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Chapter 16

In Gold Hunting in Alaska

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Joseph Grinnell


In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…

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…

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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…

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…

The Foundering of the “Titanic”

In The Truth about the Titanic

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Archibald Gracie


Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously…

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In The Hope of Happiness

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Meredith Nicholson


A hot and sultry day in the mid-west finds Bruce Storrs trying to cool off and clear his head. He has received a troubling death-bed letter …

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…

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 …

The Day that Summer Came Back

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.…

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…

A Plan of Action

In The Secret of the Old Mill (Version 2)

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Franklin W. Dixon


Frank and Joe solve the case of a counterfeiting ring, after Mrs. Hardy took some from a stranger. A tale full of thrills! This is third boo…

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…