Mystery of the Rose of Gaspe Ends in Hidden Treasure
Captain Hollis and five crew members uncover a deserted ship the Rose of Gaspe after dark killings by electricity. A hidden chest of coins is found with a note linking to Gaston de Lys and Denys. The treasure remains legally unsettled as the court weighs ownership and two years pass before final distribution.
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Leanard
Liverpool
Gaston de Lys
Masters
White
Ahangin
Rose of
Gaspe
Leayard
Seayard
Denys
Olson
de Lys
Mr. Leayard
Jim White
Dea
St. Johns Harbor
St. Johns
Long Wharf
Maritime Court
Hollis
Placentia
Labrador
Hudson’s Bay’ Company
Vera
Philip Bascom
Seven Seas
Gustave Montain
Liverpool Red
Robert
Carnauba Wax Market and Brazilian Plant Uses
Carnauba wax comes from the carnauba plant in Piauhy Ceara and Rio Grande do Norte Brazil. The plant provides medicine roots bridge and housebuilding use fibers and insect resistance. The wax is valuable for candle manufacturing and insulating wire coating with about 450 tons annual production in Rio Grande do Norte worth around 250000 dollars, mostly exported.
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Piauhy
Ceara
Rio Grande Do Norte
Brazil
Carnauba
Dialogue snippet in an 18th century style exchange
A brief exchange records a man asking if his wife will go out and if he will accompany her. The lines imply domestic conversation and social propriety without further context or outcome.
Cured to '60016 Days fund power for teen blind cure
Fragmentary notice mentions a druggist, an ointment, and a first application. The text includes quoted phrases about surf bathing and a dismissive retort. No clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond vague references.
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Pazo Druggiste
Comfort Baby's Skin With Cuticura Soap and Ointment
When red rough and itching from hot baths soothe with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. This brings sleep for baby and rest for mother. Free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept X Boston. Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
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Dept. X
Boston
Aunty All Upset Over Hearing Loss
In a humorous exchange, Aunt Elvira bursts in claiming she has lost her hearing after failing to hear a hand organ outside. Her sister questions the claim as Elvira weeps, while a sharper remark blames a moving picture photographer for the auditory confusion.
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Aunt Elvira
New York Evening Post
Parson Receives Startling Tenth Child Under Law
In a tale from J J Hissey's The Road to the Inn a male parishioner brings a baby to the parson and proclaims that the law requires him to give one tenth of all he produces, placing the infant on the clergyman's knee before leaving silently.
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J. J. Hissey
Messengers of Death Nicknames for German Shells
London Tit-Bits reports the many nicknames soldiers use for German artillery. Big high explosive shells are called Dirty Dicks Jack Johnsons Coal Boxes Flower Pots Crumps Black Peters or Whistling Willies. Smaller shells are Black Marias Woolly Bears and shrapnel shells Whizz bangs and Pip squeaks. Archibalds name anti aircraft shells while ordinary shrapnel is Little Willies.
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London
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Randall Parrish
A. C. McClurg & Co
North Atlantic
Jon
Mr. Seayard
Bright
Dean
Missouri
H. P. Jenson
Baker
Twentieth St
Kansas
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Jane
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