End of a Riverbank Tragedy Mystery
Abner Dart confesses Ella Dart manipulated a series of deaths to secure money for Amy Crane. Ella adopted Amy after a string of illnesses and deaths including Caroline Barstell, a supposed medium, who died after a confrontational reading. The cook Maggie Maney collapses and claims Ella killed the chauffeur, George Firmandick, with a knife. Brennan and Simon Judd pursue the case as Norbert, Drane heirs, and police compile the final notes before the Riverbank press.
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Abner Dart
Caroline Barstell
Ella
Amy
Abner
Simon Judd
Brennan
Maggie Cook
Dart
Hot Springs
California
Crane
Silas
Bob Carter
Sime
John Crane
Riverbank
Norbert
George Firmandick
Maggie
Mr. Dart
Carter
Ella Crane
Ella Dart
Joe
Maggie Maney
George
George Fermandick
Hoover Garnering Admiration as Next President
The New York World polls praise Herbert C Hoover. Charles E Hughes lauds his Americanism and achievements at a Carnegie Hall Civic Forum event where Hoover received a distinguished public service medal.
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Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Charles E. Hughes
Carnegie Hall
Civic Forum
Hoover
New York
United States Supreme Court
New York World
Great Minds Attuned to Nature Temples
The Cincinnati Enquirer praises nature as a sincere, honest temple for the Universal Spirit. It extols groves mountainsides and seas as sources of dignity, peace, and connection, citing Socrates Whitman Whitman and Jesus as open-air figures who spoke from nature.
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Heaven
Socrates
Wilson
Goldsmith
Walt Whitman
Jesus
Cincinnati Enquirer
Early Friction Match Invention Chronicle
The article traces early friction light devices from Italy 1786 to the Promethean Match 1828, noting Samuel Jones and others as claimants before crediting John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees for the first modern friction match. It details components, breaking the glass vesicle to ignite the paper and prices in 1826.
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Italy
Samuel Jones
John Walker
Stockton-on-Tess
Listen to the Spring Growth Sound in Nature Magazine
On the first warm spring day a clump of eelatians grows and makes a sharp click as new shoots push through the old canes. The article describes fearless trees, bare ground, and rapid spring growth with a striking snapping of old wood. The piece showcases nature’s renewal in spring.
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Nature Magazine
Castoria: trusted relief for restless babies across generations
A vintage advertisement touts Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy for infants. It claims rapid sleep aid for fretful babies and relief for gas pain and constipation, noting widespread adoption by millions of mothers and vast yearly sales.
New Yellowstone geyser proves changeable natural wonders
The article notes Yellowstone National Park has gained a newly formed geyser, one of the world’s largest. It erupts twice daily with water jets reaching about 74 feet for roughly three hours. The crater spans 100 feet by 120 feet and about 8 feet deep, near the historically inactive Excelsior geyser which ceased in 1888.
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Yellowstone National Park
Danger in Transplanting Trees and Age Related Adaptability
Entomologists from the Department of Agriculture warn that transplanting trees, like people, loses adaptability with age. Large transplanted trees face severe stress and insect attack, risking death if moisture and shade conditions are disrupted and sun-baked soil replaces shade. Borers may finish the damage.
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Department of Agriculture
Milky Way Galaxy Described as Our Vast Universe
The Milky Way is presented as the entire universe to us with the sun and its planetary family including asteroids satellites and comets. The Milky Way appears as a dim white band across the sky due to perspective marking its plane of greatest extension.
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Galaxy
Milky Way
Origin of goulash traced to Hungarian herdsmen
The dish goulash derives from gul yash meaning cattle herdsman. It originated with open fire cooking by herdsmen centuries ago at Hortobágy near Debrecen in Hungary.
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Hortobad
Debrezcen
Hungary
Reward Offered for Illegal Bounty Funds by Sheep Growers
A one hundred dollar reward is offered to any person not a regular law officer who helps arrest and convict anyone collecting bounty funds illegally. Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Association advertises the incentive.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn
Reward Offered by Sheep Growers for Convictions
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers association offers a $250 reward for the conviction of any sheep thief and a $100 reward for the conviction of any camp robber.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers’ Association
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Sphinx
Judd
Grand Jury
Bayer
Montana
Congress
Mark D. Fitzearrald
Fitzgarrald
Montana Republican State Central
Elicastoria
First National Bank
THE
Bank OF Strength and Service
Land Office
Vent Caro
Pearl I. Smith
Dillon
New
Yellowstone
Leggat Hotel
Butte
Alex. Leggat
Mer
Lewis & Walker
P.O
North
Wyoming
Butte, Mont
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Atkeson Dairy
M. Paumie
Galena St
Sara E. Weston
Belvidere, DL
Geo. M. Gosman
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