Neville's secretary places a New York Times advertisement
Date (happened)
c. 1940
relative · probable
Reasoning
Passage 547328 has Neville say his secretary Jack Butler went to place a New York Times ad 'this is now, oh, twenty-five years ago' during the Q&A of lecture nid 1864, delivered 1965-03-23 (certain; internally corroborated by Neville's own 'even today, in 1965' per processing notes). 1965 minus the stated twenty-five-year interval gives circa 1940; the interval is a rounded spoken estimate rather than a precise figure, so qualifier is circa and confidence is probable rather than certain. No month or day is stated for the ad-placement event itself.
Told / reported
23 March 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Neville narrates this anecdote about his own secretary in the first person ('my secretary went down to place an ad', 'my secretary, Jack Butler') during the Q&A of lecture nid 1864, delivered 1965-03-23 (certain, corroborated chrome dateline matching two independent legacy catalog claims and Neville's own internal 'even today, in 1965'). This is Neville's own telling of a past event, not a third party's recollection, so a told claim is warranted at the lecture's own date and confidence. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/8000-9999-b5, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1864, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).