Mystery House case stirs Powhatan crowd and links to Paige Carew
Ralph Van Vechten witnesses a stranger killed near the House of Mystery at 1313 across from the Powhatan club. Investigations follow as Van Vechten, Tom Phinney, and Detective Flint pursue clues, linking Temple Bonner and Max Willard to a complex web involving Paige Carew Myra Devereaux and a secret yacht mission on the Kohinur.
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Ralph van Vechten
Powhatan Club
van Vechten
Tom Phinney
Flint
Gchten
Theodore van Vechten
Wall Street
Man of
Paige Carew
Paige Grew
Tom Iitfmey
Tondon
Miss Carew
Myra Devereaux
New York
Temple Bonner
House of Mystery
Compton Schuyler
Max Willard
Tom
Willard
Della
Murder Case Obscurities Deepen in New York Tale
In Thursday scenes Tom follows Delia and Jessie to the Claremont while Rudolph Van Vechten remains out of town. Theo Van Vechten sends Barnicle word to pursue Max Willard, and a mysterious Willardite link hints at broader danger. A dramatic return visit to Van Vechten’s rooms ends with a bold, pleading arrival by a poised young woman at the patient’s side.
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Claremont
Tom
Miss Willard
Old Willard
Jessie
Della
Jessie Willard
Central Park
Delia
Powhatan
van Vechten
Kenmore
Barnicle
Mr. Rudolph
Miss Carew
Ma Phineas Flint
Flint
Mr. Flint
Rudolph van Vechten
Phinney
Theodore van Vechten
Max Willard
Rudolph
New York
Patterson, Reed & Patterson
Washington, D. C
van Vechtem
Barnicite
World's Largest Lathe Built by U S Naval Gun Shop
Inland readers may not grasp the enormity of the lathe designed by the United States Naval Gun Shop in Washington and built with Niles Bement Bond. It measures 185 feet overall with a 176 foot bed, weighs 400 tons, and required a tunnel under a highway for installation.
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United States Naval Gon
Washington, D. C
Niles-Bement-Bond Company
Bement Works
Aid for Self Control Quoted in Interview
A dialogue shows a speaker stating he can quit drinking and smoking, and recalling a two month period without either. He attributes his return to resuming after typhoid fever, claiming no real reason to deny himself later. The exchange emphasizes willpower and health effects.
Angora Goat Defends Itself in Mohegan Park Deer Yard Fight
In Norwich Connecticut Superintendent Duff intervened in a battle between a new Angora goat and a resident ram in Mohegan Park. The goat with one horn held off the ram as visitors cried out and a turkey acted as referee. Duff separated the animals and tended the goat’s wounds after the horn broke.
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Norwich
Conn
John Tuff
Deer Yard
Mohegan Park
Duff
Bravery Wins $100 A Week For Lifelong Hero
Achille Oklahoma farmer Charles Brown, once a Tennessee lumber camp youth, saved a kidnapped child and pursued the bandits for days. The child was rescued and the bandits captured, and a Tennessee-based millionaire employer left Brown a $100 weekly life allowance.
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Achille
Okla
Charles Brown
Bryan County
Tennessee
Cumberland
Brown
Tennnessee
Shark Eats Alarm Clock on Ocean Demonstration
New York Chief Steward Bailia of the United Fruit Liner Metapan staged a shark experiment after arriving from Central America. He wound a clock set to ring in 20 minutes and tied it to a rope so the shark could reach it. The shark swallowed the clock, rose on its tail, somersaulted, and tried to stop the alarm by gulping seawater before fleeing toward the open sea at high speed.
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New York
Bailia
United Fruit
Central America
Honeymooner Runs Over Mother-in-Law in New Jersey
Clarence Humphrey, on his honeymoon in Lakeville N J, ran over his mother-in-law and fractured her arm. She urged the couple to restart their car and continue their journey.
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Runa
Lakeville
N. J
Clarence Humphrey
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Clurg & CA
U. S
Tommers
Barniele
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England
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Regent Street
Brown Piccadilly
Gabrielle
Suzanne
Rue de la Paix
Paris
Himecit
Bravery
Shark
Taba Stee
Doan
Kentucky
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Cadis
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Alice
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Foster-Milsurn CO
Buffalo, N
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Rub-No-More Co
Ft. Wayne, Ind
Percival
Yaas
Billy Rot
Louieville
Courier
Journal
Fletcher
Tr Carter
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Young
P.O.F
Temple ‘Trust
Springfield
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