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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
3
In a Parisian born maid interrogation, Detective Hantlin questions Leonce amid a tense wedding aftermath. Leonce vanishes as suspicion rises, then a bloodstained room reveals a concealed killer, prompting Mrs. Martin to press for truth.
Mrs Martin, after a taxing morning, seeks refuge and food in the breakfast room where Susan tends her. She hints at plotting against Philip Grayson and believes Clarice Mowbray and Shirley Austin conspired, while police and a detective close in upstairs. Bertha and Letty return home to news of Philip’s murder, and Robert Grayson astonishes all by seemingly recovering his sanity, as the family contemplates the grim events.
A Brussels correspondent recounts Cornelius Vanderbilt visiting the Museum of Ancient Brussels Laces. The priceless items were in one keeper's charge when Vanderbilt proposed a purchase. Six guards appeared at a button summons. ultimately Vanderbilt and friends left with lace handkerchiefs bought from a nearby shop.
The Denver Times prints a playful Christmas tale told in dialect about a night before Christmas. A man from Cripple Creek recalls a chilly evening, a jumpy morning, and a child’s claim of hearing Santa Claus up stairs, with humorous mispronunciations and quirky dialogue.
In a playful exchange, Mann and Vietors recount a croquet match yesterday. Rafferty notes the blow of a mallet and two welts on Casey's brow, but jurying the hit, Casey's wife appears the likely winner according to Dolan.
A fragmented note questions a discriminating and differential duty tied to social propriety, mentioning a youth in Pennsylvania and a mother calling someone darling in a parlor, with a reference to the New York Times after the company left.
A collage of quirky items on insects and collectibles, with butterfly and moth values in Cambridgeshire, a remark on Hydrilla Pallatris scarcity, jokes about lobster with milk, kidney pills praise, underwater photography quip, and a light New York Times exchange about marriage customs across continents.
Northwen Northweate inventors Delbert B Barton from Minneapolis and William H Danis from Duluth are named on patents for wheel box and axle groin car door and engine lathe. Other inventors Fridolin Schimmel of Faribault and Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys are listed with attachments for typewriters and bridge bearing for pianos.
A Washington Star fragment quotes a near relative saying she provokes her husband to anger so he will lose his temper and then atone by giving her what she wants. The placid reply confirms the ploy as deliberate.
A curious antiquated exchange unfolds as Ally Sloper and a fair cyclist discuss a stranger’s death. The pedestrian rider’s last act is described as a kiss, prompting wonder whether the death was accidental or otherwise.
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