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Poisoned and shot!
THE FILM MYSTERY. By Arthur 3.

THE FILM MYSTERY. BY Arthur B.
Reeve Harper & Bros
That remarkable scientific detective,
Prof Craig Kennedy, has been at 1t
again; this time in the entirely con-
genial field of the moving picture
world. Naturally the story moves
with rapid. Kaleidoscope shifts. com
plex big sets" Fclose-ups." and ma.
terial enough for half a dozen ordi-
nary hve-reel films. Who poisoned
the supremely beautiful, temperament
tai leading lady while she was con-
fronting the camera, in the banker 8
library where they were shooting
THE Black Terror? Just how was
she poisoned. and why? These are
the truly puzzling problems whose
solution makes job difficult even for
the. super-scientiflc detective and mis-
devoted newspaper assistant. A. Sec
ond murder. several attempts. and an
incendiary fire are thrown In for good
measure.
IL IS admirably worked out. The
reader who plays fair and sternly re-
fuses to look at the last page until he
reaches X in due course will have n
hard time in making a successful
guess as to which of nine or ten "sus-
poets" Is the fiendishly intelligent
murderer Mr.. Reeve plays up first
one. then another OF these possibilities
other movie actors and actresses.
the angel banker. the promoter. the
victims divorced husband. and a di-
rector or two-with clever plausiblity,
Interviewing the various lines with
great skill. And the solution. when IL
does come. Is entirely logical. The re-
suit Is one OF the best of detective-
mystery yarns. from the standpoint Of
construction. II Is fashionable to re-
gard the genre with superior tolera-
ton. but II any one thinks II Is really
easy--let him try 10 do II.
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like "The kid" with Charlie Chaplin
left out Poe's story is Bon Bon." 1t
Is of the essence of the humor
Poesque. 1t is bit intellectual, hence
not to the popular taste in These
States.
Washington Irving figures in the
book with his "The Devil and Tom
Walker" The Germans are repre-
sented by Wilhelm Hauff. From the
Memoirs of Satan" There are Gogors
st. Johns Eve" Caballero's 1.-The
DEVILS Mother-in-Law."' Baudelaire's
"The Generous Gambler" Daudet's
The Three Low Masses" "The Devils
Round" a Flemish golf story, Guy de
Maupassant's famous The Legend of
Mont st. Michel" Richard Garnett's
The Demon Pope" also his MA
dame Lucifer"; the "Lucifer" of Ana
tole France. Besides which you can
feed up on His Satanic Majesty from
the pages of Masefield, Gorky and
Francis Oscar Mann.
For reasons that are as self-eyident
as the Declaration of independence
Boccaccio, Balzac and Rabelais do not
figure In these pages. Mark Twain
"The Mysterious Stranger"-oneo of the
greatest stories ever written-is too
long for inclusion.
What is your special taste in Devils
Ian this book there are Devils fasci-
mating and fearful; Devils powerful
and picturesque; Devils serious and
humorous; Devils pathetic and comic; ;
Devils fantastic and satiric Devils
gHewsome and grotesque.
A book that the late James Huneker
would have priced
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TN the big summer villa overlook
Ing the sea lived Judge" Crane
= with his invalid wife and the
usual number Of servants. Also there
were guests by the week or by the
afternoon. and a background of New
England villagers. Any one who wants
to know the resulting detective story
had best read the book; he viii find
well constructed. plot, with all the
strands carefully woven and neatly
tied. The Incidents are sufficiently ex-
citing 70 produce what the Freudians
would call an unconscious repression
Of the going to bed instinct.
The chief pleasure of the book, how
ever. is its vivid and delightful char
acter drawing. The Judge super
ficially mere oil promoter and mill
ion singer, turns out upon acquaint-
ance to be strong and kindly man,
with a romantic love for his wife,
human interest in his servants and
thorough loyalty to his friends. A
man who can admit that he has been
a fool and lose no ones respect and
liking. Also the villain. who plays
his sneaking little game with con-
sistent and soul satisfying yellowness
Of mind This is no cheap record OF
comeuppance thrust upon the deep
dyed rascal by the clever detective.
but of the much more real situation In
which a man slips down from weak
ness to theft from theft to sneaking.
from sneaking 10 drunkenness, and so
to treachery and violence and fu-
tility.
And there is the girl: she is a real
person. too. of a very different sort.
With "A mind Of her own, and very
clear idea of what is clean and ad-
mirable. with a charm which. thank
Heaven. is not dimmed by any inept
illustration; a class A girl, very well
worth falling in love with. Ard Dan
forth Crane. the old young man. VIII.
played for his great stake and lost,
and who made a fool of himself
through force OF circumstances, and
who set out 10 do murder and found
to his chagrin that he was too whit
TO do IL good old Dan" as the girl
called him. he man and one TO
tie TO.
Oh, one might go on all the way
down the list to Samuel Thorpe, the
meddler, and Louis. the gardener; II
