Vacation Visit Riddle Probes Hut and Hogs Frogs
A traveler on vacation encounters a log cabin in the backwoods and questions the owner about the hut and surroundings in a riddle like exchange. The banter references hogs bogs and dogs as part of a local character exchange. A second item notes stamp sales yielding profit to the Post Office, with $1 200 in new stamps sold to collectors and a calculated net profit of about $800 after costs.
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Moggs
Post Office Department
Mississippi River Steamboat Gambit and Vengeance Plot
Virgil Drace travels on a late era steamboat to hunt ex guerrilla Stepho la Vitte who killed his father. On the Mississippi and in New Orleans he entwines with Liberty Shottle, bets and schemes, visits General Bethpage’s plantation, and pursues Nadine la Vitte while Shottle reforms. Drace’s hunt blends romance, danger, and a fragile Southern backdrop.
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Mississippi River
Virgil Drace
Liberty Shottle
Drace
Stepho la Vitte
la Vitte
Haman
New Orleans
Boyce
Shottle
Nadine la Vitte
Nadine
Stepho
Stephoa Vitte
Farnum’s Landing
Mississippi
Bethpage
General Bethpage
Liberty Shuttle
Liberty
Howard
Draco
North
Stephon Vitte
Confederacy
Shade
Individuality in a Compact Five-Room City Bungalow
A Chicago Journal feature promotes a distinctive five-room bungalow designed for individuality and comfort. It details a 26 by 48 foot plan with sun parlor, two bedrooms, large living spaces, attic potential, and full basement, plus a testimony to using varied materials for street harmony.
Artistic ink slabs and their historic stone sources
The Chinese schoolboy and scholar require ink slabs carved from a stone found at Nankangfu. The stones depict fish in ponds flowers in water gardens and buffaloes in cooling pools. Shapes vary square oblong and round with different sizes and weights. A Sung dynasty stone may keep ink wet for a month.
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Nankangfu
Seniority debate as child asserts age facts
In early discourse on seniority Master Franklin Ross of Jeffersonville age three claimed visitors must accept his version of age. His sister is thirteen, but Franklin maintained Margaret was three and he was thirteen, revealing a playful yet pointed stance on seniority.
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Drace
Canadian
Rockies
Earth
Franklin Ross
Jeffersonville
Franklin
Margaret
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League of American Penwomen
United States
Periwinkle House
Hawkins
Major Pewitt
William Hawkins
Bethpage Landing
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Tycie
Shuttle
Virgil
Stonewall Jackson
Bluebeard
Gulf
Tycle
Vicksburg
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Tych
Luckiess
Monsieur
Carlyle
University
William A. Radford
Wiliam A. Radford
Willam A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
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