The White Cat Secrets Behind a Bank Crash Mystery
Wardrop explains a financial scandal linking Butler Burgin era state funds to Fleming Schwartz and a treasurer's crisis. He details an alleged murder motive tied to pearls from Miss Jane Maitland and a chain of financial misdeeds that ended with a suicide at the White Cat. Margery listens as the plot thickens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardrop
Margery
Miss Jeune
Mr. Butler
Butler
Schwartz
Knox
Fleming
White Cat
Lightfoot
Plattsburg
Mr. Fleming
Chwartz
Ward
Carter
Manchester
Tragic accident mars Mrs Butler mystery unfolds
In the library Wardrop recovers enough to urge calm as Margery, Bella, and I discuss a deadly accident and a doctor’s pursuit. The newspaper reveals Mrs Butler’s fatal injury and hints at past deceptions. Wardrop vows to tell all he knows despite fear of lasting contempt.
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Wardrop
Letitia
Margery
Bella
Mrs. Butler
Schwartz
Knox
Eczema Cure Report From Sask Baby After Cuticura Use
A Saskatchewan mother describes her four month old son suffering from eczema starting with a rash and itchiness. After trying various remedies, she credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with the skin clearing after nightly baths and applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briercrest
Sask
Mra
N. L. Stromberg
Timekeeping Ways of Native Peoples Across Regions
The text describes how Apache and Assam communities used improvised devices and routines to measure time. It notes an Apache gourd marked with stars to read hours and hill tribes counting time by betel nut chews, with additional references to colonial and indigenous practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assam
Washington Irving
Wouter van Twil
Canada
Ontario Farmer Rekindles Time With Living Alarm Clock
Wallace Stevenson of Ontario trains a rooster to crow at 5 30 each morning to wake him. After patient schooling the bird learned the hour and would crow at 5 30, becoming a local example of using a rooster as a clock.
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Wallace Stevenson
Ontario
Fragmentary Quote Highlights Miss De Gable Comparison
A garbled line notes a striking likeness to Miss De Gable as she begins to fall, with the text emphasizing a "breaking likeness" in a fragmentary description.
New Standards of Comparison In Naval Arms Race
Winston Churchill introduces a new sea standard with a fifteen inch gun and Britain plans ten ships to Germany’s two. Experts seek big numbers as the measure, while taxpayers shoulder the cost of heavier fleets amid global arms competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
United States Navy
Russia
Tussia
New York
Forebearing power marks true gentlemanly conduct
Robert E. Lee asserts that restraint in power reveals honor. True gentlemen forgive and forget, avoiding unneeded reminders of wrongs. Nobility comes from mildness and self-control, letting the past stay in the past. A man of honor feels humble when he cannot humble others.
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Robert E. Lee
The Thrift Philosophy and Its Rewards
Thrift embodies industry prudence and self denial while avoiding stinginess. It promotes better living and less waste. even small savings build health comfort education and independence. A few dollars saved, in a bank or safe investment, foster confidence energy courage and true manhood.
Oil Aids Ship Rescue by Smoothing Sea Waves
Article notes the oil steamer Narragansett aided the burning liner Volturno by pouring oil on rough seas to calm breakers and aid evacuation. It cites that a tiny oil film dramatically reduces wave impact, with the British Board of Trade/Navy guidance stressing greatest effect in deep water and uncertain results near breaking waves.
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Narragansett
Volturno
British Board of Trade
Admiralty
Kipling Criticizes Canadian Hotel During Holiday Dispute
While staying in Canada during a holiday, Mr. Kipling reportedly clashed with a hotel landlord. Before departure he sought the proprietor and launched a sharp remark praising none of the hotels as highly as the one he criticized for its shortcomings. The incident ended with the landlord reacting in indignation.
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Kipling
Canada
Mr. Kipling
No clear headline in fragmented OCR text
Fragment lacks coherent details. Reads as garbled quotes about someone aging gracefully and handling changes, with no identifiable persons, organizations, places, or events to summarize into a news item.
View Herds Featured at Panama-Pacific Livestock Show
I D Graham, assistant chief of the Panama-Pacific Exposition department, announces view herds of select animals near Oakland Pace. The plan covers a cow sale, broad demonstrations, and continuous livestock and poultry display through October and November with replacements to keep the view herds intact.
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I. D. Graham
The Old Farmer and the Telephone Joke
An skeptical farmer doubts long distance talk. A neighbor gets him to call his wife as a surprise. Lightning strikes the line and the man falls, but the neighbor vows no repeats except in storms. The farmer recovers and says It was Jane indeed.
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Halloc
Jane
Sunrise Prompts Artist Bohemian Confession
A young woman critiques an artist in his studio noting many sunrises in his work but no surprises. He blushes and explains he never paints sunrises because he’s never up that early, a quip captured in a Magazine of Fun item.
