Summer on the Canada coast with three girls
Three girls Elizabeth Gabrielle and Elise plan a summer in Canada. On a steamer a wary stranger obsesses over a bag and a photo. The party rents a cottage by the sea where rumors of smugglers swirl and a cuff link and a missing portrait surface. Continuous chapter reveals a growing mystery and tensions with Lord Wilfrid and Lady Edith.
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Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Elise
Canada
Riend
John Clake
Gordon Bennett
Mary Anne
Tady Fidith
Kizabeth
Gabriele
Lady Edith
Lord Wilfrid
Mr. Bennett
Andy
Elsie
Bundy
Edith
Wilfrid
Woman Hears Odd Request From Neighbor Across Hall
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a woman in a velvet jacket recounting a stranger’s plea to watch for her husband’s return. The caller hoped the neighbor would time the supper, fearing her husband’s haste and workday routine.
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Tod
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Effect Spoiled. Moonlit confession ends with a joke
A dramatic exchange recalls a whispered romance followed by a mock robbery. One man admits walking with a woman at night and contemplating death for her, then reveals he fled when a shout and a joke interrupted the scene.
Defiance Starch Sent to Preserve Fine Fabrics
The article extols Defiance Starch as free from injurious chemicals and safe for fine fabrics. It claims the starch provides a strong stiffening effect allowing half the usual quantity, delivering a finish equal to when the goods were new.
Quotable Quips and Bollixed Ads in Comic Page
A fragmentary page blends political quips about the weight of orators with an ad for Thetis Laxative Brom Quin ine and a Grow signature claim. It touts a World over cure for colds in one day and urges whitening yellow clothes with Red Cross Ball Blue, typical of late era advertising.
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H.W. Grow
Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound Credited With Saving Life
A Manning Iowa woman, Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, writes that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life after years of female complaints and costly treatments. The letter promotes the remedy and invites other sick women to seek guidance from Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
T. C. Willadsen
Manning
Iowa
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia RE. Pinkham
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Tay Walters
Mr. Blake
Wes
Cleveland
Lifeman
Mez
Carter
Carters
Fiew
Myer
Schenck
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