Her Painted Face Opens The Mystery At Brief Castle
Richard Exon, a poor English youth, learns from the dying Matthew Gering that he is the true Rudolph Elbert Virgil, heir to Austrian nobility. Exon vows to right past wrongs, aided by John Herrick and Winter. They chase a kidnapping plot involving Elizabeth, daughter of the disowned line, confronting Percy Virgil and the conspirators at Raven near Brief.
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Richard Exon
Matthew Gering
Gering
Rudolph Elbert Virgil
Brief
Ferdinand
Exon
Percy Elbert Virgil
Inskip
Percy
John Herrick
Herrick
Brenda Revoke
Raven
Percy Virgil
Elizabeth
Virgil
Max
House of Brief
England
The Mystery of Brief Castle Tower Unlocks
In a late night expedition Elizabeth, Herrick, Brenda, and Winter plan to reach a hidden tower at Brief Castle. They aim to expose a usurper Count and locate a secret that could empower Elizabeth's claims, staging a careful ascent to a barred window behind guarded walls.
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Elizabeth
Brief
Yale
Herrick
Brenda
Chimney Thief Sells 100-Foot Structure for 150
Arthur Joseph Sayers from Channing Town Essex stole a 100 foot high chimney weighing over 30 tons and sold three loads to a buyer for 150 dollars. He admitted grand larceny at Romford petty sessions saying the chimney was in disrepair and would have fallen. He received three months for each count to run concurrently.
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Napoleon
le Petit
Victor Hugo
Notre Dame
Channing Town
Essex
England
Arthur Joseph Sayers
New York Times
Romford
Maj
Champion Branfill
Sayers
Scotland Yard
Tallinn the Baltic Footfall of Empires
Tallinn sits along the Baltic coast as Estonia’s capital with a history tied to Danish foundations and Reval origins. Once a Hanseatic trade hub, it faced Swedish Russian and Polish influence, culminating in Russian rule until World War I and its 1920 republic emergence.
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Baltic Sea
Estonia
Tallinn
Valdemar II
Reval
Visby
Isle of
Gotland
Hanseatic League
Baltic
Sweden
Russia
Poland
Peter the Great
What to Eat and Why by C Houston Goudiss
A 1938 health column stresses daily vitamin C intake due to no body storage and easy destruction. It notes raw foods and quick cooking preserve C, highlights guinea pig findings on adrenal glands, links C deficiency to gum and tooth issues, and suggests cranberry based options and salads for balanced meals.
Vitamin C and lemon juice linked to scurvy cure history
The article traces early observations of orange and lemon juice curing scurvy in children and sailors. It notes pre science nutrition days, English physicians' notes, and 1795 trials showing British sailors avoided scurvy with evaporated lemon juice, earning the nickname limies.
Scurvy Known as Preventable Through Vitamin C
The article traces scurvy as a controllable disease long before vitamin C was identified. It notes early prevention and cure in all ages, then a century of European and American study to list foods with the power to prevent and cure scurvy. It concludes with the discovery that the protective substance is vitamin C.
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Europe
America
Latent scurvy cases in children linked to vitamin C deficiency
The article notes that many children show restlessness irritability and growth retardation due to vitamin C deficiency. It describes symptoms in humans and experiments where deficiency causes swollen joints sore jaws spongy gums loose teeth and possible hemorrhages in kidneys intestines bone marrow and skin.
Wise and Otherwise on Matrimonial Misreads
A witty column notes three sides to any marriage and the truth the husband the wife and the truth. It cites a paper on a man who cycles to work at seventy and mocks optimistic vows about changing a partner. The piece ends with jokes about love burning money and impossible romance.
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Hercules
Cranberries Highlighted as Vitamin C Source and Versatile Fruit
Cranberries are praised as a high ranking source of vitamin C along with oranges and tomatoes. The article notes their fall market availability, tart flavor, and ability to retain 75 to 80 percent of vitamin C when cooked, while also providing vitamin A iodine iron copper and manganese. Cranberries are described as a versatile fruit suitable for any meal.
Around the House: Handy Tips on Everyday Care
Practical household notes cover hosiery fit avoid blisters choosing poultry soft beaks and claws, leftover cereal reuse, soap stretching, tea cloth stain removal with glycerin, suede care with sawdust, chamois washing method, and drying procedures for solid soap.
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Banner Serial Fiction
Dornford Yates
Salzburg
Winter
Madame Revoke
Elizabeth Virgil
Belvedere
Richard
Herrick’s
Northumberland
London
C. Houston Goudiss
By C. Houston Goudiss
WNU
Houston
BAYER
Arthur Bartels
New York
Luden
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