Treasure beneath the hill aids Ranny in thwarting a kidnap plot
Ranny uncovers a hidden shaft at a burial mound and retrieves gold ingots tied to a ransom scheme. Fetten’s false tale collapses under police scrutiny as Tamar awakens to a plan from Selby while Phoebe tends to both family and packing for Tamars move.
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Ranny
Tahlahneka I
Miss Randolph
Fetten
Louie
Fettern
Towne
Tamar
Cricket Hill
Tam
Tamars
Phoebe
Humorous exchange snippets from old jokes and dialogue
A collage of light verse and comic exchanges featuring school, military, tailor, milkman and doctor humor. Punchlines hinge on wordplay, social mores, and miscommunications, each delivering a quick, domestic smile in a classroom, shop, or home setting.
Clever Cross Examination Reveals Injured Man’s Range
Francis L Wellman tells how a New York DA recounts a damage suit against a Street Railway. A laborer claimed permanent injury and limited arm raise. During cross examination the man is pressed to show his lift before the accident and raises his arm fully, drawing laughter from court.
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Francis L. Wellman
New York City
Joe Alsop among Americans sent home in exchange
Washington columnist Joe Alsop, captured in Hong Kong, is among Americans released in the Japanese American civilian exchange. Alsop, related to the President, had resigned his Navy commission to work for the Chinese government in Chungking. He welcomed freedom but protested returning to the United States and urged release at the nearest point to his capture in China.
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Leonard Lyons
New York Post
Joe Alsop
Washington
Hong Kong
Alsop
U.S. Navy
Chungking
America
China
Quick Piano Playing Guide by Home Service
Learn piano with a simple keyboard chart and melody first approach. The 24 page booklet offers rhythm lessons and a full board chart with chords, three practice pieces, and basic music elements. Send 15 cents to Home Service Dept Winnipeg News Paper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. 2477.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Fire Retardant Chemical Developed by German Refugee
Harvard chemist Dr Walta Juda, who fled Germany, reports a new fire retardant chemical. Developed under Dr Grinnell Jones at Harvard laboratories, the substance can be sprayed on new wood or applied by brush for protection of wooden structures used in war production and by the armed forces.
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Harvard University
Walta Juda
Germany
Grinnell Jones
Harvard
Canadian railways praised for safety during heavy traffic
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes that Canadian railways show careful handling and well maintained roadbeds and equipment as they pass through a period of exceptionally heavy traffic with few serious accidents, even though many workers are "preen hands."
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Brockville
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Beas
Black Gran
Mr. Todd
Todd
Selby
Atlanta
Therese
Pinecrest
Arctotle
Roland
An ‘Oase
Field Artillery
Crewe
Robert
Burgess
Toronto
Ottawa
The
Grey Nuns
Cool
Cheane
Kellogg Company of Canada Limited
Home Service
Thurstan Topham
National Railway
Canada
Canadian National Railways Employees War Services Association
Fighting Services
Canadian Railways
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