Sheridan Dramatic Club in Snowbound Capers at Old Soldiers Home
Tom Bilbeck and the Sheridan players rehearse Pygmalion and Galatea when a fire and two escaped convicts disrupt the night. Bilbeck foils one thief during a struggle, earning suspicion from John Hemingway. The group is stranded, misunderstandings flare, and a chase for the missing pearls ends at the station after an ice-boat pursuit.
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Sheridan Dramatic Club
Tom Bilbeck
Marvella
Jim Cooper
John Hemmingway
Bilbeck
Hemmingway
Hemmingways
Luw
Julius
Pearls in Transit Onboard Train Snowbound
Tom Bilbeck uses mail clerks to trace a parcel post package carrying the pearls mailed from Fair Oaks. He plans to recover the jewels in the mail car while Julius remains distracted. The train stalls in a deep snow drift and a delay follows as the scheme unfolds.
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Julius
Fair Oaks
Sam
Sesson
Postmaster at First
Fragmentary line indicates a postmaster topic with continuation noted on page seven.
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Altho
Perilous Train Escape and Pearls Plot Unfolds
A narrator chases a train to intercept Julius and steal pearls. Onboard he tricks a conductor to cover fare, reveals a sheriff in the next car, and plans to have a post office hold Julius's mail to seize the pearls. Julius hesitates, revealing his name isn’t Julius.
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Big Boy
Julius
Tom Bilbeck
Adam
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