Old Land Reveals British Detective Careers and Poisoner Case
From Britain comes a survey of notable crime fighters including Detective-Inspector Sarge Lormsley and Mr Godley who pursued ladder thieves and the poisoner Chapman. The piece recalls Chapman’s capture, the red label revealing tartar emetic, and notes Mrs Maynard’s keen senses.
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Sarge Lormsley
Wlatter
Laree Pease
ceTiow
Elrepoitan
Mr. Godley
Go Man
Chapman
Maud Marsh
Horn
Fast Grinstead
Sussex
Scotland Yard
Highgate
King’s Cross
Godley
Severino Klosowski
W. H. Davidson
High Street
Hastings
Lost Dew Drops Comic Opera At Southgate Village Hall
Southgate residents flocked to the village hall for a matinee and three evening performances of The Lost Dew drops a comic opera by H D Hinde author of 23 dramas. Miss Phoebe the vicars daughter starred and charmed with a slang filled song earning repeated encores. The work features love ballads and humorous verses reflecting light local whimsy.
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Southgate
London
Chhev
H. D. Hinde
Phoebe
Tooks
Death of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Hichard Legge Newdigate
Mourning fills many Newdigate families after the death of Lt Gen Sir Henry Hichard Legge Newdigate KCB at 75. With the Rifle Brigade he served in the Crimea Indian Mutiny and Afghan war. He retired in 1898 after 47 years service leaving a 14 year old son. Twenty Newdigate family members have sat in Parliament from 1360 until two years ago.
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Henry Hichard Legge Newdigate
Rifle Brigade
Henry
Crimea
Newdigate
Barrier Against Invaders Breakwater Under Construction
The Ports mouth harbor defense begins with a new breakwater of 34 ton concrete blocks laid across sandbanks. Placed end to end, the wall aims to block hostile vessels with forts at both ends guarding the ends and a quick closing gap to secure passage.
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Naval
Portsmouth
Strange Series of Weddings in Surrey Family
Mrs. Mary Ann Maynard died at 100 in Mersthan Surrey after a long life noted for a wedding pattern. She was one of seven in a family who married seven children of farmer King, linking twenty six kin in all. Born in Croydon she married in 1836 and ran a Merstham grocery and drapery with her husband until his death in 1867.
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Mersthan
Surrey
Mary Ann Maynard
Maynard
King
Judge and plaintiff clash over grain loan in Southwark court
In Southwark County Court Judge Willis humorously sparred with a plaintiff over a grain supply case. The exchange included terms duck-shover and swanker as the plaintiff described the defendant, ending with an order for 5s monthly.
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Southwark County Court
Willis
King's Giant Diamond Stolen Then Secretly Moved
At Scotland Yard a noon ceremony marked the removal of the Cullinan diamond from its safe. The jewel wrapped in tissue was placed in a brown bag and taken by detectives to a secret destination before being sent to cutters. A separate item recalls a railway signalman Edward Woods dying after securing dangers. Crosby Hall faces demolition after failed efforts to save it and plans for new bank premises.
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Superintendent Forest
Scotland Yard
Cullinan
Froest
Edward Henry
Police
Melville MacNaghten
Criminal Investigation Department
Francis Hopwood
Hopwood
Richard Solomon
Transvaal
Drew
Gough
Great Northern Railway
Edward Woods
Peterborough
Woods
Crosby Hall
Horation Davies
Chartered Bank of India
Australia
China
John Crosby
Richard Duke of Gloucester
Richard
Elizabeth
John Spencer
Dog Patient Causes Stir At Southroad Surgery
A large black retriever joined waiting patients at a Southroad South hall doctor’s surgery and refused to be moved. After the dog was examined for a limp with no injury found, the doctor gave hot fomentation and the dog rewarded the treatment by licking the doctor’s hands.
