Desert Moon Mystery Ends In Doll Confession
In a tense exchange, a woman recounts discovering a copied letter and a doll named Christopher Clover that explained her past. She and others weigh truth, trust, and the implications for John, Miss MacDonald, and their circle as they plan to confront the situation.
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John
Paris
Christopher Clover
Lewis
Gaby
Honey Child
Danny
Mary
Desert Moon ranch murder mystery continues with renewed danger
After a murder on the Desert Moon ranch Miss MacDonald urges Sam to let her work alone with detectives while calling for a coroner. Tensions rise as fear and suspicion spread among the group and a poison clue prompts caution and patience before a grand jury case.
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Miss MacDonald
Sam
Canneziano
Desert Moon Ranch
Nevada
Stanley
Mrs. Ricker
Martha
Hubert Hand
Desert Moon
Missouri News Nuggets of Tragic Deaths and Bank Closures
A roundup from Cassville to Marshfield reports multiple deaths including a car crash in Cassville involving Herma Finn and Eugene Stark, drownings at Hannibal and Maryville, a fatal heat incident in St Joseph, and a fatal fall in Poplar Bluff. Also noted are a Vienna murder accomplice acquittal, bank closures in Coatesville and Marshfield, and a 1932 European trip for Senator James Reed.
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Cassville
Herma Finn
Fin
Eugene Stark
Lawrence County
Mount Vernon
Tucker
Annie Rhea
Kansas City
Harriet Jury
Jack Oakie
Geneva Hospital
St. Joseph
Lewis A. Clark
Swift
Hannibal
Kenneth Smith
International Shoe Company
Bear Creek
Paloma
Vienna
Earl Ten Eyck
St Louis
Jol Shackleford
James Todd
J. B. Jennings
Mechanics Bank and Trust Company
John C. Fennell
Emery-Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company
Fennel
Missouri
Trans-Mississippi Golf Association
Missouri Golf Association
Louisiana
Henry Mcleod
Clarksville
St. Louis
Cornelius Crain
Poplar Bluff
Union Station
Loren Crain
Rluegg
Crain
Rockville
Pueblo
Colo
Thomas de Lozier
Memphis
Tenn
de Lozier
Bates County
James A. Reed
United States
Europe
P. A. Miller
Coatesville
Finance Department
Desert Moca Polite Stranger Skips Breakfast
Chapter XV notes Canneziano did not come down for breakfast the following morning, surprising narrator who recalls meals had been his only polite habit since arrival on the Desert Moca.
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Canneziano
Old Customs Dear to Hearts of Britishers
The London archbishop at Lambeth Palace is kind. Every Thursday at the main gateway 30 half crowns go to 80 parish poor. The old custom once included bread beef and money gifts on Sundays and Thursdays. The lord mayor revived the Boy Wingers, with Salters Hall as the stage, a nod to Elizabethan favorites.
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Lambeth Palace
London
Salters’ Hall
Father of Basketball
The article notes Dr. James Naismith, then assistant athletic director at Springfield Mass, invented basketball in 1891 to develop indoor athletic activity for football players. By 1893 a rules book was published and competition began spreading.
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James Naismith
University of Kansas
Springfield
Mass
Naismith
Boole Tree Dimensions Claim World’s Largest Tree
Tables by M. A. Beckwith estimate the Boole tree once rose about 320 feet high. Readings show ground slant diameter 35 feet and right angle diameter 81 feet, with 16 feet high bulges at 25 feet, limb diameter 196 feet at 14 feet, and total height about 261% feet.
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M. A. Beckwith
Believing What They Want Themselves Say
A fragment notes a quote from the Chicago News about how some women can believe what they want to even when they know it is not true. The line reflects gender bias and mistrust in personal conviction.
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John
Miss MacDonald
Danny
Chicago News
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