Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trailCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trail
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
“We got one fine picture,” said Eaton, “which we labeled ‘The Cherokee
Milkmaid.’ It attracted instant attention because of its artistic
merits and was published widely throughout the United States in both
newspapers and magazines. It was about a year afterward that this
young woman married Henry Starr.” Eaton says the young woman was a
school-teacher at the time and was boarding at the Starr home.
Boy Hero Saves Five Lives.
The heroism of Aaron S. Ashbrook, twelve years old, saved the lives
of his mother, his grandmother, two sisters, and his uncle, George
Ashbrook, when they were trapped in the second story of their burning
home in Cynthiana, Ky.
Escape was cut off by means of the stairway, and the little fellow
leaped from the second-story window, and, running to a barn, secured
a ladder, which he placed to the window, and the inmates of the house
escaped without injury, with the exception of Mrs. Mary Gray, the
aged mother of Mrs. Ashbrook, who fell from the ladder and was badly
injured. The house was totally destroyed.
Town of 4,000; No Post Office.
Although boasting of a population of almost 4,000, and with mail
business sufficient, it is said, to justify free delivery, Oilton,
Okla., the recent metropolis of the Cushing oil field, has no post
office. Residents have chipped in and employed men to sort the mail,
while some concerns have employed their own carriers.
Two months ago Oilton was an alfalfa field. To-day it is one of the
fastest-growing towns in the country. It is the southern terminus of
the recently completed Oil Belt Terminal Railroad.
It is a great sight when the mail comes in. If it is not raining, the
mail is sorted out in piles on the ground. Usually the entire populace
stands around watching the assorting of the mail.
The post office department has been requested to designate a post
office at Oilton.
Builds Town Near His Farm.
Because he raised 150,000 bushels of wheat in 1914 and needed a place
to market it without a haul of ten miles, Ben Foster, a large land
owner, of Colby, Kan., built a town of his own. He constructed an
elevator, a coal and lumber yard, and some houses to go with it. The
town was named Breton.
Boy Flags and Saves a Train.
An attempt to wreck an east-bound Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad passenger
train, near Eastbrook, W. Va., was frustrated by a boy, who flagged the
train in time to prevent it from running into an obstruction placed on
the track. A pile of ties had been placed on the track at the end of a
curve. Railroad police are investigating.
Boston Has Giant Lobster.
The great-great-grandfather of all lobsters--according to Mike
O’Donnell, who is an authority on such matters--has arrived in Boston,
Mass. It is on exhibition in a stall in the Quincy Market.
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