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Dissipated Broker Harley Longstreet, to celebrate his engagement to Cherry Browne, gives a party at a New York Hotel. Longstreet's business-partner John De Witt, his wife and daughter, six other acquaintances attend. In spite of gin, the party is far from merry since nearly all the guests have particular reasons for hating their host. He invites them to continue the celebration at his West Englewood home. Because of a sudden shower they all board a crosstown trolley-car. Before they have gone two blocks Longstreet falls dead. In his coat pocket is found a ball of cork...
...enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder in South America keep the clues changing like chameleons. With the baffled sleuths, the reader is kept on pins & needles until Actor Lane, masking himself as dead Broker Longstreet, unmasks the murderer by a logical surprise...
...Confederate balloon was mounted on a barge in the James River. The barge ran aground and was promptly captured, balloon and all, by the Federals. "With it," wrote General Longstreet, "went the last silk dress of the Confederacy...
Stethoscope scientists swarmed to Portland, Ore., last week to attend the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a large proportion of pulmonary patients are public charges and every relapse doubles the original cost of care. The "cure to end the cure" costs comparatively little and has far reaching benevolent effects, according to figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...Henry Longstreet Taylor, president of National Tuberculosis Association LL. D. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg...