Inside Case of a $100000 Express Robbery
Col Cheney investigates a St Louis express office heist where a $100000 package vanished. He links insiders, plus a coast suspect, with Darrel and Daniels caught in a double cross that ends with their arrest and a lengthy sentence.
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St. Louis
Express Company
Cheney
Chief
Darrel
Darrell
Michelon
Chicago
New York
McCarren
Red” Michelon
Catlin
Daniels
Chadwick
van Cott
Kirkwood
Pine Street
Denver
Express
Frisco
Guthrie
Chief Landingham
Howdy
Col. Cheney
Red’ Michelon
Daniel
Toledo
Colonel
Johnny
Wabash
McCaffery
Seth Green
Care
Depot
Ohio
Sinclair
Stories of Scotch judges and eighteenth century levity
Lord Salvesen recalls how life was cheap in old times when judges showed levity in dire cases. Bacon and Hog tale highlights a hanging fate, Braxfield’s zeal for convictions, and a judge’s quip about hanging friends. Raimes verdict ends with a chess mate remark. Also notes a French chemist patent for safer celluloid products.
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Lord Salvesen
Edinburgh
Udges
Sir Francis Bacon
Bacon
Hog
Lord Braxfield
Lord Raimes
Celluloid Treated With Salts Reduces Flammability
A consular report explains that adding certain salts to a liquid celluloid mass during preparation yields a material that releases a gas when exposed to flame, which checks combustion. Immersion of celluloid items in salts solutions thus lowers inflammability.
Feast of the Seven Tables Indigestion Supper Recalls Church Event
An uptown church member recalls a playful indigestion supper titled The Feast of the Seven Tables held in a church. Eight per table, seven tables with varied foods, bells moved guests through them, ending with dessert and a costly medical bill the next day. The anecdote appears in the Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
Monument to Jules Verne Planned in Amiens
Albert Roze will execute the monument to Jules Verne in Amiens. A municipal council member said the author is no longer here to be angry about it, and added that now we are able. The remark appears in the St. Louis Republic report.
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Jules Verne
Amiens
Albert Roze
St. Louis Republic
Official duty enforces strict tourist discipline in France
A returned traveler recounts anecdotes of French officials enforcing rules on tourists. An American slipped into a shallow pond near a footpath and faced a legal official who demanded name and address, stating bathing in the lake was forbidden and extenuating circumstances were not considered.
Mayor Pardons a Mule After Senator’s Assure
Mayor Dunne grants a pardon for a city pound mule. State Senator E J Rainey assures the prisoner has no prior offenses and will behave, aiding Gerald Broderick a 15 year old owner who arrived with the senator’s letter. The pardon is arranged after clerk Abe Merinbaum reviews the case and consults officials.
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Dunne
E. J. Rainey
Gerald Broderick
Abe Merinbaum
Bridewell
Merinbaum
Chicago Daily News
Discovery of the Telescope by a Dutch Spectacle Maker
The telescope began when the children of a Dutch spectacle maker named Lippershey played with their father’s lenses. They moved and shifted the spectacles and saw a distant church spire appear near to them. He immediately saw the optical opportunity and explained the phenomenon.
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Lipperskey
Lawmen Crash Chitlings Party in Vine Street Fare
Two Kansas City police officers encountered an African American family hosting a chitlin feast. Entrants fled as the blue uniforms surprised guests, while an elderly hostess quipped the men’s quick exit and joked about her crippled husband recovering from rabid ailments and forced to work.
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Vine Street
Kansas City
Mamafy
Windo
Rats in Mills Prompt Pied Piper Tales in Wheeling
A Wheeling correspondent reports rats as large as cats swarming in local mills. Workers threaten walkouts as rodents raid dinners and buckets, pull lids, and outsmart barriers. Tales of bold rats grow with each retelling, while laborers accuse the pests of stealing meals and fueling unrest.
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Hamelin
W. Va
Big bass recaptured after epic fight at National Military home
In Ohio a big bass escaped twice before being reeled in at the National Military home reservoir. A champion angler caught a small bass first, baited anew with a live minnow, and after a rush of the larger fish the line broke. Friends aided, a skiff was borrowed, and the fish was finally netted near shore, weighing six ounces.
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National Military Home
Ohio
Rigors of Alpine Winter Paralyzes Swiss Highlands
Snowstorms cripple Switzerland with uplands two yards deep in snow and Simplon village and other settlements cut off. Legislature debates year round pass openings as costs prove prohibitive. Delayed diligences from Berne cause anxious waiting while peasants in uplands struggle with cattle and fallings.
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Switzerland
Simplon
Berne
Tools Cheap at Junk Shops
Listings describe second-hand tools sold in large cities at tiny prices. Items like brushes hammers picks and ripsaws cost mere cents. average values run well under ten percent of new hardware costs. Dealers source goods from pawns junk shops and discreet sellers.
Living skeleton trembles after note of wife return
A man curls from a convulsive sob in a dime museum as he reads a note saying his wife went home to her mother. The scene centers on his shock and the lurid setting of the exhibit.
Epidemic injection relief mocked in humorous dialogue
A character quips that phrony endures neurology suffering but finds relief only when an epidemic is inserted in her arm, delivering a darkly comic line.
Formal ban on the use of opium
China initiates an extensive anti opium reform aimed at eliminating opium use within ten years. The plan includes annual cultivation reductions, registration of users, licensing fees, closure of smoking venues, and the abolition of opium shops, led by Wang Ta ieih and Tang Shao yi with Yuan Shih kai's backing.
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China
Wang Taieih
Great Britain
Tang Shao-yi
Peking
Yuan Shihkai
Council of State Affairs
Congo Rubber Wealth Reaches Global Stage in Belgian Free State
The Congo rubber industry under King Leopold grows from tiny sums in 1886 to millions annually, shifting control to American rubber companies. The Belgian crown lands yield vast revenues as native rubber is sold to the state, with the Domaine de la Couronne providing uncharted wealth and a changing balance of power in world markets.
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Congo
Leopold
Belgium
Collis P. Huntington
Africa
Europe
Antwerp
Free State
Domaine de la Couronne
Brussels
Mizpah beacon meaning and biblical origin
Mizpah or Mizpeh denotes a beacon or watch-tower and was the name Laban gave to the stone heap raised with Jacob before their parting. See Genesis 31 49 52 for its special significance.
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Laban
Jacob
Life and Death Weighs Heavily in New York Funeral Trade
An undertaker recalls startling requests to speed funerals for reasons of travel, marital estrangement, and social plans. He notes cases of hurried burials and even paid guards to sit with the corpse, while reflecting on past customs of vigils and the evolving sensitivity around death.
Guilbert Delights Philadelphia Club With English Jokes
Yvette Guilbert, the French actress, entertains at a tea in Philadelphia. She notes English is not hard though one word has many meanings. A mother asks about Gus and the daughter replies he shaves every day.
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Yvette Guilbert
Philadelphia
Gus
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Jasper Ewing Brady
U.S. A
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van Cott’s Corporation
John Coghlan
Consignee
Third National
Marc Catlin
Lieut
Miss Woods
the Express Company
Sid Guthrie
Lower Pine Street
Twelfth
Pine Streets
Landingham
f.New York
Michelson
Green
Sid
Matthew Hay
Matthew
M. Gervain
Big Rats
Wheeling
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