Peculiar Will Draws Lovers at Discovery Hacienda
Col James Horton dies at his Discovery hacienda leaving a strange will. Liberty, his daughter, visits as guardians Leon and Winston manage the estate. Manuel, son of Pancho, loves Liberty while she prefers Capt Robert Rutledge of the Texas Rangers. Juan Lopez plans ransom.
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James Horton
Liberty
Goen
Neho Leon
Manuel
Pancho
Capt
Robert Rutledge
The
Texas Rangers
Maj
Richard Winston
Juan Lopez
Hacienda
Pancho Wan Bney
Lou
Winston
Rutledge
Pedro
Lopez
Miss Liberty
Chihuahass
Rangers
Old Pedro
Nic
Bill
Hedienda
Wild Mexican Abduction Ends In Ranger Rescue
Pedro discovers Lopez and Tienda abducting Liberty and a girl from a Mexican quarter. Rutledge pursues Lopez’s gang with Major Winston as a rockslide blocks the trail. Pedro uses dynamite to aid a daring rescue as Liberty climbs to safety with Pedro and Rutledge closing in.
Drying Vegetables Could Save Vast Food Waste
A New York health department action destroyed overripe produce and millions of dollars of foodstuffs from Porto Rico and Jamaica. The piece traces losses in perishable fruits and vegetables and outlines a drying method by Waldron Williams and colleagues that preserves flavor and nutrition, enabling long storage and cheaper product prices.
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Atlantic
New York Department of Health
Porto Rico
Jamaica
New York Sun
San Francisco Bay
United States
Scraps and Inventions Outline Odd World News
A Japanese army officer invents waterproof knapsacks from horsehair. A British patent covers tanks on a cable to help ships spread sail on rough seas. Experiments heat buildings by forcing air through hollow walls. Rice’s crop in Arkansas is to be made lazy. Lizards reach seven feet. New electric trans retains heat after switch-off to save electricity. Flour prices rise in Venezuela but baker competition lowers cost. A Spanish bell dated 1247 remains in use in Oakland. German breweries make yeast to boost stock-food nutrition. US Bureau of Fisheries supplies over 4,000,000,000 fish eggs annually to hatcheries. Apples in the US yield a bushel per person.
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Arkansas
Venezuela
Oakland
United States
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Mexico
Photoplay
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Tienda Burata
Lopes
Tienda
Cabana
Choplin
Polito
Chihuahua
Chapita
Chopita
Providence
Pope
Derk
Alvira
Eetane
Jorg
Major, Pedro and
Aniens
United 1 States
Messenger
Senorita
Captaine
Major
Alemen
Bletowurrectos
Discovery
Waldron Williams
Woodford Brooks
F. G. Wiechmann
Wis
Columbia University
Middle River
Cal
Bound Brook
N. J
Webster
N. Y
Germany
Herr Direktor
New York
Huckkter
Department of Agriculture
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