Sabotage Plot Unfolds In Evening with Hugo Blake
Nancy Thorne enjoys a glamorous dinner with Hugo Blake, then faces a stark revelation as Blake reveals a plan to use her to steal confidential reports from John Bristow. She recalls a past attack on Bristow’s truck and weighs her role in revenge and profit.
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Nancy Thorne
Nancy
Pat
Iris Bristow
Iris
Tom Cantwell
Hugo Blake
John Bristow
Bristow
Luella Hill
Youd Better Be A Little More Explicit About It
Nancy Thorne agrees to help Hugo Blake in a tense moment as they discuss their next move. The scene ends with a cliffhanger and a promise of continuation.
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Hugo Blake
Tom
Nancy
Hugo
Why I Go to Church by Roger William Riis
The American Mercury piece surveys Riis's shift from skepticism to support for church attendance. Riis visited multiple denominations and notes rising attendance, linking church flourishing with democracies and freedom. He praises churchgoing for turning attention to higher aims and daily deeds beyond weekly worship.
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Roger William Riis
American Mercury
Riis
Willy Nilly
Not Our Battle Only His Excellency Governor General Quote
The address at Toronto on January 20, 1941, urges Canadians to embrace a global duty, noting millions in occupied Europe rely on them for liberation. It calls for bold leadership, resilience, and paying the debt to forefathers by securing freedom, civilization, and salvation for future generations.
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Canada
Europe
Toronto
Repairs to Buckingham Palace Cement Funded by Aden Donation
Ali Ahmed Ruban paid 100 rupees to Aden’s government asking the money be used to help cement repairs to Buckingham Palace after bomb damage. The funds came from the foreman’s two weeks’ wages at the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. The donation was approved and applied to the King’s residence repairs.
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Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Buckingham Palace
Ali Ahmed Ruban
Government of
Aden
Stoney Island Mobilizes All Able Bodies for War
Every able bodied young man on Stoney Island Nova Scotia joins the navy army air force or merchant marine. Fifteen serve overseas with the Canadian army in Britain and thirteen are with artillery batteries or with navy and merchant marine on this side of the Atlantic.
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Stoney Island
N.S
Sherburne County
Navy
Army
Air Force
Merchant Marine
Britain
Atlantic
Ducks Halt Spokane Airport Traffic
Ducks swarmed the Spokane Washington airport disrupting traffic as melting snow formed ponds on an unpaved field. Commercial flights nearly stopped while pilots dodged the birds. No shooting occurred as the airport sits within a game preserve.
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Spokane
Wash
Huge Vegetable Garden in Hyde Park a Wartime Shift
The St. Thomas Times- Journal notes Hyde Park in London has become a vast vegetable project with over 500,000 allotments on Crown property. Each ten rod plot aims to feed a family of five for eight months, and the plan suggests London could approach self sufficiency in vegetables during the war.
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London
Hyde Park
Ministry of Agriculture
Hampstead Heath
Blackheath
Clapham Common
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Monuments in Guildhall Suffer Varied Damage
The Great Hall’s Nelson monument with Sheridan’s eulogy remained, though its summit wreath shattered and a front figure fractured. Bri tannia and the British Lion survived. base ships carved relief intact. Wellington monument largely undamaged except for its base. Pitt statue near it sustained little harm. William Pitt the Younger statue with Canning’s inscription also unharmed.
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Lord Nelson
Sheridan
Britannia
Duke of Wellington
William Pitt
Lord Chatham
Burke
William Pit
Canning
London Times
Crab Repatterns After Losing Limbs
A Natural History note highlights the crab’s remarkable ability to replace lost legs claws and paddles. It can shed eight or ten appendages at once and still continue to live grow new ones and maintain function.
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Natural History
Safest Place in Britain Says Bombed Yet Not Shut Down
Ralph Ingersoll, editor of PM, told the Canadian Club of Toronto that top British military targets like Battersea power station survived German bombs once and remained functional. He argued Britain controls the air, noted censorship is military, and predicted US aid to Britain would rise.
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Britain
Ralph Ingersoll
New York
Canadian Club
Toronto
Battersea
London
United States
Gems of Thought on Friendship Across Poets
A compact collection of quotes on friendship from Cicero Holmes Eddy Bonnard Euripides and Addison. The sayings celebrate unity of aim trustworthy understanding and prudent quiet support as the essence of true companionship.
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Cicero
Fire destroys famed inn on Fleet Street
A historic inn the Cheshire Cheese, once a Johnson favorite and later a magnet for American tourists, was burned out though most relics were saved. The blaze cause remains undetermined as London endures a string of past fire and air raid references.
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Samuel Johnson
Fleet Street
London
City of
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