Escape Foreseen Amid Pacific Tides and Treason
Fellowes plots to escape captivity aboard the Badger by a daring shore raid. A landing party heads toward Fire Island and Babylon to trap Miss Inglepin and her father, while Coffee and Tom aid with a perilous night swim through treacherous surf.
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Sandy Hook
New York
Fellowes
Jersey
Ben Inglepin
Madison
Collishawe
Badger
Bob Clinch
Coffee Cockroach
Clinch
Nor'west
Fong
Ollowes
Cuffee
Tom Grogan
Finny
Tom
TF Seed
Cellowes
Ellowes
Bob
Lowey
Cara Inglepin
Fire Island
Great South Beach
Great South Bay
Babylon
Miss_ Inglepin
Chater
Glamor man beats friend to save mongrel dog
Samuel Conklin a Beach Haven clam digger killed John Carlson with an ax after a quarrel over Carlson threatening the dog. Conklin confessed and awaits murder arraignment in jail. The dog, a two year old mongrel, was cherished by Conklin who lived on the Mermaid bay houseboat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beach Haven
N. J
Samuel Conklin
John Carlson
Conklin
Mermaid Bay
Carlson
Bay Avenue
Beach Haven Terrace
United States
Spray Beach
Sam
Burlingame
Albert Murphy
Atkinson
Spanish Explorer Cant De Quiros Fates In South Sea Quest
Pedro de Quiros won royal commission to find unknown continent in the Southwest Pacific. In 1606 his ships reached the New Hebrides and named Espiritu Santo, but mutiny forced return to Mexico. He died in Panama en route home and was buried in an unknown grave.
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Cant
Pedro de Quiros
Pacific Ocean
Phillip II
Spain
Callao
Peru
Austral
South Sea
de Quiros
New Hebrides
Mexico
Australia
Panama
Detroit News
Language and Love in Word Choice
A Kansas City Times note muses on how shifting adjectives and placement alter meaning. The author contrasts phrases like Dear Alice versus Alice dear, showing how small changes can transform tone from curt invitation to affectionate correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Kansas City Times
Signs Through Time From Egypt To Modern America
The history of signs traces from ancient Egypt to modern America via Greece Rome Italy France Germany and England. Inns first used signs with a bush swinging before tavern doors and the saying good wine needs no bush. The cross marked Christian travelers and the sun and moon guided pagans.
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Egypt
America
Greece
Iome
Italy
France
Germany
England
Rome
Gotham Man Boasts of Global Encounters
A character proclaims experiences across many races and peoples, listing encounters with Arabs, Turks, Armenians, South Americans, Greeks, Swedes, Chinese, Africans, and others, then hints at origins in New York with a terse reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
New York
Nest of Three Rooms Required for Stork Nest
A three room tenement built by a hammer headed stork houses his family. The nest uses large sticks between tree branches with a lower entry and a slope to a bright pebble decorated chamber and a mud lined nursery. Edible swiftlet nests in Borneo fetch high export value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borneo
China
Anamosa Supervisors Discuss Control Board Investigation
The Anamosa Iowa board of supervisors met August 6 1929 with all members present. They moved to request the state institutions board of control investigate the American Home Funding association of Council Bluffs regarding the child Robert Lee Heath and directed the county auditor to send a copy of the resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Matthiessen
Taylor
Board of Control of
American Home Funding Association of
Council Bluffs
Robert Lee Heath
Board of Control
Geo. C. Lawrence
Henry Hellberg
LaVern Rockstad
G. A. Peet
Konjola Promises Cure For Stomach Trouble And Neuritis
Mrs. George Walden of Cedar Rapids credits Konjola with ending years of stomach trouble and neuritis after three weeks of use. The remedy, said to contain 32 ingredients from 22 roots and herbs, is sold at F. J. Kay's drug store in Monticello and by other druggists in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Walden
M Avenue East
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
F. J. Kay
Jones County Board awards gravel contract for Olin road
Anamosa Iowa August 7 1929 the Jones county board of supervisors after public hearing awards the contract for 1760 cubic yards of gravel and 260 cubic yards of rock to Bumgardner and Schroeder Wapello at 2480 dollars for the graveling of the county road from Olin west 11 1 2 miles. The board also assigns a deposit claim against First Trust and Savings bank Oxford Junction to the state sinking fund and approves a soldiers exemption refund for G W James Wyoming and a resignation of constable George H Schoon Wayne township. The county engineer’s notice regarding John Becher bridge item 283 is on file.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Olin
Olin West
Lanning & Fulkerton
Marion Myron Baker
Anamosa Bumgarner & Schroeder
Wapello
Taylor
Matthiessen
Bumeardner & Schroeder
Towa
First Trust and Savings Bank
Oxford Junction
Forty-First General Assembly
Hughes
Barber
G. W. James
Wyoming
George H. Schoon
Wayne Township
John B. Becher
Jones County Budget Hearing Set for September 4 1929
The Jones County Board of Supervisors meets to file and consider the local budget estimate. A hearing is fixed for September 4 1929 at 10 a.m. in Anamosa at the auditor's office, with publication of the notice in the Anamosa Eureka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Anamosa
Iowa
LaVern Rockstad
Anamosa Eureka
Said County
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Arthur D. Howden Smith
WNU Service
Cap'n
Grogan
Collehawe
Badger Fellowes
Davy Jones
Bosun
Admiral Cockburn
Chesapeake
Collshawe
Atlantic
Inglepins
Collilshawe
Carn Inglepin
Saul Chater
Col Hishawe
Shannon
Captain Fellowes
Inglepin
Christian
Chapter
Mr. Curry
Mars'r
Dar
Fee
Glam Digger
Friend
Mongrel
Twain
Slayer
Crowbar
Gotham's
Supervisors’ Proceedings
Konjola
Mainz
Minneapolis
Washington
2Nd Ave.s
Ltte Scaraye
Underwood
Monticello, Iowa
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