What Ho by Richard Connell Chapter X
Ernest Bingley and Crump scheme in England with Mervin to abduct a machine gun and a typewriter. The Earl and guests distract, while Ernest plans a Bristol trip for costume shopping and a ghostly disguise to flee. Crump announces wedding news and a nanny’s pregnancy as the scene shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mervin
Jane
Ernest
Kansas City
England
Mer
Bristol-bound
Ernest Bingley
Fantastical Art Ornaments Exhibition Opens in New York
Ruby Ross Wood and James Pendleton presented a second exhibition of amusing art ornaments tracing the last three centuries. The show featured a porcelain bulldog in a rose gown, a straw desk, a chaperon chair, Victorian wooden hands and more as a playful counterpoint to 1913’s moustache cup party. Wood said the aim was to add gaiety to nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Venus de Milo
Ruby Ross Wood
James Pendleton
Flax Fiber Blends With Wool Sparks Textile Study
The Textile Department at Leeds University examines flax wool blends for cheap novelty fabrics and stronger mango blends replacing cotton. An aqua mechanical process shortens production from weeks to hours, boosting yarn yield. A Lancashire firm and a Canadian engineer developed the methods over four years. Dowager Queen Mary’s secret autobiography is reportedly in the British Museum vault, per Sunday Referee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University At
Leeds
England
Lancashire Firm
Textile Machinery Makers
Lancashire
Queen Mary
British Museum
London Sunday
New Lord Chamberlain Named After Cromer Retires
The Earl of Clarendon becomes lord chamberlain as the Earl of Cromer retires after 16 years. The role oversees all court ceremonies, presentations, royal residences, theater licensing, censorship, and staffing, with a large staff and duties extending to the poet laureate. The office requires peerage and privy council status and remains with the ruling party until resignation or removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
England
Earl of Cromer
Earl of Clarendon
Catter
London
Detroit News
Perfectly Safe In Water Rubber Ball Man Found In Birmingham
Arthur W. Wynn a 57 year old Birmingham man known as Britain's rubber ball man can lie on water read a book smoke and sleep in comfort He propels himself with paddles and even survived being bound and submerged underwater His specific gravity is unusually low according to doctors and scientists
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur W. Wynn
Britain
Wynn
Dutch Professor Reports Eight Months With Unseen Natives
A Dutch professor returning to Europe recounted eight months spent with tribes along the Marowijne River in Dutch Guiana. He described a people who had never seen a white man before. A separate anecdote recalls a waiter apologizing for found error in soup when a customer claimed a button was in it.
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Europe
Marowijne
Dutch Guiana
Premier paddlewheel steamer to be broken up after 92 years
The Premier, a 129 ton paddlewheel steamer from Weymouth, built in 1846 by Denny's, will be scrapped after a 92 year career. It operated routes to Portland Lulworth Cove Torquay Bournemouth and Swanage and aided naval transfers in World War I. A 1932 collision with HMS Rainbow caused only temporary retirement.
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Weymouth
England
Denny’s
Dumbarton
Cosens & Co
Portland
Luluworth Cove
Torquay Bournemouth
Swanage
H.M
Rainbow
Montreal Gazette
Scenic Chief Mountain route sees surge in 1937 traffic
Immigration Branch figures show 27 692 travelers passed the Chief Mountain customs in 1937, a 160 percent rise from 1936. The 30 mile highway links Alberta and Montana, opened in 1936, and forms part of the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park scenic route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief Mountain International Highway
Immigration Branch
Department of Mines and Resources
Chief Mountain
Waterton Lakes National Park
Alberta
Glacier National Park
Montana
Ex Arctic Explorer Wilkins Sails to Moscow for Report
Sir Hubert Wilkins departed New York aboard the Normandie bound for Moscow to present findings to the government on failed Arctic Circle flights seeking Russian airmen stranded in a non stop Mos cow to Fairbanks mission. He plans to return July 11 to advance Arctic submarine construction efforts.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
New York
Normandie
Moscow
Arctic Circle
Fairbanks
Alaska
Sir Hubert
Two-humped camels can carry half-ton loads
The article notes that two-humped camels are capable of bearing loads up to half a ton on their backs.
American Author Spends Winter With Lapps in Lapland
Miss Neill James, an American author, returns to New York after spending six months in Arctic Lapland living with Lapps. She wore a reindeer pelts costume slept on the snow and subsisted on Arctic fare including salted coffee and reindeer stew. She traveled over 2000 kilometers by sledge with Lapp guides, visiting mining and cod fisheries and praising the Lapps as a sensitive intelligent race with religious life and multilingual culture.
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Miss Neill James
New York
Arctic Lapland
Miss James
Lapps
Pulka
Lapland
Soviet
Norwegian
Polar Circle
Arctic Ocean
James
Arctic
Listening as the first requisite of a good conversationalist
Loren Carroll argues in Esquire that real listening requires active engagement not silence. He suggests waiting 30 seconds after the last period before replying and observing voice tone eye gaze sentence construction word choice and sincerity to gain a new experience for both speaker and listener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Carrol
Esquire
MacMillan Plans 17th Arctic Expedition From Boothbay Harbor
Commander Donald B. MacMillan 63 and ten students sail June 25 from Boothbay Harbor aboard the Bowdoin for a Far North voyage. The party aims for 12 degrees from the North Pole, returning about September 10, to map harbors, film moving pictures, and study Arctic birds geology of Labrador and glacier movement.
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Donald B. MacMillan
Boothbay Harbor
Bowdoin
Far North
North Pole
Labrador
Tears Contain Powerful Germ Killer Lyscobyme
A report notes tears carry lyscobyme, a chemical described as possibly the most powerful germ killer known, highlighting its potential medical significance and protective role.
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Vin
Public Enemy No. 1
Earl of Bingisy
Crump
Emma
Beddingdon
Bride
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Earl
Bingley
France
Grenadier Guards
Sloat
Cricket
Sylvia
Charles
Bristol
Banks
Wyncoop
Dalrymple and Bass
Peel Street
Sparrow Alley
Anebetsies
Henry
Mr. Bass
Bingley Castle
Matic
Lord High Chamberlain
Birmingham
Mothers of
Canada
Christie's Arrowroots
Chief Mountain International
Vienna
North
Minard
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