Baby's Sniffles and Dusty Road to Shadwell Mine
Tamar returns to Shadwell after Major Towne’s gold strike as mining races begin. Sande intrigues with his rugged charm while Aristotle polishes Tamar’s car. The town buzzes over contracts, loans, and old stories as a new era starts at Cricket Hill.
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Sande
Tamar
Cricket Hill
Shadwell
Diggins
Fetten
Christopher
Shad- Sande
Ransome
Aristotle
Tamar Faces Village Crisis After Accident At Cricket Hill
Tamar and Phoebe mingle in a Southern kitchen as news breaks of an accident at Cricket Hill. Christopher Sande is hurt and rushed to a nearby hospital while Tamar prepares a room and calls for Dr. Forrester. The family braces for the fallout.
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Tamar
Maris
Forrester
Randolph
Cricket Hill
Christopher Sande
Glamor Laughter Fades as Eastern Air Force Unit Keeps Coast Safe
Eastern Coast Canadian Air Force units along the seaboard portray their work as routine and dull, denying glamor while protecting the Dominion’s door to Europe. Wing-Commander H N Caracallen of Hamilton notes they perform specified operations, with pilots like Fit-Li L L Shmi Jones of Saskatoon earning the DFC and AFC after escorting troops into Narvik and back. LAC P D MacLaggan of Fredericton recalls landing on a town reservoir as a thrill amid a fatal crash, while Cpl A K North of St Catharines emphasizes the day’s work. Officers say this work will keep the coast safe from invasion.
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Persornel
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Dominion
Europe
H. N. Caracallen
Hamilton
Ont
England
Royal Air Force Coastal Command
D.F.C
Narvik
A.F.C
L.A.C. P
All That Glitters Chapter XI Jealous, Possessive Ranny
Tamar observes Ranny Todd's jealousy as she and Christopher Sande leave town. She notes they are not related though he acts like a protective brother. Sande teases about their tie and Tamar hints Todd may want more than kinship.
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Tamar
Ranny
Mr. Sande
Ransome Todd
Tam
Ran
Tahlahneka
Sande
Christopher Sande
Miss Randolph
Todd
Women Lead 63 of 193 Rifle Body Operations
The Ladies perform sixty three of the one hundred ninety three operations required to manufacture the steel body of an army rifle. In one pliant department all but three are done by women.
Pal of Hitler Benny Nussbaum recalls German paperhanging days
New York paperhanger Benny Nussbaum, who met Adolf Hitler when both were in Germany, says Hitler was a inept worker and a punk soldier. Nussbaum, now a Queens senior air raid warden, received a Nazi medal in 1935 but questions its origin given his Jewish heritage and Nazi policy.
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Benny Nussbaum
New York
Nussbaum
United States
Queens
Hitler
Native of this place Question Asked in Kentucky
A traveler asks a Black resident if he is native to the area in Kentucky. The man hesitates, and his wife interjects calling him Sambo and clarifies the question as asking whether he was living there when born or born before living there.
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Kentucky
Sambo
Canadian footwear output in July 1940 tops 1.86 million pairs
Canadian factories produced 1,861,028 pairs of leather footwear during July 1940. A Harvard professor reports discovery of six kinds of ice, highlighting surprising scientific findings of the era.
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Harvard
Mosquito Wing Area Per Body Weight Revealed
A scientific note states mosquitoes possess nearly five square yards of wing area for each pound of body weight, highlighting their efficient flight apparatus and potential implications for flight dynamics and energy efficiency.
All-Bran Endorsed By Montreal Family For Constipation Relief
Mrs. Joseph Pare of Montreal praises Kellogg's All-Bran as a better alternative to pills, noting her family’s constipation improved after adding the bran to daily meals. The ad urges regular use with water, clarifying it works gradually and is not a laxative, with two package sizes sold by grocers and available in restaurants.
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Joseph Pare
Montreal
Quebec
Kellocc
Kellogg's
London
Canada
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Graduates Named
Western Canada based cadets earned badges at No 7 Bombing and Gunnery School in Paulson Manitoba and No 5 in Dafce Saskatchewan as Air Observers and Air Gunners. Listings include LACs from Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and Manitoba towns with February 1942 badge dates and home towns.
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Western
Canada
Paulson
Manitoba
Ernest Andersen Kaarsberg
Standard
Alta
Edwin Norman Donald Wagner
Frobisher
Sask
Edward Ralph Morris
Worcester
Alfred Leslie Rathburn
Masefield
Dafce
Saskatchewan
R. J. Barnes
Battleford
R. W. Ferrier
Sedgewick
J. G. Dark
Neepawa
Man
W. F. Stewart
Oxbow
Gems of thought on liberty and freedom
A collection of quotations from Channing Wilson Milton Eddy Webster Cowper emphasizing liberty as enlarging energy intellect and virtue. The passages advocate freedom of thought conscience religion and civil rights as essential to a nation and human progress.
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William Ellery Channing
Mary Baker Eddy
Daniel Webster
William Cowper
Conservation Of Tires Warned By Plain Dealer Panel
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports builders and highway engineers urge slower speeds on curves to conserve tires. Studies of highway sweepings show rubber wear on bends is twelve times higher than on straightaways, a finding that challenges high speed driving habits that use acceleration on curves.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Canadian Forces Build Giant 80 Million Candlepower Light
Exclusive report notes a generator powered anti aircraft searchlight used by the Canadian forces requires about 18000 dollars to assemble one unit. The device promises immense candlepower for battlefield illumination and air defense during operations.
Bull Moose Sheds Antlers Generally in January
A field note states that the bull moose typically loses its antlers in January, reflecting a seasonal behavior pattern observed in deer biology.
Ruthie Diet Ad Promotes Low Calorie Plan
An Home Service ad targets Ruthie readers with a slimming program promising two pounds weekly by 1200 daily calories. It promotes easy portion control, lists foods, desserts, and a 32 page booklet with calorie chart menus and a three day liquid start. Also advertises related booklets on earning money and hobbies at 15 cents each.
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Ruthie
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Certified Seed Potatoes Hit Armstrong Region Growth
A new association in Armstrong British Columbia oversees certified seed potatoes. Beginning in 1927 the crop grew from 87 tons to 1010 tons last year. Prices set by the body: 45 dollars per ton for early varieties and 36 dollars for Netted Gem.
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Armstrong
B.C
Sturgeon Towed From River Severn Sets British Freshwater Record
A motorist sighted a sturgeon stranded at the water's edge on the River Severn at Framilode Gloucestershire. He towed the nine foot five inch fish to the bank with his car making it the second largest freshwater sturgeon landed in Britain.
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River Severn
Framilode
Gloucestershire
England
Britain
Tin can Composition Says Iron Richness Noted
The Science Service reports that a tin can is about 90 percent iron, highlighting the material composition and suggesting iron content plays a key role in its structure and durability.
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Science Service
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New-York Paperhanger
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Commonwealth Air Training Plan
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Milton
Home Service
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Chocolate Blanc
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