Pool of Flame Jewel Drives Hidden Duel Across Continents
Col Terence S Rourke, a military freelancer and gambler, travels from Monte Carlo to Algeria pursuing a jewel called the Pool of Flame. He faces duels with Viscount Des Trebes and Bertie Glynn, discovers his wife Beatrix, and learns a Rangoon firm offers £100,000 for the jewel left by a dying friend. After assaults by bandits and a shipboard chase, Rourke outwits enemies and secures the jewel with the governor general and a smuggler captain, then escapes by sea.
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O'Rourke Captures Hole and Dennison in Standoff
In a tense midnight scene on a windswept street, O'Rourke neutralizes Hole and Dennison at gunpoint. Danny searches the pair while O'Rourke strips to reveal resolve, vowing decisive punishment for the cowardly actions and declaring the confrontation a reckoning with villains.
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O'Rourke Sets Sail Amid Plot and Peregrination
In the tale’s latest chapter, O'Rourke and Danny escape a botched robbery in Alexandria and sail the Panjnab toward the East. A mysterious Englishwoman and a suspected lascar aboard hint at looming intrigue as O'Rourke guards a jade and prepares to outwit rivals at sea.
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Van Buren Relic Charm From 1840 Campaign
A. £. Yeaton of Skowhegan preserves a brass pocket relic from the 1840 presidential race. The compact charm bears Martin Van Buren born Dec 1872 on one side and the motto weighed in the balance with Whig and Democrat scales on the other, with a portrait of the president.
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Kennebec Journal
Keeping colorful pictures for children in the home
A Ladies' Home Journal contributor urges readers to save colored pictures even when no children live there. Store them in a large envelope in the library table, seal with any pretty image, and send the filled envelope to a child.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
No Switzerland for Him in Travel Quip
A Baltimore American piece features a quirky exchange about travel and fear of falling in a joke about Switzerland. The gag hinges on a pun about a cravat.
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