Pictures by A Weil and the Night of Greenfields
Dan Maitland hides his guilt after a jewel theft gone awry as he assists a mysterious woman with a plan to flee. A dawn drive across Long Island and Manhattan ends with Maitland determined to keep his partner’s trust and the jewels.
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Dan Maitland
Lila New York Bachelor Club
O'Hagan
Dan
Maitland
Bannerman
Dani
Greenfields
Gray
Lady In Gray
Daniel Anisty
Dan Anisty
Police of
Home Mission
Centre-A-Terre
Brooklyn
Myannis
Long Island City
A. Eeraes
Manhattan Island
Manhattan
Second Avenue
Anisty
Third Avenue
Guardian of the Peace
Beijing
Incognito Interlude Draws a Mystery Visitor
Noon finds Maitland awake and planning to rejoin a party in New York when a desperate call for telegrams shifts to a private audience with James Burleson Snaith. Snaith, softly spoken and well dressed, requests a private interview and presents his card, setting a wary tone for the meeting.
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Cressy
New York
O'Hagan
Maitland
James Burleson Snaith
Mr. Maitland
Tears and science replace romance in a French study
A French journal argues tears can be analyzed chemically and biologically, claiming mixtures of albuminoids water and substances affect brain and body. It suggests romance loses charm as readers learn tears dull nerve centers via a shower-bath like process.
Do Not Complain Everything Which Happens
A reflection attributed to Marcus Antonus urges acceptance of life as fate and nature dictate. If one can endure, bear it. if not, do not complain for it will pass. It emphasizes that endurance comes from opinion, framing resilience as duty or self interest.
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Anisty and Wentworth, Limited
Hugene's
Maitland
Thirty-sixth
Bor
Marcus Antonus
Strange Brain Idea Claims Feelings Not Thought
Fragmentary dialogue notes a claimant discussing the brain center as a nerve plexus that feels rather than thinks. A desk clerk mentions a piano tuner and a mistaken confidence about a piece of etaimo, with a wandering patient voice threaded through.
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Chamois
Peculiar kinds of farming that are profitable
An old botanist tells a Missouri farmer a sterile five acre patch can become profitable by growing high value weeds like foxglove for digitalis and other plants such as lobelia and burdock. The piece also suggests salamander-like markets for frogs and alligators, noting Florida and Arkansas have alligator farms and a planned burro zebra cross to improve livestock breeding.
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Pittsburg
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
South Carolina
United States
Belgium
Department of Agriculture
France
Jastmails Pond
Chicago
Omaha
St. Joseph
Florida
Arkansas
California
Hot Springs
Ark
H.J. Campbell
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Menelik
Abyssinia
Missouri
Trying New Vegetables at Long Island Station
H B Fullerton at the Long Island rail road experiment station tests new varieties for market gardening. Palmetto asparagus matches Argenteuil, Globe artichoke may profit against imports, Green Podl Stringless and Britts Wax beans favored, Fordhook Bush Lima is a preferred shell bean, Black Redball a good table bean, improved dwarf Brussels sprouts profitable, green cucumber recommended, Black Beauty eggplant, Golden Queen lettuce leading early, Warehead and matoes noted.
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H. B. Fullerton
Long Island
Fullerton
Express
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A. Weil
Louis Joseph Vance
the Bobbs-Merrill Co
O’hagan
Shure Yiss
Sor
Maittland
Guyot
Oana
Ivery
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