The Secret of Brief Tower in the Austrian Nobility Tale
Richard Exon befriends the dying Matthew Gering who claims to be Rudolph Virgil Count of Brief. Exon inherits wealth and seeks to right past wrongs, aiding Elizabeth Gering who has been targeted in a kidnapping plot involving Percy Virgil and a diamond merchant. Police are involved as the chase unfolds at Raven and Brief.
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Richard Exon
Matthew Gering
Gering
Rudolph Elbert Virgil
Brief
Ferdinand
Exon
Percy Elbert Virgil
Inskip
Winter
Percy
John Herrick
Herrick
Brenda Revoke
Ravon
Percy Virgil
Elizabeth
Raven
Virgil
Herri
Rudolph
Innsbruck
Jwe
Saloons and a Lady's Abduction in Brief
Herrick and Virgil encounter a royal police inquiry over a kidnapping at Brief. The sergeant questions their alibis while Herrick reveals their true movements and the forged car story as Virgil grows furious. A sealed clue points to the leader Max and Percy Virgil.
Teach Clean Habits To Safeguard Children’s Health
A mother asks about nutrition and health while a dirty, sneeze-sprayed Johnny shows why cleanliness matters. The piece urges teaching children to wash hands, cover sneezes, avoid mouth contact, and ensure soap and towels in homes and schools, plus inspect school facilities and involve other parents to improve hygiene.
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Johnny
Whole Oranges Offer More Benefits Than Juice
Question answered for Mrs. C M L notes that eating whole oranges provides vitamin C plus pulp adds laxative value not found in juice. A reader Miss F C V mentions experiments showing beef liver contains about twenty times more copper than beef steak, as reported by WNU C Houston Goudiss in 1938 36.
Birds rarely fly above five thousand feet in migrations
Eleanor Allen notes that most bird migrations occur below 3000 feet with birds occasionally reaching higher altitudes. Aviators report it is difficult to sustain speed at great height, while exceptional records include geese at 29000 feet and other species noted during Everest and India observations. The banding method shows routes persist annually across generations.
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Eleanor Allen
Portland Oregonian
A. F. R. Wollaston
Dehra
India
Biological Survey
Dry Falls Seen as Vast Ancient Cataract in History
Historians claim a prehistoric river created a cataract far exceeding Niagara at the Dry Falls of the Columbia River. The Dry Falls State Park preserves the site's vista house near the cliff edge. Visitors view three and a half miles across to the opposite side from the Grand Coulee's lower end. Geologists link the feature to a huge ancient river system and a changed channel from the glacial era.
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Niagara
Columbia River
Grand Coulee
Appalachians
Pacific
Mother's Diet and Hygiene Guard Child Health
The author urges mothers to feed children based on nutrition science and to ensure meals are clean to prevent germ intake. Unwashed hands before eating are linked to grave illness, as microbes entering with food threaten developing bodies and brains.
Cleanliness a Mortar for Health in School Lunch Habits
A columnist urges daily soap and water in schools arguing clean habits prevent infections. The piece links personal cleanliness to health, comparing diet to bricks and cleanliness to mortar in building a strong body.
Mothers’ care prevents illness from infancy to school
The article argues that vigilant hygiene by mothers keeps babies clean and healthy, and that neglect persists as children enter school. It notes some mothers stop supervising hygiene at school readiness, assuming school will supply ongoing training or care.
A Mother's Job in Guarding Child Health
The piece argues that as a child grows toward school, a mother’s role expands. It urges heightened vigilance by mothers to curb germs through daily baths, clean clothing changes, and regular hand washing to safeguard health.
Youll Enjoy Making This Appliqued Quilt
An easy applique pup quilt block pattern 9 1 2 inches. Include ribbon in contrast binding or embroidery. Pattern 1846 has pieces, diagrams, cutting sewing finishing yardage and a quilt diagram. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Ask Me Another General Quiz
Quiz questions cover geology the phrase flaming youth hemispheres borders Washington children Appian Way fort night perfect number Bay Bridge cost and a poem about a child with the lines You are the trip I could not take You are the pearls I cannot buy.
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George Washington
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The Answers The Holocene period Shakespeare
The meridian generally used is the twentieth west of Greenwich. An ancient Roman highway. A perfect number is a number equal to the sum of its divisors. Six is such a number since 1 plus 2 plus 3 equals 6. From 1 to 40 000 000 there are seven perfect numbers. The cost was $77 600 000 the largest for a similar structure. It is by Anne Campbell and is titled To My Child.
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Shakespeare
Greenwich
Anne Campbell
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Austria
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Brenda
C. Houston Goudiss
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Eumatism
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