Desert YWCA Hut Lifts Nurses Morale in Middle East
Miss Jean Begg reports the British YWCA War Service hub in the desert brings relief to Army Nursing Sisters in Heypt. Betty Lorimer oversees meals and activities at the hut with gardens, markets visits, and a growing extension to host more light meals. Four residential clubs from Port Said to Jerusalem serve service women, with the lotus houseboat on the Nile often fully booked.
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Y.W.C.A
Heypt
Jean Begg
Y.W.C.A. War Service
Middle East
Desert
Betty Lorimer
Miss Lorimer
W.C.A
New Zealand
Commissariat
Crete
Port Said
Canal
Jerusalem
Nile
Girl Guides Aid War Work With Clothing Donations
The Canadian Girl Guides plan to continue clothing gifts for English children as part of wartime effort. A Provincial Executive Committee meeting in Bedford outlined ongoing drives, with thirteen thousand items already sent from Canada and letters of appreciation from English commissioners. The committee also advances Guide libraries by shipping books to regions lacking local children's libraries.
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Girl Guides
Canadian Girl Guides
Masonic Hall
Bedford
Canada
England
Soviet Ghost Army Prepares For War
A Stockholm dispatch reports that Field Marshal Wassily Bluecher, commander in the Far East, has secretly organized and trained a 500000 man Soviet winter army on skis in Siberia. The ghost army is said to be ready to act in early November.
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Stockholm
Wassily Bluecher
Far East
Siberia
Moscow
Double Wedding Ends in Tragic Secret Revealed
In a Green Bay home during the late 1890s, Edna Kahley confronts a secret as her sister Charlotte’s existence is exposed. A dramatic confrontation at Allan’s home leads to Charlotte’s suicide, followed by Edna and Sam Gladney’s quiet marriage and a hopeful future in Texas. The narrative unfolds with Edna’s childbirth and the birth of a son, amid lingering questions and emotional turmoil.
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Kahley
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Edna Kahley
Charlotte
Edna
Sam Gladney
Texas
Sam
Damon
Allan
Mother
Mrs. Keats
Sammy
Zeke
Breslar
West
Grand Spice Cake Raisin Nut Filling
Recipe style note describes a spiced cake with east spices and a raisin nut filling. Includes ingredients such as cake flour sugar eggs milk cream and a detailed mixing method. Provides baking instructions and pan size and temperature.
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Arabia
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Ogden’s
Ogdens
Vogue
Chantecler
Ogden
Pye
Mrs. E. Goodale
Hamilton
Ontario
Kellogg’s
London
Jim Brown
Jim
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