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Southroad
Southhall
Volunteers Face Transfer Opposition as Territorial Force Nears
London volunteers eager to join the Territorial Force due April 1 meet resistance from employers and business leaders. Persuasion is being used at volunteer headquarters to urge accepting enlistment as soldiers in the Territorial Army.
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London
Territorial Force
Territorial Army
Sanatoria Report Delineates Tuberculosis Treatment History
A long Local Government Board report on consumptive sanatoria summarizes British and German practices. Dr Bulstrode notes a fall in phthisis deaths from 38.9 to 11.5 per 10000 since 1840 and calls the immediate patient outcome encouraging. He urges early treatment and cites workers insurance as boosting recovery and reliance on state support.
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Local Government Board
Wyman & Sons
Bulstrede
Great Britain
Busstrode
Germany
Caught by the Tide In Strangford Lough Fatal Swim
William Rooney a County Down farmer left Dundrum on Strangford Lough on Sunday night to cross the sands on horseback. By Monday morning the horse returned riderless and Rooney was found exhausted and dead near shallow water, likely overtaken by the rising tide.
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William Rooney
India Freedom Talks Stir British Rule Debate in City
Hin du leader Mr. Putnam, Central College Colombo, in a Chicago bulletin piece argues India faces growing political unrest driven by educated classes seeking individual rights. He cites famines, taxation, low literacy, and heavy army costs, urging more education funding and Indian self rule.
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8. C. Kanago Putnam
Princeton University
Central College
Columbo
Deylon
St. John Presbyterian Church
India
England
Cawnpore
Japan
Hume
Queen Victoria
Theoughly
Lord Derby
Dadabhai Naoroji
Bombay
London
Naokiji
William Digby
Poetess Struck Blind Aiding Queen in Romanian Institute
An obituary from a Bucharest blind institute notes Miriam Gardner later known as Baroness von Kranichfeld became blind at fifty while composing a poem. She learned alphabet and typewriting at an English school for the blind, aided the Royal Blind Institute in Bucharest, learned Estonian? Esperanto and communicated with a blind Japanese, and made clothes and hats unaided.
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Bucharest
Baroness von Kranichfeld
Miriam Gardner
Carmen Sylva
Grindelwald
Royal Blind Institute
Electric motor lifts Wyndham's Theatre scenery
Mr Frank Curzon installs Edward Lytton’s electric system at Wyndham's Theatre to replace ten to thirty men. One operator uses minimal power to raise and lower all cloths borders and the curtain. The device also automates ceiling piece action and scene changes, reducing labor, time, and costs.
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Frank Curzon
Edward Lytton
Wyndham’s
The Wise Guy Declares Faults Then Smiles
The Birmingham Age Herald recalls the character who loves pointing out others faults. A self styled expert grins and says he told you so whenever you slip.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Tallest Indian Skeleton Found Near Potter in 1870
Dr. G. W. Redmond of Potter and Dr. Parsons of Mount Pleasant traced the remains of a Kickapoo giant believed to be the region’s tallest Indian. Buried on the Dougan farm north of Potter, the skeleton stood about six feet tall with trinkets and blankets. It was exhumed from a shallow grave and later disappeared from Dr Parsons' Mount Pleasant office.
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G. W. Redmond
Potter
Dr. Parsons
Mount Pleasant
Pensoneau Farm
Dougan Farm
Jimmy’ Dougan
Pendulum Use Sparks Priority Claims in Clock Regulating
The Hague edition of Huyghens reveals early claims over pendulum clocks. Galileo is argued to have conceived the idea but not completed its application, lacking weights or springs to keep motion, while Leopold de Medici backed the Galileo claim.
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Huyghens
The
Hague
Calileo
Prince Leopold de Medici
Viviani
Galileo
Stepmother Attends With Vera in Social Venture
In dialogue about Vera Welton the contour reveals her new stepmother accompanies her everywhere. The remark notes Vera is under the guidance of a chaperone described as a stylish young woman and links this to Miss Welton. The passage hints at family dynamics shaping social appearances.
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Miss Welton
Vera
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