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MAKING THE MOST OF WARTIME FOOD

... . By X. MARCEL BOULESTIN. ON meatless days in France you can still eat poultry, rabbit and game, but if you want to have game you must know a discreet poacher, or a man on leave from the Front, for he is allowed to go à la chasse. Of course, there are the usual quibbles special to this part of the world if you kill a bird without a gun, are you legally a chasseur or not This point was raised ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1117 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD

... . . QUALITY PRODUCTS (/f'loweSifb G.E.C. reputation is staked upon qualitiesof sound design and reliable con struction evolving products that look well and stand for dependable perform ance. Here isan electric fire that istypical delightful in its choice of silver, copper or green finish with chromium reflec tor a modern production ready to give long and satisfactory service. 2,000 watts 59/3 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 86 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

MATTHEW GLOAG & SON LTD

... MATTHEW GLOAGsSON LTD3 MATTHEW GLOAGsSON T.TD3 A GROUSE WHISKY PERTH /SCOTLAND Established J800 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 13 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 279 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY

... THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: THE evil machinations of the first LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY. TO CHEER YOU UP SECTION. As everyone knows, the Nazis have credited the First Lord of the Admiralty with many surprising exploits, and seek to prove by far-fetched propaganda that he has slandered them and vilified them in the eyes of all the world Mr. Heath Robinson, in his inimitable series of Mr. Winston ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Please forward overseas

... rmM^ piwxrnd ovtum By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT--I do hope you enjoyed your leave as much as I did. It was really quite inexcusable the way I dropped my manifold duties and just hopped off for two days' holiday like that. By all the laws I should have been smitten with remorse the whole time, wondering who was taking Mr. Perry for his walk, who was counting the washing, and would Charles be ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 934 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

AND THAT'S A FACT

... Well, it's like this-- 'e 'afes getlin' cold AND wet and 'e 's BOUND to get wet, any'ow I PRAWN RY J. E. BROOME. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 159 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE ROVER COMPANY LTD

... OVER COMPANY LT TOE HOVER COMPANY LTD., S The er Company is being called upon for an increasing amount of sp: jlised Government work the manufacture of new Rovers is the; ,ore increasingly limited. It follows that the Rover of to-day is more than ever a sound investment. With good care it is possible that not only will it not depreciate, it will actually appreciate in value. And in the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

County Perfumery Co. Ltd

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Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 99 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Gelty Distributing Co

... Qolty Distributing Co. Qolty Distributing Co. 1^2353 FIRM SHAPELY BUST IS THE ESSENCE OF r WOMANLY BEAUTY A perfectly moulded figure has more charm than even a beautiful face. Few women, however, possess truly graceful contours, and modern dress reveals with candour the outline of imperfect forms. Scientific research has led to the discovery of a ulh-3^ tratment the S-8 brand Preparations ich ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 143 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations