The Colfax Bookplate Scene at Darrow's Bookshop
In Colfax era intrigue at Darrow's Bookshop, Captain Ashland and Miss Fuller clash over a forged bookplate in a priceless notes volume. They debate the plate’s origin, while staff scramble to finish a rare‑book catalogue before a threatened printers’ strike. The day ends with tea and further questions about the counterfeit relic.
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Mr. Darrow
Pat
Ashland
Clarihen
Peter
Julia Grosvenor
Theater Guild
America
Alfred the Great
King Alfred
the Legal Federation Won
Colfax
Mr. Case
Gregory
Case
Mr.Case
Mr. Roberts
Darrow
Jackson
Ulysses
Maebelle
Captain Ashland
Darrow's
Collas
Nancy
Tell me shall you sell the book and bookplate for five hundred ten dollars
Nancy and the narrator discuss selling a book and a bookplate for 510 dollars. Wilkey’s near-fatal episode prompts the inquiry about offers for an old law book sent earlier. Nancy mentions Magistrate Juddes and a cousin’s offer of one hundred dollars. To Be Continued Next Week.
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Iain
Colfax
Mr. Roberts
Captain Ashland
Nancy
Wilkey
Local News Notes From Patoka Area
Local notes report Hill Bros offered bread maker flour and Watkins extracts while Altoms stocked slug shot for potato bug control. Milton Peddicord achieved the Sublime Degree of Master Mason in Patoka. J W Alexander and son Wallace visited Springfield. M C Souter and A Nichols worked there during Assembly periods. Juanita Carter returned home from Carbondale after completing the first term and resuming the second term.
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Hill Bros
Altoms
Milton Peddicord
Patoka
Watkins
Hill Brother
J. W. Alexander
Son Wallace
Springfield
M. C. Souter
A. Nichols
Juanita Carter
S. F. Carter
Carbondale
White Haven
Local Young Lady in Effingham Hospital
Miss Laura Ververs daughter of Mr and Mrs Willie Ververs former Patoka High School student remains in Effingham Hospital awaiting goitre operation. Friends here hope for her speedy recovery and full health restoration.
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Laura Ververs
Willie Ververs
Patoka High School
Effingham Hospital
Fragmented verse and jokes from a quirky column
A string of humorous vignettes and mistyped lines. It begins with dramatic self descriptions about leaving the future and forgetting the past, then moves through comic exchanges about timings and attire. A scientist’s failed lotion mishap yields a punny ending about a lemon squeezer.
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Agnes Miller
Dennis
Constance
Miss Burton
Chapter
Night Watch
Geeser
Coolidge
Agrocastes
Henry Clay Pierce
Cedar Island Lodge
Brule River
Superior
Wis
Albert T. Reid
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