Mystery at the Mysterious Home of Judge Outranier
A curious crowd tracks the widow Deborah Scoville to Judge Outranier's secluded house. She believes her murdered husband and Oliver, the judge's son, share a hidden link. Deborah and her lawyer uncover clues from a murder twelve years past and the shadowed cap linked to Oliver.
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Judge Outranier
Deborah Scoville
Algernon Etheridge
John Scoville
Dark Hollow
Etheridge
Deborah
Reuther
Oliver
Miss Eeks
Black
Innocent
Shadowed Session at Spencer's Folly Revelation
In a tense room a narrator learns of a dangerous past via a manuscript read by a judge. Oliver's secret exposes a fatal night at Spencer's Folly where a gun, a card game, and a murder cascade into a blaze, forcing a boy to flee and hide amid nightmare and rain.
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Spencer’s Folly
Father
Spencer
Heaven
Claymore Tavern
Cho
Be Subversive Hunger and Bonaparte in Paris Mob Scene
In Paris on June 20 Bourrienne recounts meeting with Bonaparte as a rising crowd of five to six thousand men storms toward the Tuileries. The mob, armed and vocally vile, provokes Bonaparte who calls for cannon to quell the unrest and foresees the coming upheaval while they dine on the terrace.
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Rue St. Honore
Palais Royal
Bonaparte
Tuileries
Purlieus
Paris
Napoleon I Bonaparte
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Land o' Cakes in Scottish lore inspires grand baking image
Scotland is called the Land o' Cakes for centuries and the vivid image of giant cakes baked over peat fires appears in travel writing and poetry. Women without schooling perform a dramatic turning of a foot‑diameter griddle cake, flipping it in the air with a skilled arc to land perfectly back on the hot surface.
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Scotland
Earth
Turkiye torpedo attack sinks Majestic and losses mount
A May 28 dispatch reports the British battleship Majestic torpedoed and sunk in the Dardanelles with 757 crew. Six allied battleships lost to Turkish action, including the Majestic and Triumph, while the French Bouvet survived. Separately, the Princess Irene at Sheerness Yard exploded in an official accident with over eighty dead and one survivor.
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Admiralty
Majestic
Dardaelle
Berlin
Sed-el-Bahr
Dardanelles
Triumph
Ocean
Irresistible
Goliath
Bouvet
Sheerness
H. M. Auxilary
Toker
Near clash with Germans on Teutonic frontier
Berlin March 28 A German army corps concentrates on the Teutonic frontier and is strongly entrenched. A dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung says the main Italian army is approaching and was only two miles from German trenches when sent.
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Berlin
Teutonic Frontier
Vossische Zeitung
Separate peace sought by Young Turk leader
Dravid Pasha, a Young Turk leader, left Constantinople for Berlin to inform Germany that Turkey must seek a separate peace with the Allies, according to a Saloniki dispatch. The move signals potential realignment as Turkey considers terms with the opposing powers.
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Turkey
Germany
Berlin
Athens
Cold Spring Embraces Historic May Chill Across East
New York on May 28 reports Thursday as the coldest May 21 in local weather history. Temperatures fell to 41 at 5 a.m. The cold spell blanketed New England and the eastern states with killing frosts causing heavy damage upstate overnight.
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New York
New Engand
Czar Returns From Front Conference With Minister
Emperor Nicholas returned from the front and held a lengthy conference with Minister of War Soukhomlinoŭ in Petrograd on May 28.
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Czar
Petrograd
Nicholas
Wer Soukhomlinoŭ
Four Lessons From The War Taught By Dean Hodges Sermon
Dean George Hodges of Cambridge Theological Seminary says the European conflict teaches four lessons. Nations gain no glory from material strength alone. true brotherhood and shared ideals matter. Might is not right. many sacrifice their lives refuting selfishness. War reveals neglect of national Christianity. Christianity must guide nations as well as individuals.
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Europe
George Hodges
Cambridge Theological Seminary
Calvary Episcopal Church, Cambridge
Clean Sweet Scalp Hair Care Ad
Promote clearing the scalp of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Describes pure fragrant emollients for skin and scalp troubles. Free samples by mail with Skin Book. Address Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
One Explanation of Politician Versus Statesman
A humorous remark contrasts politicians who wear a slouch hat and string tie with a statesman confident enough to play golf without offending the plain people. The quip emphasizes poise and public perception in leadership.
Pupil Seeks Afternoon Absence Over Aunt’s Death
A student asks permission to be absent citing an aunt’s cousin death, with the teacher recalling a closer relation would be preferable and reluctantly granting leave.
The Prescription Ad Tease and Red Cross Ball Blue Pitch
A short comic exchange features a tired speaker seeking a cure and a clerk offering a cosmetic remedy. The scene pivots on three dollar pricing for a fictional cure and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as a household product distributed by grocers.
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Red Cross
All Grocers
Adv
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