Granny Carrigan's Cap-Box Mystery of a vanished fortune
A tale of a quiet, shy girl Susie. An unexpected inheritance and a missing three thousand dollars test family trust. Susie secretly funded lavish purchases while a hidden past explains her generosity. The cap box finally reveals the truth and forgiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie
Grandmother Carrigan
Lex
John
Susie
John Carrivan
Neilie
Harry
Papa
The Pint of Ale and the Holiday Seed
John Ross Dix recounts a Manchester calico printer and his wife who trade a daily pint of ale for comfort. When the wife saves threepence daily, she funds a holiday by the mother’s house. The husband quits drinking to honor the sacrifice, and the savings become a source of health, happiness, and prosperity. A New Jersey man dies after swallowing a fly. the fly dies too in a mutual disgust case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granny Carrigan
Nellie
Aunt Cheney
New York
Myriam
Susie
Harry Lonsdale
Europe
Lozier’s
John
Harry
Tie
Beelzebub
Harry Lonadale
Marty
Harry Tronsdale
Casie
Stewart's
Ness
Larry
Starry
Gesaides
Aunty
Tarry
John Ross Dix
Manchester
Calico
Mary
Sar
New Jersey
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Simmons
Wis
Wal
Macon
Philadelphia
Thrall & Mumford
New Harmony
Ind
TCU Sore
Tadeo
W. F. Gray
D. M. Schnee
Postoffice
Ind.y
W.F. Gray
J. W. Davis & Co
Gale
J.W. Davis & CO
Thrall & Mumford’s
New Michigan
New California
Yarmouth
J. W. Miller
New Harmony, Indiana
Apli Y
Particularefies
Addyeas O. Stinson & Portland
Malua
the Register
Co.v.slater
BeaurAll
Mester
Neltie
Per Carl Helmerding
Berlin
Assmannshauser
Ingelheimer
Mr. Carlyle
Beecher Scandala
North Pole
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