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Magazine of Fun
Mutilated Bank Notes Circulation Warns of Counterfeit Corners
Authorities report many notes passed to banks with torn corners showing a 10 or 5. The fraud uses a pasted corner from a $10 or $5 bill onto a $1 bill, creating a deceptive note. vigilance is advised to prevent acceptance of these doctored bills.
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United States
It Might Have Been Worse Thought on trouble and resilience
A reflective piece argues that fear magnifies small worries while real disasters are rarer than imagined. It compares troubles to ghosts, noting that bravely facing them reveals emptiness and that the mind's belief shapes distress. It urges calm, steady thinking and a cheerful outlook.
Post Office Proclaims Ban on Sending Coin by Unregistered Letters
The post office department issues a notice declaring that transmitting coin or bank notes in unregistered letters is prohibited.
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Post Office Department
Eager to Work Health Regained by Right Food
A reader describes post operative stomach and nerve troubles after surgery. Diet changes and rest failed until she tried Grape-Nuts. Indigestion diminished, appetite stabilized, energy returned, and interest in daily tasks revived.
Abbey Wit Tablets for Sick Nerves Ad
25c and 60c at all druggists and stores promoting Abbey Wit Tablets as a remedy for sick nerves.
Vanity of African Natives Inhabitants
Reports describe African groups delighting in bracelets of wire, cutting telegraph lines and stealing wire for ornaments. This vandalism disrupts communications, prompting mining firms to install wireless telegraph links between railroad stations and mines to preserve operations.
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Africa
Terrible Boy Poses Dinner Question to Visitor
A fragment shows a tense exchange with a visitor asking about dinner time and a sharp reply from Terrible Boy indicating the guest must leave first. The scene hints at a dark, questionably polite encounter.
Catarrh Cure Promises Constitutionals Relief
An old belief that catarrh is local is refuted as science now sees it as constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio is claimed to work systemically, with a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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Ee Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. Cheney & CO
Druggsta
E Hall
Dentistry Request From Unusual Patient Cited
A humorous note from a young man seeking dentures describes his mouth as three inches across and five eighths inch through the jaw with hummocky edges and a boss-shew shaped bite. He adds that he would have to visit in person for more detail.
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Sacred Heart Review
Wealth in a Glasgow Maiden Lady’s Simple Home
In Glasgow, elderly maiden lady dies in a modest east end dwelling leaving gold and notes totaling 65 000. The money, found scattered in the house and some in an old purse, was not hidden under lock and key. She lived plainly, trusted neighbors, and shunned banks.
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Letitia
Crown Derby
Hepple
Margery
Jane
Jane Maitland
Miss Letitia
Bert
Janeland
Mary
Knox
Glasgow
Doctor and nurse dispute over signing authority
In the hospital corridor a doctor refuses to sign a cheque while a nurse asks to preserve the patient’s access to funds. The standoff centers on who has authorization to sign financial documents.
Cleopatra's Pearls and Riches A Distant Dining Tale
A long, fragmentary piece notes Cleopatra's pearl story and a Tudor tale of Sir Thomas Greasham shaming the Spanish ambassador. It recalls a queen's wealth and a merchant's boast about pearls, dinner, and imperial revenue.
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Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Thomas Greasham
Elizabeth
Spain
Office Boy Furor Sparks Hallway Maneuver
A disturbance in the office prompts an editor to order police escort for a hysterical woman in the hall. The incident leads to swift relocation of the distressed person into the composing room for containment and calm.
Gas death at hotel leads to charges for valet
A hotel manager questioned a doctor about how many feet of gas a person inhaled in a self inflicted death. The manager said a gas death occurred at his hotel last night and he intends to charge the gas to the valet. The man came to his master executors.
Minard's Liniment Cures Curns in Odd Exchange
A playful Baltimore American column captures a humorous dialogue about remedies and daily life. A character mentions mice in the pantry and a cat from a club, illustrating light local humor.
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Minard
Baltimore American
Great auction sale of gwedes in country newspaper
A London scientist and his Scandinavian valet discuss a distressing country newspaper notice. The map highlights an advert headed Great auction sale, raising questions about slavery in England and prompting official inquiry into the auction announcement.
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London
England
Largest windmill with steel sails near Harlingen
The world’s largest wind motor, mounted on a steel tower at Harlingen Friesland, serves a 1 acre polder. It features a 50 foot diameter, steel sails, and can move 64 000 to 70 000 cubic feet of water per hour. Steel wind motors replace earlier explosive motors in polder drainage efforts.
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Harlingen
Friesland
Safe Pill for Suffering Women
An ad touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a gentle remedy for digestive disorders in women. It claims the pills correct irregularities of the stomach and ovaries, restore health, and can be used safely by the most delicate woman.
