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100 1 _aStratemeyer, Edward,
_d1862-1930
245 1 0 _aLarry Barlow's ambition
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-10
508 _aAaron Adrignola, Brian Wilsden, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Larry Barlow's Ambition" by Edward Stratemeyer is an adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Larry Barlow, a plucky orphaned machinist and volunteer fireman whose dream is to join the New York City Fire Department, balancing daring rescues with an invention of a powerful extension ladder and a budding mystery tied to his late father’s lost elevator patent and a girl he saves, Mary Vern. Expect brisk firefighting action, urban scrapes, and an undercurrent of intrigue as Larry tries to turn ambition into honorable service. At the start, Larry builds a model for a steel extension ladder, loses his machinist job after a run‑in with a bully, and makes a brief trip to New York where he’s thrilled by a fire run and overhears two men hinting at exploiting his missing father’s elevator invention. Back home he leads volunteers at a hotel blaze, rescues Mary Vern from a smoke-choked upper floor, and survives a dramatic leap into a net; her grateful father gives him an introduction to a fire commissioner. In the city, Larry is nearly drowned during a warehouse flood before being pulled out, secures entry into the fire department’s school of instruction, and finds a modest flat for himself and his sister. Meanwhile he defends a newsboy from a street bully, eavesdrops on a schemer (Martin Pollox) plotting around the elevator patent and name-drops Richard Vern—who is then reported killed—endures a waterfront ambush by local toughs, escapes a misguided arrest, and finally begins formal training before unexpectedly meeting Mary again in New York. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cAkron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1907
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFire fighters -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung men -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aFry, W. H.
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433091390702&view=1up&seq=7
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77209
999 _c117929
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