Abershaw Diamonds sale and a daring jewel plot
A long notice describes Tract No. 1 near Denton Maryland offered in three parcels with acreage, improvements, and terms, followed by a sensational tale of the Abershaw diamonds scandal involving Vera Farrington, the Earl of Abershaw, a paste jewelry hoard, warned burglars, a bomb in a casket, and Adelaide Farrington averting a perilous marriage.
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Farrington
Vera
Abershaw
arrington
Adelaide Warrington
Adelaide
Adelaide Farrington
bind
fiulf
England
Elmu
Adelaide Parrington
Abershnaw
Caroline County Farms for Sale in Six Tracts
Private sale offers six farms ranging from 20 to 292 acres in Caroline County. Properties include 100 to 292 acres with improvements, timber, and varying proximity to Marvdel Hobbs Burrsville Federalsburg Williston and Denton. Prices per acre and total costs listed with farm features and nearby railways and roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Federalsburg
Captain Kemp
Soan
Farm land sale offer with January 1 1912 possession
A notice advertising farm lands offered on easy terms with possession available January 1 1912. The text directs interested parties to apply for details.
Trustee's Sale of Real Estate in Caroline County
Trustee will sell real estate at the Court House door in Denton Maryland in a proceeding in equity by decree of the Circuit Court for Caroline County against Jacob Ghingher and defendants. The sale is conducted as part of the trust powers under the decree and related administrators of William L Phillips deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Jacob Ghingher
Benjamin PL. Miller
Heary R. Lewis
Wiliam L. Phillips
Court House
Denton
Auction Notice of Phillips Estate in Caroline County
Tuesday August 1 1911 between 2 and 3 o clock p m all that tract where William L Phillips resided at his death in the Seventh Election District Caroline County Maryland on the road from Denton to the Brick Mill adjoining the lands of Christian Holsinger Benjamin F Miller Percy Dunning and others containing (text incomplete)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willian L. Phillips
Caroline county
Maryland
Denton
Christian Holsinger
Benjamin F. Miller
Percy Dunning
Be a good loser and keep calm under defeat
This piece argues for grace in losing, claiming good losers gain respect and trust. It cites business, politics, and sports, urging composure, self-control, and a positive attitude to inspire success and avoid being deemed a coward. It ends with a quotation about unselfishness and acceptance of loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose
Nfe
Eskimo family life depicted with guests in Pacific Monthly
Captain F. E. Kilebschmidt describes Eskimo homes as lively with sewing and hunting tasks visible, lamps casting heat, and occupants undressed near fire. He notes frequent laughter, practical jokes, and generally unknown treachery or lying among the group, excluding Siberian Greenland or Labrador tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
abbors
Greenland
F. E. Kilebschmidt
Pacific Monthly
Illicit Diamond Buying in Kimberley’s Early Days
Louis Cohen’s reminiscences recount daring diamond theft methods in Kimberley. Dogs starved then fed diamonds, bears, pigeons, and wax-sealed seals used to smuggle stones across rivers and past police. A Cape boy sold a forty carat diamond to a wife, who hid it in a goose stuffing to foil a detective search.
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Kimberley
i.c
South Africa
England
Louis Cohen
Christiania
Yaal
friends of man
Indy
bastdagg
Sickroom plants should be kept out at night
In the Medical Record, Dr Dawbarn explains why sickroom plants should be removed at night. Plants humidify the air by releasing moisture and consume oxygen while producing carbon dioxide, then resume oxygen use at dawn, reducing oxygen for the patient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
randoom
Robert LA. M. Dawbarn
Chateaubriand’s Early Stocking Trade Discovery
A Westminster Gazette note reveals a young Chateaubriand once sold stockings on commission. In 1700, while an officer in royal service, he faced a £200 debt of honor and appealed to Morandals in Switzerland. They sent 189 dozen stockings with a liberal hoped-for commission, which he sold to friends and possibly stocked his regiment’s stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chateaubriand
Chateaubriaand
royal
open Morandals
Switzerland
Ta Morandals
Westminster Gazette
The Shoplifter and the City Visit Tale
Old Jed Shucks and his wife visited New York City. On returning home he tells friends about a big department shop and a clever shoplifters tale. The wife corrects him with a humorous local dialect exchange about the shoplifter’s name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jed Shucks
New York city
Jed
tarnation
Jedediar
Shucks
Mock Marriage Plot Unfolds in Eastburn Estate
Edmond Eastburn to marry Miss Sanderson to save his mortgaged estate. A country visit leads to a maid double as Edith Sanderson and Adele Richards. The plan backfires when debts and affections collide revealing the mortgagor's true identity and the looming foreclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmond Eastburn
TIaven
The Important Question in a Fire Scene
A new fireman recounts a midnight blaze at the Von Biffers’ home on the avenue. Miss von Biffer is seen carrying her little niece through flames and smoke, an act described as the bravest he ever saw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Von
Tuning Benign Neighbor Joke From Baltimore Sun
A humorous exchange quotes a neighbor offering to tune Mitte xucy s piano with an ax. The line highlights a prankish miscommunication and a quip about making life easier for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
t. “John
Mitte xucy
Baltimore Sun
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Frederick Uvde
T. Pliny Fisher
truit
Ridgely
Pancen
Christian P. Holsinger
Holsinger
Philips
hame place
Henry R. Lewis
F.P. Covey
HOWARD FIELDING
American Press Association
Linwood
Earl of Abershaw
Pam
Vern
lis
Tie
Einwood Farrington
Abersiaw o
ranson
Farringtons
New York
earl
Wall street
Abersiaw
cardy
Sle
taike
siidhe
Mercury
Ile
Abershian
Linwood Farrington
Mr. Farrington
USAW
CVERY
WAREYERS
Marvdel
Hobbs
Burrsville
ade
Williston
State stone road
Lamile
Tuckahoe Neck
J. E. ELLWANGER
Denton, Md
GK AND
MULLIN'S
Wilmington
ALAN GOLDSBOROUGHE
Nisi
Frederick DP. Roe
T. Cordin Curry
John F. Jarman
Curry & Jarman
J. KEMP STEVENS
Easton
Sherwood Mill Farm
Chapel District
Talbot county
Ald
Cordova
Queen Anne
Willoughby
Skipton
JOHN W. D.JUMP
Ernest Rasp
iled
Durrsville
price
ALEXANDER BAKER
P.O. Denton
James Temple
Mortgagor
F. A. MITCHEL
Mr. Eaatburn
Eastburn
Miss Sanderson
Mr. Eastburn
Miss Richards
George Filet
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