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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
6
In this tale a masked mastermind coerces the warden at a prison to free Signor Petrozinni during a plot involving Miss Isabel Thorne and Grimm. A ransom demand follows and a web of betrayals ties together diplomats, spies, and a hotel in an escalating series of confrontations.
A masked man accompanies a guard to the warden's office. He signals the street door and leaves, then calls police headquarters from the warden's telephone. The caller identifies himself as Mr. Grimm after the dispatcher asks who is calling.
Mr. Grimm reveals hidden plans and bribes, taunting Miss Thorne and Prince Benedetto as he orders both to pack within thirty minutes. A special car will escort them on a one o clock train, with Secret Service aboard, while the prince argues for staying to sign his Latin compact.
A humorous Sunday Magazine sketch shows a citizen boasting that their city has collected a fund to entice aviation parties to land there. The stranger learns the city offers free landage, free gasoline, and the freedom of the city as incentives.
Explanations trace the phrase to alehouse slates showing pint or quart, to toupees and queues, and to printers sorting letters. Charles Knight favors the printer’s case theory noting the difficulty in distinguishing reversed p and q shapes in early type.
A narrator tells editor a joke about a boy who uses a snake to quickly solve sums. The boy’s pet adder keeps the household accounts and can run up an eight foot long column in seconds, impressing the editor who recognizes the pun on adder.
Mrs Inez Lewis of Baring Maine recalls her four month old baby breaking out in eczema spreading to the face hands and arms. After applying a cloth mask and tying hands, she notes a cure following Hood s Sarsaparilla with months of improvement and a now healthy boy. The ad promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla cures blood diseases and builds up the system offered in liquid form or Sarsatabs.
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