Mystery of Hanska murder drains boarding house
In a boarding house tragedy, Captain John Hanska is found dead with a knife wound. Tommy North is questioned and released as Rosalie Le Grange orchestrates séances to uncover truth, while Inspector McGee and a detective team confront Miss Estrilla and uncover connections to the crime. Wade is jailed. Rosalie manipulates events to reveal deeper motives.
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Tommy North
Mrs. Moore
John Hanska
Lawrence Wade
Hanska
Rosalie Grange
Miss Estrilla
Rosalie
Estrilla
Perez
Port of Spain
Inspector McGee
Rosalie le Grange
McGee
Hunter
Kennedy
Constance Hanska
Morris
John
John H. Hanska
Margaret
John Dear
Juan
The Third Degree Reveals Margarita Perez Tale
The narrative follows Margarita Perez in Port of Spain and New York as she describes her plan to recover jewels misused by Captain Hanska. Her confession outlines inheritance, debt, and a doomed romance, with Juan Perez aiding a risky search through a NYC boarding house to reclaim the lost jewelry and bill of sale.
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Martin McGee
Rosalie le Grange
Rosalie
McGee
New York
Margarita Perez
Trinidad
Juan Perez
Caracas
Juan
John H. Hanska
Port of Spain
Antwerp
Hanska
England
Southampton
Miss Estrilla
United States
New Orleans
Mrs. Moore
Captain Hanska
Staten Island
East Cowes girl crosses Solent in record swim
Miss Nora Cochrane, eighteen, of East Cowes, swam from Lepe Hampshire coast to Egypt Point Cowes in one hour eighteen minutes not taking refreshment or tiring. She teaches at East Cowes Council schools and holds Royal Life-Saving Society London Mail certificate.
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Nora Cochrane
East Cowes
Solent
Lepe
Hampshire
Egypt Point
Cowes
Royal Life-Saving Society
London Mail
Massenet’s Bindings Sparked A Paris Friendship
The Hamburger Nachrichten recounts how composer Massenet visited his bookbinder daily to bind new editions. Their growing friendship centered on inventive bindings as Massanet learned his friend planned to leave Paris for a country house near Nantes.
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Massanet
Hamburger Nachrichten
Massenet
Paris
Nantea
No, No Country House in the Provinces
A character laments a country house location, expressing shock at the setting and accepting partial responsibility for the situation. The tone is regretful and reflective on implications for a friend.
Origin of Life Debate At British Association
Dr Benjamin Moore of Liverpool argued that strong sunlight or mercury lamp light on certain solutions can convert lifeless matter into living matter. Sir Oliver Lodge countered that this yields only a vehicle for life, not life itself, a common error among specialists in chemical reactions.
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Bastian
Benjamin Moore
Liverpool
Oliver Lodge
No Two of a Kind. Great Picture Buyer Interview
A witty exchange between a buyer and hostess centers on an artist who painted lifelike cobwebs on the ceiling. The hostess dismisses the notion, noting no servant could have been so troubled by the illusion.
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Great Picture
Paris Monuments Inspire Patriotism and Melancholy at Invalides
The article surveys Paris landmarks including the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides and the Chapelle Expiatoire. It notes the emotional pull of royalist relics, the 1796 purchase of the burial site, 1815 repatriation of royal remains, and marble groups depicting Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette with symbolic inscriptions and the preserved vault below the cemetery level.
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Paris
Napoleon
the Invalides
Carpeaux
Luxembourg Gardens
Rue Des Mathurins
Chapelle Expiatoire
Madame Deficit
Madame Veto
Percier and Fontaine
The
Madeleine
Charlotte Corday
Philippe Egalite
Madame Roland
Madame Dubarry
Camille Desmoulins
Danton
Bailly
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Desclozeaux
Autrichienne
St. Denis
Republic
Abbe Edgeworth
St. Louis
Leaves Husband $1 From Widow Estate in New York
Moses Oppenheimer received one dollar from the fifteen thousand dollar estate of his wife. The will directs that their children will provide for him.
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New York
Moses Oppenheimer
Wills Banish Beggars By New York Police Chief
Police Commissioner Woods forms a mendicancy squad to clear beggars from fashionable thoroughfares in New York City.
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Wills Banish
New York
Woods
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Harry R Grissinger
My Name
Is Margaret Perez
Massanets
Elizabeth
Capet
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