Oliver October Baxter and the Rumley Swamp Mystery
Oliver October Baxter, son of a Rumley hardware store owner, faces a doomed prophesy and a missing father as town drama unfolds. Over years he battles family pressure while politics, love, and a swamp dig for his father's body intertwine with his bid for state senate against the powerful Gooch. Jane Sage watches, nerves fray, and rumors swirl as Oliver weighs staying home or seeking his future in Chicago.
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Oliver October Baxter
Rumley
Etor
Oliver October
Thalleen
Baxter
Seepter II
Oliver
Sephine Sage
Lumley
Loam
Jane
Oliver Bee
Chicago
Action Army
Secreay
Doctor King
Mr. Baxter
Liver
Sage
Father
Malone
Jane Peter Hines Bourden
Miss Sage
Ollie
Howe Hees
Joseph Sikes
Uncle Joe
Lizzie
Mr. Sikes
Fink
Mr. Malone
Headquarters
Rumor of Oliver Baxter's murder shocks Rumley
Septembers in Rumley swirl as Oliver Baxter is found murdered in the swamp, his clothes burnt and a body identified by Silas Link. The town debates Oliver's possible guilt while the sheriff advises caution and family counsel plans to identify the corpse.
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Mr. Sikes
Ollie
Silas
Oliver October
Oliver
Joe Sikes
Joe
Serepty
Silas Link
Mrs. Grimes
Mr. Link
Rumley
Oliver Baxter
Baxter
Link
Sikes
Judge Shortridge
Sage
Jane
Lansing
Grimes
Sammy Parr
Driver
Uhe
Local Notes Highlight Pana Park Concert and Community Visits
The Patoka area notes cover a lively week with a celebrated Kitchen Park Band concert featuring semi professionals from Pana Taylorville Blue Mound and Moneaqua. Local residents report hospital visits operations and family news including Mrs Chance being assigned to the State hospital at Anna and Dr Murfin visiting Decatur with his family.
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Kitchen Park
Pana
Taylorville
Blue Mound
Moneaqua
Taylor Nall
Henry
Simon Stasick
Centralia Wree
Patoka
Hugh Jensen
Centralia Hospital
Helen
Fred Pratt
Pope Township
Orville Genre
Loretta Outhouse
Heyworth
Loretta
Joe Humes
Minnie Simcox
Centralia
John Jennings
Bobbie
Fort Wayne
Ind
Jennings
Kate Leninger
Eugene
Vernon
Lucile Gray
Assumption
Anna Belcher
Shady Grove
Edna Major
Brother Dette
Alma
Gray
Shimp
George Christie
George
E. Hamilton
Decatur
Wadkins
Hamilton
Oliver Baxter Fights Off Withdrawal Pressure
Oliver Baxter campaigns through district schools and town halls during three intense weeks of electioneering. The opposition press hypes minor finds like an old straw hat and a spade handle near the swamp where the old man and his son parted ways, while Malone leads Italian laborers in the hunt.
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Oliver
Gooch
Oliver Baxter
Malone
Oliver in Danger Chapter XI in Clay Street
Sammy Parr returns with town gossip that Oliver is blamed by locals. Judge Shortridge rebukes the crowd while Josephine Sage questions mob judgment as Oliver faces looming peril and uncertainty.
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Oliver
Sammy Parr
Clay Street
Sammy
Judge Shortridge
Judge
Josephine Sage
Olver
Mr. Sage
Immigrant Plant Pests Threaten U S Agriculture Costs
The article notes that farm and fruit pests cost more than a billion dollars yearly and consume two hours daily of farm labor. It traces pest entry to preinspection imports and highlights growing world trade as risk, with Europe having stricter controls for decades.
Tuberculosis Remains Major Threat in 1925 Meat Inspection
About 70 million animals were inspected before slaughter by Federal meat inspectors in 1925. Post-mortem exams showed tuberculosis persisted as the most widespread disease among cattle and swine at slaughter, causing more condemnations than all other ailments combined. The findings urge livestock producers to intensify the tuberculosis eradication campaign.
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George Barr McCatcheon
Bell Syndicate
WU Serica
Mr. Gooch
Reverend Sone
Lome
New York
Sy Sammy Parr
Old Man Gooch
Detective Malone
Pete Hines
Old Man Baxter
Peter Hines
Josephine
Baxter House
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