Interrupted Current Chapter XV Trap at the station and home
Nelson Conway wires for Perry and detectives after recovering a bond and planning a quick return to the old place. Skinner confronts Conway at the cook house and a hidden trap on the cellar stairs threatens discovery as events near a dangerous confrontation.
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Sonntagind
J P. Perry
Ridgefield Ave
Amalee
Nelson Conway
Philait
Sarah
Tristen
Moe
Jake
Mr. Perry
Skinner
Ile
The Unknown Visitor at the Walled-Up Cellar
A lone narrator hides as a mysteriously lit figure descends the stairs. A warning voice is avoided, and the intruder’s back is seen in a faint light from a narrow passage. The scene deepens the mystery surrounding the plank and the hidden cellar.
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Skinner
Hidden Visitor Surprises Horace Jackson in Secret Cellar
In a dim passage Horace Jackson clutches papers as a shadowy man enters from the apartment above. The intruder confirms identity with Jackson and warns they cannot speak there while a planned meeting unfolds nearby.
Acquitted by the Crowd A Colorado Tale of Powers
A Denver Times excerpt recounts Jaden Powers a controversial figure with a span from water engine work in Burnham to political influence in Leadville and Canyon City. He once shot his son in law but never killed a man by habit, masking ambitions with public offices as he dodged reelection and leveraged a dramatic courtroom pardon. The piece shifts to odd anecdotes from the era including a Missourian case and a nurse's calm in emergencies.
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Tipic
Y Security Company
Jaden
Powers
Burnham
Leadville
Canyon City
Pat Kennedy
Justice of the Peace
Courthous
Joplin
Johnny Shea
Denver Times
Western Canada
Selegate
Canada
Cam
Reat
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Leaky Roof Prompts Eviction Tale in Cleveland
A Cleveland landlord suspects two families share one rented home and withholds repairs to urge them to move. A leaky roof story frames the dispute as a humorous domestic vignette, then unrelated items follow about catarrh cures and travel notes.
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Ireland
America
Cleveland
Tophet
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Traveling with Figs Advertised Medicine for Sickness
A fragmented travel note parodies mind loss and promotes Syrup of Figs as a cure all. The ad claims fig syrup treats kidneys liver and bowels, preventing fevers and headaches, offered in 50 cent bottles by California Fig Top Co. storefronts.
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California Fig yTop Co
Advice to Ministers on Throat Health and Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
A minister warns about vocal strain from breathing and speaking in heated, then cool air, recommending Dr. Ayer s Cherry Pectoral to prevent throat troubles. The piece cites Rev E M Brawley s account and notes smaller 50 cent bottle size now available with a free carebook from J C Ayer Co Lowell.
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E. M. Brawley
American Baptist Publication Society
Petersburg
Dr. Ayer
J.C. Aver Co
Lowell
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Howard M. Yost
J. B. Lippincott Co
Fiogere
Horace Jackson
Buck
Neaf
Jackson
Chautauquan Asacrably Herald
Weir Mitchell
No. Ledger
Hall
I. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
Tor
Vienne
Herr von Pommeler
Reiharath
Puck
Savely
Mot Springs
Cutts
A.B. Cutts
Minneapolis & St. Touts Road
Hot Springs
Ark
Fampus Resort
Klondike
Inveapolly Times
Washington Democrat
Joseph Biut
India St
Boston
Hood
Rot
Indianapolis
Inmtou Democrat
Peetexistac, VA
Layer CO
Dana Sims
Estey Organ Co
Brattleboro, Vt
BRAY
Westers Canada
Schoatt
Department Interior
Rogers
Watertown
Ben
Daniel
Rainsaul
Minn
W. Ritchin
Grafton
T.tk Currie
Stevens Point
Wis
Tee
Ast
Sre
Crear Mode
Wen
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