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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1910
Page
6
A cascade of wry notes and social asides mix ahead from a 19th century style column. Jests on bait for jookworms, boosts, prisoners, Menelik, canned goods dating, fish weighing devices, and a rotating chorus of odd opinions flash by in a rapid montage.
Fragmentary OCR suggests a Mary Rinehart piece titled The Circular Staircase with names Miss Innes Gertrude and Halsey, set at Sunnyside. The readable bits hint at a deserted land and a tense, perhaps perilous scene, but full details are unclear.
At Sunnyside a night of fear ends with a gunshot and the discovery of a dead man in the card room. Aunt Kay, Gertrude, Liddy, and Halsey confront danger as they probe sounds, footprints, and a toppled hamper while John Bailey enters the scene.
Gertrude senses a grim fate as Arnold Armstrong lies dead at his father’s house. I, dazed, recount the shock while three Greenwood club men guard the scene. Mr Jarvis leads us upstairs and urges haste as Haley’s whereabouts remain unknown. TO BE CONTINUED?
A Southern New Hampshire hotel proprietor recalls a morning incident in which his cat chased a mouse into a garret window and leapt after it, then returned, an anecdote described as shameful. The note includes an unrelated Venice letter excerpt and a Philip Brooks quote about serving others.
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