The Katydid Mine Swindle Revealed by a Miner Spy
A long fraud exposed reveals the Amalgamated Gold Syndicate led by Hudson and Mason, two purported prospectors who funded a $50,000,000 capitalized operation at The Katydid mine. The scheme promised vast wealth to small savers, while inspectors uncovered fake refining claims and a scheme to sell stock on a rising market. The narrator, an experienced miner, infiltrates the refining plant and confirms the ruse as the two men scramble after a discovered intruder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post-Office Department
Capt. Dickson
Secrel Service Department
United States
Amalgamated Gold Syndicate
Corporation
Hudeon
Mason
Hudson
Helden
Tibe
Belden
Victor Hugo
W. G. Chapman
The Mine Swindle and the Sewer Entry
A concealed entry through a water pipe leads a detective into a mine office where two criminals, Belden and Hudson, plot a large fraud. The pursuer, after subduing them, uncovers $1,000,000 in misused stock proceeds and a forged bullion scheme tied to the mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belden
Mason
Helden
Pelden
Mortune
Wan
Masop
Pardner
Fetva Handed to Abdul Hamid Amid Odd Verse Parody
A jagged verse piece narrates Abdul Hamid receiving a fetva, with chaotic slang and dialect phrases. It mocks coercive pressure and moral judgment through a scattered monologue, referencing social comments about engagement, marriage, and bachelorhood. The fragmentary text adds satirical asides from characters like Henry and Uncle Bill.
Hat width dispute in courtroom sparks fashion law quip
In a terse exchange the judge questions a woman about hat width as legal limits. She retorts that the offender would have noticed she wears two hats, arguing no law fixes the number of hats a woman may wear.
Placing Him: A Bloom of Recalled Past Lives
A poetic exchange unfolds between a young man with deepset eyes and the young woman. He claims a prior existence and memory of shared moments, while she questions their faded past, recalling a hand organ and peanuts in a park.
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Little Henry
Unkel Bill Sea
Mane
Mister Jones
Willie Smith
Dokter Ferguson
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The
Secret Service
Captain Dickson
Rio Grande
WBA UK
Jean Valjean
Paris
Tom
Djeyvad Bey
Abdul Hamid
Fetva
Wepateh
Unkel
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