Is the same with all the people who
come in sight, They are not part of
the scenery: but each one is alive
and Is. to himself, the most exciting
event in the universe. This capacity
for seeing every human being as Il
real independent focus Of life Is un-
ouestionably OF more value In an au-
thor than much facility In handling
words
Mr.. Payne's story might easily have
been the ordinary thing; with society
folk and unfailing millions of stage
money a writer has all the materials
for the cheapest form of literature
that afflicts our language: with
atrocious proof reading and what
looks like an occasional slip into ordi-
nary bad grammar, he might easily
disgust the reader who is familiar
with good English. But the people
are real folks. il is pleasure 10
know them, and one leaves them with
real regret and hope that they
or others of their breed will happen
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ker. and the mysterious Christine
OMara, whose real identity cannot be
hidden long from the perception OF
the inveterate reader Of criminal fic-
ton.
Mr.. Lyeli's method is to tell the
tale in the favorite manner of Willzie
Collins, three Of the chief characters
narrating its events. Since all Scots
men love to talk at length this leads
to story of 497 pages; yet to it's
credit it must be said II does not seem
as long as that number might imply.
The mystery serving as the back
ground for the tale is as to whether
1t really was Nicholas Langworthy or
his brother James who was killed in
the railway accident at the Elspeth
curve, the solution of which we leave
the reader to discover for himself. II
is in the home OF either one or the
other of these men that Maria Lang
worthy dwells and i'm which is COM
posed. rehearsed and played the comic
opera. whose invention has obviously
given Mr. Lyell much pleasure. 1t
is also in this home that the plot re-
wolves and thickens. out OF which
marry iiasildIu gus " ilis dSdtH' anu
in which mysterious walls and doors
heighten the gruesome effect Of the
story. We protest it is mo fair" 20
give us the impression that Hanlish
Stuart never saw Maria again after
the tragic death of Harry Haviland
and then to have him marry her at
last. And that Nicholas Langworthy
could come to the end he does in this
tale Is stretching credulity even in
criminal fiction, to the breaking point.
As for Christine's return. that is as
outrageous an assault on the probabil-
tiles as Is the last act of "Trovatore"
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pany.
~ OYALTY in exile. dukes in dis
* guise and unfathomable Sc
crets that must not be told
have in the past played too prominent
a part irf novels That they have not
been entirely neglected by the present
day novel Is demonstrated by THE
Splendid Folly" Much Of the OLD
melodramatic paraphernalia is re-
vived in this book we have the hus-
band whose past is a mystery, who
frankly acknowledges that 1t Is a mys-
terry but who asks trustfulness of his
wife: we have the sinister woman with
a Russian name who Is constantly Is
suing enigmatic warnings to the wife;
we have the suspicious other woman"
an actress who with the most tactlesa
insistency is calling the husband from
the very arms of his spouse.
With such entanglements as a be-
ginning, we can naturally expect some
very delightful quarrels, separations
and reconciiations. and we are pro-
vided with all three in the antici-
pated proportions. The wife leaves the
husband. since he will not reveal his
secret; later she learns 1t was one
he could not disclose, since 1t involved
the safety of others: and then there
is the Indispensable fearful reunion,
when the wife declares passionately
that she will sacrifice her art, forget
that she has 'the finest voice i'm Eu-
rope" and follow her husband where
duty calls him, back from England
TO his native Ruvania.
All this we are expected to accept
as plausiblel We are expected to be-
lieve that the husband was at the
beck and call of the actress because
she had been left in his charge years
before that ne weuld be so abyssmally
stupid as to declare solemniy to his
wife that he had a secret, without
mentioning what that secret was; that
ne should be prompted by the shadowy
summons OF an obscure duty to at
tempt to renounce the woman he loves
and return to that unmapped king
dom, Ruvania. To be brutalIy frank.
the book is unconvincing; the ulti-
mate explanation of the mystery
seems n mere makeshift. In order to
make the novel successful that mys-
terry should perhaps have been ex-
planned at the outset: in other words,
there should have been no mystery at
all; the reader should have been taken
into the authors confidence. In that
case, the effect OF mflodrama might
possibly have been avoided.
This is not to imply that the book
IL without merit. II has the obvious
advantage OF being entertaining: In
those places where the situations do
not seem unreal IL Is absorbingly in
teresting. And much that the plot
lacks is atoned for by the character
delineations. which are vivid and ef-
fective. Baroni. the irascihle old
music master. Errington, the husband,
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Adventures in
central China

