Summer visits at Martha's Vineyard Aunt Jane's tale
An older woman in Vineyard Haven recounts Amy Lovatt's wedding and a past confidence scheme. Aunt Jane Prentiss narrates Amy's choice between true love with Tom Baker and a risky match with Wally Haversham, after a plan to test happiness with a fortune leads to unexpected luck and a burst of misfortune in a crowded boat harbor scene.
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Martha's
Jane Prentiss
James
Vineyard Haven
Tos
Amy Lovatt
Amy
Aunt Jane
Wally Haversham
Jane
Wally
Rascal
New York
Dark
Tom Baker
Tom
Wallace Haversham
Ana
Vane
Jack Bates
Jack
Jand MA
Garden Notes on Planting Depth and Thinning
Garden notes advise planting depth based on seed size, three times seed diameter for fine seeds and one to two inches for beans and peas. Heed seed quality and ensure adequate room for growth, as thinning early prevents crowding and supports healthy development of carrots beets and other crops.
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Comong Boys
Ned
Ted
Gems of Thought: Moral Reflections and Religious Musings
A compact collection quotes on virtue pleasure and piety from Epicurus Pascal Theodore Parker and others. The lines praise inner character, serene beauty, and heavenly hope while warning against worldly indulgence and unrest.
Regime Shaped Victoria’s Early Discipline and Privilege
A Yorkshire Post note describes Queen Victoria’s strict upbringing, where early days were austere to curb vanity and maintain control. Knowledge of her royal position was delayed to keep her manageable, with limited contact and no overnight separation from her mother. The piece reflects on how this regime shaped her zest for simple pleasures later.
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Victoria
Yorkshire Post
Pattern 4698 Adorable Simple Buttoning Dress Pattern
A new Pattern 4698 offers a side buttoning dress in misses and women sizes 12 through 40. Fabric options include percale chambray and rayon. Size 16 uses 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents in coins to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg for orders, noting size name address and pattern number.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Ot Ave
Long Railway Career From Montreal to Royal Train Legend
Leesa, a Montreal native, began in the Montreal Warehous and joined Grand Trunk Railway in 1898 as a locomotive engineer. His fifty year career peaked in 1939 at the National’s 6400-type engine hauling the Royal Train with Their Majesties, and he firemaned in 1902 for the opening ceremonies at Victoria Bridge.
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Leesa
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
King George V
Queen Mary
Canada
Victoria Bridge
Lees
Montreal
Teachers And Taxes: Obstacles to Decentralized Education Finance
The piece argues that reliance on realty taxes as the sole funding source for education hampers less affluent districts. It notes wealthier, denser districts fare better, while poorer areas face an ongoing struggle to support teacher salaries. Municipalities nationwide are challenged despite broader improvement elsewhere.
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Canada
Idea for automatic switch aids precision carburetor drills
IDEA WAS GOOD the aviation Corp. at South Bend Indiana developed an automatic switch to prevent drill breakage in carburetor manufacture. The system stops the drill automatically if a casting shifts by the width of a sheet of 2566 ro a a, reducing scrap and downtime.
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the Aviation Corp
South Bend
Ind
Seized Allied Planes and Neutral Air Forces Talk
Colinel of the Daily Mail reports that talks with neutrals may cover air force issues as neutrals build up their fleets. He notes Eire operates Spitfires and Hurricanes, Sweden converts bombers, and Britain considers impounded aircraft sales to their countries to avoid storage charges.
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Colinel
Daily Mail
Eire
Fleet
Spaifi
King's Messengers Seek Pay Increase in London Evening Report
The London Evening News states the King's Messengers are pursuing higher wages. Despatch duties to British abroad require physical fitness, fluency in three languages, swimming and riding ability, quick drawing, and accurate shooting. They must reside within three miles of the Foreign Office. Recruits come mainly from the Foreign Office decoding staff, with former Army Navy and Air Force officers also joining. Maximum pay cited is 2400 dollars per year. A note mentions horses of a certain color and heat, indicating possible bias.
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London
Foreign Office
Navy
Air Force
Odd Bits About Our Armed Forces
Youthful Canadians join the Canadian Technical Training Corps to be trained across four centres in the West Central Maritimes and eastern Quebec. Canada’s war toll over four years lists 9 209 killed or died of wounds 2 745 missing 3 383 wounded and 4 360 prisoners of war. An information room at Camp Shilo Man contains models of tanks planes enemy uniforms and weapon charts. Civics may be worn by officers and ranks during athletic events under new regulations. Modern warfare relies on electrical and mechanical gear including tanks wheeled vehicles radio radar fire control and watches.
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Canadian Technical Training Corps
Canadian Army
West
Canada
Maritimes
Quebec
Camp Shilo
Man
Canadians to learn jungle warfare in Pacific theatre
Twenty officers of the Canadian Army will receive first hand information on jungle warfare. Attached to the American Army in the Pacific theatre, the Australians and New Zealanders, the Canadians will undertake a jungle warfare course and later join fighting units in the Pacific area.
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Pacific
New ‘Zealand
All Bran Muffins From Health Magazine Recipe
Instructions mix two cups All-Bran with molasses and milk soak fifteen minutes. Beat one egg and add. Sift flour salt and soda then fold into bran mix. Fill greased muffin tins two thirds full and bake at 400 F for about twenty minutes yielding a dozen muffins.
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Akes
Haarlem
Epicurus
God
Pascal
Heaven
Theodore Ker
W. K. White
Chris
Ry Baker Eddy
Queen Victoria
Hee Oa
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lamer Leen
Outa National Defence
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