Lost Love Amid War Secrets in a Dallas Tale
Postwar tale follows Major Peter DeWolfe who, after WWI, is drawn to mysterious Brena Selcoss. Eversley Benham introduces Peter to his family. Muriel fears Brena’s danger, while Brena reveals a vanished husband and a complex Greek family past. Peter and Brena fall in love as Brena’s life unfolds with new suitors and hidden loyalties.
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Peter DeWolfe
Eversley Benham
Benham
Brena Selcoss
Muriel Benham
Eversley
Peter
Muriel
Brena
Greece
Dallas
Texas
Jim Hennepin
St. Louis
The Man Who Came For Information
In a moonlit room Parmalee questions 18 year old Brena Selcoss about Jim Hennepin, a missing man. He reveals he opened her telegram, warns against a vain pursuit, and hints at a secret call guiding Hennepin away with a large office balance still unclaimed.
Ashes to Ambition and a Diamond Moment
In a dusk Dallas office Compton Parmalee, a two million dollar man worn by experience, confronts Brena Selcoss with an offer to marry not for love but to reclaim his humanity. He seeks a future where she becomes his mother and muse, free of scandal, while she weighs a life beyond her penniless beginnings and shared ambitions.
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Jim Hennepin
St. Louis
Brena
Parmalee
Mr. Parmalee
Wilkie
Dallas
Compton Parmalee
Texas
Fate
Miss Selcoss
Brena Uneas
Portugal
Peking
Bombay
Pyramids
Norway
Greece
Olympic Heights
City Man Recovers Lost Plowpoint on Rural Road
A city resident driving a country road found a bright metal plowpoint beneath his car after hearing a rattle. He stopped to inspect, later explained he had spent half an hour searching for its owner, and a subsequent passerby asked about the trouble. The found item had evidently fallen from a farmer's equipment.
Compass Method Using a Watch as a Sun Dial
A simple method explains using a watch as a compass. Place the watch flat in the hand, point the hour hand at the sun, then halfway between the hour hand and 12 o clock marks points south in the northern hemisphere or north in the southern hemisphere.
Contracted Cold at a Billy Sunday Revival
A letter from A R Wilson of La Follette Tennessee describes recovering from a cold during Billy Sunday’s Knoxville revival after using three bottles of Pe r a na. The note touts Pe r a na as a system builder and catarrh remedy and urges readers to buy the original Pe r a na from local dealers.
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A. R. Wilson
la Follette
Tenn
Billy Sunday
Knoxville, Tenn
Dickey's Old Reliable Eye Water relieves sun burn
Dickey's Eye Water relieves sun and wind burn in irritated eyes. Non irritating formula sold in red box. Priced at 25 cents at druggists or by mail from Dickey Drug Co. Bristol Tennessee Virginia.
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Dickey
Mai Dickey Drug CO
Bristol
Engagement Ring Warrant Sought in San Francisco
Louis Peterson applied at a San Francisco police court for a warrant to arrest a former fiancée who refused to return an engagement ring. The magistrate refused, ruling the ring is a gift not a trust.
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Louis Peterson
San Francisco
Seneca Quote About Sins Before And Behind
The line reflects on human vice noting that others sins are visible while our own are hidden from view. It presents a philosophical reflection on self awareness and moral judgment attributed to Seneca.
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Seneca
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Richard Washburn Child
N. U. Service
Jman
Compton Par‘gsalee
Chapter
LaFollette, Tenn
Vaseline
Chesebrough Mfg. Company
Consolidated
State Street
Vaseline Purieniinans
New York
Cea Aselln
Bidg
Atlanta, Ga
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