Playwright Confides A Disappearance In Barton Home
American playwright Searles reveals to Bob Singleton that his new play Sandy Larkspur was written for a young London actress who has vanished. Singleton visits Barton on the Sound Connecticut with the manuscript as a household at the summer residence is unsettled by pro German suspicions and a mysterious foreign visitor. Aunt Alice appears unexpectedly amid the intrigue.
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Searles
Bob Singleton
London
Sandy Larkgpur
Violet Dewing
Singleton
France
Raymond Bashford
Japan
Barton-on-the-Sound
Connecticut
Bashford
Orient
Barton
New York
Alice
Bob
Widow Alice Bashford Becomes Center of Bashford Estate
The narrator meets Alice Bashford widow and her companion Mrs Farnsworth at Bashford estate. They share a warm welcome and lively talk about witches and folklore as plans form for Alice to dine with the narrator. Torrence may visit soon as the house settles into domestic ease.
Convertible Skates Recalled as Not New
A Buffalo News quip notes a Chicago invention of a convertible skate and jokes on how quickly a man sobers when his wife fights him. The item states the skate idea is not new.
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Buffalo News
Shortage and Trade Woes Tie Belgium’s Industrial Rebuild
The article cites coal shortages, transport constraints, and an unfavorable exchange rate as Belgium’s three main barriers to industrial rehabilitation. It also notes earliest Miletian gold coins around 800 BC and mentions a Swiss law mandating six trees planted after marriage and two at a child’s birth.
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Belgium
Switzerland
Marvin Meteorograph Invention Demonstrated By Weather Bureau
Prof Charles I Marvin elder of the United States weather bureau describes a meteorograph to automatically indicate changes in weather at high altitude. It is lifted by a large box kite and tethered by a wire fed from a steel drum. At Georgia station a kite line tangled and three men freed a mute, but the instrument remained unharmed.
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Charles I. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
Buren
Georgia
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Mr. Singleton
Shakespeare
Mrs. Bashford
Antioine
Constance
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Jalapa
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Review of Boston University Training Corps
Boston University Training Corps
Merry
Edwards
Scranton
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Brooklyn
Navy
Marine Corps
Brest
Marseilles
Nice
Miletus
Asia Minor
Marvin Meteorograph
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Vincenzo Miserendino
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