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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
2
Nelson moves into the Gaston six six on the sixth floor as the old couple plan a Maine escape. Rufus Gaston warns of whispers and guards a safe combination while Barbara Bradford looms in secrets. A stranger, Wick the superintendent, complicates entry as questions arise about a hidden danger and a girl in the hall.
Circumatanees bar Spalding Nelson from enlisting in France leaving him despondent. He receives a dinner invitation from his great uncle Rufus Gaston. On the way home he meets a young girl in trouble and offers help, then returns to Rufus Gaston’s apartment building with her.
A receiver that records dots and dashes on sensitized tape at 200 words a minute is described as the Intent device for wireless telegraphy. The human ear cannot interpret messages that fast, so only stations with this machine can understand rapid transmissions. The text also notes a slang expression to apply like plaster to schemes to get rich.
Daddy narrates a magical night where blue and purple fairies dance on hilltops near a red house as cloud and mountain fairies gather. Leaves turn red, brookside daisies and buttercups laugh at early autumn. Crickets lead a grand September concert with crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and birds composing the chorus.
A Boston banker returns from a trip across the country and lauds Canada in the Canadian West. He notes vast fields of golden wheat, strong recovery from war, and predicts export yields reaching up to two hundred million bushels, with wealth shared by farm families as prices rise. The piece highlights cattle raising, dairying, and government backing as drivers of growth in Western Canada.
The article lists beliefs around the number 13 as unlucky in meals, births, journeys, and housing. It notes a common superstition that a person born on the 13th faces lifelong bad luck and claims that starting ventures or traveling on the 13th is ill advised. It also mentions houses numbered 13 in a row being often vacant or renumbered to 11A or 15.
Edward W. Bragg of Mecca Indiana reports that four days on Eatonic cured his stomach troubles by removing excess acids and poisonous gases. He credits quick, safe relief and lasting strength gains, urging readers to obtain Eatonic at a trifling cost through their druggist.
A lively exchange questions whether a house is haunted. The speaker asserts spirits reside there, while another asks if disturbances occur in sleeping rooms. The reply suggests spirits are confined to the cellar, downplaying any haunting activity.
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