Mystery Mission in San Francisco Ends in Murder
Giles Dudley travels to San Francisco to aid Henry Wilton on a secret errand, but Wilton dies before revealing it. Dudley assumes Wilton’s identity, enters Knapp circles, and encounters a web of forgery, guards, and dangerous figures as he uncovers hints of a covert plot centered on Knapp and Luella Bowser before continuing to chase the truth.
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Giles Dudley
San Francisco
Henry Wilton
Dudley
Wilton
Giles
Snapp
Mother Barton
Tim Tervill
Darcy Meeker
Dicky Nahl
Fis
Sknarp
Knappen
Luella
Brower
Berkhouse
Fitshush
Porter
Guiamer
Rishmond
Mother Borton
Carson
Giles Dedier
Mrs. Knapp
Mr. Horton
Mr. Knapp
Chinatown Expedition Plans Stir Fearful Night
In a tense scene Mrs Knapp and Mrs Bowser scheme to include Luella in a Monday night Chinatown expedition with Mr Wilton. Dicky Nahl warns of rival gang plotting while guard Porter and Barkhouse prepare. Mother Barton bursts in to warn of new dangers and offers aid to the narrator.
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Mrs. Bowser
Mrs. Knapp
Mrs Bowser
Mr. Wilton
Revival That Counts Through Biblical Quickening
A sermon asserts that true revival comes from a life infused by God's word, not human magnetism. It links dust symbolizing worldliness to needed spiritual life, urges personal prayer for quickening, and cites Luther and Pentecost as models of revival born in prayer and individual renewal.
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David
Luther
Peter
John
Solomon Chooses Wisdom Sunday School Lesson
A 1908 Sunday school lesson on King Solomon selecting wisdom from God. Highlights Solomon’s careful reasoning before asking for an understanding heart, motivated by memory of David, God’s appointment, personal youth, and the heavy responsibilities of ruling a vast, diverse nation. The piece emphasizes humility over selfish gain and links wisdom to broader national blessing.
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Joel
Acta
Solomon
Solomo
Absalomi
Adonijah
Woo
Hell
Heaven
Aren Wall
Bia Wisdows
The Skeleton at the Feast Dinner Scene
A superstitious man recalls a dinner where a cross-eyed girl at the phone faced the table and disrupted service. The waiter spills soup and botches every course, from missing cheese to forgotten butter and sugar, freezing coffee and delaying bread.
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Cross
When the Lights Go Out Harper’s Weekly Quip
The excerpt notes a joke about illness and death at night from Harper’s Weekly. It mentions Mrs Baker and Mrs Barker discussing how sick people seem to die during the night and the habit of a husband sitting up with the sick.
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By Zaqle Puascott
Bowser
Chinatown
Doddridge Knapp
Forter and
Barknousy
Terrill
Meeker
Borton’s
Barkhouse
Dicky
Caesar
Cabesa
Nahi
Borton Place
Dicky Nah
Darkhouse
Barkhorse
Wrath of
Heaven and Hell
Barton
Dicky Nal
Orion Sullefiy
Gibeon
Jerusalem
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