Will O the Wisp A Maxi-Caper in Staten Island Night
Frank Comstock crafts a midnineties tale of Ashcroft and a clever crook piloting the Will o the Wisp over New York to raid a private roof party at Lord Coventry. They infiltrate an Italian garden, confront a wary host, and a tense heist unfolds with masked figures and a dramatic escape plan.
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Ashcroft
Georgia Calendar
Staten Island
Akry
Coney Island
Navy Yard
New York
Madison Square
Peeble
Aéy
Lord Coventry
The Coventry Heist Ends In Aerial Escape And Tragedy
The narrator describes a perilous rooftop theft, a killed butler, and a jewel necklace seized by a villain. They flee aboard the Will-o-the-Wisp, suffer engine failures, crash, and drift at sea before surviving with one Coventry stud left, while Ashcroft is lost and the incident shocks the papers.
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Ashcroft
Willo
Coventry
Interior alarm clock for self control
A Boston Globe reader quotes a habit of setting a mental alarm to curb temper. The subconscious “alarm clock” signals the moment anger rises, prompting a calmer response. The quiet reminder acts like a discreet friend guiding restraint and patience.
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Boston Globe
Origin of the Gas Jet and the Cockpit Burner
A historical note recalls William Murdock inventing gas jet lighting by sealing a flame under a wife's thimble. In an emergency he smothered a flame with the thimble, found it full of holes, and observed jets of flame. This led to a brighter illumination and the Cockpit burner, as described in Popular Science Monthly.
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Wiliam Murdock
Murdock
Popular Science Monthly
Depew mixed in his facts on highbrow origins
New York World notes Depew spoke of Roosevelt’s political debut and the term highbrow. The piece explores who first used highbrow, mentioning a district leader’s remark and earlier terms like highball, noting the uncertain etymology and suggesting the idea may confuse the period when silk stockings influenced slang.
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Chauncey
Depew
Bhuing
Theodore Hoowyelt
Methodist Preachers’ Conference
Roosevelt
Issy
Harvard
Assemblymagt
Fifth Avenue
Wim Irwin
Mr. Depew
Highball
New. York World
Woman Pays: Soldier’s Betrayal in War Tells Tragic Tale
In a London Mall account from a hospital waiting room, a young woman witnesses a wounded soldier confessing plans to marry another woman. He admits love for Marie, prompting the plain girl to hand him a ring and depart quietly, her future uncertain after the confession. The scene unfolds as war’s emotional wounds outpace blood and fire.
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Flanders
War
Marie
London Mall
Restoring Oil Paintings Through Alcohol Fumes
To repair a blemished oil painting, place a face down over a shallow dish of alcohol fumes. Do not let the liquid touch the painting. Watch closely to prevent colors running. With care old paintings can be restored and saved from disposal.
Abandon Big Kelp Plant at San Diego Cal
The kelp reducing plant at San Diego built for 5,500,000 will be abandoned due to harvest and handling costs exceeding peace time product prices. Dr. W S Noot of the kelp works chemical department notes the kelp beds may be disappearing due to some attacking the kelp. Potash from burning kelp after drying will still be produced and sold for fertilizer in combination with mineral packing-house products.
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San Diego
Cal
W. S. Noot
Chemical Department
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Noot
Bright Idea for Feminine Apparel
Professor Chalian noted substances that hold permanent color brilliance near heat and fade as light dims. He urged research to increase these bodies and apply them to textiles, imagining a beautiful woman in illuminated fabrics growing more resplendent as she enters a room.
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Chalian
Inflation as a Defense in Oceanic Species
The passage explains how various tropical and warm-water species inflate themselves, enlarging to nearly spherical shapes. They fill their abdomens or esophagal sacs with air or water, retained by a throat valve and released quickly as a protective adaptation.
Out of the Mouth of Babes in Comic Exchange
A brief comic dialogue features Willie and a talkative caller. Willie jokes that with the caller present he must fetch a doctor, quipping that his father says the caller always makes him ill. The playful exchange highlights a household humor moment.
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Willie
Dream Tears and Dream Laughter in Life's Ups and Downs
A reflective note on dreaming and emotions, contrasting crying and laughter. It suggests tears in dreams foretell joy and merriment in real life while dream laughter represents difficult circumstances. The passage uses metaphor to link inner feelings with external life outcomes.
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Ward Melvin
Melvin & Johnson
Frank Comstock
Tim
Mulein
Bargain
Wilmington
Mullin
S. KE. Douglas
Preston, MD
Nash
Siz
A. Kaneshe
Del-Marva Nash Motors CO
Easton, Maryland
E. H. Hirs
Denton, Md
Eastern Shore Nash Dealers
Shannahan & Wrightson Howe. Co
Easton
Kennedyville
James A. Hart, JR
Townsend
Del
H. V. Buckson
St. Georges
Charles H. Dean
Queen Anne
E. W. Reed
East New Market
L. W. Gunsy
Salisbury
J. Frank Brown
Delmar
W. E. WaLsa
Lewes
I. B. Kina
Murphy’s Garage
Berlin, Md
H. L. Nock
Bloxon, Va
C. D. Notringham, Seaview, Va
M. Kk
Newnam
Denton, Maryland
Taving
Syracuse College of Embalming
Syracuse
N. Y
M. K. Newnam
Smith & Walls
Fordson Tractor
Deering
Oliver
South Bend
Nuttle Hardware CO
COLGR
Longman & Martinez, Matiers
N.Y
Ewspa
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust
Baltimore
Maryland
Elkton
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