Mystery Carney-Croft Chapter V continues
A narrator recalls confronting Carney and MacArdel about Carney's sister and a possible drink problem. The scene shifts to Carney Croft three years later as the narrator returns to sleep in the mansion, finds a coded note urging him to protect Florence Carney, and notes a suspicious entry method.
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Carney
Carney Croft
John Carney
Carney-Croft
Bobbs
London
Miss Weston
Miss Carney
Mediterranean
Chapter Six An Anonymous Letter The first lot of bills
A fragment titled Chapter Six presents an anonymous letter and notes that the first batch of bills has been paid. The compact item hints at financial matters and a sequence of payments within a larger narrative.
What is the matter with man
March Phillips argues that humans have a shorter life span than expected by natural proportion. He cites growth periods in animals and notes that humans reach full maturity later than lions and dogs. Prof Virchow is quoted on rising numbers of inferior types among living people.
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March Phillips
Virchow
Portugal Seeks Vast Land Reclamation for Cultivation
Portuguese hope to reclaim about 10 million acres of land now out of cultivation. In Serpa district officials divide 100000 acres into 15 acre allotments with rents from 40 cents to 3.20 dollars, free for ten years. Beekeepers rights were settled to allow farming. Similar efforts spread to northern Portugal aiming to restore roughly 500000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
R H. Kinchant
Lisbon
Europe
Serpa
Origin of the Kiss Says Hopkins Traces Sniff Kiss to Ancient India
Yale professor Hopkins argues in a session of the American Oriental Society that the genuine kiss originated with a sniff kiss described in ancient Indian epic poetry. He says the sniff kiss began as a fatherly head sniff for longevity and honor, then evolved into a caress before widening to others.
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American Oriental Society
Hopkins
Yale
India
Prof. Hopkins
Rheumatism Cure Claims From Dr Williams Pink Pills
A testimonial from Mrs Ellen A Russell of Auburn Missouri praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for purifying blood and curing long standing rheumatism. She describes intense prior symptoms including heart weakness, indigestion, fainting spells, numbness, and swollen joints now relieved after taking the pills. The ad notes pills also aid nervous debility and other conditions and lists pricing and ordering details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Ellen A. Russell
South
Goff St
Auburn
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
Free Swedenborg Works Offered to Ministers and Students
Under the will of J. C. Sungerich of Philadelphia a fund provides free distribution of Emanuel Swedenborgs writings The True Christian Religion and The Apocalypse Revealed to ministers and ministry students Other volumes Heaven and its Wonders and Hell Life of Emanuel Swedenborg added Free of cost except postage via the J B Lipincott Company Philadelphia orders must be sent with postage and proof of ministry status Julien Shoemaker Pontatee WM McGeorge Distribution
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Sungerich
Philadelphia
Emanuel Swedenborg
Heaven
Hell
J. B. Lippincort Company
Julien Shoemaker
Pontatee WM. McGeorge Distribution
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Joseph Brown Cooke
Story-Press Corporation
MacArdel
Mac
MacArder
Ware
Hoskins
Frederick Ware, Esq
Florence Carney
J. B. Lippincott Company
S. 6Th St
Philadelphia, PA
Canada
Ottawa
J.S. Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City
Missouri
Carters
Iver
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