Wayward Wayne and the Averill clue at Averill's
Dick Brayton notices Wayne slipping out at night and discovers a cryptic message carved on a cottonwood tree near Porter's. The note reads Averill's near Deer Creek and hints at Wednesday as a time marker. Dick plans to monitor Wayne while weighing a possible break in the case as horse thievery emerges.
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Mr. Porter
Wayne
Porter
Tick
Mr. Boone
Nannie
Mr. Wayne
Nancy Boone
Averill
Deer Creek
Web
Deacon Snyder
Singing School
Averill's
Dick Brayton
Nannie Boone
Rhoda
Stevens Place
Brownsville
Green Place
Bill Green
Bill
Averill’s
Chinese Inquesta Inquest Myths Highlight Coroner Rules
The Chicago News ridicules Chinese inquest practices noting doctors avoid dissection and corrupt schemes use sham deaths. It claims signs of poisoning rely on rice fed to a chicken to reveal cause. The piece contends many methods are absurd and fail to deter crime in China.
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China
Chicago News
First House in America Described by Immigrant Letter
The dead letter office in Washington received a foreign letter addressed to the First House in America. The letter was sent to New York where officials opened it and found Russian language notes about Polish Jewesses due to arrive and be met at the barge office by relatives.
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Washington
America
Puzzle Bureau
Federal Barge Office
New York
Custom House
Collier's Weekly
Floating Bridge Needs Tubular Tunnel Across Boa Phorne
The bridge of boats now serving as the sole crossing of the Boa phorne is inadequate for demand. A tubular tunnel could be built shore to shore to allow uninterrupted traffic, suspended or floated below the water surface due to insufficient foundations, and the plan is under serious consideration.
Humorous Snippets Across the Presses
A collage of jokes and wry exchanges from Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Bulletin and others. Quips cover teachers, barbers, suits, and social foibles with playful misreadings and sharp wordplay.
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the Swamp Secret
Mr Boone
Nancy
Robert Booner
Sona
Johnnie
Irene
Yonkers Statesman
Boresumm
Sinner
Baltimore American
Tommy
Pop
Philadelphia
Chicago
Parke
Lane
Baltimore News
Io Alarm
Bazar
Butterly
Shakspeare
Brooklyn Life
Paul
Brooklyn
Mistah Johnsing
Darknite
Ohio State Journal
Billy
William
Pertie Goodwin
Art Smasher
Meena Zevver
Chicago Tribune
Ming
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