Appleweight Mystery Drives Carolina Ploys in Ark Ledge
Ardmore captures a timber thief amid border intrigue as South and North Carolina governors clash over Appleweight. A ghost plot unfolds at Ardsley while Griswold and Ardmore push rival agendas, with Jerry Dangerfield and Barbara Osborne pulled into the fray. The stockade scene ends as the South Carolina militia seizes Bill Appleweight alias Poteet.
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Thomas Ardmore
Henry Maine Griswold
North
South Carolina
Griswold
Barbara Osborne
Ardmore
Jerry Dangerfield
North Carolina
Oue
Ardsley
Barbara
Jerry
Onwold
Appleweight
Raccoon Creek
Col. Gillingwater
Grissy
Big Paul
Paul
Ands
Georgia Constable's Dilemma Over a One-Wheel Buggy
Cap Carroll, town stable master, levied on a blind elderly horse and buggy driven into town. A dispute arose as two women claimed two wheels and a man claimed the others. Bill Anderson offered to sign an appearance bond, enabling release of the property and ending Carroll’s predicament with the one usable wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Cap. Carroll
Bill Anderson
Literature breathes life into ideas in poetic form
A reflection on how literature gives life to contemporary ideas and how poetry crystallizes them into memorable shapes that endure beyond their moment.
Death of Ohio bank cashier ends in cemetery tragedy
Herbert G. Crisp, cashier of the South Lorain bank, died by his own hand at a cemetery on Murray Ridge road near Elyria after planning the act. A witness found Crisp seated by a grave shortly before the shot. Friends say his mind was unbalanced for two weeks amid financial worries and a vacation granted to recover.
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Crisp
Ashtabula
Wayne Township
Andrew
Columbus
J. B. Gillett
Brotherhood of
Gillett
Canton
R. 8. Ambler
Common Pleas
C. O. Groner
Krrchbaum
Alliance
Charles C. Baker
Justin Terrett
Miller Pasteurizing Co
March
Tiffin
Baltimore & Ohio
Kellers
Here
L. B. Wharton
Garrett
Ind
Kent
W. A.walls
Kent High School
Kent Schools
Board of Education
R. P. Clark
Wooster
Dalton
Wayne County
Cleveland
Erie Railroad
Mills
Youngstown
Gonneaut
Kingsville
Barnesville
William Gainor
Alexander Biendzisesky
James Clark
Ohio Sand & Gravel Co
Roosevelt Returns to Uproar in New York Arrival
After fifteen months away Colonel Theodore Roosevelt returns aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II with a standing ovation. The Roosevelt party favors White Steamers cars for travel from Fifth Avenue to Robinson residence and on to Oyster Bay with an active schedule and public enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Roosevelt
Elba
New York
Douglas Robinson
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Colonel Roosevelt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Collector Loeb
Mr. Robinson
Long Island City
Oyster Bay
Travers Island
New York Athletic Club
Squeamish Guest Questions Water Quality Jest
A waiter assures a guest that the water is boiled distilled, while the guest notes it tastes unusually hard. The waiter explains it is hard boiled distilled water, turning a simple drink into a humor moment.
Coca-Cola Ad Promises Cooling Relief and Baseball Record Book
An old Coca-Cola advertisement promotes the drink as cooling and fatigue relieving, available at soda fountains and bottled for five cents. It also offers a 1910 baseball record book upon sending a two cent stamp. The page includes a joking Life magazine quip about Under Blossom.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Baseball
Casey
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
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Wilstory
Little Brown Jug
ATD
Meredith Nicholson
Illustrations By
Ray Walters
Bath
Mr. Ardmore
Siam
Petosky
Osborne
Bill Appleweight
Poteet
Ohio
White Company
Briggs
Underblossom
Griggs
Dodds
Alata Nie
Carter
Rio Grande
Apple
Mia
Enoagua
Varsi
Sas
le Buob & Scheu CO
Court and
Broadway
Cincinnati
Chie
N. U
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