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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
3
In this scene from Edgar Wallace’s Park Lane Mystery, Jim and Elk explore a secret room behind a wardrobe. They discover a hidden elevator and a dangerous chase through a hydraulic lift shaft as they search for a captive and a way out, forced to improvise with tools from nearby carriages.
Jim climbs a secret grille and evades guards while a bearded detective and Harlow clash over a staged clue. Aileen Rivers finally emerges from a locked room as Jim pleads for return home, ending with a cliffhanger note: to be continued.
A sub committee of the select committee on national expenditure criticized the pace of camouflage for vital industrial points and fortified posts in Britain. It condemned certain camouflage cases as absurd and unsafe, blamed a shortage of qualified officers, noted private firms' futile attempts, and urged a single government camouflage organization with its own research staff under the Ministry of Home Security.
A garbled clipping mentions a cake not sinking if water is placed in a reg eel at the oven rear and mocks mall under catalogues as bright yet unhelpful for building. The fragmentary text also includes a stray local phrase locally Daa.
A compilation of maxims on forgiveness tolerance heart and conduct from Balfour La Rochefoucauld and others. It links liberality to vanity and suggests gifts reflect inner character with citations from Eddy Lessing and Luther. The text explores how intention shapes the value of giving and the impact of example.
Three Colorado School of Mines alumni donated 180 meteorites spanning nickel-iron and various stony types. The collection will be used in Golden Colorado classrooms linking meteorites to weather forecasting, aeronautics and ballistics, marking a first for student study in this setting. An aside notes insurance data show women live longer than men.
A Parisian style home crafts note offers easy sewing and embroidery ideas. Readers are guided to make a gay log cabin pillow with red blue and beige fabrics and 12 strips per square using simple one inch cuts and French knots. Also described are a sewing stand from a cheese box and a two way screen craft. Details for ordering a 82 page booklet and other hobby titles are listed with prices and mailing address in Winnipeg.
R Keith Jopson, British representative in Canada for the children s overseas reception board, said thousands of British war guest children are expected to arrive after Atlantic weather. So far 1500 have come, with official estimates of 10000 to 15000 possible foster places in Canada. Britain reports 24000 lined up and a quarter of 4 million applications, suggesting no Canadian home wanting a child should be disappointed once transport is solved.
Eratosthenes in Alexandria during the third century BC first estimated the Earth's circumference at 24,000 miles, about 962 miles less than current measurements.
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