The Duke Uses a Summer Home as Shelter in a Storm
Barry Gilbert, a 23 year old jobless youth, hides in a Southampton summer house during a heavy rain. He finds a note from the real Jack Ridder and a $100 bill, pockets it, and plans to vanish. He then helps Judge Hambidge and daughter Patricia, who mistake him for Jack Ridder, while Ridder Sr. accuses the judge in a political fight through his Globe newspaper.
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Southampton
China
Barry Gilbert
States
Willetts
Evans
Jack Ridder
Germany
Jack
Barry
Montauk
Judge Hambidge
Patricia
Mr. Ridder
The
Globe
Judge
Cherbourg
Willetta
Nauheim
Hambidge
Civic Association Links Holding Corporation
Kelly
Lnk
Tammany Hall
Jefferson Street
Supreme Court
Mike Kelly
Boss Kelly
Peter Winslow
Patricka
Peter
Winslow
Mrs. Winslow
Fin
John Clarke Ridder
Europe
John Clarke Ridder, Jr
Tammany Halls
Young Ridder
Peggy O’day
Adteline
Florida
Jay Rogers
Duke, Peggy O Day Clash Over Ridder Murder Tale
Barry Ridder hides a truth as Peggy O Day reveals she is Jack Ridder’s wife and they conceal a boy. The pair discuss the Boss Kelly murder rumor, while Ridder’s letter to his mother fuels fear of discovery and possible ruin of a fragile family.
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Southampton
Lacquer Nitrocellulose Made From Cotton Treatment
A description explains that lacquer nitrocellulose is made by treating cotton with nitric acid to form the soluble sub thin material used in lacquer production.
Fireman Heroic Savers Endure Inferno at Cooper Square
In 1903 a four alarm blaze at the Boston Excelsior Works warehouse in Cooper Square trapped No. 11 firefighters. Joe Dooley led the crew, held a 20 foot advance despite heat and smoke, then a floor collapse killed a man and hurled two others from a window. Dooley crawled free, survived, and continued in service until retirement in 1918.
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Joe Dooley
Adventurers’ Club
Lieut
Joseph Dooley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joe
East Houston Street
Freman
Cooper Square
Boston Excelsior Works
No. 11
No. 11 Company
Hook and Ladder Co. No. 9
No. 9
Tailor Ants Use Living Spools in Nest Building
A National Geographic Magazine report describes tailor ants using their larvae as silk-spinning spools to stitch leaf nests. Workers seize larvae during intruder attacks, coax silk from the grubs, and bind leaf edges while larvae remain exposed. The species is widespread in the Old World tropics with greenish to brown varieties.
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Earth
Old World
Tropics
West Africa
National Geographical Magazine
Son of Slave Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet
The text outlines the life of a poet, son of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a former Kentucky slave. He was born in Dayton Ohio, graduated from Dayton High School in 1891, worked as an elevator boy, published early writings, later worked in the Library of Congress in Washington, contracted tuberculosis, and died in Dayton in 1906.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dayton
Ohio
Library’ of Congress
Washington
Similarities Test Puzzles With Historical Names
Puzzle asks to find fourth word matching the same relation between pairs. Answers include 1 France 2 South Carolina 8 Thomas A Edison 4 Polo 5 Africa 8 Agriculture 7 Sir Walter Scott 8 State 9 Gulf 10 Delhi. Also an ad for Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and a quip about love and reason.
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Franklin D.roosevelt
United States
Albert Lebrun
Albany
New York
Columbia
Steamboat
John Fitch
Motion Picture Machine
Chucker
Gobi Desert
Asia
Sahara Desert
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Henry A. Wallace
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
al Simmons
Tommy Armour
Washington, D. C
India
France
South Carolina
Thomas A. Edison
Africa
Agriculture
Sir Walter Scott
State
Gulf
Delhi
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Channing Pollock
Winslows
Floyd Gibbons
Famous Headline Hunter
Jos
Old No. 11
Excelsior
By Lowell Henderson
Ball Syndicate
WNU
Dr. Pierce
Mahat Aa
Scholl
All Drug
Eboe
D! Scholls
Magnesia
Select Products, Inc
Long Island City
N.Y
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