Dry Rot Behind a Cottage Sale Turned Hidden Fortune
Widow Mrs Mason eyes the Ryersons cottage as she moves in with her three children. Hidden under old linoleum lay two boards concealing three thousand dollars in bank notes. Jeff Ryerson and judge Harley weigh legality and ethics as the town recoils from past deceptions and a new start for the family.
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Mason
Aole
Jeff Ryerson
Jeff
Harley
Rob
Ryersons
Mrs. Mason
Bob
Liz
Jeffstone
Versatility Of Glass Drives Substitutes Across Industries
The New York Herald Tribune notes glass is expanding beyond traditional uses. Glass swam serves as an insulator, glass salves replace silk in some surgical tasks, and sawn milled glass may become lumber-like for postwar housing. The piece highlights rapid material innovation from sand derivatives.
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New York Herald Tribune
Moones Emerald Off Skin Remedy Claims Quick Relief
A vintage claim touts Moones Emerald Off as a clean antiseptic remedy from Canada that relieves eczema barber's itch salt rheum and itching feet in days. It is described as pleasant smelling antiseptic and penetrating enough to aid long standing skin eruptions with many cases yielding to its influence. Sold by drugstores with satisfaction or money back.
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Canada
Moone
Moon
Mae
March Mischief in Classrooms and Jokes Across The Line
A collection of light humor about school, family life, and social foibles. Jokes cover a teacher’s questions about March’s traits, late arrivals due to crowded families, married men as travelers, a foreman in a trench, police court quips, probate humor, and a wisecrack about marrying for money.
Flax acreage surges in Britain and Northern Ireland
The area under flax in Britain has risen from a few hundred acres in 1939 to over 50 000 acres by 13. Northern Ireland also expanded from about 20 000 to 96 000 acres. The increased flax production yields large quantities of high grade wing fabric for aircraft factories.
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Britain
Northern Ireland
Intelligent animals thought and problem solving in deer and elephants
A St Thomas Times-Journal report surveys animal intelligence from deer to circus elephants. It notes a deer testing an electrified fence and ammonia trigger, an elephant learning to place logs after thoughtful surveying, and asserts dogs show thinking in playful tasks.
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Gordon J Leverare
New York Ranger School
Legersee
India
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Sugar Canning Coupons Valid July First Under Ration Plan
The Prices Board announces that 10 spare F coupons from ration book 3 will provide 10 pounds of sugar per person for home canning in 1944. Consumers may supplement this with preserves coupons by exchanging F coupons for preserves coupons at local ration boards. Each F coupon buys one pound of sugar, and if all preserves coupons are used, a person can obtain 23 pounds in total.
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The
Prices Board
More Powerful Than Words From a Mediterranean Tale
A Cairo dispatch reports a U S troopship attacked twice by German planes but saved each time by Royal Air Force fighters. Grateful soldiers contributed 4000 to RAF dependents of casualties, a gesture echoing earlier British kindness to a crippled English boy. Deeds outshine eloquence in forging trust.
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Mediterranean
United States
Cairo
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Britain
Ottawa Journal
Attlee Viewed as Hard Working Prime Ministerial Deputy
An Ottawa Journal writer commends Clement Attlee for a year of extensive deputizing for the Prime Minister. Attlee, 61, is described as diligent and capable, though not theatrical, with a practical, effective manner and a sense of humor. He spent four birthdays in the last war with the gunners.
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Attlee
Clement Attlee
Churchill
Telemachus
Ottawa Journal
Jess
Public Menace Calls For Report On Stunt Pilots
Captain F. Wilkins of the RCAF urges the public to report pilots who stunt or fly low over populated areas. Jay-flighters are described as a danger to themselves and others, with readers urged to curb risky bravado near homes while steering courage toward safer battles.
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Wilkins
R.ca.f
Montreal
Montreal Star
Lead in Aircraft Propellorless Rocket Plane
British officer Group Captain Frank Whittle R.A.F. is credited with the invention of the propellorless rocket plane. The article credits British contributions to aircraft design and highlights the R.A.F.'s strong position today.
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Frank Whittle
R.A.F
Odd Bits About Our Armed Forces
Canadian Army personnel receive Khaki rayon stockings for walking out as announced from National Defence Headquarters. Fourteen of nineteen moving pictures for 1943 are available to troops. 350 officers among 10,000 discharged for health or civilian value. Discharge grants include 65 dollars clothing allowance. Army artists may win prizes in Ottawa competition. Handshakes Christmas parcels total 30 400. AWCO personnel at Aurora repair anti gas equipment to ensure safety.
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Canadian Women's Army Corps
National Defence Headquarters
United Labor
United Services
Aurora
Ont
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