Reconstructing now orbits a bold escape under siege
In a high tension scene Inspector Crawford urges Matt Blacklock to flee as a mob crowds the street outside his bank. Blacklock, risking danger, climbs into an electric car and darts through Broadway with police and crowd in hot pursuit, provoking reflections on power and finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inspector Crawford
Joe
Matt
Broadway
Crawford
Mr. Blacklock
Roy Hat
Weber
Blacklock's Gambit and Escape at Sea
In the chapter Black Matt Blacklock faces pursuit by police as he flees to his yacht. Detectives accompany him to the pier and aboard his launch while public anger blazes about his Wild Week crusade and wealth gained through it. He contemplates loyalty, personal power, and the cost of leadership as forces chase his shore leave and plans for dawn Hill retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sergt. Mulholland
Theer
Detective Bureau
Joe
Mulholland
Mr. Blacklock
New London
Themelves
Juan
Melville
Crawford
Straightway
Newport
Mulhollang
Mutholand
Mutholiindo-Fousautre
Hell
Dawn Hill
Copper Germ Killer and Copper Water Treatment Claim
A speaker argues copper stops disease germs arguing copper vessels would prevent typhoid and cholera. He cites experiments and wartime canteens, urges copper sulfate in reservoirs and daily copper treatment of drinking water. Also notes a method to whiten flour using electric discharge air treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Revere
Massachusetts
Tropics
Immense Peruvian Power Project Proposed
The Peruvian government plans to exploit Lake Titicaca for hydro power. The lake holds over 5.0 billion hectoliters of water with a potential 21 million horsepower. Building a plant would cost 40 million Peruvian dollars, but profits could be incalculable from mining districts unlocked by the power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Titicaca
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The
Troy Weekly Call
B W. Jarvis
Sgigzis
Bobba-Merrill Company
Langdon
Updegraff
Octavius
Antony
Lepidus
Philippi
Wheneanle
Apollo
Delphi
Olympus
Black Matt
Maine
Texas
Blacklock
Pers
Brookline Chronicle
Troy City
John Deimling
W.F. Peter
Winson Shop
Theo. Guennewig
Iain
Troy
Iinois
Citizens’ Shaving Parlor
Julius Peter
Chi. Gxren
If-Union
St. . Troy
George ¢. Morriss
Kinloch 9
Geo. Liebler
South Main Street
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