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In The Tower Treasure

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Franklin W. Dixon


A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…

VENICE—11 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT

In Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

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Charles Fish Howell


In this travelog, the author takes us on a tour of European cities, giving snapshots at given times of the day from midday til midnight.

Just a Few

In Westy Martin on the Santa Fe Trail

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Percy Keese Fitzhugh


Mr. Madison C. Wilde, Field Manager of Educational Films, has engaged young Westy Martin, the so-called best scout since Buffalo Bill, to ac…

Chapter VI

In Why We Love Music

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Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

Birds of the Nor’easter

In Wood Wanderings

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat.…

The Wichita Falls Bank Robbery and Murder

In Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform

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Albert Bigelow Paine


"William Jesse "Bill" McDonald (1852 - 1918) in the 1880s served as a deputy sheriff in Wood County. After moving to Hardeman…

Chapter 6, UNDER FALSE COLOURS

In Gun Running for Casement

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Karl Spindler


Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…

Snackley

In The House on the Cliff (Version 2)

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Franklin W. Dixon


The house had been vacant and was supposed to be haunted. Mr. Hardy started to investigate - and disappeared! (From an old ad)This the secon…

Chapter Fifteen

In North by Night

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Peter Burchard


This story opens on St. Helena Island in July 1863. It is fiction but the battle and prison experiences of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford are b…

Chapter 19

In Ran Away to Sea

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Thomas Mayne Reid


"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Colonel Lane Goes Off Guard

In The Thirteenth Man

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Mrs. Coulson Kernahan


Philip Barrimore is driven to distraction by his uncle, who has taken up residence in his mother's home. Against all advice, he takes a cott…

10 - The Long Sway Of The Ho-jo Clan

In History of Japan In Words of One Syllable

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Helen Ainslie Smith


A simplified history of the country of Japan, from ancient Prehistoric times to the late 19th century, written chiefly in words of one sylla…