Descent Into the Great Canyon Mystery
In a perilous expedition from San Diego to Canyon River Lola Brace and I trek through snow and treacherous rocks to Petersville. Brace guides Lola and me across a fragile rock ledge into a chasm to recover a cachette hidden by the Great Hole. Lola proves brave as she crosses a rope bridge and retrieves the Great Helper.
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Petersville
Lola
San Diego
Canyon River
Great Canyon City
Sierra
Bruce
Brace
Bowlder
Providence
Ges
Nyctalops at the Chasm A Lone Rope Bridge Duel
I cling to the rope as Van Hoeck cuts the upper strands, swinging above a dark chasm. Lola calls reassurance while I grasp the knotted rope, brace for a brutal fall, and confront the Nyctalops killer about to sever the lifeline.
The Mountain Rescue of Lola and I
I cling to a rock as a rope snaps and gunfire rings out. A rockslide tears the cliff apart, thunder roars, and a dawn light reveals blue sky. Lola loosens the noose, then saves me again as I crawl to safety with her aid.
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Lola
van Hoeck
The Kid and Lola: A perilous ascent and a wedding
In a cliffside ordeal, Lola dies after a staged escape ends in a rockfall. Brace saves Brace from danger, the narrator and Lola share a final moment. After fleeing peril, they reunite with Sir Edmund and Edith in San Diego, renewing their engagement and sealing vows amid a long friendship.
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Sir Edmund
Edith
San Diego
Baronet
Brace
Life and death among Panama Canal laborers shocks visitor
Robert L. Knox, tied to the Panama Railway for six months, reports dire conditions on the Isthmus. He describes heat and disease killing workers, a fatal accident with an excavating machine, and nightly alcohol fueled fights among laborers. He claims Panama surpasses other cities in vice.
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Robert L. Knox
Panama
Panama Canal
Hades
Murrain
Canal
New York
London
Paris
Italian Love Charms And Sacred Hill Pilgrimages
A sketch from English Illustrated Magazine describes love charms in Capri and on Monte Vergine near Naples. Lovers steal a hair and tie it to theirs for lasting affection while broom twigs linked with a rag at the sanctuary supposedly endure until the twigs part. Other rites include a blood drop in wine and inscribing a name on a fig leaf that the wind carries away.
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Capri
Monte Vergine
Naples
English Illustrated Magazine
Spectacular Buckskin Gulch Gold Find Attracts Miners
A Buckskin Gulch surface wash revealed a 100 foot jagged bedrock cut filled with glittering gold. About a pint of nuggets valued from $20 to $50 per ounce were collected by Charles Dudley with twenty pounds already sent to the bank. The total clean up could reach fifty pounds or about $9,080 as the largest ever seen in the camp and may take two to three more days.
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Buckskin Gulch
Charles Dudley
Central Park
Sierra Tara Nate
Mexico
Jack Bridges
Custer
Lion
Jack
Philadelphia's Last Gag and Its Sting
The Philadelphia Call notes a rising gag phrase with the line Who is that man expressed with a sharp accent. It unsettles recipients through a stare and a quizical expression and spreads among locals fond of gags. The origin remains unclear.
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Philadelphia
Revival of Old Time Remedies to Ease Suffering
A Harper illustration titled Doctoring Old Time highlights a clock repairer as a metaphor for reviving ancient health practices. Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies, by K H Warner of Rochester, claim to revive herbs and formulas from early eras. Products include Sarsaparilla for blood and liver and Log Cabin Cough and Consumption Remedy among others. The piece notes distrust of modern drugs and anticipates a new era of rustic, herbal cures gaining popularity.
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Harper
Roberts
K. H. Warner
Warner’s Safe Care
Warner Observatory
Rochester
N. Y
Warner
Hr. H. Warner
Best reading bargain in Warren and Philo press
The Warren Mail and Philo Weekly Press offer a combined reading value for $1.75. This deal invites readers to subscribe to both papers now for maximum return on investment.
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Warren Mail
Philo. Weekly Press
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Loia
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Morek
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Elery Onpound
Ures
Parine
Patne
Parxe
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, VT
Less & CO
Warren, Pa
Struthers
Warren, Fa
Struthers, Wells & CO
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Oiidom
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Parshall & Sile
E. W. Parshall
G. Wy Situ
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James Broder
Bradford
Bradford and Allesanvy Fields
Boston
SELOZ
Reynolds
Eddie’s
Winch Bro’s
Water Street
Diamond Block
H. Zurrn
Morck Bro
Jewelers
Ofticians
Eges
August Morck Optician
Greenland
Episcopal Church
Orcasine
DR. Pierce
Pierce
Chemical Laboratory of World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Sage
W. Hausner
Ithaca
Thomas J. Rousauna
Pine Street
St. Louis
Eur Rossins
Bunyan P. O
Columbia Co
N. H. Downs
Henry, Johnson & Lord
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Howns’ Elixir
B. F. Morris, Warren
N.C. Allen
Glade
Christian Smith
Warren County
First National Bank
H.S. Thomas
Wood & Thomas
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Liberty
Warren, la
W. H. Pickett & CO
H. A. Jamieson & CO
Sherman
Jewett
Syracuse
Gale
Pittsburgh
F. O. Pierce
N. Greenland
Exchange Block
Exchange Hotel
Carpenter
Vancartxp
F. Carpenter Co
Bratieboro
D. G. Curtis
Sterling, Packard and
Alleger Organs
Judlow, PA
Stinsop &O
Ortland, Maine
Hallett & Co
Portland
Mane
A. H. Dowell
Enquirer
Edenton, N.C
Piso
Philip Bysecker
Gene
Tias
Hoffman
Market Street
Ludlow House
Brueton
Bayou
Miss Defarge
Kenyon
Douglas Duane
Addrrea Lippincott
Phila Delphta
J. H. Harmon
NEW Era Mfg
Address Tree & Co
Augusta
Sine
pAeerte Ws
Fisher
Warred, PA
Dale
Montezuma
Lion’s Canyon
Deer Tree
el Paso
New York Sun
Banbury Cross
Banbury
Caanyesar
Marm
Mary
London Society
Miss Sleepy
Miss Sprightly
Kansas City
Antoine
Bob
Kansas City Journal
Morck
Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters
B. F. Morris
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