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Philo Gubb Traps Chicken Thief at Brickyard
Philo Gubb, a comic detective, stakes out a chicken coop behind a Cherry Street brickyard. He captures Wixy, a burglar in a liquor-fueled escape, and extorts payment from Mrs. Smith while learning the chicken’s true value was a fancy bird.
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Hilo Gubb
Cherry Street
Mrs. Smith
Philo Gubb
Philo
Ubb
Mr. Gubb
Mrs. Murphy
Supreme Court of the United States
Vixy
Sandlot
Sandlor
Bureau
Joliet
Chicago
Sandler
Wixy
Sandlet
Wixyv
Rock Island
Sal
Mother Smith
Correspondence School
Wiry
Philo Gubbb
Andrix
Mother Smith, That Female Fagin
Pal
Ute
New Orleans