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...frequent visitor at "Glenburney" was Duncan Minor, but to the rest of the world its doors were closed. Miss Merrill's body was found early one morning last week in a thicket a hundred yards from her home. The night before there had been screams, shots. A trail of blood led back to the veranda, through Miss Merrill's bedroom to the dining room. Early clues pointed to two of Miss Merrill's neighbors-scraggly, bearded Richard Dana, 61, who claims to be the nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana (New York Sun) and Miss...
...make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument of Mrs. Gedge's scheme. "Soup" Slattery, hot on the trail of the Gedge jewels; Jane Opal, who thinks she wants an intellectual beau but really fell for Packy when she saw him play for Yale; the Vicomte de Blissac, continuous sufferer from a most unGallic thirst; all these and others converge into a crowded mesh of funny complications which...
...junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte was a natural trail head to the Pike's Peak country. While eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head...
Over hill & dale in the vicinity of Friedrichshafen one day soon will sail the big business-like Graf Zeppelin, this time bent on play. Zig-zagging here & there, ducking behind clouds, she will lay a trail of colored marks for a game of hare-&-hounds. The hounds will be motorists...
Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail. This time the thieves shot the bloodhounds...