Violinist Sought for Haven House Newsboys Orchestra
Elsa Whitcomb recalls a missing violinist, Derry Holton, from Haven House. Sally Preston notes she once stored his address at 23 Hurlburt Street and sent a letter for the Girls' club social last Tuesday, but received no reply. The settlement project seeks a steady musician for the budding orchestra.
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Sally
Hurlburt Street
Elsa
Sarah
Haven House
Newsboys
Young Holton
CROSS WORD PUZZLE NO SEVEN HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL
Puzzle clues mix strange spellings and typos. readable entries hint at a themed crossword with numbered across and down terms. Answers involve common words for ages, jobs, body parts, times, and cardinal directions, with several garbled phrases requiring reconstruction from cross letters.
Drink Water to Help Wash Out Kidney Poison
Old medical ad text urges drinking water and taking Jad Salts to cleanse kidneys. It claims kidneys filter waste, recommends four ounces of Salts daily before breakfast for several days, and promotes lithia-water remedies. It advises yearly medical checks and touts the product as inexpensive and beneficial.
The Violinist’s Death Shocks a Community
Elsa learns Mr. Holton the violinist is dead and investigates his last hours. She searches Hurlburt Street, learns from Mrs. Holton the house owner, and realizes the Strand performance where he supposedly played may have been his final appearance. Sarah vows to follow and verify the trail.
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Hurlburt Street
Sarah
Elsa
Strand
Sally
Easy Way to Break Severest Cough
A plain spoken remedy promises instant relief from a persistent cough using Dr King s New Discovery. By holding one teaspoon in the throat for 15 to 20 seconds before swallowing, relief comes quickly as phlegm loosens and congestion clears. It claims to ease chest colds bronchitis hoarseness and throat irritation and is marketed as economical with wide druggist availability.
Derry Holton Mystery Deepens in Strand Orchestra Tale
The scene centers on Elsa Whitcomb and Derry Holton amid a strangled cascade of alibis and gossip. A dead boy hangs over the case as tensions rise at the Holton door. A violinist enters the Strand orchestra while whispers of a jealous mother and a vanished Derry ripple through the home.
Rescue and a Romance on the Qhia River 1774 tale
On a spring evening in 1774 Rebecca Martin paddles a birch bark canoe along the Qhia River on her journey home. The fragment hints at a rescue and a developing romance amid frontier life.
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Rebecca Martin
Qhia River
St Jacobs Oil Promises Quick Rheumatic Relief
A vintage advertisement urges readers to rub St Jacobs Oil on aching joints to relieve rheumatic pain. It claims the liniment removes pain, soreness, and stiffness from muscles and bones, stops sciatica and backache, and requires only a small trial bottle from any drug store for fast relief.
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St. Jacobs
Rescue on the river ends in wedding of Rebecca Martin
Rebecca Martin perilously fled Indian raiders along the Tver Telses after a firelit attack near a cabin. Capt. Isaac Williams, famed hunter and scout, leapt from a big canoe to lift her to safety, then a few weeks later a wandering minister married Rebecca Martin to Williams.
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Urove Creek
Tver
Rebecca
Isaac Whilams
Rebecca Martin
Rebecca Willams
Indian Maidens Now Eligible to Marry in Oklahoma
Waurika Oklahoma report notes several hundred Chickasaw and Choctaw women who were minors at allotment in 1900s reached legal majority on March 4 1924 under congressional act. Many live with guardians or on allotments in Pushinataha McCurtain Jefferson Carter and Stephens counties near oil fields. Some have earned oil incomes and can dispose of lands under applicable full blood and mixed blood laws. Congress set unified birthdays for these women and men born as minors, with female eighteenth birthday on March 4 1924 and male on March 4 1927.
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Okla
Oklahoma
Congress
Muskogee
Pushinataha
McCurtain
Jefferson
Carter
Stephens
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Totton
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Derry
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