House of a Thousand Candles Chapter XIX Continued
A tense leg‑work scene unfolds as Bates faces reproof from Pickering over expenses and reporting, while the narrator contemplates a costly entanglement with Marian Devereux. An uneasy council of war forms as Stoddard and Larry brace for decisive action.
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Sargen
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Armstrongs
Return of Marian Devereux and Shadowed Affairs
In Annandale suspense grows as Miss Devereux returns with Arthur Pickering after a tense night of guarding a hidden bullion. The narrator suspects a renewed bond between Devereux and Pickering while fear of a possible estate loss deepens, and strange hauntings accompany the looming confrontation.
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Money in Free Skins in Japan Export Trade
A Tokio merchant runs a lucrative frog skin export business in Japan. He has shipped as many as 130,000 skins in under a year, supplying skin for purses and related goods.
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Japan
Revenge on Arabs Clemenceau Calls for Action in Algeciras Pact
The cabinet pressed France to pursue immediate energetic steps to secure reparation for European murders at Casa Blanca and to ensure Moroccans safety after tensions around the Algeciras conference. Clemenceau argues France must act with powers in the pact to restore peace and counter rising Moorish hostility toward France.
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Casa Blanca
Estopezss
Akere
Inas
Algeciras Con Ndoa
Fez
la Republique Franczis
Maelanin Pasha
Clemenceau
Cox
Algeciras
Indictment Validity Becomes SF Supreme Court Issue
San Francisco cases test the validity of numerous indictments returned by the grand jury. Theodore Halsey, a Pacific Coast Telephone official, seeks a writ restraining the superior court and Judge Deere from action, while Judge Cook’s earlier ruling on grand jury acts may guide all six cases. Attorneys for an United Railways official note intention to file similar briefs.
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Theodore of
Halsey
Pacific Coast Telephone Company
Lonergran
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Frank H. Deere
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Carroll Cook
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Cook
Supreme Cour
Ship Munitions to Islands
Army supplies of every nature rushed to the Philippines for use of destination. The ships carry munitions and a personnel including officers. The Crook Aust sails tomorrow, August 15. News terse and dated.
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Phillippines
Fries
Mitha
Will Build Great Tunnel In Paris Canal Project
Paris observers report the Works has proposed a tunnel seven miles long to connect the Rhone canal system. Hills obstruct locks, valves will drive the tunnel at an estimated cost of 4,960.40 dollars. If completed, the excavation would yield the world’s largest tunnel.
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M Fic
Dean Roads
Rhone
Unseated Peak Geneva Mount Looms Over Alps
Italian climbers including Signor Castenuovo faced the rugged ascent of Luglaise in the mountains, a 14 400 foot peak with a near perpendicular final hundred yards. Despite fame, many noted alpinists like the Duke of Abruzzi failed to conquer it. Castenuovo spent about twelve hours on the ascent as the peak remained regarded as insurmountable.
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Geneva
AY Zanese
Ecrove
Abruzzi
Signor Caste Nuovo
Shocking Railroad Accidents Report for Quarter Ended March 31
Washington reports a three month period ending March 31 with 21 503 accidents involving passengers and railway workers. Fatalities total 2 02 and injuries rise, while collisions and derailments numbered 2 691 causing $3 530 11 in damages.
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Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Miss Matthews Case Ends in Suspected Slayer Verdict
Colorado Springs reports a coroner jury finds Laura Matthews died from gunshot wounds during a personal crisis. Amos R. Rumbaugh killed himself days earlier, prompting initial suspicion due to alleged infatuation and absence at the inquest.
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Springs
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Stratthews
Third Victim of Strangler Reported in New York
An eight year old girl named Pritschier, daughter of a Tes "au Tani Wi, was found murdered in the graveyard area between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. She vanished previously and was forcibly held, her throat tightened and her body mutilated, following prior similar killings by the strangler in the neighborhood.
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Avenue
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Fourteenth Streets
Pritschier
Erie Canal Bridge Collapse Threatens City Boats
The Erie Canal bed near Onondaga failed Tuesday afternoon causing four canal boats to sink into the creek. The three story Empire and Greenway breweries faced demolition risk as the canal sanks. several aboard escaped drowning. Oldfield sets two new Fargo interstate fair records on a half mile track. Barney Oldfield completed the first mile in 1:31.4 and three miles in 3:25.1.
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Ononodara
Eis and
Greenway Breweries
Marrowir
Mearches
Oldfield
Fargo
Barney Oidfeld
Fargo Interstate Fair
Tornado Wrecks Kansas Towns and Divides Rail Lines
A tornado damaged Wichita and Geneseo area routes as Missouri Pacific railway division staff report lines broken and all wires down. Marquette station east of Geneseo in McPherson county bore the impact with transportation disrupted and communications down across the region.
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Kan
4Alissouri Pacific Railway
Geneseo
Thannado
Marquette
McPherson County
Bad hail storm hits central Michigan farms and towns
A severe hail and windstorm struck central Michigan late Thursday causing extensive crop damage to corn and oats. In Oakley Chesaning and Orion the losses total about $160,000, with farms and fields heavily affected.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Oakley
Chesaning
Orion
New York Strangler Crimes Terrify City Police Confess Helplessness
A chaotic spree of murders terrifies New York as residents demand action. Police and authorities struggle to curb the killer, while a suspect, Anna Mossager, is held without bail in a chilling case involving eight year old Katie Tietschler.
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Marive
G. Canster
West
Aforsgan
Europe
Anna Mossager
Harburger
Katie Tierschler
Gastano Rippolone
Giuseppe Sanfanta
Tietschlers
Katie Tietschler
Ensike
Jack the Ripper
Fridar
Carl Nelson
Annie Pittman
Rector Street
Roosevelt Portrait Displays In New York Exhibit
A fragmented descriptive note from New York on August 3 references a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. The brief item notes a painting and an individual associated with it, though many words are garbled, leaving the core fact as a portrait linked to Roosevelt in the city.
New Excitement in Case Georgetown Ky Aug 3
Georgetown Kentucky August 3 excitement grips the town after States Attorney Franklin says he will offer W S Taylor an explanation of the pardon Powers possessed when arrested and the case shifts as Powers and others await further developments around the county courthouse and district attorney actions
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Georgetown
Franklin
W. S. Taylor
Hongkong Hotel Quake Incident Leaves No Americans Hurt
A Thursday quake in Hongkong caused the collapse of the old hotel section but reports indicate no Americans or Europeans were injured. In Uruguay, Montevideo notes a serious earthquake is prophesied to occur on August.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
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