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The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane

Chapter 38: FRANK ARMSTRONG SERIES Twentieth Century Athletic Stories
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An energetic tale follows a ragged but determined youth who seeks entry to a workshop of young inventors after inheriting a box of plans. He proves himself by helping design and build an electric hydroaeroplane while the team confronts sabotage, stolen plans, mechanical crises, and daring sea and air rescues. Episodes send them to a fair and pit them against dishonest rivals and cronies, testing ingenuity, loyalty, and courage. The narrative balances technical description of devices with brisk adventure, highlighting problem-solving, persistence, and collaborative effort.

FRANK ARMSTRONG SERIES
Twentieth Century Athletic Stories

By MATHEW M. COLTON.

Cloth Bound. Illustrated. Price, 60c. per vol., postpaid

FRANK ARMSTRONG’S VACATION.

How Frank’s summer experience with his boy friends make him into a sturdy young athlete through swimming, boating, and baseball contests, and a tramp through the Everglades, is the subject of this splendid story.

FRANK ARMSTRONG AT QUEENS.

We find among the jolly boys at Queen’s School, Frank, the student-athlete, Jimmy, the baseball enthusiast, and Lewis, the unconsciously-funny youth who furnishes comedy for every page that bears his name. Fall and winter sports between intensely rival school teams are expertly described.

FRANK ARMSTRONG’S SECOND TERM.

The gymnasium, the track and the field make the background for the stirring events of this volume, in which David, Jimmy, Lewis, the “Wee One” and the “Codfish” figure, while Frank “saves the day.”

FRANK ARMSTRONG, DROP KICKER.

With the same persistent determination that won him success in swimming, running and baseball playing, Frank Armstrong acquired the art of “drop kicking,” and the Queen’s football team profits thereby.