Turner’s Rise From Reporter to McClure’s Novelist
Mary Stewart Cutting, IR, notes George Kibbe Turner began at the Springfield Republican then Black Cat before writing for McClure’s Magazine. His works include Hagar’s Hoard and White Bloulders, with Birth Stones presenting a marriage angle through a husband’s keen insight.
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George Kibbe Turner
Springfield Republican
Black Cat
Mr. Turner
McClure
New England
McClure's
Turner
Memphis
Tenn
Star Author
Mary Stewart Cutting
Diamonds for a pledge and a wife on the edge
In a Fifth Avenue jewelry scheme a dealer, Volpe, councils a big man Coogan and a detective about substituting fake stones for a loan collateral. The plan unravels as the wife refuses the fate of wealth, exposing motives, fear, and a dramatic confrontation ending with a vow of happiness despite danger.
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Volpe
Ile
Identity in Doubt: Toledo Patient May Be Lyons or Jordan
Investigators weigh whether a Toledo hospital patient known as Martin Lyons is the World War veteran Bert Jordan or another man. Fingerprints tied him to 1915 Army service, while he has claimed both Lyons and Jordan as his name. Authorities seek help from the American Legion Auxiliary for identification and family details.
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McConnell
Riverside
Volpe
Ike
Toledo (Ohio
Martin Lyons
Bert Jordan
Toledo
United States Army
Ameriican Legion
Nan
Lyons
War Department
California
Salt Lake City
Utah
Red Cross
Stockton
Coult
Alameda
Cilif
Ile
Women of the American Legion Aux Dry
France
Ir. C. Conrad
East Broadway
Ohio Department of the American Legion Auxiliary
Fireproof Tank Aimed to Save Airmen From Flames
John Henry Gose of Washington led aviators to create a fireproof gasoline tank using a fire resisting chemical to extinguish fires. A separate acid flask releases at high temperature to prevent flare ups. Gose, injured in British service, lost his right leg and later helped organize the Bristol Virginia American Legion post.
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John Henry Gose
Washington
D. C
American Legion
National Committee On Aeronautics
Gose
Fort Myer
Virginia
Canadian Royal Flying Corps
Toronto
Hicks
Tex
Twenty-second
Aero Squadron
British
Royal Flying Corps
Bristol
Exservice
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Matrimonial Adventures
United Feature Syndicate
Maiden Lane
Bowery
Fifth Avenue
Upper West Side
Harry Volpe
Coogan
Dan Coogan
Wall Street
Detective Bureau
Police Headquarters
Valpe
Usten
Volper
MacConnell
Shemselves
American Legion Newa Service
John Gose
Committee On Aeronautics
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