Count Rossi Robbery Scandal Unfolds in Transcontinental Car
Colonel Cheney investigates a $15,000 cash and $50,000 jewel theft from Count Rossi aboard an eastbound limited. Porter James Simpson and associate Lige Ferguson are implicated, trapped with a soda bottle clue, and confess after Cheney’s staged confrontation. Jewels and money recovered and returned to Rossi. both culprits sentenced to 15 years in Salt Lake penitentiary.
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Sid
Lonethan Guthrie
Weeks
Cheney
Count Rossi
Italy
Count
Ogden
Ross
Signor
San Francisco
Promintory Point
Crocker Woolworth National Bank
Angel
Col. Dawes
Mr. Weeks
California
Dios
New York
Croesus
Campbell
Simpson
Denver
Guthrie
Lonergan
Paris
Amsterdam
Chicago
Frisco
Jeff
Northwestern
James Simpson
Kunnel
Ferguson
Jess
Belfast
Lige Ferguson
Salt Lake
Omaha
Burlington
Salt Lake Penitentiary
Col
W. G. Chapman
Patent Office Flooded with New Inventions and Demands
The Washington patent commissioner urges larger quarters more clerks and higher pay as a flood of new devices overwhelms examiners who lag about a year. Motors submarines aerial navigators and weapons rise among the prolific innovations while trivial items may yet claim big rewards.
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America
Washington
Patent Office
Venice’s lone cemetery on San Michele island
Venice has no inside city burial grounds. The sole cemetery is San Michele on a distant lagoon island, created by Bonaparte’s orders to move burials out of the city. All Souls Day brings a massive influx of about 140,000 people, requiring a special boat bridge and strict crowd control.
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The
Adriatic
Torm
Old City
San Michele
Venice
Bonaparte
Reclaiming Land in India Scheme Proposed at Lahore
The government proposes reclaiming a large tract in Lahore using the Dutch method. The Rann of Dutch, a sea shore waste with narrow inlets, would be closed to allow shallow water evaporation. A canal from the Indus would wash out saline deposits, with scientific agriculture and a Karachi to Bombay railway completing the project.
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India
Lahore
Rann
Indus
Karachi
Bombay
Value of Fruit Soups in Light Luncheon Meals
Mr. Riley M. Fletcher Berry argues fruit soups can be substantial when thickened with sago arrowroot or tapioca and wine may add heat, making them viable as a luncheon or light supper dish. Instructions cover thinning stewed fruit, dissolving thickeners, and cooking tips with raspberries cited as a lighter example.
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Riley M. Fletcher Berry
Doubleday, Page & Co
The Hot Water Bag Care Guide
Practical advice on using rubber hot water bags safely. Do not fill beyond half, drain after use, hang bottom up, and blow in a little air to prevent collapse. If sticking occurs, use hot water and ammonia with gentle separation. Do not fold after use. a flannel bag cover helps protect the rubber.
Care of Shoes and Preservation Tips
A short guide recommends vaseline as an excellent preservative for shoe leather. A small amount on new shoes softens leather and helps enameled leather stay soft longer. Cleaning and blackening worn shoes, then applying vaseline, improves appearance and wear. For storage, keep oats in a box to stuff shoes to retain shape when shoes are removed and dry.
Cleaning White Silk and White Silks Washing Method
The piece explains washing white taffeta and white silks using castile soap in soft water cooled to about 100 degrees. Silk is swished, pressed, sunless air dried, rolled, wrapped, and ironed with a white cloth. Blueing or clear suds adjust tone.
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Castile
Restoring Damaged Wallpaper with Watercolor Touchups
Home Chat advises fixing torn wallpaper by realigning the torn area, gluing it down, and touching up spaces and seams with watercolor paints matching the paper. Use small watercolor tubes from artist shops for near invisible repairs.
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Son Secret Service
State, War
Treasury
Postoffice
Couse
Jasper Ewing Brady
Santiago de Cabs
Count Ross
Seguranca
Port Tampa
Cuba
Cervera
Santiago Harbor
Viscaya
Nicholas Channel
United States
Eagle
Key West
Santiago
Oquendo
Colon
Maria Teresa
Cervera Land
Toral
Sampson
Tampa
War Department
Miles
San Juan Hill
Spain
Ile
Caney
Chaffee
Lawton
Vara del Rey
San Juan
Chnok
Porto Rico
United
Jack
Europe
Russia
Yarmoloff
Old Trepoff
Mistahb
Col. Cheney
Guissepe Ross
Florence
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