Wartime Garden Notes Inspire Quiet Color Despite Hard Times
The article extols growing flowers as a wartime morale booster and frugal hobby. It suggests hardy annuals like alyssum hollyhock and marigolds, sweet peas, and tender frost-sensitive plants such as dahlias gladioli and cannas. It notes seed catalogs advise on care and highlights scented stocks nicotine and portulaca thriving with neglect. It also mentions compact varieties for borders and tall blooms for backdrops.
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Canada
Electronic Express For Speedy Travel
Nobel prize winner Dr. Irving Langmuir predicts rapid travel via vacuum tubes with magnetically suspended air tight vehicles. He envisions 2000 to 5000 mph transit from New York to Chicago in minutes and to the Pacific Coast in about an hour. He also foresees an automated orchard with fruit picked by machines.
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New York
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Irving Langmuir
Mechanix Illustrated Magazine
Langmuir
Parachutes Made Of The Finest Silk
The report describes silk parachutes for the British Army weighing 380 lbs with 450 lb cord breaking strain and a 5 percent margin to break. Canopy and harness are silk, cost £70, and packing quality keeps failure-free operation. Canadian Women’s Army Corps staff at Aurora repair anti gas equipment.
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Aurora
Ont
Heatter Leads War News Coverage On Mutual Network
Reporter Al Leary notes radio has formed a large army of informed commentators to relay front line news. Gabriel Heatter, dean of the commentators, provides up to date world event reports each evening on the Mutual network and CECE with seasoned analysis from war zones and centers.
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Gabriel Heatter
CECE
Heatter
Christ's Victory Over Death Easter Lesson
Sunday School lesson outlines Easter morning events and the resurrection message from First Corinthians. It emphasizes the contrast between earthy and heavenly bodies, the promise of incorruptible life, and the call to steadfast service for the Lord.
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Paul
Corinth
Joseph
Arimathaea
Church of
Greece
Apostle
Christ
Adam
Heaven
Lord Jesus Christ
Lord Jesus
God
Jesus Christ
Highway Rule For Pedestrians
Pedestrians on highways should walk toward approaching traffic on the left side of the road. This ensures warning of oncoming cars, reduces danger at night, and allows stepping off the pavement safely without looking back. The rule is practical and worthy of universal adoption.
Workers Flee Reich During Air Raids
An underground source with ties in Germany says over 55,000 foreign workers escaped in the past month amid Allied air raids. Gestapo chief Himmler ordered tighter police surveillance of foreign laborers. A large part of Goebbels' propaganda unit has reportedly moved to Copenhagen Denmark.
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Germany
Gestapo
Henrich Himmler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Copenhagen
Denmark
PICTURED YOUNG ACTRESS AND CROSSWORD CLUES PUZZLE
A themed puzzle lists across and down clues titled Young Actress with entries covering adjacency words such as pro portion and terms in bowling plus nouns like lenses and papal terms. invalid fragments suggest a fill in for a newspaper puzzle page from a past era.
Wingate Raiders and the Burma Raid Chronicle
A 1942 Burma raid led by Orde Wingate defied conventional warfare by cutting lines of communication and ambushing Japanese forces. The book Wingate's Raiders by Charles J. Role recounts training, planning, and the daring expedition, likening Wingate to a modern Lawrence of Arabia, with a Sicilian chestnut tree also noted.
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Chindwin
Burma
Wingate
Sons of Heaven
Orde Charles Wingate
Lawrence of Arabia
Charles J. Role
Macmillan Company of Canada
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Electronic Express
By AL Leary
Reich
France
J. Millar Watt
Luke
Ajuilitiria
Mt. Etna
Sicily
Prince Barbu
Stirbey
Cairo
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