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...ESTHER IS VERY SICK GIVE THE MONEY TO UNCLE TO GET ESTHER BACK AS I DON'T CARE TO TALK TO HIM THIS IS THE ONLY CURE...
...puzzled Customs official, year ago, was a strange cablegram for Superfine Watch Co. of Manhattan to send its associate at Biel, Switzerland. The official was going through Superfine Co.'s correspondence to find out why it alone could sell imported watches at extraordinary cut rates. To learn more about "Esther," he ordered a U. S. secret agent in Italy to go to Biel, there to investigate one Marie Salzmann, recipient of the cablegram...
...agent obeyed, found Mile Salzmann to be aged 21, pretty, romantic. The agent also was young. Under the Swiss moon he made love to his victim. Presently he knew that "Esther" meant "shipment"; "uncle'' meant "Customs officer." "Money" therefore meant a bribe. He had unearthed a smuggling plot which had permitted at least $1,000,000 in watches to enter the U. S. free of duty, defrauding the Government of $350,000 a year...
...Died. Esther Singleton, author (A Guide to the Opera, Social New York Under the Georges, The Shakespeare Garden, The Story of the Universe, The Wild Flower Fairy Book), since 1923 editor of The Antiquarian; at Stonington, Conn...
...characteristic summer sound of the bay. They are light hulls equipped with motors transposed from old automobiles or bought from mail order houses. They raced at surprising speed, with spray streaming over their bows. Capt. Honest Evans won handily with the Rachel Jane, Capt. Ellwood Johnson second in the Esther Ralston...