Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
If any person in Pendleton County, Ky., needs a fourteen-passenger motor
car, it must be County Assessor John McClanahan. Well, he actually tried
to get his family all in a buggy recently and go to McKinneysburg
visiting. Everybody mistook them for a Sunday-school picnic party and
never knew any better until they were told that John McClanahan was
taking a section of the Christian Church congregation of McKinneysburg
to spend the day with relatives. Several tried to count them, but made
no headway, as one little fellow kept moving about so they could not
count him. Some made a good guess, and that was to the effect that he
had a buggy load.
John has run out of names and gone to numbering them. He has passed out
of the teens, but we don’t know where he started nor do we know or even
attempt to guess where he will stop.
To Make Compass on Watch.
A watch may be used to determine the points of the compass by pointing
the hour hand at the sun any time of the day and then placing a small
piece of straight wire crosswise between the hour hand and the figure
twelve, getting exactly halfway. The point of the wire which comes
between the twelve and the hour hand always points due south.
Shoots White Jack Rabbit.
A snow-white jack rabbit, shot in the big grazing district at Bazaar,
Kan., by Robert Carr, was a curiosity brought to Cottonwood Falls by
George Martin. According to old residents here, such a thing as a white
jack rabbit has never before been heard of. Carr, who shot the animal,
said it made a shining target against the green grass of the range, and
he would have been glad to have captured it alive.
Robbed by an Automobile.
A freak automobile accident here robbed J. L. Moore, seventy-five years
old, of his watch and Masonic charm. Mr. Moore was one of the thousands
of visitors attending the “fruit fair” at Salem, Ore. As he crossed the
street, an automobile brushed against him. He was knocked down. The
machine kept going, and with it was part of Mr. Moore’s waistcoat,
containing his watch and Masonic charm.
Look Out! Meteors Falling.
Jacob Weggen, of Muscatine, Iowa, narrowly escaped death from the skies
when a nine-pound fragment of meteorite, which exploded above him
embedded itself in the earth, within eight feet from him as he stood
bewildered by the phenomena.
Weggen was crossing the lawn when he observed a bright light in the
skies. He witnessed the approach of the aërolite and its explosion.
Bird Excites Missourians.
A strange bird that has been making its appearance on the Yeager farm,
three miles southwest of Gentry, Mo., is causing considerable comment
among the people of the vicinity. People who have seen the bird at close
range say it in no way resembles a parrot, but it calls as plainly as a
person could speak the words: “William Stevens--William Stevens.”
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