Under Cover Desperate Exit From Burning Building
West escapes by sliding into a dark cellar as Hobart and Turner search the upper floor. Lights flash, voices rise, and the pursuers doubt whether he is dead or alive after leaping from the roof. He hides in the cellar in a perilous, breathless retreat to safety.
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Ife
West
Hobart
Turner
Shorty
Bis
Natalie Coolidge
Vercival Coolidge
Fairlawn
Sexton
Dark Roof Confrontation Deepens Mystery
Randall Parrish scene unfolds with Hobart and Turner scouring a rooftop for a missing man. West hides in a cellar and later discovers a gagged bound figure, deepening the plot as Natalie Coolidge’s motives remain unclear. West resolves to free the bound man as suspicions about the suspect group grow.
Web of deceit in a charity vault tale ends with a getaway
Ex serviceman Matthew West answers a dangerous ad by writer Natalie Coolidge and becomes her fiance. A double and a suspicious guardian stir danger as Percival Coolidge is found dead. West uncovers plots, battles Hobart’s men, and escapes through a window after a fierce confrontation.
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Matthew Weat
Natalie Coolidge
Coolidge
West
Natalie
Percival Coolidge
Charity
Sexton
Coolidges
Hobart
Cardinal Manning’s caustic wit shocks pompous prelates
In Pages From the Past John Ayscough recounts Cardinal Manning snubbing ostentatious clergy. He quips about a bishop admiring ornament and a royal guest eclipsed by the cardinal’s plain black attire. The wit deflates vanity with dry humor.
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Cardinal Manning
Manning
John Ayscough
Mgr
Count Beckerstaffe
St. Thomas’ Seminary
Peaceful Penetration and Despoiled Nations
A reader questions the phrase peaceful penetration by outsiders and how first movers seize valuables while other nations must be polite. They ask how diplomats respond when the victim nation is backward and being despoiled.
Escape to freedom in a dimly lit warehouse aftermath
West frees Sexton from restraints and eludes pursuers after a tense night. They discuss Hobart and Miss Coolidge, then move through a shadowy yard toward a gap in the fence. Sexton discovers a pocket knife as they slip away, planning their next steps.
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West
Sexton
Hobart
Jim Hobart
Miss Coolidge
Cheerful Decorations for the Home
Interior decorators warn against overusing cretonne in rooms with figured walls or patterned rugs. A shown room uses chintz paper panels, white ruffled curtains, ivory woodwork, and furniture, with a taupe carpet to unify the look.
Hand-braided Rugs Show Simple Home Craft
Hand made rugs from torn fabric strips are braided and sewn flat. Edges are turned in for a neat finish, with coils forming the center on round rugs and two parallel rows creating an oval center. Three examples display blue white and blue borders, cretenne and gingham scraps, and tan black stockings.
Velvet and cretonne mirrors brighten living room decor
Mirrors are covered with fabric shirrings to blend with furnishings. A black velvet flower mirror features black satin cording and tassel accents, while an oval mirror is wrapped in flowered cretonne or plasm sateen. Slip covers refresh worn chairs. an old leather chair gains new life with a flowered cretonne cover matching room hangings.
Look and Embarrassed Exchange at Fruit Store
A shopper forgets money for a fruit purchase and promises to return. Later, with a basket of apples and peaches, the clerk recognizes the prior debt. The scene ends as the shopper pays and leaves, embarrassed by the earlier encounter.
Mistaken Zeal Argument Fragment
A fragment quotes William Pena noting zeal follows truth, warns the assured may be misled by overconfidence. It suggests zeal helps oppose sin more than reproving other people’s errors.
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William Pena
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
Tanlac credited with curing long standing stomach ills
Norman W. Brownr a Charlotte wallpaper and paint dealer says Tanlac cured ten to twelve years of nervous indigestion heartburn and gas pressure around the heart. He reports a restored appetite steady nerves and a stomach that feels like new. Tanlac sold by all good druggists.
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Tanlac
Norman W. Brownr
N. Cédar St
Charlotte
N. C
Humor in Indiana Pulpit
Dr. Robert J. Aley president of Butler College and Rev. Allan B. Philpott pastor of Central Christian church are longtime friends. Aley, guest preaching for Philputt, told listeners he had heard him in Philadelphia and Indianapolis and had slept under his sermons in three cities.
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Robert J. Aley
Butler College
Allan B. Philpott
Central Christian Church
Tach
Doctor Philputt
Doctor Aley
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Red Cross Ball Blue Promises Cleaner Clothes
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as free of ugly streaks and says good bluing yields clean results. Claims are made that all grocers carry the product.
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Red Cross
Great Fishing Preserve in Yellowstone Park Restocked
The Park Service and Bureau of Fisheries report a major restocking of Yellowstone lakes and streams after a record year. Eggs of native trout totaled 5,996,000 with 2,871,000 eyed eggs and fry returned to waters, plus 4,051,000 plantings from outside hatcheries, doubling 1920 figures.
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Yellowstone Park
Park Service
Bureau of Fisheries
Park
Scientific American
Medieval Well Found Beneath Lisieux Cathedral
Archaeologists uncover a medieval well under the St. Pierre cathedral in Lisieux France. The site contains a jeweler's weight bearing a relief of Ferdinand and Isabella, engraved tiles, and pottery fragments discovered alongside
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St. Pierre
Lisieux
France
Ferdinand
Isabella
Spain
Prosperous men can afford to sit down occasionally
The saying notes that wealth enables comfort and rest. It contrasts those who struggle with those who have means to pause and reflect, implying prosperity grants leisure without loss of dignity.
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Flobart
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Elizabeth Trimble
Western Newspaper Union
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Merchant
Indiana
Erlend
W. 1
Dougie
W. L. Douglas Shoes
Siew Wa
KHOYS
W.L. Douglas Reme
Canon
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