Never Again a Warning From an Ink Loving Bomber
A verbose narrator confesses vanity and fear after a sensational hoax about anarchists and bombs draws attention from Scotland Yard. Inspector Belville of the Criminal Investigation Department confronts him about libel and a published tale, threatening damages as the man reveals the publisher’s responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Inspector Belville
Scotland Yard
Brother George
George
Terrier
John Belville
H. M. Criminal Investigation Department
Jehosaphat
the Law
Timbs
Ebeginald Timbs
Wari
Contutense
London Intruder Trick Exposed as Put Up Arrest
A narrator recounts a staged police visit by inspectors, a locked door ruse, missing valuables from a London home, and a landlady’s vivid account of the supposed inquiry. The plot collapses as the investigator vanishes with fake bombs and a grand hoax unravels, ending in rueful self-reproach.
Does This Settle It The Search For the Mississippi Source
A historical survey details the long quest to locate the Mississippi headwaters from Joliet and Marquette to Nicollet. It traces explorers including Carver, Thompson, Morrison, Pike, Cass, Schoolcraft, Beltrami, and Nicollet who named the infant stream Cradled Achilles and mapped the Itasca basin. It notes later disputes sparked by Captain Glazier and the ongoing debate over the true source amid evolving maps and measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
Falls of St. Anthony
Hennepin
Waters
Jonathan Carver
Rum River
David Thompson
Northwest Company
Turtle Lake
Mississippi
William Morrison
Lake Itasca
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
United States
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Congress
Pike
Little Falls
Morrison County
Minn
Leech Lake
Lewis Cass
Henry R. Schoolcraft
Cass Lake
Schoolcraft
J. C. Beltrami
Turtle ‘Lake
Allen
United States Army
Mr. Boutwell
Yellow Head
Laca la Biches
Elk Lake
J. N. Nicollet
Nicollet
Achilles
Itascan
Glazier
Itasca
Royal Geographical
Great Britain
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Barnalink
D. J. Donahue
New York Sun
Dresden
Gyp
Chamberlain
Millersville
Dangberry Bros
Inaliaga
Blakeville
W. I Moore
Homer City
N. Parks
Marion Center
Ndiana House
Torneys
J. Telford
Indiana
Swan & Simpson
Landé
Joan H. Pierce
J. M. Cunningham
Philadelphia Street
Ljans
Joen L. Gerry
J. M. Cunningham Building
Indiana, Pa
M. C. Watson
Frank Keener
Atson & Keener
Attorneys-At-Law
Harry White
Trands
L. Stewart
Stewart & Clark
D. H. Tomb
Farmers’ Bank
Tjanss
Lohn T
Stuchus
A. W. Taylor
Philadelphia
Eorge W. Hood
Hetrick
Ss. M. Jack
ACE & Taylor
Hand
D. B. Taylor
John N. Banks
Berg
Jangs
Samuel Cunningham
John 8. Fisher
Cunningham & Fisher
Woop Clark
Nixon Building
Sixth Street
Indiana,Pa
OHN
P. Elkin
Elkin Building
Hotels
J. W. Clements
Clawson House
W.H. Clawwson
Indiana House
J. T. Lowe
Proprietor
Central Hotel
J. M. Brows
H. S. Durrett
Church Street
VU. P. Church Calis Si Saeed
Churchill
Waran Ntand
Imc
W. T. Miller
India
Water Street
Koaiena
M. McMaster
Justice OF the Peace, Conveyancer & Scribner
Seventh Sts
W C, Shields
Livermore, Pa
Smithport Select School
Hortons
Penna
J. E. Campbell
Tuffion
Blairsville, Pa
L. & FU FP
F. J. Johnson
Progress” Office
City Meat Market
W. B. Lowman
First Street
West
Sanford & White's
ELKIN
Sanford & White
West Ewdeana
Orleans
Eileen Aoe
Lre
Agentes Coud Wigead
Por Butler
Prrresure
East Brady
Teaves Piteburg
West Penn Junction
Kittanning Accom
Pitesburg
Kittanning
Emlenton
Fiteberg
West I
Enxalenton
Ardereg
Petifee
Pete
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