The Million Dollar Mystery Recap and Escapade Plan
Harold MacGrath portrays millionaire Stanley Margreave in a decade of seclusion. A night at Way restaurant triggers confrontations with the Hundred gang leader. Margreave hatches a riverfront escape scheme while flashbacks trace Florence Gray’s past and the aviator Braine’s crew.
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Stanley Margreave
Margreave
Way
Margreave Hurrice
Riverdale
Mysty
Florence Gray
Braine
Hargreave
Balloen
Olga
Norton
Orient
Florence
Mlor
Jones
Howe
The Auto Bandits Chapter Teases a City Chase
In 1914 fiction, Jones the resourceful butler handles a dangerous pursuit as the Black Hundred plots to kidnap Stanley Hargreave’s daughter Florence. Nortons interventions, a stables fire, and a high speed river plunge drive a tense, ongoing battle of wits through crime, pursuit, and peril.
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Harold MacGrath
Florence
Jones
Norton
Perigoff
Conservation
Generim Provident
Ciers
Man Jones
Blaine
Black Hundred
Vroon
Vroons
New York City
Stanley Hargreave
Hargreave
Har. Kreave
Miles
Columbus Circle
Pabst
Braine
March
Chance
Million Dollar Mystery in Seattle Tourist Locale
Fragmentary notes place Dream-First Ave and Cherry events on Friday and Saturday near Yesler. References to Yesler intersections and Third Avenue hint at a local location clocking multiple days. Bellingham Bell mentioned Monday appears as a related note.
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Occidential
Yesler
First Ave
Cherry
Third Avenue
Third and Pike
Confessions Of A Wife Chooses New Apartment Plan
The narrator and Dick consider moving to a shared apartment arranged by a friend, reducing rent to $60 a month for a year. Aunt Mary’s furniture joins the new home while Margie plans the household budget, auctions off unneeded goods, and worries about money control as they anticipate relocation.
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Dentala Optical Institution
Beca
Europe
Aunt Mary
Mary
Jack
Margie
Grand Rapids
Ellene
Croker Finances Irish Volunteers
John E. Redmond, Irish nationalist leader, received 2500 dollars from Richard Croker former New York political leader for the Irish volunteers fund. Croker offered Glencairn residence and grounds for wounded during the European war.
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London
John BE. Redmond
Richard Croker
New York
Mr. Croker
Glencairn
Italian authorities seize two German ships Koenig Albert Moltke
Milan dispatch to the Chronicle says Genoa authorities seized the German transatlantic vessels Koenig Albert and Moltke after captains demanded coal when fuel stocks were adequate.
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London
Milan
Chronicle
Genoa
Koenig Albert
Moltke
U S Battleships Guard Harbor At New York Entrance
The battleship Florida lies at the upper harbor entrance to stop vessels lacking clearance papers. German cruisers hover in the water lanes into New York. An estimated 66,000 German reservists, 10,000 Austrian and hundreds of Dutch reservists are stranded awaiting transport.
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New York
Florida
England to Have War Press Bureau
London Aug 8 The British government will set up a press bureau to provide trustworthy information on navy and army activities without harming either service Winston Churchill announced that Parliament member Frederick E. Smith will oversee the bureau.
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London
Winston Churchill
The
Admiralty
Frederick EF. Smith
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Washington Creamery
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