The Third Degree a Novel by G W Dillingham Company
A fragment references the 1900 copyright by G W Dillingham Company for The Third Degree. No plot details are provided.
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
3
A fragment references the 1900 copyright by G W Dillingham Company for The Third Degree. No plot details are provided.
Howard Jeffries a banker's son falls under Robert Underwood's influence and marries a gambler's daughter. Amid a city salon debate a lawyer plans a suit against Capt. Clinton for police brutality while Dr. Bernstein extols psychology's use to law and medicine. The scene sets ongoing intrigues and a continuation.
A decorated reception room glows with lights and flowers as notables mingle. Judge Richard Brewster arrives to praise and speaks with Alicia about a music case, while guests discuss weather, servants, and society chatter in a vivid social scene.
A tale says Beethoven overheard a humble house's yearning listener and agreed to play. He improvised by lamp light, the moonlight filling the room, and created the mood later linked to his Moonlight Sonata. The story centers on a girl’s wish for a fine concert and the composer’s impulsive performance.
In Washington at a bachelors cotillion Senator Depew lauds advertising's reach and future growth. He imagines a stormy voyage where a captain cites "Punk's Pills" and Cann's Cool Liver Of Light appearing on the horizon as signs of progress in commerce and culture.
A dialogue oddball exchange jokes about a first baseman nicknamed McGoozler. The characters debate his status as a slave and his salary of three thousand five hundred, then quip he could wash bottles in a pop factory for seven a week if freed.
A quote from the Christian Register notes the superiority of man over nature, stating nature demands many quills for a goose while a man can create a goose of himself with one quill.
In Philadelphia a mother who posed as her daughter's servant to hide mixed ancestry and support an opera dream dies alongside her dead daughter after a gas-suicide pact. Detectives link the motive to social race ideals and a Baltimore father once known as the policy king.
W L Good a Farmers Ranch Texas phone operator was gagged and bound in his chair but triggered the town bell switch to alert residents. Robbers seized the bank and telephone exchange at midnight, escaped after shots were exchanged, taking about 1500 dollars while leaving 60000 dollars behind.
A Georgia railroad passenger train bound for Augusta misrouted at a four way junction three miles from Macon. The switch was set to the Savannah track, placing the train on a potential head on collision with another train. The engineer stopped and backed to the junction before continuing to Augusta.
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