Lurking schemes and a tennis match at Gull's Point
In a February draft, a plotting figure plans a September murder. The tale follows Camilla Tressilian at Gull's Point with Nevile Strange Kay and others, revealing complex relationships, a June yacht party, and a tennis semifinal where Nevile loses to Merrick nine seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gull’s Point
Camilla Tressilian
Nevile Strange
Camilla
Kay
Mary Aidin
Nevile
Casage
Audrey
Thomas Royde
England
Adrian
Mr. Treves
Balmoral Court
How Do You Like Monroe In January
The letter laments brutal winter travel in Kansas and recalls a thaw in January. The writer jokes about politeness and staying even tempered while recounting long waits for answers about wages and weather conditions. The piece contrasts freezing Kansas with warm months elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daylight Saving
Monroe
Terre Haute
Pinon Mesa
Chester Becker
Kansas
Deaths in 1944: heart disease and cancer rise while early-life deaths fall
State board of health figures show deaths dropped from 32 383 to 1 373 overall. Heart disease and cancer rose. tuberculosis deaths fell by about 50 across ages 15 to 48. Cerebral hemorrhage increased, ranking third, while other top causes declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Health
Monasticism A Way of Life Before Christ Era
The text notes an ascetic lifestyle practiced before the Christian era. It describes monasticism as a chosen path of withdrawal from worldly duties to pursue spiritual discipline. The summary highlights its historical prior existence and ascetic focus.
Battle Drama Continues in Mystery Series
Mrs Battle expresses disappointment as Superintendent Battle reassures that things will work out. The exchange hints at ongoing tension and a plot thread to be continued, with the detective character maintaining calm in the face of unsettling developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nyworths
Woolworth’s
Jim
Mrs. Battle
Superintendent Battle
Judge Rejects Petition by Milwaukee Rail Holders
Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe rejected a petition by holders of 75 000 Milwaukee railroad preferred shares valued at 119 million dollars to retain jurisdiction over the reorganized system. The judge said sufficient time had passed and valuations and profits had been examined by the court and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michael L. Igoe
Milwaukee Railroad
Henry L. Cohn
Chauncey Reed
Cohn
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
Igoe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Albert W Geigel Promoted to Captain in Air Forces
The Geigel family announces the promotion of Albert W Geigel to captain in the Air Forces. He entered service in 1942 from the University of Wisconsin and earned a BS at the University of Chicago before commissioning. He recently returned to Yale on terminal leave to continue studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert W. Geigel
Albert D. Geigel
Geigel
Yale
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Wisconsin
Army Air Corps
CBS
Mailman and Former Employee to Wed at Unity School
Ernest P. Smith, long-time mail carrier to the Unity school of Christianity, plans to marry Pauline E. Dyer, former executive secretary of the Unity society, after his Oct 1 retirement. The couple will wed in the school chapel.
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Kansas City
Ernest P. Smith
Unity School of Christianity
Pauline E. Dyer
Dyer
Unity Society
Smith
War Promotes Surprise Reunion at Hotel
Chicago L D Taylor of Ne wabago Mich did not tell his wife he had been promoted from lieutenant to captain. She arrived to meet Lt and Mrs L D Taylor at a hotel room 516. He checked in as Capt L D Taylor and the couple were reunited only the next day after clerks learned the two were the same man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Strange
Nevile
Merrick
Kay
Latimer
Kay i
Ted Latimer
Houc
Ted
Gull’s Point
Bay Hotel
Easterhead Bay
Fate
Cannes
Estorel
Mums
Superintendent Battle
Foreign Office
Mrs. Battie
Burlington
Jim
Battle
James Leach
Chicago
L. D. Taylor
Newaygo
Mich
Lieutenant Taylor
Captain Taylor
Paris Hotel in Paris Now Becomes Trade Nerve Center
DeWitt Mackenzie notes the California hotel on Rue de Berri near the Champs Elyses acts as a shelter for Americans and diplomats, funded by the U S department of state. It serves as a forum for business men to exchange trade information amid postwar Europe and franc devaluation affecting French production and North South American supply links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
California
Europe
Rue de Berri
Champs Elysees
Etoile
United States
R. B. Lewis
Taft
United States Department of State
Frances Perkins
France
North
South America
Prominent U.S. Educators Invited to Help Japan
General MacArthur invited thirty leading American educators to Japan to assist in reforming the Japanese educational system toward democratic principles. He urged a mission of the foremost U.S. educators to advise Japan's ministry of education and related committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
War Department
United States
Ministry of Education
Maryland Menswear Industry Leads State Economy
The manufacture of mens clothing is the largest industry in Maryland, underscoring the sector’s prominence in the state economy and employment landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Joe Boys' Club Membership Coupon Promotion
All boys and girls up to 12 are invited to join the Joe Boys' Club. Fill out this coupon and mail to the Evening Times Club Monroe Wisconsin. Include name street or rural route, postoffice, date of birth and age at last birthday.
