Knickerbocker Wooming. Chapter ends with a fatal pursuit
In the Henning mansion, Beatrice Henning confronts the fugitive Swensen alias Count Norberg as detectives close in. Swensen flees through the library and out a window after a gunshot. Alice Whitfield, Beatrice, and the doctor’s family face tragedy as Swensen dies, Alice mourns, and Fletcher contemplates marrying Alice, ending with his pledge of love.
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Henning Mansion
Miss Henning
Mr. Henning
Preejee Islands
Mr. Fletcher
Miss Hennine
Hila Palmer
Swensen
Lafarge
Alfred Lafarge
Feller
Rudolph
Robert
Beatrice
Count Norberg
Sweden
Lafarre
Ella Palmer
Swenson
Palmer
Alice
Alice Whitfield
Beatrice Henning
Woman Seeks Thirty Day Paid Leave Bill in Congress
A commuter tells a congressman a Navy engineer son needs thirty days leave with full pay. The reply notes timing limits and printing hurdles. The woman suggests using the Congressional Record appendix or next index to push the bill.
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Anyoir Dupois
Ian
Navy Department
Stair
Washington Post
Silent pressed rawhide cog wheels from Vienna firm
A Vienna firm claims to have solved silent machinery by manufacturing cog wheels from pressed rawhide. The wheels are said to be very strong and require no lubrication, but come at a high price.
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Vienna
Lost on the Alps and a Brave Hound of Help
A children’s column blends poems and vignettes from St Nicholas and Harper’s Young People. An Alpine lost traveler is saved by a brave dog, a robin taunts a sheltered rain, and a muddy boy learns kindness. A sea size lesson ends with a trust tale of a boy awaiting God.
Adroit Joker in Auctioneer Life of Wit and Quips
A former tradesman turned auctioneer uses sharp wit to entertain buyers with rapid patter and clever puns. He opens with oysters and champagne and keeps the room lively, delivering memorable lines about bids and books while keeping the sale brisk.
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Caroline Fry
Bacon
Ife
Reese
The Deer Mouse Its Agile Flight and Tender Care
The deer mouse is a quick agile creature noted for tender care of its young. It bounds with offspring clinging to its body and can leap up to fifteen feet. Found across the United States and Canada, it has a long tail and thin legs and is a nocturnal feeder on seeds and plant roots.
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Canada
Thrifty Thomas Wonders If Uncle William Will Come
A mother reminds Tommy that Uncle William will dine with them and he should wash his face. Tommy answers with cautious thrift, noting he’ll wash if the uncle arrives, but wonders what if he does not come.
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Liater
Tommy
William
Thomas
S’pasen
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Knickerbocker Wooing
Julian Ralph
Mswenben
Myr
Forsythe Street
Mila Palmer
Miss Alice
Dr. Whitfield
Alps
Robin Red
St. Nicholas
Harper
Dominic Sampson
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Antaractic
Adroit Joker
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