The White Arm by Horatio Winslow
A medical student narrator recounts a gruesome practical joke gone wrong in a boarding house. Thompson plans to place a preserved white arm in Anje’s bed to shock him. Anje dies by suffocation, and the survivors reveal the arm as the instrument of his death. The tale unfolds with tone of colonial era medical mystery and macabre irony.
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Anteles
Thompson
Anje
Anne
Ellen
Elen
Anie
The Plan That Placed Ethelinda at the Trust Company
Lena Nagel helps her former colleague Ethelinda by quitting her own job to create an opening at the Trust Company. Lena resigns and lines up Ethelinda for the vacant desk, persuading the manager to hire her friend while revealing her motive is personal, tied to a romance.
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Ethelinda
Lena Nagel
Lena
Big Trust Company
Trust Company
Miss Dimple
Goldilocks
Heinrich
Risk and Reward The American Spirit in Action
A Detroit Free Press quote contrasts two types of men: the cautious worrier who delays and minimizes risk, and the decisive risk taker who acts, learns from failure, and moves forward. The piece frames bold action as essential to achievement and progress.
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Faihere
Early Italian Surgery by Benvenuto Cellini
In an early Italian surgery tale Cellini recalls a chipped steel fragment in his eye that threatened loss of sight. A surgeon used pigeons to absorb the blood, piercing the birds’ wings to channel blood into his eye. Within two days the steel piece emerged and vision improved markedly.
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Benvenuto Cellini
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Atis County Tribune
F. Hill
N. T. Bradway Ishers
Glenwood
Iowa
F. M. Shriver
Surgical and Mechanical Dentist
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Carl H, Otis
Ivory
Otis
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Justice of the Peace
Law and Collections
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Opera
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Silver Moon
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S. S. Clark
Amos Dean
Carpenter & Contractor
Glenwood, Iowa
Fowler Brothers
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Lowa
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Coeur d'Alene
Horatio Winslow
Daily Story Pub, Co
Battle Creek, Mich
Aloon
Sargents Family Shoe Store
Council
Bluffs
Detroit Free Press
The
Advo Collection Agency
F.G. Day
Hon. W. 8. Bewis
Milla County National Bank
Glenwood State Bank
W. M. Lamb Bank
Carter Block
Quincy
Saint of Atates
Occuny Pies Us
Thor
Little Polly
Sachaghe
Walter Sheen
Mills County Abstract Company Incorporated
Mills County
Mills County National Bank
D. L. Heinsheimer
F. M. Buffington
A. D. French
H. A. French
A. J. Gettler
C. W. Rathke
B. H. Cheney
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