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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1889
Page
3
Thornton Stackhouse collapses in despair after police and detectives piece together a lethal conspiracy surrounding North & Stackhouse. Kingman Thomas races to reveal a hidden letter that exposes Marion Stackhouse’s manipulation and sets the stage for a dramatic confession and arrest.
Kingman F Thomas announces the final chapter Written in Red will run in THE GLOBE Counting Room and prize winners will be chosen by the nearest guess. Entries must reach the Globe Office by Wednesday September 11. Submit your theory on Paul Norths death. it may be the winning explanation. A second note recalls Two Old Orphans and a contraband tale from the Civil War era.
The New York Herald reports on nickel slot machines offering goods from butter to tobacco, teas, shirts, and lunches. The Automatic Salesman Company seeks a state charter, with subsidiaries including Automatic Dairy and Novelty Tobacco, proposing compact dispensers in major stations for future use.
The article reviews attempts to synthesize diamonds through high temperature and pressure on carbon. Experiments by C A Parsons show carbon rods amid solvents under hydraulic pressure yield gas and a hard coke-like layer. silica and alumina cause rod destruction or transformation to graphite, with a coke-like deposit resisting acids and able to scratch rock crystal and ruby facets.
Washington special notes Mrs. Wilcox a clerk in the sixth auditor's office Treasury Department has a vivid Tennessee lineage. Her father Andrew Jackson Donaldson was an adopted son of President Jackson and she is said to have seen the light of day in the White House. She has traveled to European capitals and speaks several languages aiding her social sphere. Her husband died in 1865. he served Mississippi in the Thirty-second Congress and Texas in the Thirty-third. She is described as cheerful and fully enjoys life.
In a brief exchange, Bob Stayer asks Miss Chester if she heard the latest as the library clock strikes twelve, and Miss Chester confirms with a poised yes signaling the hour's moment.
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