Winter Siege and Hidden Letters Drive a Frontier Mystery
A midwestern frontier drama unfolds as Bert Cranston and Hildreth face an undercover murder case. A dealer in secrets, Cranston guards letters and papers that could convict him, while Jim Gibbs searches for the evidence as winter tightens its grip on the Divide. Snow, danger, and shifting loyalties escalate toward a perilous conclusion.
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Bert Cranston
Chen
Bert Crate
Jim
Bert
Hildreth
Bert Flan
Ransten
Snowbird
Mother Ready to Sell Babies in Desperate Poverty
A Clarence Virginia mother, widowed with nine children, pleads in a three room shack for permission to sell her infant daughters to avert starvation. She cites ruined finances, no work, and inability of relatives to help, recounting a husband’s death and decades of hardship.
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Clarence
Paradise
FT. Martin
Villace
Nother
Martin
Russia
Shenmadeah
Cyabenee
Baba
Wedded in Jail Escapes In West Albert Heist Mystery
Celumin Ka Fourteen and Nitiume Hell West wed while in jail as Jailer AL W. Tarter assisted the escape. Albert West and Nannie Bell married at the Baptist church parsonage across from the jail. An unidentified inmate later tunneled through a wall to free West and another prisoner.
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Celumin
West
AL W. Tarter
Albert Weat
White
Nannie Bell
Jaiter
Tie
Albert
Nannie
Baptist Church
Rev
Leste Smith
Ana
Fragments and Rumors From a Troubled School Scene
A fifth grade teacher and a young principal reputedly in a secret romance manipulated students with odd rituals and misused items. The piece also cites Marguerite Wolf predicting a French monarch in a year and rebirth claims about several historical figures, while noting troubling public perceptions.
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Edison Marshall
Coperight
Little, Brown & Co
Hinseq
Cratuston
Wildreth
Jin Gibbs
Hobbs
Grote Watt
Cronmsten
Aye
Edie
Orpen
Reddy
Fee
Aridge
Cranston
Lou
Tiere
Weld
Kiarek
Gibbs
Fie
Lepe
Lennox's
Iupger
Dian
Carey
Greenland
Cransteam
Mike
Fhem
France
Bess
Dani Tubacco
Feeress
Marguerite Wolf
Cyemenucean
Robespierre
M. Milfern
Louis Niv
Maurice Barres
Clinton Debussy
Mozart
Michael Angelo
Peter the Great
Paul Adam
Fife
Sechuges
Weil Stiunens
Sadar
Thomer
oSoreteedy
Postum
Postum Cereal Co.Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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