The Park Lane Mystery Chapter XII Continues
In a conversation at Park Lane, Edgar Wallace builds intrigue as Mr. Harlow pressures Miss Rivers toward a marriage for wealth. He reveals plans, hints at Carlton and Brown spying, and pursues Saul Marling for a grand scheme, ending with a promised joke about a dinner party and twenty million.
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Freud
Harlow
Saul Marling
Marling
Mr. Harlow
Stratford Harlow
United Companies
Mer
Gentlemen's Linen Suit Do's and Don'ts
A humorous guide advises men on maintaining a white linen suit in summer. It cautions against reclining in chairs, sitting on grass, crushing insects, smoking, overheating, and bold courtesies. It suggests shade, fans, careful seating, and restrained behavior to avoid wrinkles and stains.
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Buffalo Courier-Express
Churchill's hat era ends with new hard hat look
Winston Churchill now wears a hard hat resembling a topper and derby, a departure from his famed hat variety. Italy needs about 75,000 tons of fats annually for soap making.
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Winston Churchill
Italy
Canine Friendship Memorial Hidden in Grotto Cemetery
Canadian soldiers in England uncovered a weathered grave marker in a grotto plot. They cleared weeds and planted flowers on a site once overrun by dogs, leaving a touching epitaph about loyal friendship and remembrance.
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England
Royal couple stay in London under siege plan
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth plan to remain in London as air raids intensify. Their defense organized with daily shelter inspections, stocked water and biscuits, weekly warmings, and a telephone link. The Queen keeps knitting and a portable radio. both wear warm clothes and place gas masks by beds nightly.
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King George
Queen Elizabeth
London
Resourceful Butcher Raises Funds For War Effort
A southeast coast towns butcher collected £15 for the Red Cross after two of his chickens were killed by machine gun bullets from an enemy plane during coastal air battles. He sold one for £10 and raffled the other for £5. Hundreds of tons of London railings and old bandstands are being scrapped for the war effort. Private owners are urged to contribute old fencing. Pasteurization of milk slightly reduces vitamin C.
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Red Cross Society
London
New Way To a Youthful Figure Diet Book Offer
A Winnipeg newspaper ad hawks a 32 page booklet on low calorie dieting. It promises 1200 calories daily to lose two pounds weekly and includes a calorie chart and two week menus. The notice also markets other booklets for 15 cents each, with varied topics.
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Mrs. Plump
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
No Salary for Master of Royal Mint Also Exchequer Head
The Master of the Royal Mint receives no salary because he also serves as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a dual role held for 70 years. Civil Estimates reveal government spending on hospitality, Parliament costs, and MPs salaries. House of Commons to run at £653,909 next year, House of Lords at £183,327. MPs face £372,000 in costs. Lords budget for 17 housemaids at weekly wages from 28s 6d to 28s 3d.
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Royal Mint
Britain
House of Commons
House of Lords
M.p.s
Vimy Memorial Claimed Undamaged by Air Photo
Prime Minister King said an air ministry cable shows no damage to the Vimy Memorial in France. British troops returning from Dunkirk described the ridge memorial as shattered by German bombers, with cemeteries nearby damaged, a claim later denied by Germany.
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Vimy
France
King
House of Commons
Air Ministry
England
Dunkirk
Edwin S. Johnson
Vimy Ridge
Douai
Fire fighting gear issued to farming districts
English farming districts receive hand fire fighting equipment to combat grain fires in case German air raids ignite crops. Authorities stress readiness amid wartime aerial attacks and call for rapid use of improvised tools to protect harvests.
Lead poisoning risk from using oil cans for canning
The Dominion Department of Agriculture warns that oil cans, made of Terne plate with lead, are unsafe for food canning. Only cans designed for food, which have lead free interiors, should be used for fruits vegetables meats or fish.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Labor Quotes From History And Theology
A compact collection of quotes praising labor as a force for national building and personal virtue. It includes thoughts from William Ellery Channing Phillips Brooks Charles M Schwab Mary Baker Eddy Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dwight on joy in work excellence and the value of effort.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Women win flower name contest at Gardens on Parade exhibit
Five women from the Federated Garden Clubs of New York beat an equal number of men in a name-the-flower contest at the World's Fair Gardens on Parade. Participants identified 25 flowers with common and Latin names, scoring 283 to 169. Also noted are a new elastic glass for garters and Tokyo residents with only four hours of running water daily.
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Federated Garden Clubs of
New York
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Bannatyne Ave
Canada
Otter
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