Sturgis Work Continues on Cab Mystery and Knickerbocker Links
In Chapter V of Sturgis Wager and Detective Story, Dr. Murdoch and experts discuss arm injuries and timing of a fatal shot. The Cab Mystery and Knickerbocker Bank case are explored for possible links. Sturgis notes circumstantial evidence and weighs whether two enigmas are connected as Thurston questions motives and drugging.
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Sturgis
Thurston
Knickerbocker Bank
Sprague
Murdoch
Chapter vs The Artist in a Lleurite Imart
The passage portrays Sprague as a gifted artist who would work intensely when driven by poverty but otherwise lacks sustained effort. It suggests poverty as the spur behind his bursts of labor and notes long studio periods followed by a temporary fever of productivity.
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Sprague
New Year Morning Revelations In A Painter's Studio
Artist Sprague, living in a fashionable city bachelor apartment, contemplates a nearly finished portrait of a beautiful young woman as friend Ralph Sturgis warns him about love and its dangers. The two discuss a bank case and a possible bicycle trip, while Sprague hides deeper turmoil about a rumored betrothal and his own distracting feelings.
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Sprague
Academy of Design
Lazybones
Sturgis
Knickerbocker Bank
Humph
The Murdock Family and the Haunting Newsroom
Dr. Murdock, a renowned chemist, skims newspapers in his study as Agnes enters seeking news of Mr Sprague’s portrait. A sensational headline about the mysterious assassination in broad daylight near a old New York estate hints at a looming mystery around the Murdock household and its neighbors.
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Murdock
Mary
Dr John F Hill Maine governor nominee profile
Dr John F Hill a Republican candidate for Maine governor with deep Augusta ties. He served in the state assembly 1889 and senate 1893 1895, was a presidential elector in 1896, and is a Bowdoin Medical College graduate who shifted to publishing and holds large real estate and banking interests. He leases James G Blaine's historic Augusta home and is active in electric railway development.
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Maine
John F. Hill
Augusta
Assembly
Kennébec
Senate
Vickery & Hill
Dr. Hill
James G. Blaine
Involuntary Thief Jessup and the Vigilance Case in California
The Philadelphia Sunday Evening Herald recounts novelist George H. Jessup who along with a friend mistakenly drives off with another man’s horse in California. They discover the owner is head of the local vigilance committee and arrange to return the rig after a tense apologies and a costly house treatment as punishment.
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George H. Jessup
Cabinteely
Ireland
San Francisco
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Herald
Jessup
San Mateo
George
Prince Kuropatkin Portrait as Russia's Trusted War Chief
Alexei Kuropatkin, Russian minister of war, famed for long service and loyalty to the czar, is described as the likely commander in chief of Russian forces and possibly of allied troops in China. His early Turkestan campaigns earned honors including Paris Legion of Honor in 1874.
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Proops
China
Alexe
Nicolaievitch Kuropatkin
Kuropatkin
Turkestan
Europe
Paris
Kokand
Pamirs
Kubla
Geographical Society
Turkey
Alexei Kuropatkin
Mays
Gethsemane Garden Described Near St Stephen’s Gate
The Gardeno of Gethsemane is a desolate 200 foot square enclosure near Jerusalem below St Stephen’s gate at the foot of the Mount of Olives. It contains a few old olive trees preserved by stones with some branches flourishing and is linked to Christ’s closing scenes. The garden is owned by Latin Christians while the Greek church claims another site as the true Gethsemane.
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Gethsemane
Christ
Jerusalem
St. Stephen's Gate
Mount of Olives
Different Denominations
A reader quotes a man who paid over a hundred dollars for a copper cent. The reply notes an English syndicate recently paid 2 000 000 dollars for a woolen mill. The exchange appears in Harlem Life.
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Arlem Life
Growth of Mormonism and Its Global Missionaries
The article notes 1623 Mormon missionaries in America and Europe with strong gains in urban slums. Leaders celebrate 22,000 converts last year and forecast expansion to dominate the western United States and western Canada, amid prophetic language about future influence.
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America
Europe
Canada
Remarkable height and weight notes plus military lore
A 560 pound man in Paris is described for his size while Gen Lloyd Wheaton, the sole Illinois general, and Gen Miles share wartime memories. Royal women like Queen Amelia of Portugal are tall, with English height averaging five six in contrast to American average. Sir William White, rising from dockyard shipwright to chief constructor, reshapes the British navy alongside his self made successor.
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Paris
Philip D. Armour
Chicago
Washington
Albert Pike
Lloyd Whaton
Illinois
Wheaton
Michigan
Amelia
Portugal
Denmark
Duchess of York
England
America
Miles
Bee
Twenty- Second
Massachusetts Volunteers
United States Navy
William White
Davenport
Pp Watts
Buddhism as a World Faith in Chinese History
The article outlines Buddhism as China's principal faith and traces its origins to Buddha born 623 BCE. It recounts the Three Precious Ones, ten precepts, monastic structure, and alleged events from Buddha’s life. It notes Buddhism’s arrival in China around 63 AD with Han emperor visions and a Lama temple in Pekin hosting about 120 priests.
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Buddha
Thibet
China
Han-Ming-T
Prince Tsu
India
Pekine
Altitudes of Alaska List For McKinley and Others
The geological survey issues a bulletin compiling Alaska mountain altitudes from Prof Henry Hianett. It lists Blackburn 12500 feet Black Mountain 12500 feet Cook 1750 feet Crillon 15900 feet Drum 13300 feet Farweather 15292 feet Hayes 14500 feet Thamnapeth 1000 feet Kimball 19090 feet La Peruse 470 feet Lituya 12332 feet Mount McKinley 20464 feet St Elias 15024 feet Sanford 14600 feet Seattle 10000 feet Tilman 13700 feet Wrangle 17500 feet. McKinley, once Mount Allen, seen from Cook Inlet coast. locals call it Bertsheys, from a corrupted Russian. Native name Tragela. Dick, a prospector, named it for President McKinley in 1896. maps from the geological survey reflect this.
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Geologi
Alaska
Henry Hianett
Bubletin
Blackburn Mountain
Black Mountain
Cook Mountain
Crillon Mountain
Drum Mountain
Farweather Mountain
Hayes Mountain
Thamnapeth
Kimball Mountain
la Peruse
Lituya Mountain
Mount McKinley
St Elias
Sanford Mountain
Seattle
Tilman
Wrangle
McKinley
Mount Allen
Cook Inlet
Bertsheys
Tragela
Geological Survey
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Edgar Morette
Frederick A
Indus
Dunlap
Agnes
Asher
Agnes Murdock
New York
Gamin
Carman Reilly
Dr. Murdock
Murdocks
Lenox
Newport
We i
Ftor
Blaine
Atgadgusta
John ¥. Hill
Prince Kuropatkin
Alexhan Mountaina
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