A Summer Street Scandal and the Walbrook Plot
In a brisk tale set near Baltimore City, patrolman narrator recounts a high stakes chase involving Amos Walbrook, his daughter Madeleine Tasbrook, a district attorney’s crackdown on street franchising, and stolen documents. A daring escape, a police ruse with a newly minted wagon lot, and a last act reveal fold into a twist where justice and romance tilt the scales.
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Suich
Leral
Vito
Nne
Littleton
New Jersey
New York
Bert
Walbrook
Brea
Europe
France
Cricket
Tate
Jal
Amos I
Ridgewood
Tasbrook
Grand Jury
Wasbrook
Trasbrook
Trashbrook House
Madeleine
Miss Tasbrook
Mr. Hasbrook
Hasbrook
Union Railway
Maryland Constitution Amendment Creates Four Baltimore Districts
The text proposes amending Section 2 of Article 3 to substitute a new provision for the Legislative Department. It calls for Baltimore City to be divided into four legislative districts of near equal population and contiguous territory, to be configured as districts from time to time under the new amendment.
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General Assembly of
Maryland
Thie
General Assembly
Baltimore
Austin L. Crowes
Baltimore City
Austin L. Crothers
Daltimore
House of Delegates
Waltimore City
Austin L. Crotiscrs
A. Tr. Gorman, Jr
Senate
Adam Peeples
Austin L. Crothery
Annapolis
Austin L. Crotters
Legislative Department
Saltimore City
Across the State Line
A brief syndicated item from 1911 notes a cross border issue or event implied by the caption Across the State Line, with no further readable details available in the fragment. The text lacks concrete names, places, or actions to specify.
PIES FOR THE KING An Ancient English Royal Custom
Gloucester keeps a royal pie sending tradition with a 1897 twenty pound lamprey pie sent to Balmoral on a gold dish adorned with truffles prawns and royal symbols. Yarmouth supplies a hundred herrings baked in twenty four pies for the sheriffs of Norwich and the king via East Clareley.
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England
Gloucester
Balmoral
Yarmouth
Norwich
East Clareley
The Transformation of Percy
A fragmentary London An swore scene depicts Johnny asking his father about limpet endurance as he muses on Percy's attachment to Cissy in a seaside moment. The dialogue contrasts stubborn clinginess with growing up aspirations.
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Hackett
Gape Cure Company
J.D. Davis
Ridgely
Alt. Duffey
Hillsborn
A. E. Dufey
Denton, Ald
Nidccwood
Madeleine
Insbrook
Miss Hasbrook
Mr. Hasbrook
Tasbrook
Percy
Johnny
Cissy
Sterlette
Kipling
Papa
Father
London
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin Ben
H. Johnson Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Mathan
Manson
Wiblowe Vrokr
Wobu
Philadelphia
WITS
Morndey
Steter
Philade
Vier 3
Sonmth Wisarses
Chestnut Street
Adelphia
Vrdev
Jy Pou
Noal
Closter
Heestone Hain
Tadels
Stara
Feroto Phi
Frederica
Ant
Vredi Rica
Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Martin RB. Laine
Eva Lane
Clara. J. Colona
Martian R. Bang
Caraline Counnty
Howard AL
Alan
Nolle
Troward AL Payman
Thouands
Dent Dulay
Lyman Brows
Murrey SL
Kew
York
N.Y
WM. A. Smith
Draxtos
Somme
J. M. Haymaker
Marl
Ridgely, Maryland
J. Leland Hanna
Equitable Ride
Caltinora
Mad
Adelaide Schmitt
Saratoga St
James Templa
Fourth Street
Pliny Fisher
Denton, Md
Parker
Drogglste
Chaiter
A. P. Gorman, Jr
Adam Piedples
N. Winslow Williams
Amos L. Masbrook
Torney
Ancr
Masbrook
Walbrook House
Hue
Central Police
Finsbrooke
Ffe
Annestop
National Bank
THE
Denton National Bank
Harvey L. Cooper
T. C. West
T. W. Smith CO
L. F. Smith
Opt
TEW. Smith CO
Caroline
Carter Block
Denton
William Bullock
Box
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Wilbur T. Kelley
G. Rairigh & Sons
WM. Dennry
Sec
James J. Ross
Kent County Mutuae Insurance
Dover
Delaware
L. Irving Jones
Greensboro
John T. Carter, Jr
Alex. Noble
Agent Preston Ma
American Press Association
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