Sad Cypress scene at Hunterbury unfolds love and mystery
In this synopsis from Agatha Christie, Elinor Carlisle and her fiancé Roderick Welman visit their aunt Laura Welman at Hunterbury. Dr. Peter Lord treats the ailing Mrs. Welman as Elinor and Roddy navigate romance, money concerns, and a whiff of suspicion around the aunt’s fortune as a murder trial looms.
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Mary Gerrard
Elinor Carliste
Roderick Welman
Laura Welman
Elinor
Mary Gerald
Laura
Hunterbury
Welman
O'Brien
Hopkins
Roddy
Mrs. Welman
Dr. Lord
O’brien
Peter Lord
London
Monroe Wis Newspaper Rates Listing 1930s
Rates for city delivery by carrier lock box or general delivery are listed as 20 cents a week. Single copies cost 5 cents. Suburban rates include one year 75 dollars six months 3.75 and three months 0.52, with Wisconsin and adjoining states one year 36 dollars six months 3.25 three months 1.75. The Associated Press retains rights to news dispatches and local reporting.
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Monroe
Wis
WIKRE
Allen-Kiapp Co
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Associated Press
Editorial Reflects on War Names Returning to Headlines
The piece notes how long the war has lasted and how old veterans feel as familiar place names reappear in headlines. It frames World War II as circling back to 1931 origins with references to Dairen Mukden Nanking Harbin Tsitsihar and other sites as the conflict reemerges in the news.
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Dairen
Mukden
Nanking
Tao
Harbin
Tsitsihar
China
Addis Ababa
Eritrea
Djibouti
Somaliland
Toledo
Madrid
Santander
Colona
America
Helsinki
Viipuri
Ladoga
Hango
Syria
Warsaw
Dunkirk
Russa
Stalingrad
Butter Production Down 6 Percent in May
Government reports show May butter output at 173 million pounds, about six percent below last May and the lowest since 1928. Demand remained weak due to a 24 cent per pound ration and 5 percent of output reserved for government purchases while markets stayed firm on armed forces demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Ay Administration
Willie Jackson Proves It at Camp Butner
Captain Herbert Frank, post finance officer at the convalescent hospital, required positive identification from patients. Willie Jackson stepped forward with his upper denture showing the inscription Willie Jackson 24510783, and received his pay.
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Willie
Camp Butner
N. C
Herbert Frank
Willie Jackson
Daffodil Wood and a Stirrings of Desire
In a reflective passage a man contemplates upcoming marriage to Elinor and financial worries while wandering a spring wood. A sudden inner restlessness emerges as he notices a striking girl with pale hair and rose skin, stirring desire as the story advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elinor
Laura
Russia Likely to Enter War Against Japan Say Experts
MacKenzie's News Views argues that Soviet participation against Japan is probable based on strategic self-interest and recent trends. It notes Moscow's neutrality pact rejection, Tokyo’s fear of a Russian declaration, and intensified Red Army training as signs of looming conflict.
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Japan
Russia
Pacific
Moscow
Marshal Stalin
Sphinx
Soviet Union
Siberia
Nippon
East Asia
Port Arthur
Manchuria
Sakhalin
Tokyo
Korea
Sian
China
Germany
America
United Nations
Great Britain
Stalin
Sakhalin Island
Red Star
Red Army
Associated Press
Gold Ring Reunites Old Lovers After 45 Years
Indianapolis resident Patricia Read found a gold wedding ring engraved Pud and traced it to Mrs Henry Brunner known as Pud who had lost it 45 years ago. The band was returned months before the Brunners celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. In Ft Lewis Washington a film projectionist slowed to pick up three GI hitchhikers.
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Herman Wittenwyler
Monticello
Ray A. Young
Washington
Madison Shrine Band
Charles Ensor
Brodhead
Carolinne Wood
David Cunningham
Nellie Lawyer
Browntown
Raymond Berger
Argyle
Triple T Club
Woodman Hall
Hawaii
Chicago
Pershing
Baker
Florence Worth
Oscar M. Hoel
Indianapolis
Patricia Read
Henry Brunner
Brunner
Brunners
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Sat. H. Rumler
Engineer Training School
Film Line Redirects Soldiers to Pishburg
In a mellow mood, a sergeant is waved on after a fellow notes the film title On to Tokyo on the windshield. The other says they are not going the same way and are trying to reach Pishburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Sarge
Pishburg
Polite thief injures man in Portland stabbing
In Portland, Morris T. Bradford said the harm came not from the $4 stolen but from a man who borrowed his knife under the pretense of fixing a shoe lace and jabbed the blade into Bradford’s stomach. Bradford recalled being polite and opening the blade for the thief.
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Portland
Ore
Morris T. Bradford
Bradford
Oklahoma City Woman Sends Clerk Cash to Free Husband
A Muskogee woman paid a court clerk 140 dollars to cover back payments owed to his first wife so the husband could be released from jail and return to wife No. 2.
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Oklahoma City
Muskogee
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