Mystery House saga embroils Van Vechten and crew
Ralph Van Vechten notices activity at the House of Mystery across from the Powhatan club where a girl’s face draws him. Tom Phinney and Van Vechten pursue a man found dead in the street. Tom is captured. Van Vechten aids a girl, and Willard’s yacht mission uncovers an explosive invention. Two women resembling Paige Carew and Mrs Devereaux sail for New York.
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Ralph van Vechten
Powhatan’ Club
van Vechten
Tom Phinney
Paige Carew
Tom
Flint Cat
Hla
House of Mystery
Calis
An Vechten
Theodore van Vechten
Wall Street
Man of Iron
Miss Carew
Mrs. Devereaux
New York
Temple Bonner
Compton Schuyler
Max Willard
Devereaux
Bonner
Willard
John Callis
Phinney
Brownlow
Van Vechten finds unexpected love in fraught reunion
Van Vechten awakens to Jessie at his bedside and learns she will marry him if he proves his sincerity. She reveals deep shame and conflicting feelings, insists on a one week deadline, and finally betrays a fragile kiss before retreating with conditions. He, elated yet unsettled, orders Barnicle for a cigar as he processes the moment.
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van Vechten
Barnicle
Bowen
Jessie
Basla
Shen
Ashiv
Will and Delia Share Quiet Tension On Return Voyage
Captain Tom Phinney and the two girls face shifting moods after a separation. Jessie Beams at a plan to mix breakfast and lunch on the piazza while Tom remains strained and distant, glancing at Delia with a guarded look as the yacht arrives. TO BE CONTINUED.
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Tom Phinney
Jessie Willard
Delia
Jessie
Tom
Delta
Hoe
Reading at National Education Association convention emphasized by experts
The Salt Lake City gathering highlighted reading's central role. Wisconsin library clerk Mr. Rice described rural book lists and a 21.7 percent discount, while U.S. Education Commissioner Mr. Caxton praised literature as the key school subject. He noted reading four good books yearly can educate a person by age 100.
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National Educational Association
Salt Lake City
Rice
Wisconsin
Caxton
United States Commissioner of Education
Needed a Change in Country Home Visit
Mrs. Mason visits a country town and chats with a former schoolmate about his father near eighty nine. The man says his father has not been right or lively recently and that farming does not agree with him, despite years.
Intensive farming for fruit growing gains momentum and demand
The article argues for intensive fruit growing over extensive methods, advocating small, closely planted plots with dwarf pears, currants, and strawberries. It notes high labor input, dense planting, and heavy fertilizing as essentials, citing eastern yields of eight thousand dollars per five acres and predicting wider adoption as growers embrace scientific methods.
Re clear fields of scrub timber
By A J Legg outlines methods to clear old scrub fields overgrown with green briers and pine. Fire destroys dense patches, followed by grazing to keep regrowth down, then rip up new sprouts. After three years roots rot and land becomes plowable.
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A. J. Legg
SUGGESTIONS AND NOTES OF THE GARDEN
Advice on cabbage worm control with dust spray of lime and green slime, saving tomato seeds from best fruit, picking perfect potatoes, discarding bad hills, hoeing to cut back effort, pulling rusty melon vines and burning, borers possibly present with wilt, favoring potash rich soils, ample moisture for large leaves, weeding to aid head formation, mixing radish seeds with turnips, harvesting radish with turnips, growing a one third to one half acre garden to feed a family, mentions red tape use increasing.
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Ler Bigoe
Will
Educational Association
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