Dejah Thoris Chooses Duty Over Love in Barsoom Conflict
John Carter battles four guards to reach Dejah Thoris, learns she has promised herself to Sab Than to save Helium from a Zodangan war. She laments the failed reunion, explains Barsoom marriage customs, and asks him to forget her as he withdraws defeated and desolate.
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Dejah Thorny
Barsoom
Chon Kosis
Helium
Sab Than
Zodanga
Kowis
Dejah Thoris
Dejah Thoria
Than Koels
Than Kosis
Dejah Thorls
Lola
Zodangan
Tam
John Carter
John Osrter
Warhoon
Kantos Kon
Deja Thoris
Kantos Kan
Escape from a Martian Palace in Heliumite Plot
A lone hero evades guards through the palace of Zodanga after four guards are slain. He hides in a hanging ornament, overhears the royal council debating the killer, and makes a perilous daylight escape across a glass wall to the city street below.
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Dejah Thoris
Helium
Zodanga
Tes
Jeddak
Kosta
Air-Scout
Kantos Kan
Kosis
Than Kosis
Helium Quest Amid Air Patrol Pursuit in Martian City
John Carter and Kantos Kan race toward Helium while Sab Than looms as Dejah Thoris’s suitor. Carter breaches the palace guard using a rope hook, escapes by air craft, and outruns a fleet of pursuing patrols as a damaged speedometer hampers navigation.
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Kantos Kan
Air Patrol
High Tower
Boenton Wood Fragrance Range Featured by Forestry Magazine
From the world’s woods comes a spectrum of scents, from delicate perfumes to overpowering odors. The American Forestry Magazine notes perfumer shops cannot match the variety found in woods.
His Recipe for Easing Tension in a Quirky Exchange
A brief anecdote recalls Bragley’s lengthy stories and a clever escape plan. The narrator says he lent Bragley $25 and shared amusing baby talk, then used cigars as a ruse from his wife’s last birthday gift, after which Bragley vanished.
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Bragley
Cuticura Ointment Soap and Talcum Offer Skin Care
Advertises Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness and itching with a hot water bath using Cuticura Soap. Rinses and drys gently then dusts Cuticura Talcum for a fragrance. Sold everywhere at 25 cents each.
Coming Up to the Scratch in Neighborly Exchange
A light barber of rural humor shows Nexdor asking if his planted crops near chickens will grow. The neighbor replies yes thanks to the other’s lenient habit of letting fowl roam, in a Boston Transcript style exchange.
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Nexdor
Naybor
Boston Transcript
Swamp Root Kidney Liver Bladder Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It promises purity in every bottle and offers sample requests by mail with a ten cent fee.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
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