The Fascist Dream Of A Mighty Roman Empire Shattered
Charles Towers argues Mussolini wasted Italian wealth on Libya Libyan roadways and costly forts while neglecting peacetime needs. The Libya colonization scheme cost over 50 million pounds with poor returns. Similar sums drained Italian East Africa Abyssinia Dodecanese and Albania for military works. Soldiers and settlers suffer as empire ambitions crumble under war and misrule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townerda
Muscolini
Michel
Italy
Sams
Africa
Libya
Duce
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Marshal Balbo
Italian East Africa
Abyssinia
Assad
Une Duce
Italian Africa
Dodecanese Islands
Albania
Marshal Graziani
British mothers praised for courage of evacuee families
Charlotte E. Whitton of the Canadian Welfare Council extols 700 British mothers sent to Canada with children from evacuated English towns. She highlights resilience, noting many work to support families, some learn stenography, accounting, or dressmaking, and several return to England for war work after their children are placed in homes. A 70 year old estate owner found work as a housekeeper, earning $12 weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Charlotte E. Whitton
Canadian Welfare Council
Chicago
Miss Whitton
England
Butier
Africa
Telegram singing stunt ends with two quitters
Parents paid a dollar and a half for a singing telegram to their college daughter in an eastern city. A messenger was hired to deliver and sing it at dinner but both boys quit after being told to perform. The note notes that about 100,000,000 stamps are sold annually for collecting and dealer stock rather than mail use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Apple Pie for Breakfast a New England Habit Returns
A Vermont hotel now lists apple pie on breakfast menus amid debates on meal timing. Health authorities note morning as a good time for pie, and readers consider convention, vocation, and personal taste influencing breakfast choices. The piece cites New England tradition and a playful nod to cheese with pie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Emily Post
New England
Kitchener
Trade winds and Welland canal facts
Winds named trade winds blow toward the thermal equator and are deflected eastward by Earth's rotation. The Welland canal links Lakes Erie and Ontario at Welland, Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welland Canal
Lakes Erie
Ontario
Welland, Ontario
British Free Agent Philby Released From Prison
Harry St John Philby, the Arabian explorer and former British political agent in the Near East, is freed from a British prison under emergency defence regulations. A Near East authority says he will join a new British effort to win Arab support, likely moving to the Near East to advise Arab leaders he has long influenced. Philby collaborated with Lawrence of Arabia and advised King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, later converting to Wahabi Mohammadanism and being the only Englishman allowed to live in Mecca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry St. John Philby
Near East
Philby
Lawrence of Arabia
Tpn Saud
Saudi
Arabia
Holy
Mecca
New Nazi Tactics Noted In Greek Campaign
A British officer cites two innovations by Germany in Greece. He says fast light tanks armed with two pounder cannons and parachutes possibly opened by an explosive gust. Parachutists near the Corinth Canal were reportedly dropped from a very low altitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Corinth Canal
Memory Course Jack Armstrong Misplaces Hotel and Car
Amarillo man Jack Armstrong misplaced his memory of a hotel and his automobile in Los Angeles. Police located both items after he checked into another hostelry and, during a series of phone calls, traced the hotel where he was registered and found his car parked nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Armstrong
Amarillo
Tex
Los Angeles
Armstrong
Old Walnut Tree Yields Heartwood With Age
The valuable heartwood of a black walnut tree forms only after 80 to 100 years. The man who makes the worst of things usually gets it.
Surprise the June bride with towel embroidery pattern
Pattern 6959 offers a transfer design titled His and Hers Mr and Mrs in towel embroidery for a bridal shower gift. The pattern includes a 12 by 5 inch cane motif with stitch illustrations. Send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arta Eet
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot
Salvage crews save ships and war effort with daring repairs
British salvage divers and crews rebuilt damaged vessels amid war. They pumped and patched a destroyer, saved a two year old tanker and two destroyers stranded on rocks, then towed ships to repair ports. Their work kept ships afloat through storms, bombs, and battle, saving millions in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taffrail
Admiralty
Ahion
Civilians win George Medals for wartime bravery acts
The British Official Gazette lists civilians awarded the George Medal for rescue feats during bombings. Examples include Thomas Davis aiding victims in a basement shelter amid debris and smoke, Mary Newman comforting a boy in a wrecked Southampton house, and Walter Field with Owen Parsloe freeing occupants from rubble in Bromiley. The Times lauds these civilian unbeatables for facing danger with resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Newman
Southampton
Walter Field
A.R.P
Owen Parsloe
Field
Parsiog
Ist
Hitler
New York Times
Smoke Signals Recruits From Christian Island Summoned
Indian recruits from Christian Island in Georgian Bay were summoned to military headquarters by ancient smoke signals after telephones and roads failed. In April Major W. M. Thompson received a draft for D Company, Grey and Simcoe Foresters, and three Indians volunteered to serve. They signaled from the island, then rowed and pulled a heavy boat across broken ice to reach the mainland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Island
Georgian Bay
Penetanguishene
W. M. Thompson
2Nd Battalion
Grey and Simcoe Foresters
Cedar Island
Boundary Town Beeble Plain Spans Vermont and Quebec
Beeble Plain lies half in Vermont and half in Quebec with a post office built exactly on the US Canada boundary line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beeble Plain
Vermont
Province of
Quebec
United States
Canada
Three Generations Perished In London Bomb Attack
A single night raid in London destroyed a home killing three generations of one family: three children their father and mother and their grandfather. The tragedy highlights the wartime civilian toll and the impact on a deprived household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Snail climbs highest point on isolated plans
A snail on an isolated plan always crawls toward the highest point and never moves to the lowest. The statement presents a simple geometric observation about ascent on a solitary contour. It notes a preference for maximum elevation without detailing broader behavior or context.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Towers
Boas
Herblock
The
Lynchburg News
Vogue
Will
Mitern Beck Publishe
George
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!