All That Glitters Chapter XXIX Cabin Trance and Kidnap Plot
Tamar Randolph endures a tense stay in a valley cabin after Louie abducts her. Therese, Louie’s hardened wife, appears sympathetic yet complicit as Tamar endures bindings, meals, and a wary radio hum. The scene builds toward Louie’s expected return and a possible rescue or further peril.
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Tamar
Louie
Therese
Hke
Shadwell
Ranny
Cricket Hill
Christopher
Gamin
Wooden ships urged to meet steel shortage in Canada
R W Mayhew, Victoria MP and industrialist, argues Canada must build wooden merchant ships due to steel scarcity. He notes steel ship superiority but says limited steel output and German losses push wooden ships as the only viable option despite slower convoys and cargo risks.
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R. W. Mayhew
Victoria
Canada
Meyhew
Howe
Vancouver Sun
Pins and Pepper Seeds From An Old Times Note
Britain cut pin production by 1.5 billion last year versus 1940 to save steel. An American steel restriction on hair pins and bobby pins could save 16 million pounds of steel, about 160 000 machine guns. Pepper seeds for tabasco are aged for three years in oak casks before use.
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Therese
Tamar
Louie
Shadwell
Christopher Sande
Ransome Todd
Hoyle
Selby Sheridan
Britain
United States
Birthday Fortune Reading Card Game Ad
A Winnipeg notice promotes a 32-page booklet on Birthday Fortune reading. It explains card meanings for fortunes with tea leaves, dominoes, dice and a crystal, and invites readers to order the booklet by sending five cents in coins to Home Service Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Beagle Channel Meets World’s Wonders at 146 Mile Span
A natural channel south of Tierra del Fuego extends 146 miles east to west. It is unusually straight with few spots wider than three miles. Its mountains rise directly from the water, appearing to double their 3,250 feet height due to the lack of foreshore.
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Beagle Channel
Tierra del Fuego
South America
Bat
Smile a While a Candid Patchwork of Household Humour
A compact humor column sketches domestic scenes and misheard lines from family life. A drill sergeant and a married recruit clash in playful banter, while a bachelor and wife exchange quips about hats, creation, and money. Various brief vignettes cover antiquarian banter and a moving man’s caution.
Farm Family Goes to Town Each Saturday Cartoon
The piece describes a Canadian farm family gathering the weekly town paper every Thursday or Friday evening. Adults and children scan ads for prices on bikes, hats, hardware, drugs, groceries, tobacco, clothing, school supplies, and used cars while rationing affects tires and gas. Professor Casey’s cartoon notes this home shopping ritual.
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Jones
Junior
Sue
Eagle Eye
Grandpap
Bill
Josephine
Archie
Casey
Canada
RAF Ski Club Formed in Iceland for Training
Skiing club members of the Royal Air Force in Iceland have formed a club to improve skills and learn from expert officers acting as instructors. Twice weekly excursions are planned in the snowy mountains, with several members showing marked promise.
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R.A.F
Iceland
Polar nights lit by aurora displays across poles
In extreme polar regions nights are almost entirely dark except for the continuous glow from the Aurora Borealis in the Arctic and the Aurora Australis in the Antarctic. These lights illuminate the horizon even when the sun remains hidden.
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Polar
Arctic
Antarctic
Army Tailors and the Sergeant-Tailor Role
The regimental snip is the sergeant-tailor who alters non commissioned soldiers uniforms. He may undertake private work for officers as long as no expense falls on the public.
Copernican Theory and Moscow Towns in America
The Copernican theory places the sun at the center of the planetary system rather than the earth. The note adds that eleven towns in the United States bear the name Moscow.
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Earth
America
Moscow
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IRS
Anne
Tedlock Brooks
Tamar Randolph
Rhett Butler
Home Service
Dad
Sonny
Dave
Mary
Jack
Christie's
Graham Waters
Onl
University of Oklahoma
John H
Walter Camp
Army Tailors
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