IN RED AND GOLD. BY Samuel Mer-
win. The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Mr.. Merwin's newest story is note
worthy In several respects: it is pri-
marily an encrossing tale OF adventure
in central China at the time OF the
beginning of the Chinese revolution,
with a Manchu princess as heroine
and the colossal American. Griggsby
Doane. an American missionary. as
leading man, surrounded BY a compre-
hensive assortment of peculiar. cosmo-
politan characters. But II IS rather
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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
By ELSIE c. n. de FESTET1CS.

A lazy boat upon a limpid stream,
A hook and line made golden by
the sun and like a CLEAN
Dimpling through the cool. green
depths below,
And so
He reads the book that lzaak Wal
ton wrote long, long ago.
A sweet, green shore, stream
that, moving slow,
Tells of the iewelled, spangled
things called fish that flash
below;
A gilded hook and line athwart
this bliss,
And so
lie reads the book that Izaak Wal
ton wrote long, long ago.
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DETECTIVE AND DEVIL TALES

at times passionate. at times bitterly
ironic; Jerry the cheerful and incon-
sequential secretary-these and 4
dozen others we can see as plainly
as the actors in a play we witness.
Most distinct of all perhaps. is
Diana Errington. the central charac-
ter. who, unlike some heroines. has
the saving grace of being not entirely
charming; the bitterness with which
she at times speaks and her frequent
distrust of the motives of others stamp
her as not altogether admirable 1t
is redeeming feature of the book
that she does not resemble the hero
ines Of other sentimental novels In
being either a seraph or "A mere
ethereal essence.
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A HEN Mr. Revis was found
wv dead in his bed with a neat
bullet hole through his skull
it appeared that nearly half the in
habitants of Washington had reasons
enough to have justified the deed.
The mystery was: Who beat the
others 70 il? And incidentally who
stole the information. you know, the
papers? Not that the papers seem
to have made any difference to any
body in the end but you know how
diplomats regard such things; sort of
like the colors OF regiment in a
battle. Well, anyway, nobody was
willing to take the credit Of eliminate
ing the estimable Mr. Revis: so Mr.
Darden had to spend the best part of
a week glooming around the heroine
in an effort to persuade her TO tell
who did it.
While he is so occupied the reader
will make up his own mind on>tw
or three different candidates I'm success
sion. But at the end OF the contest
when all the cast are gathered to-
gether for Mr.. Darden to pin the rose
on the winner you1l be surprised
Why. of course! You might have
known that all along. There is a
mathematical formula for spotting
who's got the thumbprint in any de-
tective story. but IL wouldn't be fair
to tell what 1t is. Perhaps nobody
knows what it is. That's apt to be
the case with mystic formulas.
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SQUARE. BY W. Il. LyelL @. p.
Putnam's Sons.
Reviewed by w. B. MCCORMICK.
OSSESSED of sound knowl-
edge Of Scottish criminal law,
pretty taste In comic opera
plots and native ability 10 write
lyrics of pure British operetta brand.
the author of The House in Queen
Anne SQUARE" has combined these ele-
ments in n tale Of criminal mystery
that, while decidedly entertaining, is
lamentably weak in the development
OF its plot. Few homes In fiction can
equal In generous hospitality the
habitation that Is the scene OF this
tale wherein dweils Christopher Lang
worthy, "the world famed philanthro-
pist,' his fascinating and febrile
daughter, Maria; the valet, Saul Par
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M liminary work by means of
her domestics-rain and wind
lin cleaning house for summer, it
seems little early to begin TO talk
Of Hammock" reading One must talk
of II. however. If such book appears.
One has appeared-it Is Mr.. STAG
pooles new fiction--and it can be
recommended highly for hammock
reading.
The reading that goes under this
title is often discouraging; a special
kind is required-books that are well
written. not silly. and neither soporific
nor exciting. satan" fulfils both the
positive and negative needs. IT will be
seen, we wager, on many yacht table
and under many Mexican hammock;
hut before IL reaches either spot II will
have been read The story is too anus
ing and too well done not to be read.
In the first place it is made up Of
delightful contradictions: IL tells of a
treasure hunt and no treasure Is found.
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Bo ok Exch ange

