Opium Smuggling Suspected Near Tongting Lake Adventurers Foil Ring
Hartland and Jimmy Lanton uncover a smuggling den near an ancient monastery on the Yangtse river. They confront Yen Li and a gang, disable the traders, capture Yen Li, and secure two wounded smugglers. They ride to a mandarin for help, ending the ring and earning Hartland a promotion.
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Jimmy Lanton
Yang-tsi
Walla
Ehi
Tongting Lake
China
Yang-tai River
Yoh-cheo Fu
Tao Faith
Hartland
Taoiam
Yoh-chee
Jimmy Banton
Tamora
Lanton
Jimmy
Santon
Geragen
Felow
Yen-Ld
Yen-Li
Banton
Euick
Tuiia
Imperial Customs Service
Yen-Ii
Customs Service
Ateamera
Norma Adams Writes From Glenroy Picnic Plans
A May 20 1908 letter from Norma Adams at Glenroy to Uncle Jeff describes a planned Empire Day picnic, a hopeful closing line, and a brief personal note about receiving a reply. The reply expresses gladness and best wishes for the outing.
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Ferndale
Vic
Jeff
Elster
Martha Lindner
Katie
Glenroy
Norma Adams
Norma
Childrens Riddles and Cough Remedies Prompt Laughs
A humorous dialogue features a mother anxious about a suitor while a child answers about a lion and lamb. The scene includes a sales line for Woody’s Great Peppermint Cure and a quip about a father’s business after a talking to from the mother.
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Papa
On Taking Tonics
An article explains that tonics do not create new blood but aid kidneys and liver. It promotes Warner's Safe Cure as a medicine that helps eliminate toxins and restore health, noting a new concentrated form priced 2/6 per bottle and its alcohol free formula.
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Warner
H. H. Warner and Go, Ltd
Australasian
Melbourne
London Schoolmasters and Their Salaries
The article outlines salaries for trained certificated male teachers in London and compares them with female salaries. It details starting pay, annual rises, head teacher salaries, and higher paid posts, plus training costs offset by government and local grants. It also describes London County Council scholarships aiding underprivileged students from age eleven to twenty and new technical scholarships for boys to enter skilled trades.
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London County Council
London
County Council
Ihe
Children Hacking Cough at Night and Peppermint Cure
A garbled set of overheard remarks from a social gathering includes Mrs Casey comforting a widow over a husband described as a great man. Mrs Murphy interrupts with a retort about him being a formidable pal. A youth mentions temperance as bliss, while an elder questions the meaning of accounts for what in a playful back and forth.
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Casey
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Ada Cattle
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Cross
Alan
Mary Clare O'Brien
Cross Roads
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the Rock
Cross Roada
Meg
Hanner
Trix
P.B
Waihonu
New Zealand
Australia
Slater
Alice Lindner
Alice
Walter Hutton Taylor
Walter
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Nla
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