Detective Busdorf Tracks German Bank Robber to New York
In Myslowitz a bank cashier dies during a New Year robbery by Julius Woolwich. Berlin detective Otto Busdorf, famed for his persistence, tailed Woolwich from Myslowitz through Halle and Bremen to Southampton and then aboard the St Louis toward New York. Through wireless coordination with ships, Busdorf located Woolwich in irons on the Zeitan in New York harbor and arrested him, returning home to resume his cornet playing.
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Myslowitz
Germany
Russia
Markowski Bank
Franz Onoil
Anoil
Anoll
Busdorf
Julius Woolwich
Silesia
Poland
Woolwich
Ruedorf
Myslowicz
Halle
Prussian
Saxony
Church of Our Lady
Moritzburg
University of Halle
Cain
Bremen
America
Zeitan’s
Berlin
Jeitan
New York
American Line
St. Louis
Southampton
Phinias Fogg
Jamison
Mariner
Catania
Liverpool
Zeitan
Mner
Ancona
Zeften
Virginia
St. Louie
Posed as Woman for 35 Years Chevalier D Eon De Beaumont Life Recalled
The Chevalier D Eon De Beaumont lived 1728 to 1810 and for thirty five years dressed as a woman at the French court and in London. A new English translation of D Eon De Beaumont His Life and Times revisits his life from St Petersburg to Paris and London. The question of his sex sparked wagers, court debates, and public exhibitions of fencing before his death in 1819.
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Chevalier D’eon de Beaumont
London
France
Chevalier
St. Petersburg
D’hor
St. Peterspurg
Marshal Broglio
Rhine
Duke d{ Nivernois
Duke de Nivernois
England
Lord Mansfield
Want
Church of
St. Pancreas
Joan of Arc
Chevalier P’hon
Horace Walpole
Full-grown elephants and burdens contrasted in limits
A full-grown elephant can carry three tons on its back, yet unlike a man with a large family, it is not always required to bear that load. The comparison highlights varying expectations and physical capacities across contexts.
Rhodesian dangers and the legends of the Hons and Mwamba
Poetor Dunbar-Brunton recounts northeastern Rhodesia where Hons roam from Lake Mwera and have killed dozens in a district. Natives lack firearms and face constant risks as man eaters and stealth lion attacks haunt villages. Mwamba, a former harsh ruler, is described as milder.
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Poetor _Dunbar-Brunten
Rhodesia
Lake Mwera
Echo Tales From Scotland and Rockies
A Scotsman boasts of a mountain echo in Scotland while an American claims a Rockies echo wakes him after eight hours. The exchange appears in Young's Magazine as a humorous comparison of echoes and pride across nations.
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Rocky Mountain
Christine McDonald
Scotland
Rockies
Young’s
Cost Story At Narragansett Pier Dinner
A Japanese diplomat during Admiral Togo's American tour recounted a dinner remark about wealth and honors. He retold Togo's boyhood friend sparring, claiming the admiral would wager his money and titles if someone could match the price, then threaten a garden cannon volley if he survived.
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Togo
Narragansett Pier
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