Sabotage Plot Hints Surface in John Bristow Office
Nancy Ellis Thorne endures a tense first day at the Bristow Die Casting Company while coworkers whisper about her past. Tom Cantwell and Hugo Blake introduce a new complication as rumors threaten her secrecy and potential safety in the plant. The chapter closes with Nancy furious at Tom’s betrayal and pondering motives behind the gossip.
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Nancy Thorne
John Bristow Die Casting Company
John Bristow
Luella Hill
Nancy
Nancy Ellis
Annie Burke
Lou Hill
Louella Hill
Miss Fletcher
Bristow
Tom
Lake Geneva
Pat
Bristow Die Casting Company
Hugo
Hugo Blake
Thorne
John Thorne
Tom Cantwell
Health alert and miracle product claim ad
An aggressive ad touts Fruitatives as a cure for liver issues and digestion. It claims the liver’s central role in digestion, waste removal, and nourishment and promises dramatic relief and health improvements for long time users. The copy imitates a testimonial style.
Greeks Question Bayonet Obsolescence in Modern Warfare
A reader asks how the Greeks’ performance affects the claim that the bayonet is obsolete in modern warfare. The note discusses infantry tactics, firepower balance, and the continuing role of close-quarters combat in future conflicts.
Wartime wages keep money circulating says Examiner letter
A correspondent argues against tripling daily payments and notes a Bank of Commerce survey showing 1940 wages at 1.73 billion dollars, up 30 percent from 1939. Higher wages keep spending within the country, supporting wartime conditions though debts remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterborough Examiner
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Gems of Thought: Self Control and Virtue Across Thinkers
A compact compilation of quotations on self mastery and inner power. Proverbs, Seneca, Hitchcock, Eddy, Channing, and Spenser urge calm, restraint, and disciplined action as true strength.
Byrd Expedition Left Food Pans Behind in 1929
A fragmentary note recalls Admiral Byrd’s Little America camp where meals were left on stoves in 1929 and found edible when the team returned in 1933. A separate discovery near Ellensburg Washington in 1931 unearthed wood believed to be 20 000 000 years old that was not petrified.
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Admiral Byrd
Little America
Ellensburg
Wash
Living room sized for spacious daven port ideas
A 40 foot living room is recommended as ideal since it offers ample space for future placement of a daven port, ensuring room for ongoing changes and new arrangements without constraint.
British postwar plan to end ugliness in towns and slums
Arthur Greenwood, minister in the war cabinet, outlined postwar reconstruction aims to remove ugliness and poverty. He pledged national pride in aiding citizens facing bereavement disability illness or old age and urged democratic nations to restrain aggression through coordinated will and organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Greenwood
Greenwood
Royal Bank Chief Vows War Effort Drives 1941 Activity
Mr S G Dobson general manager of the Royal Bank tells Montreal annual meeting business in Canada has reached peak due to government war contracts and will rise further in 1941. He says the bank is ready to finance increased demand and support Canada’s war effort as profits for the year total 3,526,894 with 2,800,600 in dividends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Dobson
The
Royal Bank
Montreal
Canada
Empire
Britain
Groom Granted Extra Rations For Small Wedding Feast
E A Collins of Ruislip England planned a wedding party for 22 guests and sought extra rationed items from the local food control committee. He received four ounces of tea eight ounces sugar two ounces butter and two ounces margarine but the extra supplies added little to the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Collins
Ruislip
Eng
Pekoe Tea Grade Explained Not a Brand
Pekoe is a grade of black tea not a brand. Orange pekoe results from sifting leaves through a sieve with a specific mesh size.
Germany Learns Lesson of Giving From Royal Air Force
The article notes Germany is discovering that giving can be more rewarding than receiving as Britain’s Royal Air Force effects a shift in wartime relations and expectations.
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Seneca
Germany
Royal Air Force
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