The Park Lane Mystery Recaptured Ingle’s Secret Meeting
Arthur Ingle, a Dartmoor convict on license, receives a secret midnight summons from Stratford Harlow. He agrees to a car rendezvous near Horse Guards Parade to discuss a dangerous proposition that could alter his life, and he records his intent to proceed.
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Stratford Harlow
Arthur Ingle
Dartmoor
Harlow
Horse Guards
Westminster
Buckingham Palace
Hyde Park
Queen Visits Wounded Soldiers at Hospital in France
The Queen toured a hospital where hundreds of Tommies and poilus wounded in Flanders receive care. She spoke in fluent French to a wounded Tommy and stopped beside beds for chats, including one long talk in a cubicle with a severely injured man. A new candy called wheyfers, chocolate coated whey, was developed by U.S. dairy experts. Scientists say a large red star is young and a small red star is old. The vilest smelling compound is mercaptan.
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Ingle
Flanders
Tommy
U.S
Indian Soldier Hinchpin Says Sikhs and Gurkhas Will Triumph
Major Horatio F. Chisholm in Cleveland argues Italy faces a massive Allied force in Syria and the Mediterranean. He praises Indian troops from British India, especially bearded Sikhs and Gurkhas, for their endurance and proven combat record. He recalls his India service in Bangalore and Mysore.
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Italy
Germany
Syria
Mediterranean
Horatio F. Chisholm
Cleveland
Ohio
Chisholm
India
Bangalore
Beans
Mysore
Major Chisholm
Army Pilot Dips Wings to Signal Home in Vermont
Capt Walter Cleveland, an army pilot based near Montpelier Vermont, dips his plane’s wings sharply as he passes his house to signal his wife that he plans to come home for dinner. The affectionate gesture marks a notable homecoming routine near the airfield.
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Walter Cleveland
Montpelier
Vermont
Brutal U boat commander abandons sinking merchant crew in sea
Navy press recounts a May 27 torpedo attack on a British vessel. Seventy-two men struggled in the water for half an hour as the U boat crew photographed them and jabbed survivors with boathooks, leaving 31 to perish before a neutral ship rescued five. The article also notes a fossil elephant tooth and a tiny metal tube exhibit at Chicago Field Museum.
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Navy
Gems of Faith and Thought Across Poets and Healers
A collage of quotations on faith love hope and belief from figures such as Hebrews Wordsworth Emerson Mary Baker Eddy and Harvey Cushing. The passages celebrate faith as substance evidence trust and the guiding force behind action and understanding.
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Mary Baker Eddy
La Grandeur Britannique
Temps lauds the British fleet for ending the legend of German invincibility and debunking propaganda aimed at undermining the Anglo French entente. It asserts Britain and France fight for liberty and justice, despite myths of decadence or egotistic aims.
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la Grandeur
Temps
Great Britain
England
Canada’s asbestos industry under strain from war demand
The Winnipeg Free Press notes Canada’s large asbestos deposits sustain wartime needs with production rising about 40 percent. January 1940 output reached 26 651 tons, compared with 183 780 tons in January 1939, highlighting the fire’s demand for asbestos protection.
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Canada
Winnipeg Free Press
Arabs Pledge Support for Allies at Nashashibi Home
Two hundred sheiks and leading Arabs from Palestine and Trans-Jordan met Fakir Bey Nashashibi leader of the Palestine Defence party at his residence and pledged loyalty to the Allies.
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Palestine
Trans-Jordan
Fakir Bey Nashashibi
Palestine Defence Party
Men marry at an average age of twenty seven years
A historical note reports that men marry around age twenty seven on average. It reflects social patterns and family formation norms of the period.
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Edgar Wallace
Mr. Ingle
Horse Guards Parade
Aileen
Mr. Harlow
Jim Carlton
Lydia E Pinkham
Queen Elizabeth
London Hospital
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Canadian Shredded Wheat Company, Ltd
Niegere Fells
Coneda
Chicago Field Museum
France
Lady Frances Ryders
Australia
New Zealand
Wordsworth
Emerson
Harvey Cushing
Beaumont
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