Bull-Dog Drummond Adventure Teases Crime and Romance
A dramatic teaser notes Captain Hugh Drummond seeking an ally for excitement and crime. Phyllis Benton pleads for help as her father clashes with international criminals, with Bull-Dog Drummond guiding the girl through peril and death in a stirring adventure by Cyril McNeile writing as Sapper.
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Hugh Drummond
His Majesty
S Royal Loamshires
Phyllis Benton
Phyllis
Bull-Dog Drummond
Bull- Dog
No Man's Land
Cyril McNeile
The Count's Dinner Gambit for a Global Power Play
A 1918 Berne hotel hosts a mysterious Count de Guy who enlists four high‑level financiers from the United States and Germany in a plan to harness a covert international force. The proposal promises one million pounds and calls for trust, secrecy, and a quick payoff after a planned manipulation of England’s power.
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Cologne
Hotel Nationale
Berne
Monsieur
le Comte de Guy
Comte de Guy
Maitre D'Hotel
Room X
Digust
M’sieur le Comte de Guy
American Red Cross
Monsieur le Comte
Hocking
Great American Cotton Trust
Herr Steinemann
Herr von Gratz
von Gratz
Europe
Mr. Hocking
Ince
Ashien
America
France
England
Germany
Wal
Ngland
Steinemann
Dream meanings tied to mineral mines and outcomes
The passage lists dream interpretations for various mines: silver signals court trouble, gold means successful love, iron brings health and happiness, copper wealth and prosperity, lead unprofitable work, tin slander, zinc a friend's treachery, coal a brilliant future, and salt dishonor.
Colorado the Centennial State: gold boom to statehood story
Colorado rises from Dry Creek gold discoveries in 1858 to a booming mining region. Explorers Pike Long Fremont and others chart the land before Denver grows, a territory forms in 1861 and Colorado becomes the 38th state in 1876 with six electors. The name derives from the Colorado River meaning colored red.
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Blackwater
Coronado
Great Plain
Father Marquette
Platte River
Missouri
Lewis ‘and Clark
Manuel Lisa
Bellevue
Nebraska
United States Territory
Omaha
American Fur Company
Nebraska City
Missouri Territory
Arkansas
Michigan Territory
California
Nebraska Territory
Fortieth
Forty-Ninth
Dakota Territory
Idaho Territory
Northwest
Olorado
Louisiana Purchase
United States
United States Army
Pike
Pikes Peak
Long
Fremont
Mexico
Dry Creek
Denver
Leaverworth
Territory of
Colorado
Colorado River
Inventor Builds Steamless Camphor Tree Clipping Machine
An American inventor unveils a machine that strips camphor trees of leaves and small branches without harming the limb or reducing productivity. The device includes its own gasoline engine and automates a formerly tedious hand operation at intervals.
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Bulldog Drummond
Carlton
Jonathan Brace
Metture Newspaper Syndicate
State
M'sieur le Comte de Guy
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