Richly tangled tale of identity and noble heirloom
Richard Exon, a poor Englishman, befriends elderly Matthew Gering who dies revealing he is Rudolph Elbert Virgil, Count of Brief. The twin Ferdinand usurped the title and daughter after betraying the count twenty years earlier. Exon inherits wealth and seeks to unmask the truth hidden in a secret tower doorway.
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Richard Exon
Matthew Gering
Gering
Rudolph Elbert Virgil
Brief
Ferdinand
Exon
Portrait of Percy Virgil At A Swiss Chateau
The narrator describes Percy's unsettling appearance and a tense hotel scene with the diamond merchant Inskip. He recounts Winter the loyal servant leaving suddenly, then travels by Rolls Royce to Basle, meets Englishman Herrick, and plans to hire him as a companion for a European pursuit.
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Percy
Jess
Inskip
London
Winter
Gering
Percy Virgil
Virgil
Innsbruck
Basle
Rhine
Babel
Rick
John Herrick
Lost and Found in the Austrian Countryside
In Chapter II, Herrick and I travel from Innsbruck toward Brief seeking lodging. We navigate forested mountains and stumble upon a farm with two large chest nuts, where a welcoming woman appears as we seek the house name, then the scene ends with a promise to continue.
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Brief
Herrick
Innsbruck
Gog
Magog
Nineteen Generations Mark Time in a Great Oak
A century and more of history run through the life of a white oak in Mingo West Virginia. An acorn planted around 1288 grows as empires rise and fall from medievalism to democracy. The aging tree stands as a metaphor for human history and changing eras.
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Mingo
W. Va
America
Sierras
Coast Ranges
California
New York Times
Bride Seeks Groom After Fifty Years Then Marries
In Chanjiang China Miss Nieh wed her fiancé Chan Min-pu after waiting fifty years for his return begun when she was sixteen and he eighteen. A quarrel with his father sent him away for decades until he came back to find Nieh now sixty six still waiting. Their marriage followed.
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Chan Min-pu
Miss Nieh
Chanjiang
China
Chan
When Samuel Grew Old Spiritual Revival Lesson
Samuel calls Israel to return to the Lord and put away false gods. Gather for prayer, trust God to save, and mark Ebenezer as a reminder of past help. The message links personal revival to national renewal, urging readers to seek deep spiritual reform through commitment, intercession, and worship.
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Samuel
God
L. M. Lowell
Israel
Aheathendom
America
V. Ebenezer
Practical Frocks Patterns Promote Home Sewing
Beating fashion costs with ready to sew patterns for large women and slim school girls. Designs feature flattering shapes and easy construction. Sizes 36 to 52 and 8 to 16 years show needed yardage. Order SUCC ESS IN SEWING for 15 cents from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. Chicago.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Housewife P of Interest Tips and Household Hacks
A column of practical home advice covers removing perspiration marks from white silk with bicarbonate paste, decorating ice cubes with mint and maraschino, repurposing gift ribbon as shoulder straps, saving juice from pineapple and cherries for punch, cleaning gas burners, washing flour sieves in soda water, peeling onions with hot water, polishing hardwood floors, hanging pictures at eye level, avoiding ironing by drying garments straight on the line, and making putty stick with white lead.
Wise and Otherwise Sketches on Laziness Charity and Golf
A compact collection of aphorisms on laziness and speech charity domestic norms and social satire. It notes how laziness can mute the tongue and how marriage is the antidote to money’s poison. It also quotes golf as dangerous and marks a surge in silk stockings production over five years.
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Dwin
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the. Moe
Bible Institute
ABC
Western
Newspaper Union
Jersey
Baldwin Laboratories
Inge
Vamertown
Ors Ee Eso
Meredith
Lydia E. Pinkhem
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