A Street Dramatic Night in Broadway Mystery
A bitterly cold December night in Manhattan opens with a cab collapse after a streetcar collision. A dying rider is found with two bullet wounds while a sober cabman and a mute seal skinned passenger vanish into the crowd. Dr Thurston and reporter Sturgis witness the scene and debate sobriety, murder, and circumstantial evidence as a police mystery unfolds toward a continued tale in Daily Tempest tradition.
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Broadway
Thurston
Dr. Thurston
Sturgis
Sprague
Phoay
de Thurston
Cabuzen
Jim
Feller
Caref
Twenty-sixth Street
East River
New World
The Wager Chapter II: Crime as its Own Historian
Ralph Sturgis argues that crime carries its own history through circumstantial evidence, more complete than eyewitness accounts. A reporter, intelligent and refined, questions whether circumstantial proof can be infallible, while the host pushes back on the belief.
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Ralph Sturgis
Ralph Turgis
Angry Father in New Hampshire School Fight
Charles D. Folsom, a New York lawyer and ex Phillips Exeter student, faced a threatening father at Sanbornton Square NH. When the man attacked the school with an ax, Folsom toppled the buggy to stop him, sending the ax wielder tumbling into a ditch as 35 pupils watched and grinned.
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Charles D. Folsom
New York
Phillips-Exeter Academy
New Hampshire
Daniel Webster
Webster
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Sanbornton Square
Folsom
Mr. Folsom
Transvaal heroine in San Francisco tells her war tale
The St Louis Republic recounts Alice Van Aarndt, a Boer War heroine, visiting San Francisco in widow’s attire after her husband fell fighting the British. She recalls riding 30 hours to warn Cronje, her life among Boer trenches, and the sorrow of his death, ending with fear for her people if England wins.
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San Francisco
South Africa
Alice van Aarndt
Transvaal
Cronje
Wilhelmina
van Aarndt
Holland
Interlachen
Pbmgr
Piet
Kruger
Pretoria
Cape Colony
Orange Free State
Ealiar
Kitchener
Cape Town
England
St. Louis Republic
Costly Nap Ends With Phone Bill Debt
A man described as a good fellow, after a drinking spree, fell asleep in a telephone booth while calling a Providence friend. He woke owing the Broad Street hotel telephone company 32 dollars and 90 cents and, though he refused, paid what he owed.
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Philadelphia Press
Providence
A. I
Broad Street
So-and-So
Ready to Back It Up
A traveler recounts his experiences describing a mountain pass that seems to yawn. A younger woman questions the idea, prompting a quiet exchange as they pass Cumberland Gap on their journey reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Cumberland Gap
Chicago Tribune
Painter Busy, House Back Shed Needs Urgent Paint
A dialogue from Philadelphia Press notes a wife pressing for immediate painting of a back shed. The husband reports painter Dobbs is too busy for a month, provoking urgency and a clash over scheduling and quality.
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Dobbs
Pathname
Philadelphia Press
Fer Orzaent Only. Vistiue-Your smoking-room is beau
Mr Henpeck responds that the smoking room is furnished nicely and wishes he could smoke in it. The oddly phrased dialogue suggests a comedic or satirical exchange about propriety and comfort in a domestic setting.
Shade and fans unite in portable parasol invention
Otto Beseler of Calaveras Texas has created a compact parasol with a revolving fan mounted in its upper section. A simple reciprocating rod and gear system powers the fan, delivering a cooling breeze while the device folds neatly inside the parasol when closed.
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Otto Beseler
Calaveras
Tex
Louisville Courier-Journal
Wedding With a Difference Shocks City Editor
A Chicago Post anecdote recalls a wedding that defied pageantry with no roses canopy or bride’s image. The editor demands a double lead and a scare head, calling it the only one of its kind.
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Chicago Post
Has His Suspicions Do You Believe in Reincarnation
Mystic talk prompts Mgr Sirius Barker to admit no proof but cites neighbors reminding him of Herod Caligula Nero Henry VIII and Judge Jeffreys. Washington Star reports the exchange in a curio of dialogic humor.
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Mgr
Sirius Barker
Herod
Caligula
Nero
Henry VIII
Jeffreys
Washington Star
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Frederick A. Stokes Company
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Texas
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