The Quest of Betty Lancey Chapter XXVI Continues
In India Cerisse Harcourt schemes against Narcisse Harcourt while a mutilated, tormented narrator recalls family secrets. The tale exposes murder plots, an escape plan, and a dangerous pursuit across continents ending with Narcisse confronting her relative harbored within a medical disguise.
Harcourt Executed, Malheureux Goes Back to Africa in Parable of Science
Chapter XXVII reports Harcourt hanged within the month as Britain shuns interference, Hackleye returns to England, and Narcisse Harcourt with Phil ip Hartley wed. Francis Wayne’s papers recount torture by his father, John Wayne, who grafted a gorilla’s body onto his son, a perverse science triumph. Le Malheureux returns to Africa to a lab of electrical research, defending a single moment of beast over soul.
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de L’endos
Cerisse
Harold Harcourt
Calcutte
Marie
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Aunt Marie
Tyoga
Henont
Europe
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Benoni
Heidelburg
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Tiougaley
Capt. de L'Enclos
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Venus
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Celisse
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Erisse
Flanders House
le Malheureux
Flanders
Hamiley Hackleye
Desterle
Briarsweet
Cerissa
Reailty
Ceriage
Race Plant
Mrs. Desterle
Fhuackleye
Miss Lancey
Mrs. Morris
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Hackleaye
San Francisco
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England
Philip Hartley
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Railroad Tariff Fight Ends With White House Accord
President Taft and officials reached an understanding with 24 railroads to withdraw enjoined and pending tariffs after June 1 1910. The government will suspend the Missouri suit until a new railroad bill becomes law and provisions giving the ICC price investigation powers remain intact.
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Western Trunkine
Federal Circuit Court
Missouri
White House
Taft
Wickersham
Interstate Commerce Committee
Western Trunk Line Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. P. Ripley
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Walker D. Ilines
Frederic A. Delano
Wabash Railroad Company
S. M. Felton
Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
Dyer
Professor Peck Sued for Breach of Promise to Marry
Miss Esther Quinn sues Columbia University professor Harry Thurston Peck for $50,000 in a New York Supreme Court breach of promise suit. The defendant, a Latin chairholder and literary figure, allegedly promised marriage but the first wife had divorced him in 1908 for desertion before his subsequent marriage to Elizabeth H. DuBois in 1909.
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Supreme Court of
New York
Esther Quinn
Harry Thurston Peck
University of Columbia
Latin Club of America
Peck
Sioux Falls
Elizabeth H. DuBois
Morris High School
Disilusion and Satirical Snippets in an Old Paper Page
A collage of quirky quotes and adverts from a vintage paper includes Uncle Jerry Peebles on mythical beasts, roaches in kitchens prompting Easy Task soap use, a Thackeray anecdote about sailors and Epsom salts, a wind and dust tip, a pet salve claim, parceling by a gypsy moth and sparrow, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets for digestion, and bland product pitches.
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Mr. Roach
Makes a Difference in Family Discourse
Chicago Tribune notes a preacher father defending frank speech about the devil while a consumer ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothims Syrup for teething. The product promises gum relief, reduced inflammation, pain relief, and wind colic cure at 24 cents per bottle.
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Chicago Tribune
Jar of Ita Wind and the Cracked Jar Story
Horace Walpole retells a lively tale of a porcelain seller with a rare jar valued highly. A summer seismic shock cracked his vase. he doubled the price and promoted it as the only jar worldwide cracked by an earthquake.
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Horace Walpole
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