Penelope Now Pepperpot A Stalwart Ship Rebuilt After Bombardments
Captain Angus Nicholl recalls the British cruiser Penelope nicknamed Pepperpot for its holes after Malta and Gibraltar bombardments. The battered ship faced shrapnel and a fatality but was patched with wood then steel in quick repairs.
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Penelope
Angus Nicholl
Malta
Gibraltar
United States
Germany
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Nicholl
California farmer Von Glahn turns 40000 acre tract into $1.5 million harvest
Elmer von Glahn, a California farmer and businessman, uses a floating dredge, five airplanes, tractors, and vast irrigation to produce a grain and cotton harvest valued at $1.5 million. His 40000 acre San Joaquin Valley farm relies on Nile-like irrigation, pumps moving 12000 gallons a minute, and flood control by a three yard dredge operated by a two man crew.
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von Glahn
San Joaquin Valley
Nile Valley
Tulare Lake
von Glabn
Do It Yourself Household Fixes from a 1900s Guide
A collection of practical tips for home repairs and prep. Tips include removing rust with salt and lemon, stiffening organdy trim by boiling rice water, repairing screen holes with a patch of wire cloth, beautifying flower pots with paraffin and tissue, and softening dried shoe polish with a dash of turpentine.
Germany plans mass movement of Dutch people to occupied territories
German authorities in Holland have set up an official corps to move 3,000,000 Dutch from the Netherlands to settlements in German occupied western Russia. The Netherlands Indies news agency reports Belgium Congo is 80 times the size of Belgium and covers a twelfth of Africa.
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Holland
Netherlands
Russia
Netherlands Indies
Belgian Congo
Belgium
Taught To Swim In Flaming Water
Four Navy officers, training at the University of Georgia, complete a burning pool test to prove men can swim through oil and gasoline and escape injury. Lieut. W. F. Foster calls the exercise extremely satisfactory as swimmers push to surface and reenter the blaze.
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United States Navy
University of Georgia
Lieut. W. F. Foster
Southern Methodist University
Airman Sits On Hot Nazi Bullet During Bomber Mission
Airman Arthur White, 21, wireless operator air gunner from Binscorth Manitoba, sat on a red hot Nazi bullet after his Hudson bomber attacked enemy shipping off The Netherlands coast. A steep climb raised him from his seat as a burning round scorched his flying suit and chair.
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Arthur White
White
Binscorth
Man
Netherlands
Joint British American War Production and Food Boards Formed
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill announced a British American War Production Board to save shipping space by coordinating production. Donald M. Nelson and Oliver Lyttleton will lead, aiming to standardize weapons, concentrate bomber production in the United States, and treat US and Britain food resources as a common pool through a joint food board. Canada participates via the British Supply Council.
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War Production Board
Anglo- American Food Board
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Donald M. Nelson
Oliver Lyttleton
Production Board
India
United Nations
United States
Britain
England
Combined Food Board
Quick Jests From a Quiet Minded Village
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and misheard lines. The aunt questions a nephew’s call to ministry while corrections clarify a newspaper typo. Witty banter covers family, work, romance, and everyday misunderstandings with sharp, comic punchlines.
Etiquette Qs and A on Small Weddings and Hosting
A compact Q and A covering invitation style for tiny weddings personal invitations by the bride, saluting a companion when greeted by a stranger, serving order for waitresses, avoiding self praise within family, proper introductions at small luncheons, and the correct greeting card form Mary and John.
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Mary
John
John and
Kill That Rat campaign and Riverside traffic plans
The government launches a wartime anti rat drive with an Agriculture Ministry film to curb rat damage estimated at 115 million dollars annually in Britain. The article also notes the new Waterloo Bridge will feature six traffic lanes over the Thames.
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Britain
Agriculture Ministry
Waterloo
The
Thames
England
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Jove
Old Boy
Agnes
LABOR
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ONT
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CRESS
J. Dew
Church St
Toronto
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Fergus
Ontario
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John N
Hamilton, Ont
Mount Pleasant
Motors Ltd
Chrysler
Plymouth
Pleasant Road
Yonge St
Danforth Avenue
Guernsey
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A. Hischner
Stratford
Department H
Parker’s Dye Works
Yonge Street
Milton
Clarence Ford
International
S. A. Lister
Stewart Street
R.R
Oakville
Dundas Highway
Trafalgar
Frank Day
Rockwood
Belp
Raymond Willson
Welland
Familex Products Company
St. Clement
Montreal
Shandyman
Jack
M. B. Horst
St. Jacobs
Nature
Dixon
Munro
Wirgin
Ottawa
Munro’s
Pretherstonhaugh & Company
Sing West
Dominion Rug Weaving Company
Queen St. W
Clinton Bicycle & Sporting Goods
Hiiwood Epps
Prop
Clinton
Photography
James St
St. Catharines
Daily Service
Reliance Film Service
Aileen Ave
T. Eaton CO. Ltd
Musical Instrument Department
Hubbard Portable Oven Co
Bathurst St
Anderson McLaughlen
Tyrer
Super Mail Orhr
Queen Street West
Imperial Photo Service Station
Poronte
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