Portrait Plot in New York Aboard Yacht
Beek and Horace Hazeltine plot around anonymous threatening letters to Robert Cameron a financier in New York Philip Clyde the publisher and Evelyn Grayson uncover a mutilated portrait head a Chinese boy is found dead and Cameron vanishes after a yacht trip Clyde and Evelyn uncover a web of Chinese connections Clyde learns Cameron may be Donald M N ish and Cameron is believed dead after the Sable Lorcha affair.
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Robert Cameron
Philip Clyde
Cameron
Clyde
Evelyn Grayson
Ising
Hte
Evelyn
Philatus Murphy
Murphy
Neil Gwynne
Johnson
Yup Sing
New York
Pekin
Addison
Miss Clement
Clement
Crystal Consolidated
Fifth Avenue
Kiss Clement
Hiss Clement
China
Eveyn
Yup
Donald M’nish
The Confession That Links Clyde and McNish
A heated confrontation reveals Mr. Clyde and Donald McNish as one man. The narrator demands justice, disputes the accusation, and orders police to be summoned to arrest the guilty parties.
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Yup Sing
Mr. Clyde
Donald McNish
Chen Mok
Robert Cameron
Yup
Chen
Tattoo Controversy Unmasks Identity In New York
In a tense room on Long Island, Celestials demand identification of Cameron as the outlaw McNish. A nurse reveals a tattoo and a hidden letter linking Cameron to the 16 year-old claim, forcing Clyde to confront a nightmare of false accusations and loyalties.
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Tattoo Marts
Yup
Mr. Clyde
Cameron
McNish
Sing
Far East
America
Long Island Sound
Bryan
Checkabeedy
Yup Sing
Mr. Bryan
Mr Cameron
Evelyn
Tragedy of an Air Death Sets Off Family Grief
An eighty two year old colonel mourns his missing airman son Charles near Hampes Seine et Loire. The father recalls his earlier loss as newsboys cry reports of the accident while regimental drums roll by. Grandchildren comfort him with letters and flowers.
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Charles
Nieuport
Htampes
Seine-et-Loire
Edward Nieuport
Edward
Paris Journal
Chapter Twenty Two Cont'd The Escape And Aftermath
The narration recounts McNish and a Eurasian cook escaping aboard a raft, while ninety seven countrymen perish. The vice consul adds corroboration: the Jorda sank in wheat water, later raised and inspected, with a hole in the elbow confirming the tale. The narrator doubts the tale but leans toward unlikely involvement by Robert Cameron.
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McNish
Jorda
Robert Cameron
Marvelous Surgical Feat Rebuilds Blomquist in Stockholm
An ex-soldier named Blomquist was cured in Stockholm after a rare brain surgery removed half a damaged brain following a gunshot. He regained reading and writing after retraining, left the nursing home, and returned to work on his farm with no apparent physical or mental aftereffects.
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Blomquist
Stockholm
Sweden
Japanese in Honolulu Build Dried Fish Export Venture
Japanese in Honolulu have created a new fishing industry by buying surplus aku and exporting a dried fish product. They operate a plant behind the Fisheries Company at the market where they clean boil and sun-dry the fish, producing a palatable item that keeps well.
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Honolulu
Fisheries Company
Mammy and the self raising umbrellas joke
A dialect filled, old-time dialogue portrays a mammy and a boy debating self raising umbrellas. The exchange shifts to a satirical, racist request to transform enslaved people into self raising pickaninnies, revealing harmful stereotypes.
Boots for poor children under Browning settlement plan
The Robert Browning settlement at Wentworth provides boots to needy children. Parents pay a small weekly rent until the boots' retail price is covered, after which the footwear remains property of the settlement and cannot be sold or pawned without permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Browning
Wentworth
London Globe
Fall Comparison of Shakespeare and Burlesque Manager
A manager of the Clothesline Burlesque company compares himself to Shakespeare, arguing that critics roasted him and authorities threatened to close his show. The Washington Star cites the exchange as a wry reflection on public reception and censorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clothesline Burlesque Company
Shakespeare
Washington Star
Strength Without Overloading The Stomach
A California business man sought a breakfast that fuels energy without stressing the stomach. He found Grape-Nuts plus a spoon of sugar and a splash of cold milk kept him alert and unfatigued, with clear head and steady nerves, ad suggesting the cereal as a daily energizer.
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Calif
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Adv
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Horace Hazeltine
State Department
Washington
United States
High Seas
Ches Mok
Tam
Dr. Massey
Taylor's Hotel
New York City
U.S. A
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