Pagan Polly Pagan Polly and the Jewelry
At a Virginia Beach masquerade Polly Matthews intrigues Dale Lancaster with jewels as Ruth confronts a love triangle. A green masked thief and a safe burglary unfold, ending with Polly’s escape and Ruth’s warning that the jewels’ disappearance may be an ominous ruse.
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Ruth
Polly
Ike
Virginia Beach
Polly Matthews
Dale
Pagan Polly
Sue
Cate
Dolly
Mrs. Lancaster
Olly
Lolly
Vite
Slick Sue
Lindenwald Van Buren Home in Kinderhook NY
Lindenwald, the Lindenwald estates near Kinderhook in Columbia County, New York, sits on the old Post road with 200 plus acres. The house, not built by Van Buren but by William H. Van Ness, features seven rooms and two large halls on the first floor, five rooms and four halls on the second, plus attic rooms and a basement. The current hall wallpaper shows an Alsatian hunting scene, and some Van Buren era hangings, carpets, and the bed on which the former president died remain in the mansion.
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Lindenwald
van Buren
New York State
Kinderhook
Columbia County
William H. van Ness
New York
Bryan used Republican platform for speech on fertilizer box
Dr. Paul Ivey recalls William Jennings Bryan addressing a large crowd from a vacant lot with an improvised stand a fertilizer platform the Philadelphia Record notes. Bryan quipped that it was his first time addressing from the Republican platform and called it an odd venue.
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William Jennings Bryan
Paul Ivey
Mr. Bryan
Philadelphia Record
Binoculars Improve Vision Versus Single Eyepiece Spies
The article explains binoculars offer enhanced sight by using two eyes to focus on a single object. It notes the first binocular telescope, invented in 1608, used two telescopes mounted side by side.
Anne Bradstreet: First American Poetry Author
Anne Bradstreet wrote the first American book of poems and became the first literary woman recognized among English and American contemporaries. Her volume appeared in London in 1650.
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Anne Bradstreet
London
Cultivate Enthusiasm for a Charged Workplace
A short reflective quote on enthusiasm as the driver of hope and success in work. It frames a positive mindset as essential to tackling large tasks, suggesting that staying engaged shields one from cold adversity and fuels achievement.
Prisoner Hunter Reveals Brutal Jungle Penal Camps
W E A Booth of Los Angeles recounts eight and a half months in French Guiana jungle prison camps, detailing beatings, executions, and murders of convicts and guards. He claims covertly joining the camp as second mate on the Surinam to observe life, then escaping to tell his tale after severe illness.
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London
French Guiana
Devil’s Island
W. E. A. Booth
Los Angeles
Booth
Crimne
New Surinam
New York
St. Laurent du Maroni
Devil's Island
St. Laurent
Vamp
Jean Brock
Brock
Bee
Paul Molet
France
Paul Dievedonne
Molet
Dievedonne
Big Companion
Mole
Hoover's New Bog Wins Barking Honor at White House Kennels
The White House introduces a new shepherd police dog as a successor to King Tut, the beloved police dog who had served the president and died recently.
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White House
King 'Tut
Two-in-One Egg Report From Rice Lake Hen
A Buff Rock hen at the Dell Lovels in Rice Lake Wisconsin laid an egg that appeared to contain two eggs inside. The outer shell was unusually large and enclosed a thick layer of albumen around an inner regular egg.
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Wisconsin
Rice Lake
Wis
Dell Lovels
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Pasadena
Calif
Jungle Prison
Guiana
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