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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
6
Billy narrates how Jim Blogg and Spratt slip ashore after a voyage, with the chief steward guiding the tale. At night a bold attempt to break into a house via a window leads to a tense ascent and uncertain outcomes as the story details a clever break in and the narrator’s observations.
Billy describes tailing Jim Blogg and a stranger to a West End club, following their cab, and staking out a swell club near Pieadiily Street. He identifies the stranger as the letter sender, notes a plan to pay off, and confirms the house on Rodney Avenue as the target for investigators, earning a share of the reward.
The narrator weighs whether to involve Scotland Yard as Blogg, the stranger, and Captain Arnewood connect to an £850 debt and a hidden master. He checks the Beresford Hotel and the Junior Naval and Military Club for clues while noting Spratt and Blagg may be bait in a complex plot. The case sharpens as hotel refusals and pieced sightings hint at a master manipulating events.
In transit from London to Dublin, a lawyer narrator observes a suspicious, clean shaven man matching Billy’s description of the “stranger.” The man’s master might be Captain Arnewood, raising caution about identity. At Shelburne Hotel, Captain Arnewood’s deteriorating health prompts concern and debate about Ireland versus England.
Fragmentary note suggests a speaker addressed a large crowd, prompting questions about inspiration and stage presence. The reference to Rome audiences hints at an international or travel setting. No clear names or dates are legible.
Prominent Washington barrister Belva A. Lockwood, the sole woman to have run for the U.S. presidency, writes to The Peruna Medicine Company praising its remedy for cold and catarrh and noting its tonic value for the aged. She warns of pelvic catarrh and urges women to seek the product, offering a free booklet titled Stealth and Beauty.
A Cortland resident attempted suicide in McTenh but survived after a physician provided needed care. The doctor sued for 10,000 claiming the life saved was worth that sum. the verdict awarded 900 to the physician.
In a letter from Virden Manitoba dated November 18 1899 Jacob Reichert a Minnesota farmer recounts how he and his son settled in Manitoba after guides helped them locate three homesteads. He describes building a shanty planting 125 acres of crops including 100 acres of wheat and 50 acres of oats and barley, harvesting 2700 bushels with high yields on sod land. Reichert praises Manitoba soils and markets ten miles from Virden with elevators at Hargrave and notes land can be bought from the Canadian Pacific Railway at 3.50 per acre on liberal terms. He urges others in high priced districts to move and work.
The British war office lists Hebrew troops among those mustered, with two Hebrew companies in Bombay and thousands of Hebrews serving in recent years. Many are now with the army in South Africa following the war.
A list of patents issued to Northwestern inventors from Minneapolis and surrounding areas includes Joseph W Bates John J Meavler Jena Jensen Benjamin B Kelsey John F Kukacka Johnny Luce Frank L Stevens William M Welsh Merwit Lothray and Johannson with items such as automatic coupling bay rack bread or cake eater cylinder lubricator cutter bar eatle stow paco holder laundry apparatus and related patent attorneys noted.
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