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complete libraries and small lots of hooks.
Encyclopaedia Britannica. II edition, Book
of knowledge and sets Of standard authors
particularly wanted. Calls made anywhere.
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Phone SOso Cortlandt.
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Brutal fighting
on this ocean
A MAN TO HIS MATE. BY ]. Allan
Dunn. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Mer-

- 4hThAN ~ mo Mn ny +hAttAh
Dunn. Indianapolis The Bobbs-M Mer-
ril Company.
THERE is phrase OF Stevenson's
that invariably comes to mind
or reading such sea tale as
"A Man to His Mate" II Is his refer
ence to one part Of The Wrecker."
being "as blood bespattered ~ the
pages Of an epic" Fights and blood
letting. revenge and cruelties are the
chief incidents and motives Of this tale
Of a San Francisco ship news reporter
being shanghaied aboard sealing
schooner and carried or Ia Alaskan
waters.
The ships mission was TO gather q
harvest of surface gold washed down
to the beach Of remote island IN the
Arctic Sea. The ships company in
ciude villainous doctor. the captain
of the schooner. who is made the tool
OF the doctor; former partner OF
the captains named Lund and the
aforesaid reporter. Also the captains
daughter. who furnishes love interest
and an impossible climax.
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BOOKS-over I 100000 IN stock. All SUBJ
jects. Second hand and New on Approval.
Rare Books and Sets OF Authors. Catalogue
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Plots, more plots
and counterplOts
THE INTRIGUERS BY William

THE INTRIGUERS. BY William lie
QueuX. Macaulay Company.
A <R. LIE QUEUX hasb been tick
N II eted by the English critics
" as the Master of Mystery,
and he has done much to earn the
title. but this story can hardly De
called mysterious. Ii is, however. ex-
cellently intriguing; very skilfully
built system of plots Tnd counter
plots of a good, old fashioned. melo-
dramatic type. consistently carried out
and holding ones interest from start
to finish, although the hardened novel
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RARE CONS porGHT ANp SOLID.

3uying list 10c. Retail list 4c. ANCIENT
COLOMBIAN POTTERY EOR SALE
ELDER CURlO STORE, 81 W. 35th St., n u.
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Mrs. Victor Rickard
Can you find
the murderer?

THE UNLIGHTED HOUSE. BY James
Hay, Jr Dodd, Mead & Co.
w THEN Mr.. Revis was found
wv dead in his bed with a neat
bullet hole through his skull
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GOOD CHARACTER
DRAWING IN THIS
M Ell 0 D r A M A
Reviewed by DAVID COYLE.

OVERLOOK HOUSE. By Will Payne.
Dodd, Mead II Co.
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Mystery and
comic opera

THE HOUSE IN QUEEN ANNE
SQUARE. BY W. II. LyelL q. p.
Putnam's Sons
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Royalty in exile
dukes in disguise

THE SPLENDID FOLLY. BY Mar
garet Pedler. George II. Doran Com
pany.
~ OYALTY in exile. dukes in dis
* guise and unfathomable Sc
crets that must not be told
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Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.
BY Fl. De We're 5
Robert NJ. McBi de & Co.

TfILE Spring is doing her pre-
" iminary work by means of
her domestics-rai and wind
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CLAIBORNE ANNAPOLIS FERRY. Inc
IN EFFECT FEBRUARY I. 1921

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1900 a. Vi.
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FRIDAYS
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% regular morning trip.
Leave Annap0liS 500 A. a.. Satur-
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SCNEkIs
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HONOR ROLL
LINKWOOD SCHOOL
For March

For March
Names according to rank in
school
Mary English aid Ruth Stevens,
81 2-7; Helen Harper, 90 23; Earle
Christopher and Lucille Asmussen,
95; Robert Raleigh, 90 2-3; Cyril
Asmussen, 90 Is; Milhient Reed,
90 II; James Coates and Sarah
Smith 90.
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MRS. HAYDOCK
SAVED FROM
AN OPERATION
Followed Advice of Her
Druggists Wife and Took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Chicago, I'LL was in bed with a
female trouble and inflammation and
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Seward Items

