The Park Lane Mystery Chapter XVI Encounter
Jim meets Mr. Harlow in Theobald's Road and is invited to Harlow's home. In a private library Harlow boasts of police surveillance and threats against Jim and his superior, hinting at powerful influence over media and politics. The conversation reveals tension and potential danger as Harlow weighs leverage and coercion.
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Bedford Place
Jim
Theobald’s Road
Bedford Square
Harlow
Scotland Yard
Carlton
Mr. Harrow
Jim Carlton
Mr. Carlton
Mr. Harlow
Marling
Stratford Harlow
Long Acre
Rich offer from Harlow tests Jim Carlton
Jim Carlton declines a £5,000 a year offer to watch Harlow's interests after a dinner invite. Harlow reveals curiosity about Marling and hints at danger, while Jim probes for clues on a former tutor and a possible Argentine connection.
Community calls for service to aid Canada
A group led by Reeve Arnold Larsen and 30 Great Bend farmers launched four Call to Service pledges in Saskatchewan to safeguard wheat storage and support the home front. The document urges honesty about acreage, collective farm storage, livestock protection, and voluntary restrictions to strengthen unity and national effort.
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Arnold Larsen
Great Bend
Borden, Sask
Canada
Veterans Association
Empire
W. O. Wake
Gems of Thought Moral Guide Lines
A compact collection of sayings on morality and justice. It cites Matthew 7:12 the Golden Rule and quotes from Lord Chesterfield Mary Baker Eddy Sterne and a Chinese proverb noting that respect for self and others shapes manners. The notes compare moral law to gravity.
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Lord Chesterfield
Mary Baker Eddy
Saskatchewan Homemakers Endow Red Cross Beds Donation
The Saskatchewan Homemakers Clubs donate 2500 to the Canadian Red Cross for two beds at Taplow First Base Hospital in England. The 600 bed hospital costs 750000 pounds. each bed costs one sixth of a hundredth of the facility. 5000 members each gave 50 cents via a cheque from provincial Red Cross headquarters.
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Red Cross Hospital
Taplow
England
Canadian Red Cross
Saskatchewan
Red Cross
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Bertha Oxner
Home
Shanghai Faces Coal Shortage From Japanese Monopoly
Shanghai endures a coal famine as Japan's control of Chinese coal disrupts supply. Before the war China exported coal to Japan and the Far East. now shortages force Shanghai to import from Calcutta. Current price runs at 260 Chinese dollars per ton for soft coal, far above prewar costs.
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Japan
Shanghai
China
Far East
Calcutta
Tallest Canadian Army Man G E Smith Enlists at Fredericton
Signalman G. E. Smith claims distinction as the army’s tallest man at six feet seven inches. The 21 year old from Hoyt New Brunswick is unmarried and enlisted at Fredericton. A sergeant explains the gun mechanism to recruits, noting a crank operates a component as the squad smiles at the joke Awkins. A Leipzig Fair features a perfumed jelly soap substitute that requires no water or towel and is sold by the manufacturer.
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G. E. Smith
Fredericton
Hoyt, NB
French supporters urge London embassy as Gaulle residence
French backers ask that the French Embassy in London be made the official residence for General de Gaulle as he leads free France. The London Daily Sketch notes strong public support and a historic setting for his liberating work.
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General de Gaulle
France
London
London Daily Sketch
Albertgate
Queen Victoria
Eugenie
Worth While Gift A 5,000,000 Pound Butter Gift Plan
The Okanagan Valley Co operative Creamery Association aims to present Great Britain with a five million pound butter gift. It seeks backing from Canadian cream eries in British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba to realize the donation.
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Great Britain
Okanagan
Stephen Foster Songbook Sold By Winnipeg Paper Union
Home Service advertises Stephen Foster songs and a 27 piece southern songbook with words music piano and guitar arrangements. Includes eight Foster airs and spirituals. Price 15 cents plus list of other booklets for sale at 15c each with titles and items.
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Alabama
Louisiana
Stephen Poster
Stephen Foster
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
First Aid Lectures Housewives Form Britain’s First Corps
Housewives in Edmonton a north London suburb claim to run the first street first aid corps in Britain. They attend twice weekly lectures and furnish disinfectant bandages and cotton wool or scissors.
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Stockton Road
Edmonton
London
Britain
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Wrigley
Edgar Wallace
Pinkham
Pinkham’s
Harrow
South Africa
Ment
Federal
Department of Mines and Resources
Canadian Pulp and Paper Association
McGill University
Pulp and Paper Institute
McGill
Pulp and Paper
Sterne
C. F. Dole
South Dakota
Home Service
Sing Stephen Foster
Pittifs
Jeanie
Foster
San Francisco
South America
New York City
United States
Legion
Gey MacDonald
Cass
Overseas Department
W.L MacKenzie & CO. Ltd
Bennatyne Ave. T
Canadas
Tony Chaege
Pepwatons
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