Paris Escapes Major Damage While Renault Works Suffer Heavy Bombing
Allied bombers skirted Paris sparing the central city but destroying suburban industrial districts. Renault Motor Works and Vincennes freight yards suffered severe destruction. trains and rails twisted. The Eiffel Tower area and historic core remained largely undamaged.
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London
Paris
United States
Renault Motor Works
Germany
Renault
Villeneuv-St. Georges
Vincennes
Eiffel Tower
Birds Of Prey In The City Pie and Pity Entangle Ellen
Ellen Carroll bakes a pie while neighbor Mrs Murphy warns of birds of prey as a tramp seeks aid. Ellen recalls helping a troubled man tied to a flood tragedy, doubts friendship, and fears betrayal as she confronts loneliness and hunger in a hard winter.
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Mrs. Murphy
Birds of Prey
Ellen
Jim
212 Elm Street
Carless
Clock Misreads Delay Private at Buckley Field Chow
A Buckley Field soldier rushes to the chow line only to be told by a sergeant that the War Information room clock shows Eastern War Time, not Mountain War Time, causing a delay.
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Buckley
War Information Room
Migration clocks: how fledglings learn routes
The text notes that in some bird species juveniles migrate at different times from adults and frames the question of how young birds know which route to follow as a major natural mystery.
Soldier Yuremchuk Finds Rest in Rome After Campaigns
Private Steve Yuremchuk of Endeavor Saskatchewan rests in Rome on leave after serving in England. His Sicily and Italian campaign service preceded his downtime in the Italian capital.
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Steve’ Yuremchuk
Endeavor, Sask
Rome
England
Book of Remembrance for Canadian Engineers is Completed
Grace Melvin, Vancouver artist, finished a 2004-name Book of Remembrance for the Military Engineers Association of Canada. The 40 page red morocco volume will go to Ottawa and then St Pauls Cathedral London, to be housed in a carved niche and shown to relatives.
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Grace Melvin
Vancouver
Military Engineers’ Association of Canada
Ottawa
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Miss Melvin
Morocco
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Has Proved Success Immunizing Infants for Diphtheria and Whooping Cough
Health League of Canada cites three Illinois researchers in JAMA reporting 649 infants averaged eight months old received three vaccines at three week intervals. Immune response to diphtheria reached 97 percent and 72 percent for whooping cough, rising to 95 percent after a pertussis booster. Reactions were mild and no infant given the injections in five years is known to have contracted either disease.
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The
Health League of Canada
Illinois
Journal of the American Medical Association
Telegraph and Telephone Wires Average 208 Pounds Per Mile
Telegraph and telephone wires along highways average 208 pounds per mile, a statistic cited in a transportation or utility context. The figure reflects weight per mile for long-distance line installations and maintenance planning.
Canada’s Maple Leaf Seen As Global Trade Emblem
Officials say the Maple Leaf on exports should symbolize Canada worldwide and may be added to goods leaving the country and aid shipments. A universal emblem is desired to boost advertising value of postwar reconstruction.
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Canada
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
U.N.A.R.A
Alligator Jaws Surpass Power Yet Human Strength Restrains
A historical note states that alligators have formidable jaw strength capable of crushing most objects. however a human can counter with one hand to keep their mouth closed, illustrating surprising limits of animal power.
Protect children from preventable diseases through immunization
The article contrasts tragic preventable deaths from disease with war casualties, urging parents to immunize their children. It notes 2410 diphtheria cases in four weeks in England and Wales with about 10 percent fatality, stressing vaccination as a shield for kids in Britain and Canada.
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England
Wales
Canada
British Isles
Wartime Squash Meat Loaf and Dessert Cups
Instructions for preparing Hubbard squash filled with a meat mixture and baked until cooked, using ham or pork, cracker crumbs, pepper, mustard and corn syrup. A simple custard dessert layers graham crackers, applesauce, and optional custard with a cherry.
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Mazda
Polish soldiers thank Canadian Red Cross for relief aid
Three Polish soldiers Pres. Ed ward Lech, Thomas Dobieski and Tadeusz Kaniewski on a Canada US tour expressed gratitude to the Canadian Red Cross Society for generous support of Polish relief efforts.
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Edward Lech
Thomas Dobieski
Tadeusz Kaniewski
Canada
United States
Canadian Red Cross Society
Ezra 7 21st Verse Contains Full Alphabet
A claim that Ezra chapter seven verse twenty one includes every letter of the alphabet. The statement presents a linguistic feature attributed to a biblical text passage.
Postmaster General Mulock Extends Air Letters to Civilians
Postmaster General Mulock announced civilian air letters will join the armed services blue air letters starting Sept 11. Civilian letters to many commonwealth countries will travel at a 10 cent rate, a move Mulock says could mark a new era in civilian trans ocean air mail.
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Mulock
Armed Services
Improve Your Health by Correcting Sluggish KIDNEYS
Disordered kidneys and inflamed bladder harm health causing back pain restless nights leg cramps and rheumatic pains. Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules claim to filter acids and wastes and relieve clogged kidneys and irritated bladder. Visit a druggist for a 40c box of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil capsules.
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Haarlem
Junior Miss Frock Pattern 4577 from Anne Adams Dept
Advertisement for pattern 4577 showing a date-bait dress with side front closing and a graceful back fraune hat. Available in sizes 11 13 15 and 17 with fabric requirements 8 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 13 hat yardage listed. Send 20 cents in coin to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Univ 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man. Mail slow so delivery may take a few days longer than usual.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Univ
McDermot Ave. E
Earth’s Rotation Slowing Adds Tiny Day Length Each Century
The planet’s rotation decelerates gradually, lengthening a day by about one thousandth of a second per hundred years. This slow change remains imperceptible in daily life yet marks measurable shifts in time science.
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Coley
ROYAL
Meath
Pinkham
Canadian Army Overseas Photo
Pete” Jasseniux
Krydor
Sask
P.P.C.L.I
Italy
RED Cross
Frock
Ogilvie
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