Shanghai Battle Sparked North China Conflict in 1932
Aug 9 sun Battle At Shanghai Was initial Spark. Morris J Harris reports that a clash near an airfield on the outskirts of Shanghai drew in Chinese and Japanese forces, leading to widespread fighting as Japan pressed along the Yangtze toward Hankow. Casualties and civilian evacuations followed as authorities prepared defenses.
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Shankhai
Naking
Japan
Liuing
Yangtzever
Hankow
Shanghai
Nanking Road
Edward 7Th Aone
Nkhal
Oiser
Can
Nanchang
Kingsi Province
Central
Yangtze
Nkow
Kiukiang
Fuklang
Canton
China
Kwangtung
South China
Japese
Restatorium Dreams in a Connecticut House
In a sanitized serial debut, handsome jobless Kinkaid Parker owns half of a vacant Connecticut home with Sally Pennington, the other half heir. They plan to turn it into a Restatorium as Parker jokes and chats with Sally, who suspects him of burglary yet is drawn to him while she reveals she recently inherited the property.
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Kinkaid Parker
Connecticut
Sally Pennington
Miss Pennington
Kinks
Kinkaid
Ride-a-wee
Sans Souci
Sally
Parkers
Pennington
Mr. Parker
Martha
Kin Kkaid Parker
Billy Gost
Tlam
Word Puzzle and Distant Excerpts Collide in Mixed Text
Cranium Crackers prompts solving word blocks forming true statements while the prose excerpts feature Sally Pennington resisting sale of her home. The fragment blends wordplay with serialized fiction scenes including Kin Kkaid Parker and Sally asserting ownership.
First nonstop Atlantic crossing by Alcock Brown 1919
The 1919 aviation milestone recounts John Alcock and Arthur Brown completing the first nonstop Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours 12 minutes. It notes earlier Navy Curtiss seaplane flight NYC to Lisbon under Albert C Read with stops, and previews the next segment “Three Lone Eagles.”
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Atlantic
Albert C. Read
United States
Navy
New York
Lisbon
Portugal
Read
Newfoundland
Azores
British Isles
John Alcock
Arthur Whitten Brown
Alcock
Ireland
Clifden
Ray
Lone Eagles
Look and Learn by A. Gordon
Answers to four questions are provided. The first asks if mint stamping uses a cold or mental approach, answered as cold. The second identifies Ferdinand Foch as commander-in-chief of Allied forces in World War I. The third defines an iconoclast as someone who breaks idols or challenges beliefs. The fourth cites the Boy Scouts of America motto Be Prepared.
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U. S
Boy Scouts of America
Ferdinand Foch
Lessons in English by W I L Gordo
Lessons in English by W I L Gordo discusses common usage errors in everyday speech. It covers misused phrases mispronunciations and misspellings including native born meaning indigenous and urges daily vocabulary growth with a single new word.
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W. IL. Gordo
Customs of hotel room service and formal invitations
The etiquette column notes hotels may add a room service charge or higher prices for room deliveries. When accepting a formal dinner invite, repeat the hour. when declining, do not repeat it. For a formal garden party serve sandwiches salads tea cakes and cold beverages.
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Morris J. Harris
Bhanghail
Shang
North China
Edwin Rutt
NEA Service, Inc
Kinks Parker
Annie
Preston
Vigor
Pei
Saki
Sago
T. B. Lawrence
Richard Burton
Gordon
Gustave Flaubert
Caybania
Rumania
Libya
Hungary
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
Radio City
New
Bath
Hotel Great Northern
West 57Th Street
Anne Ashley
Alcock and Brown
By Roberta Lee
High Point
Western Union
Licourt & Myaas
Tossaco Go
Paul Whiteman
Paul Douglas
N. B.C
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