Treasure on the Reef Drives a Race to Manila
Harry Halstead returns aboard the Countess with nearly $20,000 in doubloons from a wreck off Guaran. He and Dick debate how to move the treasure within 30 days to avoid Sebastian the bishop’s treachery, considering Manila shipments and the risks of relying on local vessels.
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Himistead
Diaz
Stevens
Halstead
Guaran
Sebastiano
Tarafofo
Manila
Islands
Padre Sebastiano
Mindanao
Cura
Compania
Sonth
Countess Steamer Purchase Considered for Pacific Trade
Dialogue weighs costs of chartering a 3000-ton steamer for a Pacific venture. Ramírez & Co. would pay $5500 monthly, coal and port charges add thousands, and ownership of the Countess is proposed at around £45000. Plans include shifting cargo, routes via Hong Kong, and disguising cargo to avoid inquiry.
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Aoe
Compania
Shell
Ramirez & Co
Zoumes
Manila
Mercure
Guaran
Ramirez
Clyde
Agana
Gove
Hong-Kong
Hong-Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
China
Agat
Punta Piti
de Garma
Western Pacific
Tracing a Counterfeit in a Government Case
A government trace of a counterfeit $20 bill follows a chain from a Cincinnati bank clerk to a shoe dealer, a dentist, and an invalid woman. The trail leads to her brother in New Orleans, then to a Pittsburgh landlord, a traveling oculist, a Cincinnati patient, and finally a grocer who vanished town but ran a larger gang front. The tale shows the investigative effort and detours in uncovering the ring.
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Secret Service
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Contus
The Mouse Sense of Humor and Its Teasing Game
A humorous study explains mice respond to traps and cats with playful mischief. Mice rattle newspapers at night to banish sleep and tease the hunter, then vanish as the cat pounces. The piece notes mice are drawn to traps and cats, and rarely get caught.
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Nature
Pearson’s
Plume and Velvet Techniques for Toques and Sailor Hats
The article explains methods for covering toques and sailor hats with velvet and felt to create varied shapes. It details square and circular covers, winged flutes, bows, and lophophore feathers, plus tucks radiating from crown bases and box plaits for different hat styles.
Coachman Reveals Escape From Jealous Suspect
In a dramatic exchange, Analine Munnyburn laments her fiancé’s threat to drink, declaring he must face the coachman. The Kansas City Independent reports the tense moment as the scene of a brewing domestic dispute.
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Analine Munnyburn
Kansas City Independent
In Toughest Ward Ward Heeler Quips on Vote Fun
In a skit note, a reporter asks which candidate would win if neither bought votes. The ward heeler replies Neither, questioning who would vote for fun of the thing, echoing a Puck style line about political shenanigans.
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Puck
Faithful Married Man Guards Wife’s Umbrella
A well known business man at a busy social spot clutches an umbrella with a silver handle. He explains he borrowed it to preserve his wife’s happiness, claiming he has lost six of his own and will not lose hers, lest anyone take it from him.
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Philadelphia Record
Bits of Fashion From the Detroit Free Press
Corsages are cut in front like stays with a Louis XV yoke. The double turned down linen collar dominates both sexes. Skirts lack lining worn over silk with frills. White velvet neck bands with heavy guipure lace appear. Tailor frocks use stitched bands lighter than habit cloth. The long silk gauze necktie forms two bows with dangling ends. Lace shawls return in lace frock fashion decrees.
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Detroit Free Press
Local Vienna Electrician Claims 60,000 Words per Hour Wire-Way
A Vienna journal reports electrician Pollack has devised a method to alegraph 60,000 words per hour over a single wire, presenting a bold technological claim in the local scene.
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Vienna
Pollack
W. Y. Sun
Senator Sullivan Praises Peruna for Catarrh Cure
United States Senator W V Sullivan of Mississippi writes from Oxford praising Peruna as a cure for catarrh. He reports improvement and calls it the best remedy he has tried, endorsing Peruna, with a prompt to obtain a free catarrh book from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio.
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W. V. Sullivan
United States
Mississippi
Hartman
Oxford
Miss
Pena
Ww. V. Sullivan
Peruns
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus, O
Guided by Intuition in Market Bets
A Detroit Tribune piece recounts how a wife, dismissed for lacking data, invested $100 saved in teapots and stockings in P. O. M. shares, urged by intuition. The stock jumped, yielding $2,000 profit while the husband faced losses and disbelief in her market sense.
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Conteen de Snais
Detroit
Detroit Tribune
Dreaming Romance Ends in Union with Bow-Legged Groom
A rich handsome stranger wooes a laundry cashier who wonders if she is dreaming. She soon spurns the wealthy suitor and marries the bow-legged man she had already plighted her troth to, turning the story into a clear dreamlike twist.
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Detroit Journal
Mystery Caller Wins Access With Fictional Fortune Claim
A short exchange quotes an attorney claiming a rich relative left him a fortune and asserting entry by posing as a Brown. The dialogue highlights deception in a door way scene as a man tries to gain access by fabricating an inheritance.
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Brown
Ohio State Journal
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