Miniver Besieged by Radio Propaganda and Dunkirk Run
In wartime Britain the Minivers hear a German radio broadcast claiming France is defeated and Britain is doomed. Vin, recently promoted with 85 percent, joins a Dunkirk relief flotilla afloat at Ramsgate as Clem and Captain Halliday organize volunteers to cross forty miles of hazardous open water to aid trapped Allied troops.
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England
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Belham Airfield
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Carol
Mrs. Miniver
Armored Knights of the Sky
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Toby
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Ramsgate
Dunkirk
Crossword Puzzle No. 4792 With Nine Across and Sixty Down
The puzzle lists horizontal clues from 1 Swiss river to 66 To converse informally and vertical clues from 1 Norse wedding galley to 60 New Zealand bird. Readers fill letters by cross checking mesopotamian terms and archaic pronouns with modern meanings.
Old books and war time shortages in London reading culture
James Agate notes London bookshops lack classics like Jane Eyre and Shakespeare due to paper shortages and wartime scarcity. He observes reprints of Dickens and Hamlet endure slowly while new volumes rise in price. The piece muses on books’ role, urging re reading Pickwick Papers or King Lear amid a sanity starved era.
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London
James Agate
London Express
England
David Copperfield
Germany
Chicago Daily News
Secret preparation amid reports of German pep drugs
A colorless liquid preparation rooted to Rommel's Afrika Korps is said to be given to German troops to boost endurance. British doctors test its efficacy though it is not a drug. A German doctor exiled in 1933 says Nazis have tested this concentrated energy booster for years, possibly in tabiet form.
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Rommel
Germany
London
Britain
Toronto Telegram
No Change In Holiday Telegram Rates In Canada
Wartime Prices and Trade Board official J Stewart in Ottawa states no change to holiday greeting telegrams and special rate social messages in Canada. He notes U S telegraph companies have discontinued these services for the war duration but Canada does not plan similar action.
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Canada
J. Stewart
Prices and Trade Board
Ottawa
United States
Mr. Stewart
Korea’s Split Marriage Certificate Tradition
A historical note explains Korea uniquely divides the marriage certificate, with one half kept by the bride and the other by the groom, reflecting an unusual civil procedure.
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Korea
CBC Homemakers Programme Links Experts On Wartime Needs
CBC Western network presents practical homemaking advice focusing on food health and shelter. Doctors dietitians and public health nurses lead talks with home craft specialists. The program collaborates with universities Dominion agriculture and health departments and maintains a pamphlet file for quick information requests from both city and farm wives nationwide.
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CBC
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Departments of Health
Doorknocker from Java Sparks Domestic Banter
A string of jokes and quips features a wife and husband debating fashion, a maid, and misdirected marriage, with a magistrate and a humorous take on a motorist, a flirtatious officer, and a blunt mother. The final line notes that active volcanoes once existed in Kansas.
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Java
Kansas
Worried Father Wants Family Ration Books Fixed
A local rationing official asks how many people are in a family. A weary father answers eighteen. He then asks for names and admits he must fetch them from his wife, saying he is licked and asking to wait until he returns home.
Public Speaking Self-Taught booklet from Winnipeg Union
Learn to speak clearly with home practice and simple rules. The 32 page guide covers enunciation, vocabulary, speech preparation, attention holding, and parliamentary procedure. Send 15c by coin to Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Include name and address.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
German seize majority of Norwegian fishing fleet
Reuters from Stockholm reports that about 2000 small Norwegian fishing craft in northern Norway were requisitioned by the Germans. Dispatches also indicate some crews were requisitioned in addition to the vessels.
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Reuters
Stockholm
Norway
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