The Black Seigneur Takes Flight on the Mount
Comtesse Elise, daughter of the Mount governor, meets a peasant boy who becomes her savior yet remains hunted. The Black Seigneur, a shadowy noble, stages daring escapes and confronts guards as the Mount unravels amid a royal arrival and a tense marriage plot.
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Comtesse Elise
France
Louis XVI
Seigneur Desaurac
Desaurac
Paris
Elise
le Seigneur Noir
Sanchez
Soldler
Jacques
Dungeons Tour Prompts Uneasy Resolve for Elise
A grand party led by the Marquis visits the subterranean prisons with the Black Seigneur as a new exhibit. Elise, the Governor’s daughter, trembles at the dungeon darkness and asks to return to the surface, while the others explore the old oubliettes and torture rooms.
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Elise
Bicetre
Fort l’Eveque
Salle de la Question
Vade
Saint Mauritius
Mount
Petit Exit
Practical Fashions Childs Dress Pattern 6254
Simple two section baby dress with shoulder seam fastened by buttons or ribbons. Suitable materials include lawn cotton voile gingham cambric. Pattern 6254 available in sizes 1 3 and 5 years. Medium size requires 1½ yards of 36 inch material. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address and size.
The Black Seigneur and the Governor’s Daughter
In a perilous scene aboard the wheel-room, the Black Seigneur throws himself toward danger as guards restrain him. The Governor’s daughter warns against capture, but a sudden fatal stroke ends the confrontation as her figure collapses in a blaze of shock. The commandant acknowledges the danger and presence of Ladyship.
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Debonair
Marquis de Beauvilliers
Marquis
Cel
The Black Seigneur Report Spreads to Town and Pilgrims
A tale of the Black Seigneur travels from Mount to town as pilgrims spread the rumor. Prisoners vanish and a lone overturned car and severed rope mark the scene near the cliff. The governor weighs class tensions as crowds depart after restraining orders.
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Mount
Rock
Ahove
Poulain
Strand
No Inducement to Become Engineers Discussed
A Kansas town resident visiting Dean Marvin of KU Engineering asked about hiring a soon-to-be graduate as an assistant in his repair shop. Marvin doubted any students would take the job as they were all pursuing engineering careers, remarking there are more engineers than engines to run.
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Midway
Brittany
Mondieu
Paris
the Rock
the Chevaliers
Kansas
Dean Marvin
University of Kansas’ Engineering School
Curious Albany trolley accident leaves seven injured
A motorman lost control of a car on a hill in Albany and the vehicle left the track on Broad Street. It overturned and crashed into a three story dwelling, injuring seven passengers and the motorman. A bedroom where a man his wife and child slept was showered with plaster but remained unharmed.
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Albany
N. Y
Broad Street
Simplicissimus Quip On Hae Bisa In Translation
A fragment from Simplicissimus presents a dialog about beauty comparing Hae Bisa as “more pretty” than most girls but less pretty than another. The joke centers on language and taste rather than factual events.
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Hae Bisa
Missing Bite Sparks Banter in Dining Scene
A waiter and guest exchange a brief line about a steak, revealing a casual dining moment. The guest insists nothing else is missing while noting they left a bite of steak for the waiter. The exchange captures a slice of everyday restaurant banter.
Draped Tailor Effect Skirt Pattern 6273
Description of a new draped skirt style with asymmetrical back seam and folded front seam edge. Made from crepe satin ratine and other soft fabrics. Pattern 6273 sizes 22 to 30 inch waist, medium requires 2 1/2 yards of 36 inch material. send 10 cents to Pattern Peneamente to obtain size and pattern number.
Homeliest Man Declines Salvation for Dignity
Kansas City Star recounts Jed Perkins of southeast Kansas who, mocked for his appearance, prefers to remain lost rather than suffer eternal life with his face as is. The tale follows a revival preacher offering salvation and Perkins questioning if he must appear in the better land as he looks.
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Tom McNeal
Abe Peters
Jed Perkins
Kansas
Jed
Perkins
New Jerusalem
Kansas City
Burglary Night Reader Inspires A Raffles Parody
A Wall Street broker's clerk who led a double life as a burglar is revealed in a literary fashion note. The piece notes how quickly tastes shift and that neither the correspondent nor the headline writer named Raffles five years ago.
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Wall Street
Raffles
Pygmy Types in Africa and Asia Grow Short in Stature
A historical note states that a pygmy race exists in tropical Africa and parts of Southern Asia. Individuals range from four feet to about four and a half feet tall.
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Africa
Asia
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Ray Walters
the Bobbs~merrill CO
Hymen
Juke
Norae
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