All That Glitters at Shadwell Farm Captures Attention
The Shadwell scene in late afternoon gathers reporters and police as Ranny Randolph and Knox Randolph confront a kidnapping tied to Tamar, her missing gold bricks, and a planned ransom. A mysterious telegram references Duck Point Junction for a late night meetup, while the house baying and a buried mare hint at deeper motives and a dangerous mastermind.
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Shadwell
Todd
Taylor
Randolph
Tahlahneka
Tamar
Madcap
Redly
Ranny
Knox Randolph
Allan Taylor
Duck Point
Ty Knox Randolph
Tablahueka
Louie Taylor
Louies
Mr. Randolph
Phoebe
de Repohtahs
Knox
Dick Sherdan
Christopher Sande
Sheridans
Iceland pack yields new canned fish for wartime Canada
Brant on Sun reports Canada will not ship canned salmon or herring to Britain but will offer other canned fish such as chicken haddie. The Iceland pack blends haddock cod and hake to reduce flaking and improve appearance, appealing to UK tastes, though higher production costs may raise consumer prices.
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Britain
Canada
Dominion
Iceland
United Kingdom
Hre
Germ warfare claims against Japan in China
Robert Barnett of United China Relief says Japanese forces have waged germ warfare in China for six months, with documentary proof from Chinese health authorities detailing bubonic germ dissemination mainly in Hunan and Chekiang. He reports some deaths but no widespread epidemics.
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China
Japan
Robert Barnett
United China Relief
Barnett
New York
Hunan
Chekiang
Double decker dining car planned for future rail travel
New York railroads expect a double decker dining car as Budd Manufacturing designs a Horton plan. Amidships holds the lower deck over the rails with an upper deck above, kitchen and storage move to the lower deck, freeing length for tables. Service becomes vertical via a dumb waiter, reducing reliance on hustling waiters.
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New York
Budd Manufacturing Company
Reuben H. Horton
Christian Science Monitor
Maps Distributed by Canada’s Mines and Resources Agency
In early 1942 the Department of Mines and Resources distributed more than 206000 maps for the first quarter, including armed services items, weighing about nine tons according to the official release.
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Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
Armed Services
Lake Terrarium Cake Pan Scene Delights Home Garden
A Home Service notice explains making glass terrariums with a lake scene using a cake pan filled with water, moss covered hills, tiny spruce trees, and forsythia. Describes desert scenes with cacti and donkey figurines, and glass gardens in jars with plants like Degonia orchid and begonia. Offers a 32 page booklet, send 15c to Winnipeg newspaper unit for “Glass Gardens and Novelty In for Gardens” copies.
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Home Service
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
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Ransome
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