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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1940
Page
9
Stratford Harlow arrives for questioning after Jim Carlton’s detectives arrest him. Harlow, alias Mortimer Harlow, mocks fate and imagines ancient Rome as he faces charges over Mrs. Gibbins’s death. The arrest unfolds with a House Lane twist and a secret story to be told later.
Mr Harlow moves through a street door and back to the sitting room as he contemplates matters. He worries about a poor fellow crossing the road near motor traffic and glances at the Welbury divorce suit on the page.
The speaker recalls living with his aunt Miss Mercy Harlow a rich eccentric woman who took charge of his upbringing and argued with his other aunts over his care She hints at a troubled early life believing he was a backward child and that Mercy feared he might become feeble minded and blamed herself for any failing by her sisters.
A narrator recalls becoming a housebound figure while Miss Mercy and her maid controlled visitors. Only Mr. Edwins and the maid’s son Lemuel were seen, with Lemuel sometimes substituted for the narrator. Birth details remain murky as a birth certificate name change is noted.
The Country Inn Hotels and boarding houses near London are crowded as Londoners displaced by bombing seek overnight rooms. These inns, once for short stays, now serve as residences for evacuation cases while distances to London allow daily travel. Despite high demand, charges show only modest increases.
A compact meditation collects quotes on humility from Tryon Edwards Joseph Roux Flavel Mary Baker Eddy Boileau and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The excerpts contrast true humility with self diminishment and emphasize self knowledge divine strength and right view before God.
In Istanbul a conversation about wartime strategy features a quip on Italy and a new secret weapon. A habitue recalls a Lord Lothian remark to a German diplomat about Italy joining the Axis and a British ambassador’s reply about past concessions.
A Winnipeg Home Service notice promotes a 32 page booklet of beloved poems by Sam Walter Foss Walt Whitman James Whitcomb Riley and others along with additional 15 cent booklets on topics from budgeting to gardening and health The notice invites readers to mail 15 cents in coins to the Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man for the collection and related titles
In the Ontario library review Professor Fred Landon urges librarians to gather and preserve local military records for future historians. Hamilton library hosts an exhibit of 1914 to 1918 wartime posters and documents and stresses timely collection to avoid lost materials.
A London published 1687 copy of Isaac Newtons Principia Mathematica will be auctioned in New York to raise funds for war relief. The sale emphasizes rare books and manuscripts and benefits a charitable cause.
A writer in Scientific Monthly clarifies that snakes catch birds by pursuit and strike, not by mesmerizing them. The article also notes Earth's yearly gain of roughly 120 thousand tons from meteoric material, mainly dust, arriving from space.
The saying notes that repeated failures heighten the applause when eventual success comes, illustrating perseverance as a valued trait.
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