The Green Goods Man and the Poetry of Detectives
In Chicago a clever detective and Miss Clement recount a green goods scam driven by a money machine faker. The tale tracks their search through barbershops and candy stores and ends with a staged arrest that unveils the con artist’s disguise and a counterfeiting confession.
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Miss Clement
Lake Shore Drive
Green Goods
Detective Headquarters
Bureau of Printing and Engrayving
Tennyson
Loop
Chicago
Critics Call for Richer Speech Among Youth
In Life magazine a columnist notes concern over limited vocabulary among youths and especially young women despite college study. The piece argues for broader language education and says English instruction should include classes in adjectives to expand expressive variety.
Building a Box Kite Like a Little Biplane
A detailed guide explains crafting a rectangular box-kite from pine spruce and whitewood with two frame boxes, muslin or paper coverings, and thread lashings. It covers cutting dimensions, assembly, bridle attachment, and ensuring tight sail by diagonal braces and banding.
Explorer Millward Opens Peten Mystery Land
Russell Hastings Millward, American explorer, spent over two years in Guatemala’s Peten region uncovering Maya ruins and mapping unknown districts. His trek across three thousand miles of jungle reveals lakes and mountains once rumored, and his findings promise wealth for Guatemala’s economy through new archaeological and commercial opportunities.
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Peten
Guatemala
Russell Hastings Millward
America
New York Tribune
British Honduras
Caribbean
Bay of Campeche
Forgotten Novelist Remembered Forty Years On
Ninety years ago a famed novelist connected with Mrs. Montagu and the blue stockings died. She married William Radcliffe editor of the English Chronicle and stirred town society with her fiction. Scott praised her prose for introducing a natural descriptive tone earlier confined to poetry. For The Mysteries of Updolphe she earned £500 and later £800.
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Montagu
Piozzi
William Radcliffe
English Chronicle
Scott
Radcliffe
Rock Cannon of Malta Bored in Living Rock
During the Knights of St. John era Malta defended fortifications with rock bore cannons each containing a full barrel of powder. Fifty were set facing possible approaches. The idea of transporting rocks to summits for similar defense proved impractical, leaving Malta’s rock cannons as unique historic weapons.
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Malta
Knights of St. John
Harper’s Weekly
Where Tommy Came In
Saucy Tommy deflects his father's rebuke by claiming value as a consumer. The story portrays a clever exchange on farm work and the role of consumers in supporting farmers.
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Tommy
Papa
Rosenwald Sees through Plausible Political Defenses
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist, criticizes a politician’s underhand methods as plausible but unnecessary. He compares the defense to a piggish boy who takes the bottom toast piece, illustrating the danger of acceptable wrongdoing if adopted by many.
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Julius Rosenwald
Chicago
Rosenwald
No Maltese Cats In Malta, Says Local Observers
In Malta there are a few Maltese terriers but no pure bred Maltese cats. The puppies sold to tourists are mixed and not true to the old breed, and no Maltege colored cat has been observed in the United States.
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Malta
United States
Take Time for Breakfast and Enjoy It
A health note urges a substantial morning meal and leisurely eating. It contrasts fast breakfast habits with the idea of American dyspepsia caused by rushing meals and stresses the value of appetite and digestion.
Ambition of a Henpecked Man
A humorous quotation from Mr. Henny peck reveals his ambivalence about authority in marriage. He admits not wishing to rule his wife yet jokes about becoming as hoarse as she at times. He speaks candidly to a friend from boyhood about domestic dynamics.
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Tennyson
Miss Clement
Louisville
Terry
Terry Laffan
Undertook Too Much Says Bankruptcy Hit Mibbs
The excerpt attributes Mibbs bankruptcy to overconfidence after he married a new wife and bought a new car six months earlier. It notes that each change alone could have been manageable, but maintaining both led to financial collapse.
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Mibbs
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Alice Clement
Courtney Riley Cooper
W. G Chapman
Apeak
Alice
Terence Laffan
Barber College
Frere
Omar
Marion
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Washington
Nubbin
Mr. Terrence Laffan
A. Neely Hall
Tandy Boye
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