The Man Who Blushed at a Boarding House Mystery
A fashionable boarding house run by Mrs. Barnes becomes a stage for a robbery and romance. Miss Bierce the stenographer and Tillman the bank clerk use physiognomy and deduction to expose Miss Delamar the actress, who faked a diamond theft for sensation while the clerk quietly recovers the jewels.
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Barnes
Miss Bierce
Greenbacks
Itis
Dorothy Delanming
Catharine Briggs
Miss Delamar
Tillman
shane
rascal
Linn
Miss Bleree
Pepper The King of Spices From East To Tropics
Pepper, the commonest and most used spice, originated in the East Indies and now grows across the tropical Americas. It is a climbing plant with a smooth stem, up to twelve feet long, bearing bright red ripe fruit. Propagated by cuttings, pepper yields two crops yearly for about twelve years after a three to four year growth period. The berries are harvested as soon as they redden, dried, rubbed, and winnowed for market. Pepper was known to the ancients and was a costly medieval royal gift.
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East Indies
America
A Picture of Tennyson From a Rail Platform View
A writer who once glimpsed Lord Tennyson on a railway platform recalls Lim. He describes Lim as tall but with bent shoulders long hair and beard an ugly Inverness cape and a large slouch hat. The observer compares him to a melodrama bandit and pities him watching him pace the platform.
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Tennyson
Lord Tennyson
Lim
Ile
The Height of Simplicity in a Plain Dealer Quote
A fragmented excerpt from the Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses simplicity and natural laws. It contrasts a remark about a person’s poker game with a broader musing on the universe and natural order. The text shows altered phrasing and oblique references to quotes and scientists.
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fin ocean
Cleveland Plain Dealer
An Angel In the Web and the Salvation Army Hymn
Mather, worn by heat and loneliness, encounters Sister Ruth at a Salvation Army street corner. He is drawn by her beauty and voice, defends her tambourine from a drunken assailant, and later confesses love. In a church hall, Ruth accepts his steady assurance and love, transforming a bleak room into a paradise as their bond grows.
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Mather
Allentown
Salvation Army
Ife
leutenant
Ruth
Tie
Sister Ruth
Stuth
Gertle
Afather
Roman Die On Billiard Table Echoes Press Hype
In Wichite a boastful lawyer harangued crowds with harsh talk, a man stabbed him during the street address, and he collapsed on a billiard table. Reporters arrived as he delivered a final oration, shouting for the press to draw near before the doctor confirmed a minor knife wound.
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Wichite
Tie
Saturday Evening Post
Field rejects bond salesman with business growth rule
A spring 1905 interview in which Marshall Field dismisses a New York bond salesman seeking Pennsylvania railroad guaranteed bonds yielding under 4 percent. Field says he buys only investments with room to grow, investing surplus where it can expand, as he did in building his business.
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New York
Marshall Field
Pennsylvania railroad
Mr. Field
The Adirondack Lakes Carrying Power of Voices
In stilt weather the Adirondack lakes transmit voices from long distances and make ordinary talk audible ashore. Visitors who hunt deer often avoid whispering near the water to not reveal their guilt, as laws prohibit deer slaughter.
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Adirondack Lakes
Adirondack
Babylonian king blasts Egyptian gift as base metal
In a Tell el Amarna letter from the eighteenth dynasty, the King of Babylon accuses Amenophis III of Egypt of sending him a bundle labeled as gold that, when melted, yields only five of twenty minas of pure gold. The claim underscores alleged deception in royal trade.
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Tell-el-Amarna
Babylon
Amenophis III
Egypt
London Post
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