Mystery Mission Unfolds in San Francisco Tale
Giles Dudley arrives to aid Henry Wilton on a secret mission in San Francisco. Wilton dies without explanation, leaving Dudley to uncover the plan while posing as Wilton. Dudley becomes involved in stock dealings, Chinatown danger, and a perilous rescue, amid intrigue at Knapp and Decker rivalries.
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Giles Dudley
San Francisco
Henry Wilton
Dudley
Wilton
Giles
Sa Wilton
Ten Edr
Jes Dudle
Mother Barton
Tim Terrill
Darby Meeker
Dicky’ Nahl
Eeker
Knapp
Luella
Brown
Barkhouse
Fitzhugh
Porter
Richmond
Mother Borton
Carson
Tim ‘Terrill
Doddridge
Inight
Stock Exchange
Crown Diamond
Omega
Decker
The Unknown Sends Word To Wilton In Dark Plot
In a tense night scene at the Bortons, Wilton receives a cryptic message from the Unknown about life and death stakes. Mother Barton warns of threats to the boy's safety as Doddridge Knapp manipulates stock, while intrigue and danger swirl around the trading floor and Luella Knapp.
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Crown Diamond
Doddridge Knapp
Decker
Omega
Decker and Company
Wallbridge
George
Inger
Mama
Luella
Luella Knapp
Porter
Barkhouse
Wilson
Wilton
Borton's
Mother Barton
Chinatown
Mother Borton
Practical Paris Pattern 2536 All Seams Allowed
Pattern No 2536 accepts plain or striped serges broadcloths mohair Panama cloth or flannel. Inverted box plait creates fullness at front and back with a waistline dart. Front sides feature small buttons loops of nar row soutache braid. Seven sizes 22 to 34 waist. For 26 waist yardage given for various widths. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address size and pattern number.
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Paris
Pattern Department
Paris Pattern 2503 Dress For Girls With Guimpe
Fashion note details a blue linen dress with guimpe for girls age six to fourteen. Includes waist yoke with narrow tucks, full skirt, striped trimming, and white lawn guimpe. Specifies fabric yardage for sizes ten and ten year old, from Pattern Department.
Not Worth Talking About Notes in Paraguay
Washington Post item notes small denomination bank notes circulating in Paraguay. It costs two notes to clean boots, eight to mail a letter to England, yet one note buys seasonal goods like 15 oranges or a watermelon. It mocks the fuss over a summer girl winning a husband by diabolo skill and contrasts with many skilled cooking marriages.
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Paraguay
England
Washington Post
Epistle to Posterity Snubbed by Voltaire
A French author presents to Voltaire a work titled An Epistle to Posterity. Voltaire quips that the letter will never reach its destination, signaling a sharp satire on authorship and reception.
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Voltaire
Fielding comment spurs brokers and baseball talk
A Boston broker recalled visiting a Hub household where young women graduates debated the English novel. Asked about Fielding he quipped that Fielding matters but only with good pitchers and hitters, a remark noted in Harper's Weekly.
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Boston
Fielding
Harper’s Weekly
Cure for Chronic Eczema by Cuthura Revealed
A 55 year old man describes lifelong eczema until Cuthura therapy cured him after eight months using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills. Testimony from Hale Bordwell Tipton Aug 17 1907 and endorsement by Nelson R Burnett adds credibility.
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Hale Bordwell Tipton
Bordwell
Nelson R. Burnett
Tipton
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Brzalle
Aselef Waldt
Mrs. Knapp
Henry
Doddve Knapp
Tophet
House of the Wolf
Corporation
King of the Street
Guimpe
Cuthura
Willie
Genevieve
Mountfort
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Alaxa
California G Syrup Co
Vty
Paxton Toilet CO
Mast
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