Attic Evidence Links Burglary Murder to Boss and Wife
Inspector Har rison questions Maggie Cassidy after a night of danger as she recalls finding her boss beaten and his wife dead. Hunt, the suspect, lies in a coma in the garage while Mark Trent and Lola remain under scrutiny amid a New Year era of intrigue and crime in a New England village.
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Tim
Maggie
Mrs. Hunt
Mike Cassidy
Bill
Mike
Pop
Cassidy
Trent
Mark Trent
Hunt
Mark
Mr. Trent
Lola
Brooke
Underworld
White Cottage
Bill Harrison
Mrs. Gregory
Sam
Fields and
Reyburns
Mary Amanda Dane
Mary Amanda
Jed Stewart
New England
Daphne Field
Lookout House Nightfall After a Tragic Event
Brooke Reyburn watches twilight at Lookout House as Mrs. Gregory notes the two week span since a tragedy at the filling station. Police, fingerprints, and frantic headlines fill the days, while Christmas greenery and a theatre production fill the house with uneasy activity.
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Lookout House
Brooke Reyburn
Conservatory
Sam
Birthday and breaking contract for famous air page boy
Johnny Roventini, 43 inches tall, celebrates his twenty seventh birthday after signing a life contract with a major cigarette company. He now appears on cigarette cartons and no longer needs outside work, then pursues hunting and ping pong as hobbies. The article also recalls a World War II era dispatch and a scoop by Frank Sibley, plus a plug for the 1938 Almanac for New Yorkers and a note about the sanitary code and early Manhattan history.
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Johnny Roventini
Johnny
Park Avenue
The
New Yorker
Mr. Smith
Federal Writers’ Project
Works Progress Administration
Manhattan
Broadway
Oil Tankers to Be Built for War Use
Washington reports the United States will have Standard Oil of New Jersey build twelve high speed tankers for potential wartime use. The Maritime Commission funds the ships with the commission covering auxiliary equipment, while Standard Oil covers construction. Contracts total 37,556,004 to four shipyards for three ships each.
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Washington
United States
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Maritime Commission
Standard Oil
Joseph P. Kennedy
North Atlantic
Commission
Kennedy
Revere Ride Covers About 12 Miles While Dawes Records 16 Miles
Measurements using current maps show Paul Revere’s midnight ride covering about 12.86 miles. In contrast William Dawes, with a different route the same night, traveled around 16.88 miles.
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Paul Revere
Lexington
Mass
William Dawes
Three Main Factors Behind Child Marriages
Chicago report links juvenile marriages to climate delinquency and disposition. Regions with 60 to 75 degrees average temperature show 17.7 percent of marriages in teens, colder 35 to 45 degrees reduce to 7.5 percent, and warm climates speed maturation.
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Chicago
Society For Research In Child Development
Onions and Garlic Hailed Against Disease
Albany health commissioner Dr. Daniel V. O Leary says onions and garlic fight infectious disease due to germ killing chemicals. Scientists Dr. Richard E. Vollrath and Dr. Carl C. Lindgren are credited with isolating the active compounds.
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Albany
Daniel V. O’leary
Richard E. Vollrath
Carl C. Lindgren
Bacteriological Department
University of Southern California
O’leary
Horseshoe of 1847 Found in Oak Tree
A Del Monte California golf course axe crew uncovered a shoe believed over 90 years old embedded in the heart of an ancient oak limb. Local tradition ties the relic to Monterey when it was the capital of Spanish California, left by a rider who supposedly hung it during a long-ago ride.
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del Monte
Calif
Monterey
Spanish California
Spring Patterns For Frocks And Dresses
Spring fashion arrives with fitted bodice morning and full figure frocks. Patterns 1450 1312 1444 cover sizes 12 to 52 with yardage details and front closing zippers. Send orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Fragments on character and conduct in modern life
A collection of maxims comment on envy, honor, and manners. It notes envy of circumstances, military imagery, disdain for a woman's refusal, and the value of modeling good manners for children. It observes priorities in money and independence and warns against imposing on others while highlighting a boy’s bond with his mother.
Panacea Work as the Grand Cure of Mankind
A Panacea Work is described as the ultimate remedy for all diseases and sufferings that affect humanity, stated as a sweeping claim by Carlyle. The text frames this concept as a universal healer for ailments and woes.
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Carlyle
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