Crooked Bill schemes to buy Antrim sheep in Texas
Crooked Bill Latham, posing as Blodgett, plots to buy Thomas Antrim's sheep to thwart Roberta's Texas romance with Don Jaime Higuenes. Don Jaime visits Valle Verde, probes Bill's motives, and warns Roberta while the scheme tightens with executor Don Prudencio Alviso and New York links to Hackett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crooked Bill
Harms
Rancho
Valle Verde
Mr. Latham
Roberta Antrim
Patricio Jesus Higgenes
J. M. Higuenes
Bill
Tye
Roberta
Don Jaime
Jimmy
Glenn Hackett
Bobby
Caramba
Crooked Bil
Bill Latham
Texas
Glenn
Sone Omen
New York
Los Algodones
Losnes
la Particle
Don Prudencio Alviso
Blodgett
Mr. Alviso
Tom Antrim
Don Prudencio
Senor Blodgett
Antrim
el Paso
Eestate
William B. Latham
Bill Dingle
Dingle
Jaime Higuenes
Mr. Dingle
Mansion House
W.E. L
Don Jaimé
Thomas Antrim
Higuenes
Don Jaimé Sand
Mystery Man Blodgett Triggers Cattlemen’s Sale Plan
Don Prudencio Alviso plots a sheep sale after meeting a supposed buyer named William L. Blodgett who spoke little of livestock. He suspects the city man lacks knowledge and seals a contract while noting a mysterious initiats. The Rancho Valle Verde scene sets a tense, secretive tone as plans unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Prudencio
Bill
Don Prudencio Alviso
Gracias
Rancho Valle Verde
Roberta
Don Jaime
Ken Hobart
Prudy
Antrim
Blodgett
William L. Blodgett
Ordinary Mortals and Their Million Ancestors
The Canadian Mining Journal notes a pedigree claim that in sixteen or seventeen centuries a person could have over one billion forebears. Blackstone cited that we each have about 270,000,000 cousins in the fifteenth degree, with intermarriage creating many combined relations. The piece ponders the vast field of genealogical speculation and the idea of a personal "double."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Mining Journal
Great Blackstone
Welcomed New Daughter From Martha Washington Letter
A letter Martha Washington wrote to her new daughter in law Nelly is hailed by critics as near perfect in expression. She laments losing a daughter in June but welcomes a daughter in law at a similar age, sharing blessings and a wish for a long, loving marriage to her son.
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Martha Washington
Nelly
M. Washington
Electric Fingers Join Electric Eye In Wood Moisture Test
An advance by Dr Carl G Suits of General Electric and M E Dunlap of the US Forest Products Laboratory introduces electric fingers to measure wood moisture instantly. The device complements the electric eye aiding traffic science industry and lumber dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Suits
General Electric Research Laboratory
M. E. Dunlap
United States Forest Products Laboratory
Madison, Wis
Excellent Reasoning Exchange Sparks Cultural Gaffe
A witty exchange reveals social humor as a young Frenchman asks a kiss in his language and the responder replies in kind to show understanding. The moment underscores playful cross language communication in a lighthearted social context.
Mexican Attache Loses English After Accident in Rochester
Senor Jose W. Kelly, once Mexico’s labor attache, was knocked down by a car in Rochester and rushed to a hospital where he discovered he could no longer speak English. He spoke in Spanish and said he had graduated from Cornell, where he used English in all classes.
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Don Jaime
Crooked Bill
Mansion House
Blodgett
William Blodgett
Mr. Blodgett
Jaime Miguel Higuenes
Senor Higuenes
Old Tom Antrim
Abraham
Bill
Virginia
Don’ Jaime
Roberta
Lone Star State
el Paso
Tom Antrim
Rochester
Senor
Jose W. Kelly
Cornell
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Fee
Sim the Conqueror
Peter B. Kyna
Peter Birklyne
Lee
Donaime
Roberts
Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes
Roope Senna
Atdnee
Mioton Ste Sne Company, Iy
Havan ‘Na
Cuba
Aiken Coteas Lam
Walt
Houston
Galveston
So Hake
California
Write Creek Chaffey
Palm Spring
Siskie
Ceres Ave
Los Angeles
Calif
Lydia E. Pinkham
Haarlem
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