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Full Title
The Bradys and Jockey Joe; or, Crooked Work at the Race Track and other stories / by a New York Detective.
Author
New York Detective.
Contributor
Doughty, Francis W. (Francis Worcester), d. 1917. St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889. Fox, Tom.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1918-01-04
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Secret Service Old and Young King Brady, Detectives > no. 989
Source
Dime Novels and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Secret Service Old and Young King Brady Detectives, no. 989, January 4, 1918. Crooked Work at the Race Track. Down and out; or, The boy who worked his nerve / by Percy B. St. John. Boy who worked his nerve Leader of the school; or, Jack Judson--hero / by Tom Fox. Jack Judson--hero The three letters.
Topic
Dime novels > Specimens. Detective and mystery stories, American > Periodicals.
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SECRET SERVICE.
NEWS OF |
SAILORS ROPE ARCTIC DEER
Meatless days aboard the steamer Alaska, Seattle,
Wash., recently from an eventful trip up the Yukon,
will be unknown for some time.
Sailors, standing in the bow of the vessel, roped a
number of caribou, or Arctic deer, which constantly
swam around the vessel as she plied her way up-
stream,
A big herd was encountered a mile from Bagle
City, on the w ay to Fairbanks, and furnished great
sport for the crew. Another herd, numbering about
10,000, will appear’ shortly at a point near Dawson,
say hunters who have been following them.. There
will be plenty of meat here this winter.
SQUIRREL AND HEN.
An alliance has been formed between one of Audi-
tor George W. Stoner’s squirrels in the Court House
yard, Jeffersonville, Ind., and one of Sheriff Will
Long’ s.hens, involuntary perhaps on the part, of the
former.
For the benefit of the squirrel an ear of corn was
hung on the bough of a tree near the Court House
door, 12 feet or so from the ground. The squirrel
would feast here and when it did so the hen would
take up her station at the foot of the tree and eat
that part of the grain rejected by the squirrel.
The squirrels will come into the Court House and
take nuts from the Auditor or most of the other offi-
cials and attaches of the place. Occasionally the
nut expert is tried with a bad one, but after a twist
or two in its paws the bad nut is rejected.
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: SOLDIERS: DRIVE RABBITS.
When 4,000 men of the Minnesota and South Da-
kota units at Camp Cody, Deming, N. M.; went on a
-big jack-rabbit “drive” recently, the mule-eared,
‘long-legged pests of the Southwest encountered, but
failed to check, one,of the most vigorous attacks they
have met since the days of the Mexican War, ac-
cording to Ario Bartholomew, a Minneapolis man
with the 135th Infantry (First Minnesota).
_A quick hunt over an arca about five miles square
brought down nearly 1,000 rabbits. The soldiers
‘scattered over the desert and drove the animals into
-the center where:they were clubbed.
Besides jack rabbits the country near Camp Cody
-is alive with many kinds of animals and reptiles,
including deer, quail, sage hens, goats, mountain tar-
antulas, centipedes, scorpions and rattlesnakes. Gila
monsters and horn toads also discourage the soldiers
in their desire to tramp about barefooted.
THE DAY
MISTOOK BIG FISH.
Fred Radspinner of Aurora, an enlisted man in
the United States navy, who has been in Shelbyville,
Ind., visiting an uncle and aunt, related an inter-
esting. tale of a voyage across the Atlantic with a
merchant vessel since the opening of the war., The
ship on which he was assigned carried 8, 000 tons
of gasoline.
The vessel slipped away from this country fat. /
night and was guarded for,a time by an American |
patrol boat, Radspinner says. Thirteen days after
leaving this country the vessel was picked up by an ©
English patrol boat near the coast of Ireland. .Whei
nearing Lands End the vessel was caught in a heavy
fog, and when it lifted the’American ship found it-,.
self surrounded by ships from every nation except
Germany. a
Here it was that a real thrill was experienced.
The watch reported a submarine following. It was
later found that the submarine was a large fish that
had crossed the bow of the vessel, leaving in its wake
a trail resembling that of an underwater craft.
The American vessel was finally steered behind .
the submarine net at Falmouth. Then the voyage
was resumed to Portsmouth, and there was convoyed ~
by an English destroyer to France, where the. cargo
was unloaded.
OUR SAVINGS AND OUR ARMY. we,
“Our gallant men in the field will do the fighting
with true American valor, but the responsibility
rests upon you and me and every other citizen. of
the United States who is notin active field service
to provide them with the equipment and machines
to enable them to fight successfully.
“Valor alone is not going to destroy the Kaiser
and military despotism. We must have organization ,
back of it.
patriot.
“The value of the war-savings plan consists not
alone in the amount of money. which the people of
the United States may lend to their Government
upon the certificates which are sold, but also in the
Every man in this country must be a’
lesson which will be taught, in the habits of thrift —
that will be inculcated as a result of it. What this
will mean in conserving the resources of America is
inestimable. What this will mean in the future
economy of, America is incalculable.
“Victory can only be won by the valor of our sol- .
diers, combined with the intelligent use of our re-
sources. Savings and economy enlarge the available
resources 6f the country’ for war, and the industry
of the people is necessary to put these resources in _
the form which will enable our soldiers to use them,
with victorious -effect upon: the battle fronts.”—
From speech of Secretary McAdoo,
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