Nick Carter Stories No. 150, July 24, 1915: The House of Fear; or, Nick Carter's Counterstroke.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 150, July 24, 1915: The House of Fear; or, Nick Carter's Counterstroke.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
A young rabbit found by Arthur Keen, who lives east of Gentry, Mo., a
few days ago, was taken home and placed in a nest of young kittens of
nearly the same size and age as the rabbit. The mother cat quietly
adopted the little stranger, seeming to think as much of it as she did
of her own offspring. The little rabbit seems perfectly satisfied with
its new mother, and is as lively and playful as the kittens.
Magnet Picks Up Nails.
This device has been invented to take the place of the hardware man’s
scoop. It is only necessary to thrust the hand magnet into a mass of
nails and touch a button, which turns on the electric current. The nails
cling to the magnet and may be lifted to the scales or wherever desired.
After a little practice in manipulating the magnet, the operator can
gauge closely as to the number of pounds of nails he desires to lift. As
can be seen, this is easier than trying to pick up a handful or scoopful
of eightpenny nails.
Work for Thirty-five Thousand in Kansas.
A call for thirty-five thousand harvest hands has been sent out by the
Kansas free-employment bureau. Last year forty-two thousand harvesters
found work in Kansas. The acreage is slightly less than a year ago, but
the prospects for an enormous crop are unusually good.
Find New Name for "Nuts."
"The strenuous life of business men," says an eminent physician, "is
causing New Yorkitis. For one insane man in our asylums there are ten
outside. New Yorkitis," he says, "is a mild form of insanity. It is
caused by irregular working hours, nonhygienic surroundings, and too
much rush. Unregulated work isn’t the only thing that’s the matter with
New Yorkers," says the doctor.
"They eat too much. As for exercise, they take practically none. Up to
forty, we have decreased the death rate. But what is happening after
forty? The death rate is increasing by leaps and bounds. Organic
diseases, those affecting the kidneys and the heart, the blood vessels
and the nerves, are enormously on the increase."
New Typewriter Appliance.
The day of the unhandy hand method of pulling or pushing back the
typewriter carriage and spacing the paper on the roll at the end of each
line is to be ended for some people, for A. W. Wing, a court reporter,
of Chicago, Ill., has just secured a patent for a machine which
accomplishes both movements with a slight movement of the foot.
Wing believes his apparatus will add almost as much again efficiency to
a typewriter as at present, as the machine will save both time and
strength. He has several models working.
Resolved to Die in Deserted City.
Living only in the memory of a distant past, isolated from the rest of
the world, yet living in a city of a thousand homes, sitting idly hour
by hour at the front of a small saloon where twenty years ago prosperity
and excitement were on every hand, Sam Bolger, former Topeka bartender,
later an adventurer, gambler, and Colorado saloon owner, is residing in
the deserted mining town of Gillette, Col.
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