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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
8
A long Paris Times note recalls the 1892 Chateau du Gluadier crime against Mme Stangerson in the yellow room. Witness Daddy Jacques describes midnight murder sounds, locked doors, and a culprit who vanished leaving blood marks, a red handkerchief, and a stolen revolver.
A fragmentary humorous note features a playful dialogue about taste and steak preferences. Character names and specifics are unclear, but the piece conveys a lighthearted culinary satire with quick exchanges.
A reflective piece argues for accepting weather as it is rather than opposing it. It contrasts early humans’ ease with nature to modern city life and urges readers to adopt a stance of harmony with rain, snow, and wind, finding resilience in daily routines.
The page features a brain teaser about Admiral Schwitzer asking his daughter to design an Ensign for the Swiss navy using red wallpaper fragments to form the flag. It also includes a financial riddle comparing Bessie and Annie over earnings, spending, and savings with numerical hints.
A famous surgeon Velpeau visits a Marquis for an urgent operation priced at 4000 francs. Weeks later a hospital footman case mirrors the tale, and Velpeau demands a 10000 franc charity payment under threat of public exposure of the Marquis's disguise.
The Matin editor preserves Jacques’s recollections of the Stangerson case with police barriers and prisoner witnesses at the chateau. The Marquet interview notes a cryptic search for hidden passages as detectives seek a killer who entered by a door and hid under a bed. The Donjon inn tale links a superstition to a church bell known as Black Tom of Soothill tolling at midnight.
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