Richard Washburn Chapter XIV Continues
In a tense scene Peter seeks a costly clerical network to locate a rare book copy. Smallwood explains the extensive expenses for stenographers and long distance calls, while Eldegard, a sharp accountant, examines the accounts with keen urgency amid threats and secrecy.
A Thriller Involving Handwriting and a Missing Man
Peter DeWolfe debates handwriting proof with expert Smallwood and travels from New York to a doctor’s office to verify if two papers were written by the same hand. He presses for a rapid result, offering a thousand dollars, and awaits a late night call that sends his life spiraling toward a chilling revelation.
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Peter
Carlos
Parmalee
de Wolfe
London
Speere
America
Jim Hennepin
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Brena Selcoss Parmalee
Revolt in a New York Club as Peter Contemplates Dark Thought
In a great New York club scene, Peter grows disgusted with society and its pretensions embodied by Colby Pennington. He harbors a violent impulse pressing under his thigh while Pennington talks, imagining a dramatic, dangerous act that chillingly unfolds from an unsettled moral landscape.
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Pennington
East River
France
New York
Brena
Beconshire
Peter
Colby Pennington
DeWolfe
Grave Purpose Behind Writing of Fiction
Emerson argues that fiction encodes deeper truth beyond authors’ stated aims. He links medieval fictions to earnest mindwork and suggests magic mirrors early science. The piece cites history and philosophy to claim art bends nature to fit human desire.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peculiar Whistle Lets Shock Dogs With High Pitch
An English scientist unveils a whistle with an adjustable plug that makes tones越来越 shrill until humans cannot hear them but dogs still hear the sound and respond by leaping to its call.
Wealthy New York doctor sued by two women
A high profile physician in New York faces a civil suit from two women who allege inappropriate attention. A remark attributed to Arkansas humorist Thomas Cat parallels the suit with a biting quip about health habits.
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New York
Thomas Cat
Telephone call meter tracks each end of call in Brooklyn
An inventor in Brooklyn, New York has created a device attached to the neck of a desk phone that automatically records calls when the receiver is placed back on the hook. The ad also promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills at 372 Pearl Street.
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N. Y
Popular Science Monthly
Doan
Texas
W. _ Wood
E Farmer
Vernon
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