Mystery House 1813 Entrances Stir Ilure Residents
Rudolph Van Vechten witnesses activity at the House of Mystery 1813 near the Powhatan club. A man is found dead in the street, Paige Carew is missing, and detective Flint suspects kidnapping. Tom Phinney and a captive voyage, while a girl with a sweet voice aids a rescue. A reward is offered as connections to Templener’s English home unfold.
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Rudolph van Vechten
Ilure
Powhatan Club
van Vechten
Tom Phinney
Carew
Tom
Flint
Astery
Cal‘8
Jessile
Nole
Theodore van Vechten
Wall Street
Mdon
Miss Carew
Re. Devereaux
New York
Temple Ner
Ghost of Romance shaped Schuyler family fate in New York
Mr Flint outlines the Schuyler Bonner saga from the seventies and eighties, detailing Compton Schuyler’s rise and fall, Henrietta and Temple Bonner, rival Willard, and Josephine Devereaux. He seeks Max Willard to unlock motives behind Temple Bonner’s actions and Paige Carew’s disappearance amid stalled leads and fresh cable replies.
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van Vechten
Flint
Compton Schuyler
New York
Schuyler
England
Henrietta Schuyler
Temple Bonner
Brownstone
Bonner
Willard
Max Willard
Mr. Flint
Damon
Pythias
Templer Bonner
Miss Henrietta
America
Josephine
Mr. van Vechten
Miss Carew
Ties
Van Vechten Probes Hidden Backstairs Mystery
In this excerpt Van Vechten contemplates action after leaving Tom Phinney and Flint. He slips away to study a dingy rear basement doorway at 1318, where the neglected door yields instantly to his touch as he approaches the key. The scene promises further discovery.
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Tom
John Callis
Buddy
Maiden Lane
Brownlow
Payne French
van Verhten
Old Brownlow
van Vechten
Flint
Recipes and quotations from Kate D Wiggin and Henry van Dyke
A mixed excerpt offers a quote by Kate D Wiggin on a spiritual journey and a collection of historical recipe directions for Devonshire cream clotted cream tunbridge and shrewsbury cakes plus pound cake. It closes with Henry van Dyke’s verse about pursuit of new friendships and adventure.
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Tunbridge
Shrewsbury
Henry van Dyke
The Fresh Mushroom Season Grows Across Months
The article notes mushrooms appear in early May and last through Jack Frost, with meadow mushrooms common July to October. It warns that mushroom gathering requires knowledge to avoid poison, clarifies myths about toadstools, and offers four cooking methods: broiling roasting frying and stewing. It advises against washing mushrooms to preserve flavor and describes prep and serving tips for caps and stems.
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Jack Frost
Hard
Inheritance and Work Bring True Happiness
A young man inherits a fortune but finds happiness through hard work on a railroad job. The piece argues inherited wealth without effort leads to misery, while self-imposed tasks and accomplishment provide fulfillment and meaning.
Worthless but Beloved Pup Proves True Friend
A Lounaville Courter-Journal line notes a dog fancier buys a fine long pedigree dog for $1000 while a devoted dog lover shares living space with a dog no one else would buy, illustrating different values in canine companionship.
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Lounaville Courter-Journal
Woman of Observation
A fragmented item noting a woman observing and commenting on others. The readable text includes phrases about imitation and study of cubves and a decanter, but the passage is incomplete and lacks clear events or names.
Western Canada’s Prospects for 1914
A Western Canada outlook from Manitoba to Alberta reports excellent crop conditions with spring wheat well ahead, extensive seeding finished, and rising mixed farming. The article notes adoption of cattle, hogs, and sheep on the plains, new pig houses and cow stables, and ongoing settler migration from eastern states. A Panama Exposition visit via three through railway lines is highlighted as a suggested trip.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Canadian West
Canadian Pacific
Canadian Northern
Grand Trunk Pacific
America
Jumping Toothache and Patent Pills Advertised
The fragment urges readers to request Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills and to inspect the Wright name on wrappers for patent medicine. It notes uses for constipation biliousness and indigestion and conjoins a social remark about a young man proposing to a girl with a poke at accepted audacity.
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Wright
Wm. Wright
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Charles Femonds
Schuyter
Joxephine
Percy Devereaux
Paige
Mrs. Devereaux
Henrietta
Rocky Cove
Pie Gee
Afrika
Yun Umbreller
Kate D. Wiggin
Western Canada
Blue Grass
Kentucky
Parcel Post
Lagleeta
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