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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
6
An author known for The Lone Wolf and The Brass Bowl presents a novel excerpt featuring a con artist. The text hints at a plot involving disguise and deception as characters maneuver through intrigue.
In a shipboard intrigue, Quoin retrieves a puzzle box and uncovers the Southpaw Smith alias with Traymore. Lydia, grateful yet anxious, hides the truth of the box while a night-time reveal unsettles the Dowager Dragon as fog coats the deck.
Peter Traft honors Town with a grave salute and calls it one human young city. Lydia deciphers the Alsatian’s walking pace toward New York, the Narrows fading behind, the port bow framed by a hazy sunlit scene suggesting a growing metropolis and the city as a mother of.
Lydia Craven traveling under Lucy Carteret runs away from England to see her father Thaddeus Craven in New York. On the Alsatia she finds him with widow Mrs Merrilees. Craven claims secret service work and gives Lydia a box to guard. The box is stolen and recovered by detective Quoin.
Lydia Craven and Peter Traft face customs chaos aboard a ship as Craven guards a mysterious puzzle box. Mrs Merrilees argues over a pearl necklace claim while an appraiser debunks a seven figure value, setting tense notes for the voyage and the intrigue surrounding Craven and Craven’s associates.
Mrs Merrilees and friends are startled by a customs inspectors discovery. The dramatic moment unfolds in the next installment.
A red fox shown by a hillside near a log team in Canton Centre, Connecticut, repeatedly jumps into the air trying to break through the snow crust to reach small burrowing mice. The Hartford Courant notes the harsh snow complicates foxes' hunt.
An estimate shows a carrier pigeon in California can fly 1200 yards per minute in still air, climbs to 1540 yards with a moderate wind, and reaches about 2000 yards under strong wind conditions. The data highlights wind influence on flight range.
The piece urges strict health habits for soldiers on march with emphasis on feet care boot fitting and shoe wear. It warns against drinking water on the march and highlights risks of illness or collapse from poor hygiene, damp sleeping conditions, and dirty camps. It also stresses sanitation, pest control, and orderly conduct to avoid being ostracized.
A training article explains how a new soldier shifts from family centrality to sharing eight in a tent. It stresses obeying orders and respecting others rights, with discipline through tugs, load piling, and a blanket toss or squad spanking machine as possible consequences for nonconformity.
An instructional piece explains rank markings for corporals through generals, including chevron shapes and colors on different uniforms. It notes insignia details a new soldier should know and highlights branch colors: infantry blue, cavalry yellow, artillery red, with unit guidons showing regimental letters.
The piece characterizes Obeahmen as mercenaries, carrying items like ground bones, needles, tallow rubbed objects, cards, powders, and quicksilver to perform alleged tricks. It claims they cure mind and body ailments and protect crops, demanding payment by the miracle’s size. It notes alleged knowledge of bush poisons but asserts use of arsenic or powdered glass as extremes.
A Chicago Tribune summary notes cyclone is a general storm name, with Galveston’s cyclone linked to the West Indies. It explains dust whirls are tornadoes on land and waterspouts are miniature sea tornadoes, citing meteorologists on sensational stories of trains and posts.
Popular Mechanics notes the U S Bureau of Entomology seeks wartime insect study materials. Pamphlets posters leaflets on crop pests mosquito control insects on food and water are to be sent to Washington for collection and reference. Even small publications hold historic value.
Attorneys bankers and insurers urged to place court fidelity bonds burglary insurance with National Surety Company Immediate delivery service offered from 115 Broadway New York NY agency department seeks inquiries from offices for complete service and bonds.
The coxswain of a navy picket boat at Mudros Harbor collides with a trawler and endures the master's sharp rebuke. He then pivots under the trawler and asks a crewman what feeds his father, quipping acid drops as pointed banter.
An English army officer growled at a subaltern over endless reports of the enemy fortifying the coast. The officer dismissed the significance of fortifications with a roar, declaring he did not care if they fortify it. The remark appears in The Argonaut.
Ready to Give Instructions, Louise is happy about learning to do somersaults. A married schoolteacher passes by and jokes about Louise teaching Tam to turn somersaults someday.
A quoted exchange shows tension over Afro American terminology. One speaker rejects hyphenated labels and demands rejection of the designation, while another defends it as respectful. The snippet reflects ongoing discourse on identity terms in American society.
A New York World voice denounces efforts to use watermelon as a caste marker in Texas. The protest argues such social positioning reduces enjoyment, noting watermelons are traditionally eaten without forks and the stance invites rebuke.
A provocative saying attributes neighborhood misbehavior to the neighbors’ children and suggests a collective view of blame. The remark frames parental responsibility and local social norms in a tongue in cheek manner.
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