Three Shuttered Houses
Clint Jervies drives home in heavy rain with a frightened girl who vanishes into the woods. He tells Inspector Tope and Miss Moss of the encounter as suspense grows around deaths at the Kenesaw Hill estate. Kitty Seaford dies from sleeping powder overdose amid a net of secrets.
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Clint Jervies
Inspector Tope
Miss Moss
Clint Till
Kenesaw Hill
Clint
Denman Harder
Ella Kenesaw
Kitty Leaford
June
Evie Taine
Justus
Rab
Asa
Matthew Bowden
Jim
Kitty
Cabler
Tope
Kitty Seaford
Inspector Heale
June Tan
Uncle Jim
Night Storm Secrets and a Fatal Overdose
In a remote cabin, Miss Seaford confronts death as June admits she gave sleeping pills to her sick mother, who died during a thunderstorm. Clint reassures June and promises to return, while Asa follows them back toward the house after the tense confrontation.
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Glovere
Leaford
Cabler
June
Jim
Clint
Tope
Uncle Jim
Miss Seaford
Nouses
Asa
Mystery in Kenesaw woods deepens after Seaford death
Inspector Tope and Miss Moss piece together odd clues around Kitty Seaford’s death. A mysterious woodsman, Lissa Thayer, and a hidden bottle of tablets raise questions of motive and whether the case is murder or accident. Doctor opinions clash over dosage and timing as investigators plan a discreet funeral inquiry.
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Doc Gero
Tope
Gero
Moss Moss
Doc Derrie
Heale
Doctor Gero
Doctor Cabler
Inspector Heale
Seaford
Cabler
George Washington Portraits in Foxhunting Diaries
Samuel J. Henry argues in Foxhunting Is Different that Washington, avid fox hunter and diarist, mingled church, cockfights, and hunts with vivid detail. The Virginian kept meticulous notes on hunts, quarry outcomes, and hounds, with Billy Lee the huntsman noted as a jockey who died of alcoholism after Washington’s death.
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John Peel
George Washington
Samuel J. Henry
Virginia
Maryland
Washington
Billy Lee
Acetylene Treatment Accelerates Pineapple Ripening
A Hawaiian pineapple producer reports ripe fruit after five acetylene treatments. Plants are gassed in sealed chambers or sprayed with acetylene water before flowering, with each session lasting 12 to 18 hours. Pineapples reach edible ripeness four times faster than natural.
Between Meal Eating And Daily Nutrition
The article weighs whether eating between meals is wise, urging that the day’s total intake should meet needs. It notes three square meals are a convenience, but extra meals can aid energy, especially late-afternoon fatigue, with light, easily digested foods. It covers children and elderly needs, cautions against overdoing meals, and stresses a balanced diet with protective foods, protein, and vegetables.
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Teading
Questions Answered on Calcium and Vitamin B Sources
A 1930 note explains that milk is the main calcium source but vegetables, especially green leafy types and carrots, provide calcium usable in adult diets. It also notes vitamin B supports intestinal muscle tone and comes from cereals breads yeast liver kidneys milk nuts and many fruits and vegetables.
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WNU
Houston Goudiss
Around the House go Fresh Doughnuts and More
Fresh doughnuts stay frahm when warm in a covered dish. Wash chamois often to keep silver bright. Cream stays fresh a day or two in water and carton. Muslin over carton helps see washing hints. Never use soap on white silk. Height can be added to a room with striped wallpaper. Laundry blue adds luster to glassware. Roll ties to save pressing. Pumice stone removes cigarette ink stains from fingers. Chocolate white coating from over warm storage.
Wisdom and folly in counsel quoted by Ben Jonson
A Ben Jonson adage cautions that no one is immune to error even when offering or seeking advice. Self taught learning risks folly, underscoring the value of diverse guidance and external input.
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Ben Jonson
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Lissa
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