacher pay increases. It notes municipalities are financially healthier but could raise salaries despite low mood times.
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Canada
Winnipeg Tribune
War worker earns 584 for automatic drill safety device
Stanley Koselak, a Bendix Aviation Corp. employee in South Bend Indiana, received 584 for developing an automatic switch that stops a precision drill if a casting moves out of alignment, preventing breakage during carburetor production.
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Stanley Koselak
Bendix Aviation Corp
South Bend
Ind
Seized Allied Planes Enter Commission Talks
Col in the Daily Mail notes neutrals may join talks on air power as seized Allied aircraft are pressed into commission. He cites Spain converting impounded Flying Fortress bombers and Sweden proposing Liberator conversions to fly to Britain while Britain, allies, and neutrals debate aircraft storage and sales.
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Colin Bednall
Daily Mail
Eiie
Fleet Air Arm
Spain
Sweden
Britain
King's Messengers Seek Pay Increase and Upgraded Roles
The London Evening News reports the King's Messengers seek higher pay. Duties include carrying despatches from the Foreign Office to foreign embassies and legations, with requirements in fitness languages swimming riding drawing and marksmanship. Range of recruits includes decoding staff and retired military officers. Maximum pay cited as 2400 dollars a year. Heat reportedly affects black horses more than other colors.
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The
London Evening News
Foreign Office
Army
Navy
Air Force
Youthful Canadians to train in four army centres
The Canadian Technical Training Corps will train recruits in four centres across the country, with a French speaking centre in eastern Quebec. War casualties among Canadians in the first four years total 19 697, including 9 209 killed or died of wounds and injuries, 2 745 missing, 3 383 wounded, and 4 360 prisoners of war. Camp Shilo hosts models of tanks and planes and enemy uniforms. Defence HQ allows officers and troops to wear civics during athletic activities. Modern warfare features extensive electrical and mechanical gear including tanks radios radar fire control and searchlight equipment.
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Canadian Technical Training Corps
Canadian Army
West
Canada
Maritimes
Quebec
Canadians to Study Jungle Warfare in Pacific
Twenty officers of the Canadian Army will receive first hand information on jungle warfare. Attached to the American Army in the Pacific theatre, Australian and New Zealand forces, the Canadians will take a jungle warfare course and later join fighting units in the Pacific area.
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New Zealand
Pacific
Bran Muffins From Old Time Molasses Mixture
Soak All-Bran in molasses and milk for 15 minutes. Beat in eggs then mix in flour salt and soda. Fill greased muffin pans two thirds full and bake at 400 F for about 20 minutes. Yield one dozen muffins.
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ROYAL
Haarlem
Matthew
Epicurus
God
Pascal
Heaven
Theodore Parker
W. K. White
Queen Victoria
Samel Lees
Emale Esturbances
Pinkham
Lydia
Ise
Camp Shilo
National Defence Headquarters
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