Debt Discharged in London Wedding Plot
In Green Park before Marylebone Parish, Helder plots as Gold Cooperates to marry Verity Maple. The trio Gold Comstock Bell and the gin plan to meet for breakfast at Great Central and depart for the continent after the eight o'clock hour. Helder confirms Willetts will be arrested tonight as Comstock Bell is targeted.
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Green Park
Comstock Bell
Helder
Marylebone Parish
Gold
Gin
Great Central
London
Continent
Verity Maple
Bell
Big Ben
Cornelius Heder
Gale
Willetts
Salt Rheum Hand Healed By Cuticura, 1913 Testimony
Mrs Charte Surette reports years of salt rheum on her hand causing cracking sores and pain. She describes using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment to wash wrap and treat the affected area, claiming cure in a little over a week. Free sample offer via Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston.
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Charte Surette
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Dept. D
Boston
U.S. A
Marriage in a London Mystery Unfolds at Palm Court
Comstock Bell marries a woman for expedience in a quiet ceremony at a Great Central Hotel Palm Court. The couple, with detective Gold and a wary bride, plan divergent travels to Paris Munich Vienna and beyond as the morning ends and a new chapter begins.
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Metropolitan Police Code
Gold
Helder
Comstock Bell
Palm Court
Great Central Hotel
Comstock
Paris
Munich
Vienna
Budapest
Comstock Bel
Bell
Lauder
Sandview Cottize
Gravesend
London
Probing Peat Resources and Promoter Warnings
Government probes peat as a fuel source and domestic industry viability while warning against promoters exploiting investors. A separate anecdote recalls a christening chat about naming a boy Reginald Claude and jokes about forming a fighter from his name.
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Dominion
Department of Mines
Canada
Japanese women said to be happiest through stable fashion
The Vancouver Province quotes a remark praising Japanese women as cheerful and even tempered due to unchanging fashion on the island. It adds that this trait pleases men by safeguarding the family purse, noting the phrase Wonderful people, the Japs. and a playful exchange about borrowing five.
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Island Kingdom
Hole
Vancouver Province
New Life Found in Change to Right Food
An Eastern mother and her young son describe relief from sour stomach after 15 months of distress. A stomach specialist advised Grape-Nuts, leading to improved health, better digestion, steadier mornings, and sound sleep. They credit the product and continue using it daily.
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Elief
Canadian Postum Co
Windsor
Wellville
Living up to the best in us in moments of fate
The passage urges reflection on death as a spur to live fully. It cites workers facing crises, a heroine at a switchboard, miners, fishermen, and others who reveal their true grit when danger arrives. It asks how society would change if people habitually lived toward their best potential.
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Kipling
Germans Publish Twice Weekly Paper For Wrapping Goods
In Eberswalde near Berlin the local newspaper is printed on one side so it can be used for wrapping provisions. The paper is issued twice weekly and on those days expands to twice its normal size, ensuring readers lose no reading matter.
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Eberswalde
Berlin
Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed as constitutional remedy
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the only constitutional cure for catarrh. It asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and offers $100 for any failure to cure. Includes directions for internal dosing and a call to send for circulars and testimonials.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Tolno
Rokeby Venus Reopened to Accredited Students After Repair
The Rokeby Venus at the British National Gallery has been deftly repaired after a militant suffragist slashed it. The gallery reopens to properly accredited art students, with the restoration no longer detectable to the ordinary observer. Warts on hands affect many women and Holloway's Corn Cure offers painless relief.
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British National Gallery
Holloway
Publication as a tool against moral evils
The Ottawa Journal advocates publicity as a means to combat moral delinquencies. It argues a 4% charge should not allow evasion and that readers benefit from open reporting to curb wrongdoing.
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Ottawa Journal
Shiloh Family Remedy Ad Coughs and Colds
An old advertisement touts Shiloh as a family remedy for coughs and colds with a small bottle format. It claims popularity since 1870 and reads like a period product promotion. The second fragment features a playful exchange about printing a kiss oath not to publish it.
Quips and Pupils Split by Jokes and Lessons
A collage of classroom quips and light satire includes a student joke about a father seeing a report card, a line about a janitor’s raise, and stray humor on German algebras. It notes old sayings, a Vienna style pun, and a Belgian fog lamp experiment for cars being tested in France.
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France
Britain Faces Rising Drink Bill Reflecting Prosperity
The United Kingdom Alliance notes 1913 liquor expenditure near £167 million, rising over 1912 and about four fifths of national revenue when split by working class families. The Daily Mail says heavy drinking and trade rise with prosperity, though temperance questions remain.
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Great Britain
United Kingdom Alliance Temperance Organization
The
Daily Mail
R Avenue
Baby's Own Tablets Claim Quick Constipation Relief
Child health notice claims Baby's Own Tablets rapidly relieve constipation in children. A testimonial from Mrs. Dominique Ferland of S Michel Quebec praises the remedy for curing her baby. Sold by medicine dealers or 26 cents a box from The L T Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Chile
Dominique Ferland
Michel
Maist
L’t. Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Chicago Doctor Praises Wright Plane Stabilizer
A Chicago physician congratulates Orville Wright on his new aeroplane stabilizer. Wright jokes about easing doctors’ workload and mentions a Dayton medical student. Two students debate medical specialization with one planning to focus on airplane accidents due to future demand.
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Chicago
Orville Wright
Mr. Wright
Dayton
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Speech Fragments and Local Quips From a Drowsy Day
A rough exchange features Boreman collapsing on Busyman's desk and suggesting another walk. Mot er Graves Worm Exterminator is touted as a remedy for a child’s throat ailment. A bibulous husband’s wife waits at the police station while the sergeant notes he is not there yet.
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Boreman
Busyman
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