Speed to Race Behind Curtain of Theft and Deception
The Flying Heart ranch plots a foot race to recover a prized phonograph after a scheme involving Culver Covington, J. Wallingford Speed, and Centipede cook Skinner unfolds. Helen Blake, Jack Chapin, Fresno, and Yale associate Larry Glass drive the plan as Speed seeks to outpace a rival in a staged race while danger and romance mingle.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Centipede Ranch
Flying Heart
J. Walingford
Peed
Yale
Culver Covington
Helen Blake
Speed
Jean Chapin
Covington
Helen
Larry Glass
Wally
Fresno
Glee Club
Stanford University
Glass
Willie
Jack Chapin
Cettle
Pocatello
Skinner
Albuquerque
Humpy
Merchants
J. Wallingford Speed
Chapin
Jack
Pye
Larry
Poverty’s Grip On Tellier Heats French Inventor’s Irony
Charles Tellier, eighty five, famed for cold storage, was found in abject poverty and later decorated and pensioned by the French government. In a New York interview he spoke with grim humor about poverty, noting that its so called advantages are overrated and that riches reveal a man’s character to its roots.
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Charles Tellier
Traveling stones and Brittany hair harvest
An English naturalist notes a magnetic traveling stone of pea to six inch size that gathers with others on level ground. He finds basins in barren Nevada terrain where stones roll toward a center. Brittany's Easter hair harvest sees sellers exchanging long hair for money to attend fairs, though the practice wanes as education rises.
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Nevada
Brittany
Crazy Snake Exile Chooses Freedom With Niagra Indians
Chitto Harjo the Snake Indian chief, who led a Creek revolt in Oklahoma in 1909, lives among the Niagre Indians in Bolivia. He seeks life away from civilization, sharing a language and liberty similar to his Creek roots while hunting the Andes and fishing near Casaguadero and Lake Titicaca.
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Crazy Snake
Chitto Harjo
Oklahoma
Bolivia
Andes
Casaguadero
Lake Titicaca
Eczema in Water Blisters Prompts Cure Claim
F W Horrisch of Chicago describes two years of water blister eczema on hands and legs. He tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment after seeing an ad, used them six weeks, and reports the sores left no marks. Sample offers and Skin Book free by postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Congress St
Chicago
F. W. Horrisch
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Dark House Visit Ends With Doormat Confusion
A woman visiting a friend at night could not find the bell and the door opened by a stern maid. The caller asked for Mrs So and so and the maid whispered that she feared it was a thief stealing the doormat, then invited her in.
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Pearson's
Electrically Lighted Hens in England Increase Egg Output
In England a movement to lengthen the working day for hens aims to raise egg production amid high egg prices. Mr William H Cook has kept his poultry house lit with 300 incandescent lamps for about a year to imitate sunrise and sunset, turning them on and off gradually.
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England
William H. Cook
Proper Species
Dialog from the Boston Transcript features a tense exchange about drinking. He asks what bird warned him, she coolly replies a swallow. The brief item captures a witty tasseled line in a social context.
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Boston Transcript
Skin Cleared by Simple Change in Food
A Kan. girl cured eczema by changing her diet, eating Grape-Nuts after a doctor linked dermatitis to indigestion. She notes digestion improved and eruptions faded, urging others to try Grape-Nuts over medicines. The endorsement comes from Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Rex
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Enger
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