Light From Below at One Girl Mine Rescue
Betty Knox follows grizzled Joe Blades down into the One Girl Mine shaft where Jeff Logan and Dr. Carney are trapped after a cave in. The rescue unfolds with tension between Betty, Logan, and the physician as air is found and men are saved. Betty demands the return of her engagement ring as the crisis resolves.
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Joe Blades
Ozark Mountain
Betty Knox
Jeff
Betty
Jeff Logan
Doc Carney
Blades
Dr. Carney
Miss Knox
Doc
Willie Hargis
Hargis
Joe
Logan
Jake
Ontario woman drives oldest electric car nationwide
Mrs. Robert Gray of Chatham, aged over 80, operates the province's only electric car without gasoline ration limits. The 1919 vehicle runs on 42 two volt batteries totaling 1,400 pounds, proving economical and practical for travel despite wartime restrictions.
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Ontario
Robert Gray
William St. S
Chatham
Gray
Gray Dart
Canada seeks regular mail relief to Canadian POWs in Japan
Prime Minister King told the House of Commons he hopes to arrange a regular service delivering mail and relief supplies to Canadian prisoners and nationals interned in Japanese territories through Vladivostok or another Soviet port. Supplies would be pooled for all Allied prisoners. Wash hands of two years of effort with Red Cross and Swiss help, 15000 tons stored at Vladivostok. Japan offered a Soviet port pick up. Soviet consent awaited. Ottawa Journal.
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King
House of Commons
Vladivostock
International Red Cross
Japan
Ottawa Journal
Smile a While Comic Bits From a bygone Paper
A collection of quips and jokes from a vintage newspaper page. The humor ranges from landlord and tenant banter to family scenes and everyday misunderstandings. Names and places are sparse, but the tone mirrors early 20th century wit with light social observation.
Mobile British Canadian Field Hospital Unit at D-Day Beachhead
The RCAF mobile field hospital unit, designed for advance fighter airfields, treated over 100 front line casualties since D-day plus one. Squadron Leader Chick Church operated under siege while nursing sisters Molly Mulholland and Pitkethley first reached the beachhead. Tents formed moving wards and operating theatre, with appendectomies performed under battle conditions as patients were evacuated by Dakota and Harrow bombers to Britain base hospitals.
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RCAF
Growse
Molly
England
2Nd Tactical Air Force
Britain
American Flier Rescued Amid Belgian Welcomes in Brussels
Eyewitness report from occupied Belgium describes an American parachutist landing on a Brussels roof during a raid near Haren in May. Belgians cheered as German soldiers attempted arrest, the flyer saluted, and crowds tossed bouquets of lilies of the valley at the car carrying him.
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New York
Belgian Information Centre
Belgium
Haren
Brussels
Avenue Rogier
Bee Research and Demonstration Apiaries Across Canada
The Bee Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms Service maintains experimental and demonstration apiaries at farms and stations across Canada plus the central apiary at its Ottawa headquarters. The program tests results, conducts projects on apiary management suited to local conditions, and demonstrates modern equipment and methods.
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Bee Division
Dominion Experimental Farms Service
Canada
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
The Smile of Death
An unnamed speaker recalls a dramatic line from the New York Times about a woman who used a deer skin handbag to conceal a gun. She reportedly smiled at soldiers until they approached, then opened fire wounding several U.S. servicemen.
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New York Times
Laird Cregar’s Weight Loss Explained by Comedy
Film star Laird Cregar has slimmed from 350 to 260 pounds. He attributes the reduction to overhearing a remark about meeting him in ten minutes at a social event. The anecdote reflects the humorous, light tone of Hollywood weight loss anecdotes of the era.
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Laird Cregar
Flooded Farmlands Across Netherlands Reported By Underground Paper
The Dutch underground paper Ons Volk states nearly 300000 acres of coastal farmland are flooded due to German anti invasion measures. It warns losses amount to 66138000 pounds of wheat 19841400 pounds of beans 17636800 pounds of fats 88184000 pounds of sugar 22046000 pounds of fruits and 881840000 pounds of potatoes.
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Netherlands
Ons Volk
Our People
Pattern 7416 and 4716 dresses offered by Anne Adams
The ad promotes Pattern 7416 with a demure dirndl look and a photo neckline for a playful counter charm, plus Pattern 4716 in Junior Miss sizes 11 13 15 17. Size 13 with short sleeves uses one fabric and 2% yards on a 35 inch length. Send 20 cents in coins to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man. Mail delivery may be slow. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Marguerites Cookies From Bran and Nut Meats
A decorative recipe column presents Marguerites cookies using eggs brown sugar flour baking powder salt All Bran and chopped nut meats. The batter bakes in small pans at 350 F for about 15 minutes, dusted with powdered sugar yields about two dozen small cookies.
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Koy
Denver
Maud
Mrs. Smith
Jenny
Willie Brown
Bobby
Willie
Mummy
Ethel
Prem Canada
Holland
British Consols
Export & Legion Cigarettes
the MacDonald Tobacco Company
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