Their Name Was Legion Embraces Oil Town Turmoil and Blackmail
Bart Rogers confronts a web of fear and crime in an oil boom town. Lawyer Leon Barrows engineers hush money and a staged death while Anita Frankiston endures abuse. Old Jim proposes a grim marriage ploy to shield Anita and Rogers from Bull Frankiston's revenge. The plot tightens as threats, gossip, and hidden loyalties collide.
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Bart Rogers
Leon Burrows
Leon Barrows
Wuatt
Hoffman
Bart
Bart Stogers
Anita Frankiston
Old Jim
Rogers
Jim
Matt
Halfrose
Anita
Agen
New York
Frankiston
Bun” Frankiston
Barrows
Bart Rogers confronts mortgage mystery and oil plots
Bart Rogers learns his father’s compulsion to pay a loaned mortgage was based on notes not a mortgage, with an unknown benefactor. Drillers show interest in Bart’s oil property. Tom Jordan wins the election, offers Bart the marshal job, while Bart contends with Bull Franniston whose hatred stems from a past affair with Bart’s daughter. Bart rushes home to uncover his father’s death, blamed on a paralytic stroke.
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Bart Rogers
Leon Barrows
Rogers
Barrows
Bart
Tom Jordan
Bulk” Franniston
Jordan
Bull Franniston
Franniston
Anits
World’s air system chills and freshens home environments
California professor Willis Luther Moore, longtime U S Weather Bureau chief, engineers a home ventilation system with live-air circulation through roof intakes and exhausts, cooling coils, and wet-washed ducts to maintain humidity. Also included are fire-safety maxims, coinage notes, and a DIY coaster attachment for carts.
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California
Willis Luther Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Under a Tree In Summer Atricate Roof and Lattice Sky
A poetic fragment by Richard Jef ferries describes a summer scene beneath a tree. The speaker notes green boughs above an arched roof with lattice windows and tapis Iazull that seem to let the deep blue sky descend and rest upon it. The prose blends natural imagery with architectural metaphor.
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Richard Jefferies
Audubon’s Birds of America First Edition Price Noted
The first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America sold by subscription at $1,000 per copy. The work was published between 1827 and 1830, marking a landmark in American ornithology.
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Joh James Audubon
America
Good Manners Define Refinement and Poise
The piece argues manners reflect our refinement and poise through kind consideration of others. It asserts good manners are not superficial but set a model, smoothing interactions for both others and oneself.
Romance in Transportation Through the Ages
The piece traces a romantic history of travel from pack horses to ox carts and wagons, then to modern locomotives and automobiles, framing transportation as a evolving but continuing love story. It highlights how each era shaped movement, society, and progress, ending on a note about future mobility.
Desirable farms for sale near town and school
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Unknown Husband Location Quip Captures Mystery
A Cincinnati Enquirer witty exchange centers on a wife’s evasive retort about her husband’s whereabouts. The dialogue plays on the idea that what he told her and where he actually was differ, highlighting intrigue and humor without identifying real events or persons.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Bishop's Bible and its 1568 publication
The Bishop's Bible was a revision of the Great Bible of 1539 published in October 1568. It was undertaken in 1563 by Archbishop Matthew Parker eleven other bishops and four deans and prebendaries.
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Matthew Parker
Prolific Silver Lode The Veta Madre Near Guanajuato
The Veta Madre silver lode near Guanajuato Mexico, discovered in 1558, is credited with yielding one fifth of all silver mined globally up to 1800, marking it as a monumental source in early mining history.
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Charles 8. Dewey
the Treasury
C. W. Saleeby
London ‘Shedical Institute
United States
Veta Madre
Guanajuato
Mexico
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