Midnight tracking at Averill s near Deer Creek
Dick observes Wayne leaving Porter's house and finds a coded message carved on a cottonwood tree. He suspects Wayne wrote it and follows clues to Averill's near Deer Creek, where Wednesday’s events loom, as courtship and jealousy entwine with a swampy mystery.
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Nancy Boone
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Singing School
Sing
Averil
Rick
Frontier Mystery Horses Stir Dick in Deer Creek Range
Dick hears a horseman asking about strange horses. The rider claims two horses, a sorrel and a bay, vanished from Averill's pasture near Deer Creek. Dick questions theft implications as the frontier tension rises over possible horse theft.
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Averill’s
Deer Creek
Dinner Turned Upside Down by Woman Author Alias
The novelist Alexander MacArthur hosts a Chicago dinner for leading literary figures. A guest arrives identifying as Alexander MacArthur, but reveals she is Lilian MacArthur from Dublin using a male pen name. After quick rearrangement, the dinner proceeds successfully.
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Paris
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Rubinstein
T’aderewski
Philadelphia
St. Petersburg
London
Chicago
Lake City
MacArthur
Lillian MacArthur
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Dublin
Inquests in China Defy Western Coroner Rules
Chicago News notes Chinese inquests differ from Western practice as doctors avoid dissection and use absurd signs to determine death. It highlights the risk of sham deaths, money extortion, and minimal crime prevention from Chinese coroner procedures.
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China
Chicago News
First House in America Met Immigrants at New York Barge Office
A Russian letter sent to the Washington dead letter office described the first house in America as the Federal barge office in New York. The tiny gray stone building at the tip of New York marks where all immigrants begin their land journey, with a turret and faded flag atop the customs house.
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Washington
America
Puzzle Bureau
Federal Barge Office
New York
Custom House
Collier’s Weekly
Tubular tunnel proposed to span Bosphorus
A tube or suspended underwater tunnel is seriously considered to replace the insufficient bridge of boats across the Bosphorus. Foundations are lacking so the tube would have to be floated or suspended below the water surface to allow uninterrupted traffic.
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Bosphorus
Predicted Better Than He Knew in Gossip Column
A Boston Courier exchange notes Mrs. Wiggin’s remarriage during Knox’s absence abroad. The dialogue mocks the match with a sly prediction about her character. The piece adds a quip about a woman traveling with relatives, return ticket, and thirty cents, highlighting social attitudes of the era.
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Knox
Fertilizing for Corn and Farm Notes
An 100 bushel corn yield is unlikely on single acres. three-acre plots with careful fertility may beat one acre. Articles cover nursing bottles for calves, use of spray pumps for fruit, costs of spraying, and farm drainage with stone drains as tested methods.
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Kansas
Plowing Too Early Irritates Farmers This Spring
Farmers rush to plow as snow melts and dry spots appear, though cold wet soil forms a glossy furrow that bakes hard and requires extra harrowing. Horses sink in soft furrows and soil damage increases, prompting caution about early plowing.
Demand for Young Beef and Family Cows Across Time
The article traces a shift from valuing old livestock for beef to favoring young cattle and calves ready for market. It stresses modern preference for beef from animals under three years, with markets favoring calves that reach 1 000 to 1 100 pounds by fifteen months. It also advises families with a single cow to buy a superior animal with high milk yield and butterfat content.
Farmers Find Market News And Weather Notes
The Farmers Of interest column highlights government horse supply costs for cavalry and starved maple trees in Vermont. It notes prune price pushes from Washington Oregon Idaho and possible regional price rises with coastwide expansion. It mentions Chicago oleo production and a dash of farm economy data from 1890.
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Vermont
Chicago
Chicaso
Winona
Minn
Canada
Scientific American
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