The Rubies and Pajamas Mystery in New York
In a late chapter of The Rubies by Francis Perry Elliott, Lightnut and colleagues confront a bumbling plot around magical pajamas carrying priceless rubies. A Chinese dancer, a Harvard man, and a criminal parade through a wild sequence of disguises, arrests, and a runaway car across New York streets ending with a charged near-miss as Lightnut and companions race to avoid disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Tightnut
China
Lightnut
Jenkins
Gomes
Aepet
Jenkina
Lightnur
Jack
Lightnnut
Jim
Nana
Francis
Frances
Jack Billings
Billings
Grandpa
Tajit
Bnnger
Tor
Farrytown
Billinsehone
Brancey
Alfodes
Trofessor Doozenberry
Harvard
Mr. Lightnut
Jove
Angel
Galt
Earth
Heaven
America
Tiightout
Bul Auge
Redert
Tims
Jenking
Mr. Billings
Framed pursuit as police seize station area suspect
A tense scene unfolds with a chase past a station, a frightened woman, and a deputy officer pursuing a prowler. Amid confusion a towel wagon toppled, wares scattered, and a late-night escape ends with a near collision and a moment of intimate tension between two protagonists.
My Darling Lies Slandered In Country Hall Scene
A tense encounter unfolds as a conspiratorial elite group hides a visitor in a grand hall. Frances blames Francis for gossip while the narrator, Mr Lightnut, notices wary servants and the scornful, aloof manners of the guests and resident aristocracy. The moment hints at hidden motives and shifting loyalties.
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Walhurst Park
Frances
Wilkes
Allerby
Trump
Perkins
Billinge
Jova
Francis
Mr. Lightnut
Pens of Lyon Guillotine Killers Collection
In Lyons France at the prison of St Paul the execution pens used to sign regulation receipts for prisoners handed to be guillotined are kept as a curious collection. Each execution uses a fresh pen and ink quickly dries.
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St. Paul's
Lyons
France
Indiana Dairy Show table on corn silage consumption by cows
Professor Hunziker of Purdue presents a table estimating Indiana dairy cattle corn use. Using 1910 census yields 29.8 bushels per acre and about ten tons of corn silage per acre, with per cow annual consumption around 37.5 bushels via silage meal and corn. Indiana has about 666,000 dairy cows, totaling roughly 24.6 million bushels yearly. The piece promotes the National Dairy Show in Chicago, a Ten Days Short Course, with demonstrations and practical lessons for farmers, running October 2 to November 1.
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Ith
Hunziker
Department of Dairy Husbandry
Purdue
Indiana
Chicago
Ady
Sailing Ships See Rising Values On the Market
The better outlook for sailing ships boosts prices with a four mast vessel of 2 750 tons now valued near 50 000 dollars after a 32 600 purchase last January. Owners have rejected a firm bid of 45 000 while asking 50 000. A remark on gambling ends with a quip about a wife’s lecturing.
You Can Cure Catarah With Cole's Carboli Salve Ad
An old advertisement touts Cole's Carboli salve as the most effective cure for catarah. It targets druggists with a price of 25 and 50 cents, claiming quick relief and urging purchase from pharmacists. The ad contrasts inspiration in bottles with jealousy and adds a cynical quip about a woman’s jealousy tied to statements about adulteration.
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Billings
Will and willfulness meet a cage of a pickpocket
An excerpt from Young's Magazine depicts a Carthaginian pickpocket convicted and fined twenty five dollars. The lawyer questions the absurd total of two hundred fifty seven dollars, pleading for a brief moment to demonstrate the prisoner’s plight, while the judge remains silent. The scene highlights dramatic courtroom banter and fiscal humor.
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Taylor Holmes
Cartain
Digarest
Young’s Magazine
Clergyman praises Dodds Kidney Pills for relief
The Rev Edmund Heslop of Williamsport Pa states after a year with dropsy his limbs swelled, he suffered heart flutter, dizziness and exhaustion. After five boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills the swelling vanished and he felt well again. He urges correspondence with Heslop and notes the price 50 cents per box from Rodda Medicine Co Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Edmund Heslop
Wigston
BE. Heslop
Rodda Medicine Co
Buffalo
Women Benefited by Change of Life Remedies
The article explains the perimenopausal period as critical for women and links symptoms like hot flashes, dizziness, and weakness to a changed system. It promotes Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to invigorate the female system, strengthen nerves, and aid through this life stage.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Helps Woman in Illinois
A testimonial from Telia Gillisp, St Anne Illinois, describing relief from a long list of ailments including backache dizziness swollen limbs and nervous symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She reports better health within two months and ability to perform housework.
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St. Anne, IL
Lydia E. Pinkans
Grays
Tella Gillisp
St 'Anne, Ilinois
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Jen- Kine
Jacky
Deas
O'Keefe
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Anand
Tom Chris
Chapter
Live Stokk
Carter
Gees Ganseonie
JMS Arete
Wurksd
Fetsraee
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mes
Estella Gillispie
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