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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
2
Stratford Harlow surrenders to detectives after a staged disguise and false identities unravel a plot involving Marling, Mortimer Harlow, and a gang. The arrest follows a dramatic chase from a Park Lane house to a police station arena where media attention looms.
Mr Harlow walks a dark path in a city house and street, ponders danger from motor traffic, then reads news of a Welbury divorce suit on the page.
Aileen Rivers returns to the office after a tense night, while Mr Stebbings comments on James Carlton's family. She blushes, unsettled, as he notes Carlton’s father, then mentions a plain letter about leases. The scene blends personal tension with a business inquiry.
Chapter XXX recounts a childhood with aunt Miss Mercy Harlow a wealthy eccentric who sought full guardianship and argued with other aunts about care The narrator recalls unsure early memories suggesting he may have been backward mentally and Mercy feared responsibility for feeble mindedness, a source of anxiety.
Fragmentary text describes a child kept away from others while Miss Mercy and two others claim responsibility, noting the boy was never called Edwins. The narrative mentions a birth certificate and a change of name to Marling, with a hint of a forthcoming continuation.
The Country Inn hotels and boarding houses near London are crowded with Londoners whose homes were destroyed or damaged. These inns, once for temporary guests, now serve as affordable residences within easy daily travel to the city. Prices show a small rise but not extreme, as raids and noisy nights affect semi rural districts. Edinburgh Scotsman.
A compact collection of quoted lines on humility, self knowledge and spiritual strength from Tryon Edwards Joseph Roux Flavel Mary Baker Eddy Boileau and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The selections urge modesty before God, warn against vanity, and praise inward truth as a path to divine strength.
A fragment from a conversation in Istanbul mocks wartime rhetoric. A habitue claims Italy has a new secret weapon, a regiment of German infantry, prompting a wry recall of Lord Lothian’s quip about Italy joining the Axis and the British ambassador’s dry reply about past alliances.
A promotional note from Home Service invites readers to order a 32 page booklet titled World’s Best-Loved Poems featuring Sam Walter Foss Walt Whitman James Whitcomb Riley and others. It highlights cheerful verses from Burns Longfellow Ella Wheeler Wilcox and more and lists additional 15 cent booklets on budgeting growing indoor plants winter sports health and self instruction with ordering details in Winnipeg Manitoba.
In a November issue, Professor Fred Landon urges libraries to gather wartime material from localities for future researchers. The Hamilton library hosts an exhibit of posters and documents from 1914 to 1918. An auction in New York will offer Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica 1687 for a war relief fund.
A writer in Scientific Monthly argues snakes do not hypnotize birds. The article notes meteoric material adds about 100000 tons to Earth yearly, mostly dual from the sky. It contends that repeated failures heighten the final applause when success comes.
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