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Joe Boys
Evening Times
Monroe
Wis
Monticello News Briefs and Local Visits
Monticello residents and guests are listed in a string of social notices. Mrs. C. D. Curtis and Mrs. C. D. Kennedy were hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kennedy. Visitors include Mrs. Emil Blum and family in New Glarus, and Nic Freitag with relatives in Milwaukee Champaign and Janesville. The Zwingli and Washington Reformed churches plan January aid activities and a victory clothing drive chaired by C. W. Karlen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Kennedy
Howard Kennedy
Emil Blum
Delores
Margaret
Carla Rae Blum
New Glarus
Joseph Viney
Madison
Lora Pease
Forrest Smith
Bank of Monticello
Navy
Nic Freitag
Frederick Sammond
Milwaukee
Rufus
Gail Fisher
Champaign
Raymond Voegeli
Janesville
Thomas Voegeli
Leo Kaney
Shannon
Ill
Kaney
Charlotte Felts
A. R. Felts
Monticello
Leo Fahey
Belleville
Ivan Wichser
Etta Babler
W. S. Hoesly
Walter Schmid
Matt Zentner
Bessie Youngreen
Beverly
Jerran Hanson
Arthur Staedtler
Alma Disch
Aid Society
Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed Church
Mmes
Sylvia Curtis
Dorothy Barlow
Marie Blum
Alma Dahnke
Hulda Duerst
Della Disch
Aid Society of Washington Reformed Church
John Meier, Jr
Louise Becker
Robert Everhard
Carl
Kirksville
J. M. Harden
Jacob Bisigger
Argyle
J. W. Barlow
Virginia
Monroe
Edna Knobel
Dick Freitag
Herman Babler
Donald and
Allen
Christ Yaussi
Frederick Tuescher
Darlington
Henry Elmer
C. W. Karlen
Flying Squirrels Come Alive in North American Woods
The article explains flying squirrels use skin flaps as parachutes and fat tails to glide between trees. It notes they are shy, nocturnal, and agile climbers found in North America Europe and Asia, with the American species about mouse-sized and the East Indian taguan about cat-sized.
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Nature's
Air
North America
Europe
Asia
East Indies
Birthdays listed for January week scattered across towns
Birth dates and names are listed by weekday from Sunday January 6 to Saturday January 12. The entries include Barbara Lynch in Davis Til route 1 and Delores Waelti in Brooklyn route 2 among others, with multiple ages and street or route details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Ann Lynch
Davis
Til
Delores £. Waelti
Brooklyn
Janet Kay Stuckey
Monroe
Lavonne Hilliard
Albany
Walter Ivan Frauchiger
Alan David Isely
Argyle
Margaret Rusch
Billy Bittner
Browntown
Larry Wilbur Kraus
Lyle Drake
Walter Theron Reasa
Donald Lowe
New Members and Birth Dates Listed
The notice lists individuals with their towns and upcoming birth dates or ages. Gerald Willis Weiss Albany will be one Feb. 9. William David Kummer Monroe route 4 will be 9 Feb. 19. Shirley Sylvia Kummer Monroe route 4 will be 8 Aug. 3. James Emmanuel Kummer Monroe route 4 will be one March 8. Marilee Scott Woodford will be 9 Jan. 8. Ramona Faye Scott Woodford will be 7 April 1. Beverly Janet Friedrich Juda route 2 will be 6 March 12. Larry Ernest Lisser Woodford will be one Jan. 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Jean Zweifel
Belleville
Gary Roger Stark
Browntown
Franz Jacob Camensind
Blanchardville
Betty Ann Zimmerman
New Glarus
Karen Lynne Gempeler
Monticello
Karen Rae Lengacher
8Th Street
Loletta Joy Roderick
24Th
Darlene Walden
Argyle
Wallace Wilson
Juda
Shirley Gorder
Avenue
Gerald Willis Weiss
Albany
William David Kummer
Monroe
Shirley Sylvia Kummer
James Emmanuel Kummer
Marilee Scott
Woodford
Ramona Faye Scott
Beverly Janet Friedrich
Larry Ernest Lisser
Wisconsin Among 11 States With Excellent Health Rating
The Metropolitan Life survey ranks Wisconsin among 11 states rated excellent for health based on 1945 nationwide study. Factors include selectee rejection, tuberculosis and infant mortality, general death rate, physician per population, and hospital beds per population. other excellent states include North Dakota Oregon Utah Nebraska Kansas Minnesota Iowa New York Massachusetts and Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Louis T. Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Mildred Kuelling
Worn blooded animals traced to Ermian period belief
The article suggests that worn blooded animals originated during the Ermian period of geology, a conclusion drawn from available geological evidence and scholarly speculation. Further study is needed to confirm their emergence in that era.
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Sa Wis
WIKRE
Associated Press
Alien-Klapy Co
Dework
Detroit
Cyessinisenninenanianepameneme
BATES
Editorial
Corona
Calif
W. M. Golbern
Denver
Virginia Davis
Lionard Boskovitch
Lyle Webber
DeWitt Mackenzie
Prudential Farm Loans
W. H. M. Bayne
17Th Avenue
Walgreen's
Brennan Decorating Co
Evening Times Club
KR. F. D
Postoffice
C. D. Curtis
The
Evening Times Boys’ and Girls’ Club
U.S
Chiropractic Clinic
M. J. Gonstead
Monrree
City Hall
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