Nick Carter Stories No. 137, April 24, 1915: The Seal of Gijon; Or, Nick Carter's Ice-House FightCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 137, April 24, 1915: The Seal of Gijon; Or, Nick Carter's Ice-House Fight
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
All the herdsmen in the neighborhood take their horns and repeat the
words. This often continues a quarter of an hour, while on all sides
the mountains echo the name of God. A solemn stillness follows, every
individual offers his secret prayer on his bended knees, and with
uncovered head. By this time it is quite dark. “Good night!” trumpets
forth the herdsman on the loftiest summit. “Good night!” is repeated on
all the mountains from the horns of the herdsmen and the clefts of the
rocks.
UNDESIRABLE ROOM.
At first sight it would seem that it must be an unreasonable man who
would find fault with a house because it had one more room than was
mentioned in the advertisement; but first sight is not always the best
sight.
A real-estate agent sent a customer to look at a five-roomed house,
that being just the size he professed to want. The house proved to
be sadly out of repair, and the prospective tenant went back to the
agent’s office.
“I didn’t want a six-roomed house,” he said.
“That isn’t a six-roomed house,” answered the agent.
“Yes, it is.”
“But I say it is not.” And the agent began counting. “There’s the
kitchen, dining room, reception room, and two bedrooms. That’s five,
isn’t it?”
“Yes, but there’s the room for improvement, and that’s bigger than
any of the others,” said the facetious customer. “Can’t you show me
something else?”
THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
Store Water in Highest Dam.
Storage of water has begun at Arrow Rock Dam, the highest in the
world, in the Boise reclamation project, which will reclaim an area in
southeastern Idaho three times as great as the crop acreage of Rhode
Island.
Will Tango Way Into Navy.
David Keller, aged twenty-one, applied for enlistment in the navy at
the Evansville, Ind., United States naval recruiting station, and was
rejected because of his weight. Recruiting Officer Muelchi told the
young man to go home and dance the tango a few weeks or until he had
reduced his weight, and then to come back and he would take him into
the navy. Muelchi says that tango dancing is the greatest flesh reducer
in the world, as he has tried it. Keller returned to his home in
Poseyville, and says he is going to dance the tango with every girl in
that town.
High Honor Won by French Airman.
Official announcement is made that Adolphe Pegoud, the famous French
aviator, has received the military medal, the highest honor within the
gift of the government.
The announcement says that Pegoud “on several occasions pursued enemy
aëroplanes, and on February 2d attacked at a great height and caused
the fall of a German machine. Soon afterward he attacked two other
aircraft, causing the first to fall and the second to land.”
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