Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit; or, Nick Carter and the crook's double.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
The tallest couple in Pennsylvania were united in marriage a few days
ago in Lewistown. The bridegroom, George Schaffer, who stands six feet
seven inches in his stockings, achieved quite a reputation when he was a
member of the Allentown police as the tallest cop. The bride is Mrs.
Angie Kern, six feet two inches tall. Both parties are about forty years
of age.
Mrs. Schaffer is a prospective heiress if she can break the will of the
late Charles Losch, who left about $150,000 to be divided among
relatives. She produced a letter purporting to have been signed by
Losch, saying that if she would take care of him in his declining years
he would leave her his homestead in Allentown, valued at $12,000.
Schaffer says he often heard Losch say he would leave Mrs. Kern the
homestead.
The newlyweds have purchased a farm, and whatever the outcome of the
will contest, it will not affect their happiness. The bride says she
fell in love with her new husband because she detested walking around
with a man shorter than herself.
This Modest Inventor Would Stop World War.
“I can make the United States the strongest nation in the world. I can
end the European struggle in a short time. I can make the smallest
nation most powerful.”
This is the assertion of John Vogelzangs, of Menominee, Mich., an
inventor, who claims to have a method of extracting electricity from the
air so that air craft might be manned with powerful guns and not be
forced to land until they want to.
“I can sweep the seas clear of vessels. I can kill armies and level
cities,” claimed the inventor, who in the same breath asserted he
favored universal peace, but that the world was not ready for it.
He says Secretary Daniels’ plan for an advisory board is good.
He refused to give out much information about his new device. He said he
lacked money to carry on the work, and displayed a letter from Mr.
Daniels, written before the war broke out, saying this nation was not
ready to take up his ideas.
Vogelzangs has a reputation for being an inventor of ability. He made a
street cleaner, which he refused to sell for $10,000. He also claims he
will revolutionize the berry business with a new picker.
Walks on 113th Birthday.
Mrs. Edna G. Goldman, of Glamorgan, Va., celebrated her 113th birthday
by walking ten miles to the home of her son, Henry Goldman, at Pound,
Va.
Mrs. Goldman was born in Appomattox County, Va., in 1802. Despite her
age, she cultivates a small patch of land in corn and beans each year.
This year she is “farming” about two acres.
Flivver is Not Amphibious.
Edward Kirby, of Newton, N. J., erred in believing a flivver amphibious.
It is alleged that he stole the automobile at the Grand Hotel, Golden
Springs, and, when closely pursued by other automobiles, he ran the
flivver into the Delaware River, seeking to reach Pike County shore.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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