Summer Mystery: Eliza Elizabeth Graham Cottage Visit
Three girls Elizabeth Gabrielle and Elise travel to Canada for the summer aboard a steamer they fear a strange man steals a photo and two men named John C Blake and Gordon Bennett are linked to a jewel theft. Mrs Graham fears her husband Harry Graham wanders at night. A sphinx cuff and a marquise ring surface amid whispers of past crimes as tensions rise at the seaside cottage.
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Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Elise
Canada
Mra. Graham
Lord Wilfrid
Edith
Eliszabeth
Elisabeth
John C. Blake
Gordon Bennett
Jordan Bennett
Lady Edith
Mary Anne
Hadith
Elias
Gordon Hennett
Mr. Graham
Mheed
Ham
Graham
Mr. Blake
Harry
Harry Graham
Campbells
Wilfrid
Wikfrid
Holland bulb trade immense and soil niche identified
The Netherlands specialize in tulip and hyacinth bulbs. Only soil between Leyden and Haarlem, a former sea bed from 1852, yields perfect bulbs. Global demand grows as areas for cultivation expand. 1906 data show 4,058 hectares or 10,027 acres under bulbs.
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Netherlands
Leyden
Haarlem
How the Cow Helped Australia
Agricultural editor R J Guthrie of the Sydney Mail praises the dairy cow as key to Australia’s prosperity after 1902 drought. He notes butter quality, co operative creamery systems, and the shift from farm butter to dairy production, with cows bred for near year round milk.
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Australia
America
R. J. Guthrie
Sydney
Co-Operative Creamery
Local preacher jokes spark alarm in western town
A note from a western town reports a preacher’s joke about future Sundays, stating that the next speaker would be Mr. Blank and that the following week a hanging image would be hung behind the vestry door, a line quoted from Youth's Companion.
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Blank
Fires Ravage Mills and Towns Across the West
Fire destroys the Cody Lamber company mill at Randon Oregon causing a $100,000 loss. A blaze at the Whitney house in Truckee Nevada threatened to wipe out the town. Montana Methodists hold their twenty third annual conference in Butte with a novel banquet honoring elderly ministers.
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Cody Lamber Company
Randon
Ore
Whitney
Truckee
Nevada
Montana
Butte
Methodist Biscopal
Armestead
Mont
Salmon River
T.lewis
Plains
Lewis
Alder Guieh
Rochester
Madison County
Sam Resurrection
Bonner
Mont. U
Oregon Trunk Line Railway
James J. Hill
Deschutes Railway Company, & Harriman
United States District Court
Vortland
Bean
Harriman Road
W. K. Chung
Union Pacific Railroad
Green River
Wyo
Portland Express
State Board of Equalization
Frank Schmidt
Twin Bridges
Edward Hoffman
Schmidt
Wyoming Grand Army State
East Lake City
Wyoming
S. L
Harlem
Milk River
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Oeden
Sugar Company
Cowley
Cheyenne
M. EB. Knowles
Bitter Root Farm
Victoria
Barkley Sound
Vancouver Island
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Miuggilie
Ella Middleton
Tybout
Ray Walters
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Gra
Holland
Northwest
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