Mystery at Sunnyside Ends With Death In Hall
Miss Innes guardian to Strude and Halsey guards Sunnyside during a troubled summer. A dark figure on the veranda, a revolver shot, and the murder of Arnold Armstrong propel Gertrude, Jack Bailey, and detective Jamieson into a tangled room by room search. Evidence links a barefoot print, a cuff button, and a hidden intruder, with Gertrude later revealed as engaged to Bailey.
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Miss Innes
Strude
Halsey
Sunnyside
Gertrude
Jack Bailey
Arnold Armstrong
Hal
Jack Alley
Jamieson
Iss Innes
Gerde
Ray
Beulah
Warner
Mr. Jamieson
Night of the Club Mystery and a Hidden Revolver
Innes pieces together a tense night at the Greenwood club. Armstrong is killed on a staircase after Bailey and Ennes argue, Rosie reports a thief, and a midnight bicycle yields broken china found along the drive. Halsey and Jack Bailey face blame while Gertrude quarrels over a revolver misplaced in a tulip bed.
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Miss Innes
Bailey
Armstrong
Mr. Innes
Arnold Armstrong
Mr. Jamieson
Casanova
Greenwood Club
Rosie
Coalport
China
Beulah
Jack
Halsey
Aunt Ray
Halksey
Gertrude
Liddy
Trude
Jack Bailey
A Burglar’s Text Book Found by New York Police
Police seize a treatise on safe cracking from a burglar. The manuscript is in yegg code and claims to detail two safe types fireproof and burglar proof with drill proof as a courtesy label. It includes minute cracking directions and diagrams and experts question how many copies circulate.
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New York
Guilt Revealed On The Baseball Field
A tense scene unfolds as Johnny stammers under a stern boss at the baseball field. The boss questions Johnny about cigarettes and demands a cigarette, revealing guilt and pressure in a clipped town-street moment.
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Johnny
The Linen Suit That Nearly Broke Mrs. Beach
Mrs. Beach buys a pink linen suit on sale for 15 dollars. She endures fading, cleaning, and repeated dyeing costs totaling around 14.50, chasing a look of value while battling her husband’s scorn and her own doubts. In the end she gives the suit away and plans a new 95 dollar broadcloth purchase.
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Mrs. Beach
Margaret
Beach
Henry
Henry Beach
Doan's Kidney Pills touted to cure kidney distress
An advertisement warns of kidney troubles and urges prompt treatment with Doan's Kidney Pills. It includes a testimonial from EB McClanahan of New Richmond Ohio describing severe swelling and weakness that improved after using the product, and notes the price as 50 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo New York.
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Bright
Dean
EB. C. McClanahan
Market St
New Richmond
Doan
They Stayed at Home as Family Chooses to Stay
A Chicago banker planned a European trip with his family but his eight year old son refused to leave their dog behind. Since no dog could go, no son could be taken. With the mother unwilling to go, the father decides to stay home. The dog, central to the tale, anchors the family’s choice.
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Chicago
Europe
From His Pa's Side
A light exchange about temperaments hints at family traits and parenting humor. The dialogue touches on hereditary assumptions and a mother’s intuition regarding her child.
Mean Insinuation in Sunny Baseball Banter
Dialogue highlights a comic exchange about sun stroke among baseball players with a jab about perceived health risks and brain affection. Miss Lively asks about sun exposure while Mr. Fussy questions the link, framing sun stroke as a brain condition rather than a mere sunburn.
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Miss Lively
Easy Task Soap Gains Popularity In Laundry Use
A persuasive note extols Easy Task Soap as a hard white pure laundry soap that halves wash-day effort. It claims the soap does not rot or streak fabrics and cleans laces linens silks bedding and table linens perfectly, urging immediate household use.
Willie's New Teacher and a Pocketknife Gift
The Cleveland Plaindealer recounts Willie facing a new teacher next term. The teacher grows to like him and offers a four bladed pocketknife with a warning to avoid cutting school furniture, which Willie declines, asking to take it back.
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Willie
Cleveland Plaindealer
Honest weights teach a hard lesson in retail
Pat recalls a phony weight scheme in his grocery store from last year. He admits he misled customers by filling weights with lead, charging a pound of sugar but giving only twenty three ounces. His honesty lesson comes from experience and the money he lost.
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Pat
Harper’s Weekly
Indefinite musings on fame and friendship
A fragmentary meditation on celebrity and trust. A quip about an actress buying puffed items and a joke on ignorance of friends. Witty lines contrast scarcity of wealth with a lone genius as the household norm.
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Post
Postum Cerral CO
Utd
Nattle Creek
Mtch
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