The Man Who Plunged Into a Storm Haunting the Lakes
In a Chicago club amid a brutal lake storm, financier Benny Corvet wrestles with a hidden crisis linked to a secret letter and a name Alan Conrad of Blue Rapids Kansas. His niece Connie becomes entangled as his partner Spearman and family ties surge toward a perilous revelation.
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Fort Dearborn
Lake Superior
Mackinac
North Peninsula
Benjamin Corvet
Corvet
Spearman
Sherrill
Constance
Garret
Michigan Avenue
Covert
Sherrill House
Uncle Benny
Benny
Alan Conrad
Kansas
Blue Rapids
Harry Spearman
Another Dog Hero in Village News
Rob the dog tells how he saved his master after a fall and a bleeding foot. He carried a note in a handkerchief to his family, prompting a doctor’s visit and relief that the master kept his foot. Rob insists the act was natural and humbly rejects praise from strangers.
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Rob
Indian Drum Never Misses Count in 1895 Shipwreck
A romance threads through a legend of the Indian drum said to count every life lost at sea. Constance Sherrill rejects a rushed marriage to Henry Spearman to wed a worthy man, Alan Conrad, as the tale explains why the Miwaka disaster yielded twenty four bells for twenty five souls.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Superior
Straits of Mackinac
Detroit
Buffalo
Manitou
Venota
Grant
Susan Hart
Miwaka
Straits
Ren
Henry
Alan Conrad
Constance
Henry Spearman
Constance Sherrill
Softening and Removing Hardened Putty by Lime Mixture
Instructions describe a method to soften putty around window glass using eight pounds of quicklime in water plus one pound of pearlash to a paintlike consistency. The mixture is applied to both sides of the glass and left for about 13 hours, enabling the glass to be lifted out without trouble.
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Rob
They All Had Flivvers Speech by Judge Fleming
Judge Ed Fleming of the South Side court spoke to the cooperative club about habit. When he rose to address them, about half the members stood and greeted him with Good morning judge, illustrating the force of habit in a small meeting.
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Ed Fleming
South Side Court
Cooperative Club
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Lula
the Indian Drum
William MacHarg
Edwin Balmer
Chicago
Connie
Father
Astor Street
Ter
Mr. Corvet
Athabaska
Arctic Circle
Mary Graham Bonner
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