The Moor Mystery Tracks On the Ragged Shaw
Holmes and Watson chase a rider over moor and bog from a school to Holdernesse Toll, tracing bicycle marks, a fall and bloodstains. They note a weight on the handlebars and a wounded rider, with investigators closing in on the hidden quarry. The scene ends with a cliffhanger as they press deeper into the moor seeking answers.
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Hed
Holmes
Gill
Watson
Aoross
Holdernesse
Heidegger
Avellug
Neidegger
den Watson
Colmes
Mim
Teldegees
Enovel
Erie Hahnes
Old Time Farmer Explains Plug Tobacco Name Origin
A Kansas City Star recounts an elderly farmer in a courthouse jury room describing how a maple log, wild honey soaked tobacco, and a hickory tamper produced solid plug tobacco. He explains the process by which the tobacco was cured and packed, naming the origin of the term plug.
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Kansas City Star
Origin of the phrase enough to make a cat laugh
London Chronicle surveys the strange line of historic exclamations about cats speaking and laughter. It traces phrases like enough to make a cat spenk and its variations to eighteenth century sources and literary contexts.
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Miss Squeers
The Early Worm at a Ny Millonaire Party
A storyteller entertains children at a millionaire’s New York home. She quips the proverb The early bird catches the worm. A boy asks about the worm’s timing and the teller explains the worm hadn’t gone to bed, just getting home.
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Millonaire
York
Useless Nolac
Mrs. Fergu son calls Johnny from the stair to rise at six o clock, but he resists with a nap and mutters about useless noises in a Chicago Tribune fragment.
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Nolac
Johnny
Plight of the Actor Behind the Scenes in Theaters
Charles Belmont Davis notes backstage life inside theaters as a rigid system where actors wait for telegrams after performances. He describes intense routines, emotional temperaments, and a harsh, tradition bound environment that limits personal contact and outside messages.
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Notor
Charles Belmont Davis
Outing Magazine
False Alarm Of Fire On Shipboard In Sailor Of Fortune Tale
On the Northern Light, Captain Osbon in A Sailor of Fortune, a false fire alarm provoked panic until prompt action by a crewman who seized a minister’s coat tail to bring him down. The captain notes the danger and cites orders to stop false alarms by any means necessary.
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Mius
Osbon
Ile
Osboy
Speed of Fishes Tarpon Shark and Mackerel Swiftest Swimmers
The article notes estimates that mackerel rival fast fish, possibly near sixty to seventy miles per hour, with tarpon and shark also extremely swift. It compares energy use to engines, suggesting a seventy foot whale may need about 500 horsepower, while a tarpon may reach eighty mph.
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Saturday Evening Post
Tn Express
Hnege
Interrogation in Cambridge Report on College Hymn Spirit
Bishop Brooks recalls a Cambridge college service filled with lively singing by young men and even the college president Dr X appearing inspired. An amused listener questions Dr X being influenced, and Brooks clarifies it was a request for information.
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Cambridge
Philips Brooks
Dr. X
Bishop Brooks
An Act of Harpism by a Civil War Field Casualty
General Lee briefly exposed himself to observe while General Gracie stepped in to shield his leader’s view. Gracie stood before Lee, covering his superior until the fieldglass lowered, displaying cool bravery and self sacrificing spirit in a simple quiet act.
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Lee
Gracie
Suburban Train Admission Wins Lying Contest
A brief one line confession won a plain lying contest. The winner claimed he came in on a suburban train that morning and hastily hung up a car window.
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VIN Beny
H. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Eee
Iscvlock
Wiolmes
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Uno
Sue
Mackleton
Rpring
Demmeth
Bettye Welch
Lower Gill Moor
Chesterfield
Es Wells
Tilmes
Tiuntable
Leavan
Bather Street
Godder
Speed OF
Parker & Son
Burton
W. Parker
Stevens
H. F. Stevens
Burrsville Hardware and
Oliver and
South Bend
Wadhamith and
Wheelwright
Tilguman Twarvly
Burrsville Hardware and Furniture Store
W.G. Wooters
Burrsville, Md
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Denton
Richard Andrew
Henry R. Lewis
F. P. Covey
Warricrsons
Town & Country
B. W. Parker & Son
Denton, Piaryland
Kentlounty Mutual Insurance
Dover
Delaware
John T. Carter, Jr
L. Irving Jones
Greensboro
Alex. Noble
Preston, Md
King Tomato
Hammond
AYARS
PULP
E. Pratt St
A. K. Robins & Co
Baltimore
S. M. Sindall
Oscar Clark & Bro
James Swann
Peennsylvania Firn
Philadelphia
HOMY
Hanover Fire
New York
St. Paul
St. Pax
Milian
Scottish Union and National Insurance Company
Grangers Mutual, Insurance Co., Af
Middletown, Md
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Cooper
Sis
Main St
T. H. Evans & Company
Balto
W.W. T. Bradley
Parryla Ee Souvenir
Ping Pongs Aape Ae
Hardware Company
Caroline
Maryland
South
Oliver
U.S
Jewel and Lorain Steel Ranges
Lady Irving
Heath & Alitiigan
Fred & Frank Nuttle
Cordet Jones
C. K. Evans
Wikroughby Nowekel
Bruner Alz
Mr. Nowell
Cass Funeral
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