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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1922
Page
1
Alan Conrad, thinking on his father’s past and his identity, decides to confront the Corvet family history. He writes to Kansas relatives to explain his arrival, purchases matches, and quietly enters the dark, silent Corvet home to uncover why Benjamin Corvet fled twenty years ago.
Alan searches Benjamin Corvet’s mansion by flashlight and stumbles on a ghostly ruse. A large, skilled intruder rifling drawers triggers a fight, a pursuit through halls, and hints of a hidden memorandum linking Alan to his father and a mysterious “Mi waka” name.
Wealthy Chicago businessman Benjamin Corvet, a recluse, pressures Constance Sherrill to promise not to marry Henry Spearman. After an interview with his partner Spearman and a disappearance, Constance learns of Alan Conrad in Blue Rapids Kansas, whom Sherrill identifies as Corvet's possible legitimate son. Corvet deeds his house to Alan before vanishing.
Jud Tunkins notes a benefit to using long words as people prefer simple speech and may skip looking up terms in the dictionary. He argues longer words convey meaning with less effort and can improve comprehension for some audiences.
A laborer driving a donkey to Bantry on market day has the animal balk at a dike. A justice of the peace passing by asks why the donkey won t draw. The man replies the donkey draws attention from every donkey that pauses, in a humorous exchange typical of London Tit-Bits.
The Indian maiden treads softly in her moccasins in Holland wooden shoes in Italy barefoot in Russia boots in France high-heeled slippers in England common-sense heels with wide toes in America one style then another charming to behold as Judge remarks.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a premier kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims rapid mild healing effects, lists two bottle sizes, and offers a sample for ten cents with paper mention.
A brief Courier Journal quote captures a despairing sense of fatigue and financial strain. The speaker voices exhaustion with life tied to mounting costs, highlighting economic pressures as the core distress.
If you use Red Cross Ball Blue in your laundry you will not be troubled by tiny rust spots caused by inferior bluing. Try it and see. Advertisement. Persons of leisure are deprived of good company in business hours. Economy is easy when you never have money enough. High living often brings life to a low level.
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