The Holladay Case A voyage of secrets and danger unfolds
On a transatlantic voyage Lester, Royce, and Mrs Kemball encounter Martigny aboard a crowded liner. Suspicion grows over Miss Holladay and a mysterious rival, with danger looming as a hidden plot unfolds between allied prisoners and unseen enemies. Martigny’s fragile heart and the two-woman mystery propel a tense chase across deck and cabin as new clues emerge.
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Taniy
Mr. Graham
Bin
Lndy
Lester
Martigny
Bethune
Mr. Royce
Mr. Lester
Miss Kemball
Jim
Royce
France
Mortigny
Hus Rielly
Tie
Mortiany
Martieny
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Miss Holladay
Washington Square
Accidental Doctor’s Mat Becomes City Laughingstock
In Calcutta, a hospital physician’s bearskin doormat becomes the butt of a joke as patients note no real remedy from it. The odd item displaces concern for medicines, while locals recall quirky sayings and comic interdictions about new words and petty phrases.
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Calcuta Statesman
Benga
Theater as Educator Could Elevate American Taste
J R Metcalfe argues in Atlantic that the theater, even in modest reform, could spur social improvement and uplift popular taste across arts and literature. He critiques viewing stage art as mere toy merchandise and urges giving theater a serious role in national life.
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Metcalfe
Atlantic
Pele's Hair at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii
The article describes Mauna Loa and Kilauea as two openings on Hawaii's largest active volcano, noting Kilauea's status as a major crater. It explains Pele's hair, glassy lava filaments formed by steam and lava interaction, and mentions its historical use in native ceremonies.
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Mauna
Kilauea
Pele
Canal Locks In China
Canal locks on the Grand Canal use simple boards and ropes through stone piers to move boats. Large windlasses on the bank haul vessels via ropes, with basins for anchoring and rudimentary sluices kept at height by rope coils to soften impacts.
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Grand Canal
China
Technical World Magazine
A Phonomenon Explained By Rural Jokes In Dialect
A London GI relays a humorous rural explanation of the word phenomenon using mispronounced phonemes. A man says a cow in a meadow or a thistle or a lark is not a phinomeena, but if the cow sits, thistle and sings like the lark, that would be a phinomeenua, illustrating playful speech.
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Etretat
London
Phalaris Tyrant of Agrigent Roasted by Fire Allegedly
The Philadelphia North American reports Phalaris the tyrant of Agrigent had a brazen bull device that admitted victims for roasting. The inventor was roasted first as a test and later the populace rose in revolt and burned Phalaris.
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Phalaris
Agrigen B. C
I’halaris
Philaadelphia
Fragmented historical exchange over a tense meeting
A cryptic snippet shows Must Mate Keen and others exchanging fragmented lines about a meeting from last year. References to a dear girl and a little boy appear amid garbled phrases, hinting at a disrupted or coded conversation.
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Weil
Hoge Rend W Bo Jefandan Bstod Hodgel
Fragmentary OCR yields a sparse item with unclear names and event. The readable portion suggests a local incident or sports note but lacks coherent entities or dates to confirm a specific item.
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Deen
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Bea Seust
Jourdains
Earth
Mrs. Kemball
Mr. Jester
Dwneer
LT Eikd
Jena
Devon
Mephisto
Poris
Idiss Keimbaut
Lok
Marguigny
Lamu
Africa
Eliot
East Afriat
Ooade
Robby
Peetiey
Hobey
Pat Peeeiey
Salvator Meakton
the American Theater
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Jefendan
Hodgel
Daly
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