The Highlanders Pipe Sharps The Call Of War Dinna Ye Hear
A wartime piece notes Highland regiments in North Africa and other campaigns. It recalls pipers inspiring troops at Dargai in 1897 and Lucknow siege morale, citing Piper Findlater of the Gordons and the legend of the bagpipe signal.
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Libya
North Africa
Ethiopia
Cairo
Dargai
Chitra
India
Piper James Findlater
Gordon Highlanders
Canada
Mathias
Gordons
Piper Findlater
Findlater
Lucknow
Highlands
Scotties
Hitler Uses Brutal Policy On Friends And Enemies
A British observer in Italy reports German control of railways and police, scarce food and requisition of Italian resources as Nazi occupation tightens. The writer notes Italians suffer similarly to conquered peoples and describes Hitler’s ruthless approach to allies and foes.
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Hitler
Italy
Tuscany
Gestapo
Canada production output rises sharply in year ended June 30 1940
Raw production for Canada in the twelve months ended June 30 1940 totaled 16 668 348 dollars, up 177 percent from the previous year.
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Canada
What Science Is Doing What Science Is Doing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor M. W. Jennison studies sneeze velocity using a camera. He reports a good sneeze ejects thousands of particles at about 150 feet per second, which quickly evaporate leaving germ laden droplets roaming the air in search of a new host.
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M. W. Jennison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Halifax Herald
Jumble of jokes and vignettes from the crowd
A collection of light humor and brief anecdotes recounted in a newspaper style. The pieces include a misdirected elderly pedestrian, gulls and pigeons by the sea, a classroom memory joke about Burns, a tale from Falkirk, a Hitler quip, marital quips about repeating praise, a telegram mishap leading to a job, a riddle about zones, and a note on Caulfield Australia boasting no pawnbrokers.
New Plastic Helmet From Cotton and Soybeans
The Soybean Products Laboratory and the Southern Regional Research Laboratory combine cotton cloth and soybeans to create a lightweight helmet for miners and construction workers. The helmet safely deflects blows up to forty pounds, offering head protection beyond metal helmets formerly used.
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Soybean Products Laboratory
Department of Agriculture
Cotton Specialists
Southern Regional Research Laboratory
Self heating double wall cans offer ready meals
Popular Science describes cans that heat themselves using a chemical between two walls. When inverted, four holes are punched and the can stands about fifteen minutes to produce piping hot spaghetti beans or coffee.
Saga of the Sea Bravery Amid Hurricanes and Hunger
The Kitchener Record notes in a maritime saga of a Canadian three mast schooner from Lunenburg caught in two hurricanes. The crew faced starvation as a freighter rescued them, water ran low, and improvised fishing kept them alive. The piece frames seafaring peril as timeless and essential to Empire commerce. Burma shipped nearly 2,500,000 tons of rice in eight months.
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Lunenberg
Burma
How Can I Help Thee A Q&A From Anne Ashley
A compilation of home remedies and practical tips covering fern care cleaning casters syrup crystallization corduroy cleaning and cough relief. Each prompt asks a question with straightforward household solutions and step by step instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Ashley
One wheeled carriers caused mix up in Middle East
The C O of a regiment in the Middle East planned for the arrival of sixty one wheeled carriers, assuming a new small tank. He arranged parking for the devices, only to receive sixty wheelbarrows instead.
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C. O
Middle East
Modern Etiquette Queries by Roberta Lee
Directly speak into the mouthpiece with lips within half an inch for a clear voice. Maintain a full natural tone and enunciate each word.
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Roberta Lee
Christmas Boxes For War Prisoners
Red Cross dispatches 72000 Christmas boxes from London to Britain’s 70000 POWs in German camps starting via Lisbon and Marseille to Germany. Each box includes pudding chocolate biscuits rye bread jam margarine roast pork stuffing and cake while 7,200,000 cigarettes are sent separately. Value estimated at £36000. Eleven British children in German camps receive barley sugar and sweets and one Belgian hospital gets jig saw puzzles for sleeping soldiers.
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Red Cross
London
Britain
Germany
British Industries Bulletin
Lisbon
Marseilles
Geneva
Belgium
Dunkirk
Instructions on etiquette and table manners from a 19th century guide
The text outlines discreet speech, proper use of utensils, and seating rules for a formal meal. It notes cutting lettuce with a knife if necessary, embossing bridal initials on cards, and avoiding loud slang. It provides pronunciation guidance for a French term meaning leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered.
Submarine Officers Under Great Strain
Charles Graves, in Life Line, notes submarine officers show facial hair and hair color changes from mental strain. The book cites ridges on fingernails from stress, white hair possible, jet black to gray shifts in twelve months, and mentions Admiralty facilities aiding his account of Britain's naval defense.
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Charles Graves
London
Britain
Admiralty
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Russia
Valentine
Canadian Pacific
Angus
Flavying
Bobby Burns
Robert Browning
Falkirk
Luehrer
Caulfield
Australia
Saga of the Sea
Lydia
Pinkham
Iobel
BABY
Bray
Bray Ben 130
John N
Hamilton
Robertson
Robertson's
Avenue Road
Toronto
NEW Mount Pleasant Motors Ltd
Chrysler
Plymouth
Mt. Pleasant Road
Yonge St
Danforth Avenue
Adelaide _W
Ramsay Co
Bank Street
Ottawa
Spithiuerstonhaugh & Comlmpany Patent Solicitors
King . West
Oronto
Munro’s Drug
Milgin
Mission
Rochester
Newark
Turkeys
Big Hur
Secrest
Bill Hoffman
Russell
Alton Briggs
Maberly
Ontario
M. Kleman
Louise Gridge
Winniepeg
Man
Dixon
Munro’s Drug Store
Elgin
St. Lawrence Market
Bontex Specialty Co
Chase
B.C
Lilgal J. N. Lindsay
Capitol Theatre
St. Thomas
Special Department For Farmers Collections
Dept. W
Queen St. W
Lupurial
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