Three Shuttered Houses by Ben Ames Williams
Clint Jervies recalls a stormy night on Kenesaw Hill estate where Kitty Seaford dies of sleeping powder overdose. Inspector Tope and Miss Moss seek truth as June uncovers more about the family deaths and the mysterious Uncle Jim connection.
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Drivige
Clint Jervies
Inspector Tope
Miss Moss
Clint
Jervies
Kenesaw Hill
Denman Harder
Ella Kenesaw
Kitty Seaford
June
Evie Taine
Justus
Rab
Asa
Matthew Bowden
Jim
Hardler
Kitty
Cabler
Tope
Inspector Heale
Uncle Jim
Stormy night ends in tragedy at cabin scene
In a tense chapter, Miss Seaford fears thunder as her mother dies from sleeping pills. Jane admits she gave pills to her mother, hoping to help her sleep, and a bottle is reportedly near the bed. Clint comforts Miss Seaford, then parts with a kiss and a promise to return.
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Glovere
Miss Seaford
Clint
Jim
Jane
Tope
June
Uncle Jim
Miss Moss Uncovers Suspects in Seaford Case
In the woods near Kenesaw Miss Moss and Inspector Tope discuss clues from Kitty Seaford’s death. Lissa Thayer’s romance, a secret man in the trees, and motives of Mrs Bowden and Mrs Taine emerge as Tope weighs an accidental death versus murder and plans a house search with Dr Cabler to follow.
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Miss Moss
Kitty Seaford
Thayer
Tope
Jim Glovere
Lissa
Kenesaw
Clint
Glovere
Miss. Moss
Lissa Thayer
Miss Seaford
Doc Gero
Gero
Doc Derrie
Heale
Doctor Gero
Doctor Cabler
Inspector Heale
Seaford
Cabler
Feis and a barter era move to ease global shortages
A London report says Dr. Herbert Feis economic adviser to the U S State Department is shaping a barter deal with England to exchange U S rubber and tin for wheat and cotton boosting policy clarity. The piece also notes Feis’s Machiavelli reading and ties to Hoover era appointments while touching on time theory and the life of philanthropist Lucius Littauer.
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EW York
Herbert Feis
State Department
Helley
John Masefield
London
Chamberlain
England
Machiavelli
Feis
Hoover
Stimson
Dr. Feis
Europe
Department
Adventurous Americans Immortalized by a Dam
The article profiles Captain Benjamin Bonneville and Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, detailing Bonneville's explorations and mixed fortunes including Forts and the Cascade route, and Rowan's 1898 Garcia mission. It also recalls Death Valley rescuer Lou Westcott Beck, the Good Samaritan of Death Valley, who saved hundreds before dying from an infected spring.
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South Pass
Columbia River
Cascade Mountains
Washington Irving
John Jacob Astor
Captain Bonneville
Bonneville
Jackson
Fort Vancouver
St. Louis
Garcia
California
Col
Andrew Summers Rowan
Spain
McKinley
Lieutenant Rowan
Rowan
White House
Elbert Hubbard
the Philistine
Death Valley
Lou Westcott Beck
Washington the hunter hero of diaries and foxhunting lore
Samuel J. Henry argues in Foxhunting Is Different that George Washington, famed by American fox hunters, leads a richly detailed hunting life in his Virginia Maryland diaries. The text notes his days dancing between church, cockfights, and field sport, with huntsman Billy Lee and vivid accounts of foxes, hounds, and even a bear chase.
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John Peel
George Washington
Samuel J. Henry
Virginia
Maryland
Washington
Billy Lee
Acetylene Accelerates Pineapple Ripening Process
Reported method uses acetylene to speed ripening in Hawaiian pineapples. Plants are treated in sealed chambers or with acetylene-saturated water, five treatments lasting 12 to 18 hours each. Pineapples reach usable ripeness four times as fast as natural ripening.
Juvenile Bedspread Crochet Pattern 6334
A kiddie friendly spread with a center panel featuring a children's prayer and a teddy bear border in three pieces for easy handling. Simple lace stitches accent the juvenile figures. Pattern 6334 includes instructions charts materials and illustrations. send cents to The Circle Household Arts Dept New York for access.
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Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
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Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Harvard
University of Kansas
University of Cincinnati
Council of Foreign Relations
Montaigne
Lucius N. Littauer
Littauer
Mr. Littauer
United States Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Human Standards
Chauncey M. Depew
Gloversville
Breslau
Germany
Carl Schurz
Fritz Kuhn
Consolidated Features
WNU
Western Newspaper Union
J. C. Dillinger
Gleason
Achlete
di Mfg. Co
McKinney, Taxa
Voltaire
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lowell
Luna
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