We are glad to report the re-
building of our church and expect
it to be stronger than ever.
MI. and Mrs. E. H. Seward ac-
companiod by Miss Grace Shorter,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Robbins
on Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Craig Lowe and fam
lily spent Sunday with Mrs. Loves
mother, Mrs. Joseph Insley, who is
still on the sick list.
Mr.. Mitchell Shorter is spending
the week as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Wingate at their home.
Gypsy Hill farm, near Cambridge.
Messrs. Edward and Leonard FL
Zey visited this place on Sunday.
We are sorry to report an epidemic
of mumps in this locality, cases hay
ing been reported from the homes of
Mr.. and Mrs Garfield Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Insley and Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Shorter.
Old Sport is still trying to tlirt
around with the young girls but in
spite Of all Of his sprucing up he
still looks like an old married man.
Reporter.
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'sCold i'm the Head

Is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh
Those subject to frequent colds in the
CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the
System, cleanse the Blood and render
them less liable to colds. Repeated at
tacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to
Chronic Catarrh
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is
taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys-
tenn, thus reducing the Inflammation and
restoring normal conditions.
All Druggists Circulars free.
F. ]. Cheney & Co. Toledo. Ohio.
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Woman's Club OF Vienna

Dr. Edward +. Lamkin addressed
the Woman's Club of Vienna; Mrs.
Marie Hodson, hostess at the Wom-
ans Club. Friday afternoon March
21st, from 3 to 5.
1t was by far one of the most in
teresting and pleasant meetings that
has ever been held since the open
ing of the Club.
Dr. Edward f. Lamkin's address
on. Saw 1t Alive was enjoyed by
everyone. Mrs. Pardee's story. a
description of 'Hiawiatha" was ably
rendered. After the program delici-
Gus refreshments were served. The
meeting then adjourned, everyone
having spent a most enjoyable after
noon.
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Don't fail to attend the B. Y. p.
T., social, Friday night-a good
time is in store for everyone. Meet
us there-good things to eat.
Madame" said Dusty Rhodes
politely, could you entertain a prop
osition?"
Il could " answered the firm lady,
pointing to the rug on clothes line.
EITHER beat at or beat it,
Waterbury Republican.
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had occasion to take it again as l have
been so well. | have a six room fat
and do all my work. My two sisters
are taking the Compound upon my rec
ommendation and you may publish my
letter. 1t is the gospel truth and will
write to any one who wants personal
letter. Mrs. F. H. HAYDOCK, 1924
St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago Illinois.
Because Lydia f. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound saved Mrs. Haydock
from an operation we cannot claim that
all operations may be avoided by it.
but many women have escaped oper-
atoms by the timely use of this old fash
Toned root and herb medicine.
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PRINTING FACILITIES

I'VE are faced with one of our
ost serious currency problems,
explained the Bolshevist financial Of
ficer.
whats the trouble?" inquired his
colleague. rs our money still de-
preciating?"
Worse than that. The press
men have gone on strike. Wash
in ptOn Star
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AUTO REPAIs SHOP

Having completed my new auto
mobile repair shop, which adjoins my
garage on High street, am now
ready for all kinds Of work. Mr..
Edward J.. Meredith, one Of the best
automobile machinists who has ever
worked at the business will be III
charge. Give me a trial.
Phone 562 IcINIE SLACUM
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ndu Jour IttL OI > buL
none of them did me
any good. They all
said | would have to
have an operation.
A druggist S wife
told me to take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
| took p bottles,
never missing a dose
and at the end of that
time | was perfectly
well I have never
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CLOSING NOTICE

Until further notice my store will
open at 8 A. NJ. and close at 5 p NJ
44-3t IL. T.. EANE.
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NOTICE

1 have opened an automobile rad
iator repair shop in the rear of my
home, 217 High street; pTempt at
tention and work g laranteed.
4I4-6t Nm. L. JONES.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-05-13

Bile are right here In Portal City {:
Hatch, the president Of Red Tower,
and Henckel. its vice-president. They
say either Of them would commit muir
der for ten-dollar bill, and they stand
In with Pete Clanahan, the city boss,
and his gang of political thugs. That's
all, Graham all but one thing. Write
me after you've climbed into the sad
die and have found out just what
you're in for. If you say You can
make it go, I'll back you, IL 1t takes
half Of next years wheat crop"
When the special had become black
smudge of coal smoke in the distance,
Mr.. Norcross turned on me with the
grim little smile that goes with his
lighting mood.
sYou are private secretary to the
new general manager Of the Pioneer
Short Line, Jimmie, and your salary
begins to-day" he said, briskly. Now
let's go up to the hotel and get our
fighting clothes on"