Sentry Mystery Deepens After Club Robbery Killings
Barbara Sentry tries to sober up Johnny Boyd after a party and a police arrest triggers a chain of confessions. Detective Dan Fisher links Miss Wines's murder to a staged heist using a forged back door key and a stolen safe. Barbara’s ally Brace and Yale student Phil Sentry untangle time discrepancies and motive.
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Barbara Sentry
Johnny Boyd
Professor Bruce
Harvard
Barbara
Sentry
Miss Wines
Mary
Nell Ray
Gus Loran
Carl Bettle
Phil
Barb
Mother
Grandmother
Grandmother Sentry
Mrs. Sentry
Ellen
Professor Brace
Dan Fisher
Mr. Sentry
Falkran Defends Sentry in Newsroom Trial Context
Mrs. Sentry weighs hiring Falkran the lawyer as she confronts the murder indictment of her husband. Falkran emphasizes due process and the possibility of many explanations for the evidence, while Mrs. Sentry battles guilt, public whispers, and personal sacrifice.
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Dean Hare
Falkran
Phil
Mrs. Urban
Mary
Barbara
Linda
Ann Waring
Mrs. Dane
Mrs. Sentry
Calculating Machines Used by Chinese Two Thousand Years Before Christ
A fragmentary historical note cites ancient Chinese abacus use two millennia before Christ, plus early powder and sea sensing tools. It also mentions the Peruvian Cholos with a Despenador and references to Hamlet and X ray ideas.
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Christ
London
Peru
Despenador
Antaeus Giant Wrestler Defeated By Hercules
Antaeus the giant wrestler son of Earth and Sea drew strength from contact with soil. Hercules defeated him by lifting him from the earth and squeezing him to death, ending the invincible grip of the earth bound champion.
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Antaeus
Earth
Poseidon
Hercules
Small needlework tote and gift book promotion
A sewing instruction notes a tote bag project using ticking fabric with French seams and a top hole for a hanger. It promotes Mrs Spears books Gifts Novelties Embroidery and Sewing for the Home Decorator with autographs and a free Crazypatch quilt leaflet for orders from Mrs Spears Chicago.
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Spears
Dress and Address Jumble Sparks Witty Exchange
A fragment shows a humorous mishearing where a man jokes his wife is busy with a dress rather than an address. The exchange plays on word ambiguity within a women's club setting.
Comet Lesson Sparks Student’s Guess of Mickey Mouse
A teacher explains that a comet is a star with a tail and asks if anyone knows a name for a comet. A pupil replies with Mickey Mouse, prompting a lively class moment about celestial terms.
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Mickey Mouse
Codfish Ball Dialog Sparks Blunt Exchange at Police Station
A humorous scene unfolds as a suspect grouses about baths and irons after a prank at the codfish ball. A sergeant quips about washing the prisoner while the crook laments his treatment, cracking a joke about a laundry versus police station setting.
Way to Detroit Confusion Drives Driver to Seek Directions
A truck driver crashed into a house where a woman ironing stood. In a panic he asked for directions to Detroit. The woman calmly replied, directing him to pass the sideboard then turn left past the piano.
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Detroit
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Ben Ames Williams
Arthur
Mr. Falkran
Flood
Shakespere
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Coats
Mark
Smith Bros
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