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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
7
Inspector Carlton and Dr Elk discuss the Rata Syndicate and United International Rubber, linking a rubber fire to a vast fraud. A call from Miss Rivers requests Carlton’s presence at Fotheringay Mansions where a locked bedroom raises a potential clue.
A woman meets Inspector Elk and Jim Carlton in a flat doorway. She explains she must collect her uncle’s fetters, claiming his name is Jackson and that he is abroad. She is agitated and mentions two women who clean weekly.
Jim Kindly and Miss Rivers explore a peculiar apartment linked to Arthur Ingle alias Jackson. A lumber room behind two doors reveals a narrow balcony and a dangerous overlook as suspense builds toward a continuation.
On a snow blown quay at a minor base in London a sailor reports 26 days at sea with one nine hour break and 44 hours on the bridge. He explains sharp cold, frozen equipment and near collisions as a looming war remains the only real chatter.
London experts report that by mid war the Allies show scientific edge in air craft and weapons. They dismiss fears of new German poison gas, noting British organic chemists lead the world and doubt any new gas exists. Sicily is described as densely wetted in the Mediterranean.
Mr James S Duncan of Massey Harris becomes acting Deputy Minister in charge of aviation to head the British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme. He formerly commanded Royal Field Artillery units in the Great War and led a detachment to recover Massey Harris machinery from a shell torn depot at Arras under German fire. Toronto Globe and Mail report.
London dispatches detail Germany’s ambassador to Britain Johann von Ribbentrop as a fallible figure. His arrogant Buckingham Palace greeting to King George and a string of diplomatic missteps illustrate a flawed early career. A reception invitation in German led to confusion, with the Japanese embassy replying in Japanese.
Thousands of evacuated Cockneys and boys from Britain's famous public schools will be recruited to help farmers gather the first wartime harvest. The Ministry of Agriculture plans to establish holiday land army camps in farm areas where town school boys will be organized and trained to replace men who left the land for war or armament work.
An old admiral questions Dupont about failing to enter Charleston with ironclads. The exchange suggests the true obstacle was not the channel or firing but Dupont’s belief in success.
Naturalists describe the mourning dove nest as poorly built with a bill and feet ill suited to supporting a nest, reflecting its shiftless appearance and unusual nesting behavior.
The Peterborough Examiner notes the cell telephone directory ready for distribution in Toronto with 164 workers and 15 trucks. It adds 77,400 changed listings reflecting many moved. Also mentions Mrs George Easterbrook of Exeter Ontario died aged 72 in the family home where she was born.
Florrie Forde, famed for 40 years and who introduced the marching song Tipperary, died at Aberdeen naval hospital after entertaining patients. The song became a British Army favorite in 1913 and spread worldwide.
A Winnipeg Press ad promotes a 32 page booklet titled Effective Phrases For All Occasions offering phrases for social and business encounters. It lists example lines for greetings, telephone messages, and interview statements and mentions related booklets on gardening dogs French and more with pricing. It also briefly notes a Rocky Mountain goat article fragment.
Italy’s 18 year old Mar cello Creti built a pedalauto that runs 100 miles per gallon of gasoline, a two person pedal powered car with bicycle pedals. It travels 35 to 40 miles an hour and could sell for about 150 dollars. The Rome exposition plans to use several for the fair grounds.
A collage of inspirational lines from Lincoln Mary Baker Eddy Binney Cowper and George Macdonald affirming the primacy of aligning with divine will through truth good acts and trust. Each quote emphasizes moral force justice and spiritual guidance shaping character and world.
During distant military actions one side captured the other's general and sent an envoy to negotiate exchange. The envoy offered four colonels, then eight majors, which were declined. After further consideration, the offer was rejected with a demand for two dozen tins of condensed milk.
A Saxon pocket sundial claimed as the oldest existing watch was unearthed two feet underground in a Canterbury garden. The artifact is gold colored and largely tarnish free. In Spain eighty percent of the population is employed in farming.
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