The Gift Wife aboard Nord Express
On the Nord Express bound for America Dr. David Kebb travels with Cynthia Thatcher and meets Big Bill Gaines. A nutty kidnapping of oranges leads Gaines to vanish as the train moves. Jebb fights panic and injury while guarding the child as danger and yearning mix aboard.
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Ostend
David Kebb
America
Cynthia Thatcher
Big Bill Gaines
David
Gaines
Jeth
Jebb
Billy
Miss Tantalus
Cynthia
Nunkie Davie
Cleveland Twins Edit Paper for Sick Mother
The House News is written and drawn by Neal Smith and his twin Virginia to entertain their ill mother. They publish four to eight pages weekly, reporting local stories from Nellie’s scratch on the face to royal weddings, with wax transfer illustrations and Neal’s comic strip Herky Boy.
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Cleveland
House News
Neal Smith
The
Star
Virginia
Neal
Nellie
Wallie Warfield
King Edward VIII
Herky Boy
Easy sewing pattern for a waistline supple garment
The pattern uses materials such as faille maire flat crepe and velveteen for a waistline supple design. It recommends this project for beginners with a step by step sew chart. Pattern No. 8576 covers sizes 12 to 40 requiring specific yardages and a 15 cent price.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery Ave
San Francisco
Calif
Peculiar World Facts From Collier's Highlights
A collection notes English blackout innovations, Geneva restaurant cars, torpedo guidance quirks, remarriage trends among widowed men, and redwood trees in California and Oregon that are said to never die naturally. Crowned by Collier's recounting of curious tidbits.
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California
Oregon
Collier’s
Ask Me Another Quiz With Answers on Various Topics
A mixed Q A set presents ten questions and answers on topics from Roman numerals to monarch rule. It covers historical figures like Alexander the Great Joan of Arc and the Gordian Knot, and includes notes on plant growth night versus day and demographic trends in race groups.
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Mr. Madison
Alexander the Great
Joan of Arc
Gray
Krakatoa Eruption of 1883 Shook World
The Krakatoa eruption in August 1883 produced the largest explosion in history. Two thirds of the island collapsed westward, huge tsunamis reached Java and Sumatra, air waves circled the globe seven times, sea levels rose 50 feet, and more than 30 000 lives were lost across 300 villages.
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Krakatoa
Java
Sumatra
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Rupert Huge
Chapter
Nunkie
Dave
Miss Thatcher
Mitha Gavith
Ober
de Vinda
Thatcher
Thinthy Thashel
Thashel
Nankie
Cynthy
Universal Brotherhood
Rupert Hughes
Thinthy
Ickle Thinthy
Jebh
Vie
Monsieur
Monseer
Ebb
Cleveland Twins
England
Geneva
Switzerland
Lee
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