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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1910
Page
6
In a tense chapter, Miss Pat confronts a planned kidnap ruse as Sister Margaret reveals Helen Holbrook has vanished. Donovan plans a staged replacement to shield Miss Pat while arranging a rescue with Gillespie and the swift getaway by boat toward Red Gate.
Miss Patricia Holbrook and her niece Helen confide in writer Donovan near North Annandale. An intruder, Reginald Gillespie, claims Helen’s hand. a mix of Rosalind and Helen leads to disguises and nighttime meetings. Donovan unravels deceit, reveals Henry Holbrook’s debt, forgives old feuds, and hides crucial evidence.
Rosalind and I plot to rescue Helen on her eighteenth birthday while deception tightens the web around Miss Pat. The canoe-maker doubts the plan but agrees the risk is necessary as a staged abduction runs toward its tense, uncertain climax.
Dr Sambon of the Field committee reports from Rome that maize or Indian corn does not cause pellagra. The parasitic conveyor of the disease is identified as the gimulium repans, a biting cnat, according to the telegram.
A witty exchange about electricity prompts Miss Keene and Sapleigh Ah. The piece mentions President Roosevelt popularizing frazzle and recalls washday fatigue with common soap. It then promotes Easy Task laundry soap as the quick, hard white soap that halves the workload and prevents frazzle.
Harker mocks Bilkins as an enthusiastic sportsman who only once chased glory three years ago. Parker agrees, saying Bilkins habitually talks himself up but has little to show for it.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis warns it will take about forty five years to provide enough beds for all indigent consumptives in the United States. Last year about 7,000 beds were added across hospitals sanatoria camps and wards for tuberculosis patients but there remain 300,000 in need and only 22,720 beds nationwide. A May 1 1909 count shows 15 244 beds in institutions with 99 new institutions and 7 500 beds added in the year.
A fragmented reminiscence from a newspaper page notes Harvard College in Parker's barroom, Bowdoin College student Artemus Ward Jr., and a humorous quip about a two year old horse. It includes a cartoonish anecdote about James R. Keene and horse owners, ending with a joke about maternal love versus a two year old thoroughbred.
A mother reports healthier, sturdier children after a dietary change. She outlines using fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, soft boiled eggs, and Postum for breakfast and supper, with meat and vegetables at dinner. She notes a teething baby improved after Grape-Nuts with milk.
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