Beets, Cat, and a Silver Collar Plan
Prudence spills beet juice during a kitchen mishap with a cat named Cleopatra. Rodney Gerard arrives, teases her hysterics, and offers to help, while Prue imagines a future crafting a kitten’s silver collar and resuming her old trade in a shop rebuilt as a studio.
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Prue
Prudence
Rodney Gerard
Gerard
Signor Mussolini
Cleopatra
Macky
Jean
Uncle Austin
Savoie Saac
Emerald Collar and Circus Clown Stir Stake in Manor
Prudence and Gerard clash over a jewel designs scene in a mansion. A rescue mission clown arrives, linking a nearby circus and a tense undercurrent as Prue weighs plans with her brother Dave and the enigmatic Rodney Gerard.
Prudence Schuyler Finds Attraction at Prosperity Farm
Prudence Schuyler travels from New York to Prosperity Farm to start anew with her brother David. On the second day she falls from a barn loft into Rodney Gerard's arms, sparking mutual attraction despite Prudence's guarded mood. rival Len Calloway schemes over timber as Gerard plots with Prue.
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Prudence Schuyler
New York
Prosperity Farm
David
Prue
Rodney Gerard
High Ledges
Prudence
Len Calloway
Gerard
Rod
Jean
Lost continent Atlantis said to lie between Gibraltar and Gulf
The fragment describes Atlantis as a great ancient empire surrounded by sea and inhabited by tall blue eyed people. Plato’s account portrays a lofty coastal plain ringed by mountains, 8 000 stadia wide, shielding the city from the north as civilization’s arts allegedly spread from this vanished land.
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Atlantis
Straits of Gibraltar
Mexican Gulf
Plato
Wooden plows prove enduring in farming shows
Tit-Bits Magazine notes wooden plows remain common and efficient especially on clay soils where less sticking helps. In East Anglia Maldon in Essex hosts a firm with 120 years of craft, exhibiting at shows like the Royal alongside modern electric and petrol appliances.
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Tit-Bits Magazine
East Anglia
Maldon
Essex
Royal
Boil Germ Eater Vaccine Promises Quick Cure
In a 1920s era article, Dr Lloyd Arnold explains staphylococcus boils and a new bacteriophage vaccine. The boil germ is targeted by a ferment like substance, creating staphylococcus bacteriophage to dissolve boil germs. Application is simple and may shorten pain plus recovery to one or two days for new boils.
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D’herrelle
D'Herrelle
University of Illinois
Western Newspaper Union
Murderer Insists He Was Hypnotized
Peter Flinta argues before the Warsaw Supreme Court that hypnotic suggestion made him kill a policeman in eastern Galicia. His counsel cites doctors affidavits claiming heightened susceptibility and seeks to overturn the death sentence issued after the trial.
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Warsaw
Poland
Supreme Court
Peter Flinta
Galicia
Law Court
Flinta
Love Bird Murders Defy Law In Indianapolis Cage Tale
In Indianapolis Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank discovers two pairs of parakeets, Punch and Jill pair off after a sunlight encounter, Judy and Jack are found dead with bloodstains. Punch and Jill are placed together to avoid killing the other mates, a quirky domestic tragedy that unsettles local law.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Samuel Lewis Shank
Punch
Judy
Jack
Jill
Mrs. Shank
Water Leak Sparks Fire At Nevada Hotel Awakens Guest
Salt Lake contractor Wattis slept in a Nevada hotel when water from an overflowing tub flooded his room. He called the operator who warned that the top floors had burned away while rescuers tried to save his.
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Salt Lake City
Ray Wattis
Salt Lake
Nevada
Wattis
Woman Slayer in Prison Writes Note in Blood
Milka Pavlovitch, jailed at Bjelovar, is charged with poisoning fifteen people, seven dead, in a bid to gain a rich inheritance. A police search found a blood written letter hidden in a pocket, created with a comb tooth and leg blood, asking her family to align testimony with hers.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Bjelovar
Milka Pavlovitch
Pavljana
Milka
This Trick a Real One the Rifle Was Loaded
In Sydney a theater audience watched a dangerous stunt as a man calling himself the human target was shot by a rifle from ten paces. The wound to his right shoulder caused him to stagger and flee the stage with blood flowing. Officials later claimed the wound was not serious.
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Sydney
S. W
Farmer's $5 Helps Fire Truck Save Hay
J C Wilson, a farmer near Nampa Idaho, donated $5 to the fund for a new city fire truck. While his barn burned due to a section fire, the emergency apparatus arrived in record time and saved 27 tons of highly prized hay.
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Nampa
Idaho
J. C. Wilson
Lim burger cheese bait Draws Rock River Fish Near Beloit
Beloit anglers report limburger cheese bait is a powerful lure for Rock River fish. Hooks use this cheese bait to attract game fish in local waters.
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Beloit
Wis
Rock River
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