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Parmelee
Seed as currency in ancient Italian grain stores
Seed acts as money in Southern Italy through monttrumentar grain warehouses. Large seed stocks are loaned to farmers without cash payment and repaid after harvest with seed interest, enabling farmers to become established agriculturists without borrowing money.
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Italy
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days with PAZO OINTMENT
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles. First application gives relief. 50 cents.
Ocean oil field Summerlane wells near Santa Barbara
The Summerlane group in California extends into the Pacific with 141 producing wells about eighteen miles from Santa Barbara. Drilled offshore, it yields about 100000 barrels annually from oil sands beneath the sea bed, a spectacle visible from the Los Angeles to San Francisco train.
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Pacific Ocean
Summerlane
California
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Engineering and Mining Journal
Bright Side Advice for Kindness and Cheer
A gentle note encourages nourishing kindly feelings and looking for pleasant thoughts. It suggests smiling, complimenting, and finding cheerful words to brighten social interactions and improve mood.
Mother Graves Worm Ex Terminator Promises Relief
Pale and sickly children blamed on worms as Mother Graves promotes her Worm Ex terminator to restore health and vitality.
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Mother Graves
Beans as meat substitutes urged to ease cost of living
The chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture in Washington tells housewives not to overreact to beef prices. He assures the public that high costs are manageable for the average worker with substitutes, highlighting beans as a leading option.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
Home Grown Rug Made From Jersey Calf Hides
Two pale fawn fur rugs appeared on the floor but were found not from Woods. They originated from Jersey calves whose coats were shed after use and then tanned and laid as floor coverings.
Young Abyssinian Heir Liji Yasu Emerges as Heir to Menelik
Liji Yasu, grandson and successor to late King Menelik of Abyssinia, aged 18, unmarried, differs in appearance from his grandfather with a semi Caucasian look. He wears Abyssinian dress, is considered bright and widely informed on international affairs, speaks some French, and has European advisers among his counselors.
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Menelik
Liji Yasu
Abyssinia
Classmate’s Incomplete Study Habits Stump Teacher
A humorous remark from the e Magazine of Fun notes a teacher questioning a student’s sobriety. The student’s quoted answer about favorite studies in ornithology mentions Swallows bats and larks.
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Fun
Millionaire Threat Letters Spark Fearful Jibe
"Oh, Will" remarks reveal that even the wealthy face threatening letters demanding money. Will counters that he receives similar notes, hinting at pervasive extortion in society.
Crabshaw Quips About Opposition to Car Ownership
A dialogue shows Mrs Crabshaw recalling past tensions over affording a car. The exchange reveals a social angle on access to mobility and the differing views within the conversation.
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Crabshaw
Mrs. Crabshaw
Zam-Buk hailed as wondrous cure for wounds and eczema
A advertorial touts Zam-Buk as a miracle healer for wounds sores and skin disease claiming instant pain relief and rapid tissue regeneration. It cites a Montreal man who was cured of two decades eczema and offers 5 cent boxes with a free trial by mail from the Zam-Buk Co Toronto.
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Zam-Buk
Mr. Marsh
Delorimier Ave
Montreal
Zam-Buk Co
Toronto
Gossip Claims Foolish Look Questioned
In a brief exchange between Dawson and Miss Sharp, the speaker retorts that calling them fool was unwarranted, insisting appearance does not reveal character. Dawson defends the speaker, confirming they do not appear foolish.
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Dubbleigh
Miss Sharp
Dawson
Freddie´s All At Once Wash Request
A brief exchange shows a child named Freddie agreeing to wash his face and hands with a sign of resolve. The lines capture a homey moment of prompting and compliance.
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Freddie
Putnrhy's Painless Corn and Wart Extractor Ad
Advertises Putnrhy's Painters Corn and Wart Extractor promising painless treatment that reaches all corn roots and warts in 24 hours with no pain scar or sore. Encourages purchase of a 25 cent bottle.
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Putnrhy
Putsam
Effects of Electric Currents on the Human Body
Late investigations reveal direct currents contract vessels raise blood pressure while alternating currents dilate vessels lower pressure. Over 200 volt currents are dangerous and above 500 often fatal. Skin resistance varies 15 000 to 79 000 ohms. moist skin lowers resistance. At 150 cycles per second heart action stops. heat from current can raise body temperatures after death to 104 F or more.
Dressmaker Turns Bride After Countess Crises
A humorous exchange ends with a twist as a man discovers his fiancée, the countess, spends over 12,000 a year on her dress-maker. He chooses to marry the dress-maker instead.
University plans new residence building in Saskatoon
At a board meeting of the University of Saskatchewan governance, plans for a new residence building were unveiled. The project, expected to cost 250000 dollars, aims to expand campus housing once completed.
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Boar of Govenors
University of Samatchewan
Saskatoon
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DR. Pierce
Golden
R. V. Pierce
Buflee
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