Detective Sparkes Outwits Inspector in House Escape
Athol fools Inspector Burroughs then fakes a surrender, collapses in her room, and escapes through a window after bolting her door. Alick hides miniatures, while Lord Axminster and allies arrive to confront Detective Sparkes amid a tense standoff.
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Athol
Nellie
Alick
Hilda
Nel
Inspector Burroughs
Detective Sparkes
Lord Axminster
Burroughs
Boroughs
Boudoir
Sparkes
Altick
Uck
Mr. Westwood
Ladyshin
Mr. Coleridge
Coleridge
Miner misreads peg envelope joke at new Ohio mine
In southern Ohio a gold miner who cannot read received a peg envelope marked No. 16 at the new mine. He joked about the writing for a while and quipped, That's a new way to spell George Primrose, I reckon.
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Ohio
George Primrose
Marion County to Accept Bids for Bar Stone Rip-Rap
Marion county Indiana Board of Commissioners will accept sealed bids by 10 am Wednesday February 9 1910 for thirty five hundred tons of bar stone rip rap delivered to Marion County Workhouse. Bids require a bond and affidavit. the board may reject all bids. This notice dated January 21 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
Indiana
Bargain Linens Offer Prices for Blankets and Sheets
Readable fragments list low priced towels damask blankets sheets and pillowcases with various sizes and colors. Items include blankets from two dollars per pair and sheets 81 by 90 inches bleached with low yard prices and muslin pillowcases at 15 cents per yard.
Miners Quick to Decide on Convention Location
The committee on appeals and grievances faced constant opposition as delegates hurried the convention to finish before miners travel to Toledo. Some proposed another postponement to notify operators and avoid a long night session, while others pushed for rapid moves.
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Toledo
St. Louis
International
Indianapolis
How Thin Folks Can Get Fleshly New Accidental Discovery
An advertisement promotes a non dieting tonic claiming to add flesh to thin people ages sixteen to sixty. It describes a blend of harmless drugs said to improve blood and nerve distribution, with a recipe using essence of pepsin, rhubarb syrup, cardiol, and cadomene compound. Users weigh before starting and take a teaspoonful before and after meals.
Quotations on Responsibility and Reunion
A man named Lewis refuses to shoulder the duty of letting people escape or bringing them back together. His remark underscores reluctance to accept responsibility for the group’s dispersal and reunion.
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Lewis
Fourth Estate on Stage A Grim Drama of Journalism
A Chicago theatre review extols Wheeler Brand and Judge Bartelmy in a New York style thriller about press corruption. The play charts a fearless editor’s crusade, a bribe, a midnight sting, and Judith Bartelmy’s loyalty as investigative reporting clashes with social ambition.
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Grand Opera House
Patterson
Carlyle
Wheeler Brand
Judge Bartelmy
Brand
Bartelmy
New York
Judith Bartumy
New Yok
Eiror
Judith Sartelmy
Cooper-Hewitt
Misa Alice Fisher
Nolan
Search Co. & Bracer
Seven Days theater farce and poet manager noted
The finals theater runs Seven Days a funny farce with poetry by Will J. Davis, who wrote verses during a recent cold lockdown. Also announced are Mollie May at Whitney House with Grace La Rue, and Miss Philura at Studebaker Theatre featuring William Lewers and Joseph Jefferson Jr.
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Will J. Davis
Mollie May
Whitney House
Grace la Rue
Ney
York City
Wich Brewer
Chrystal Herne
Philura
Studebaker Theatre
William Lewers
Joseph Jefferson, Jr
One Saloonist Arrested After Night Overlooked Drinking
A party in a hack visiting Effie Gisson's 320 W Tenth street 2am Thursday prompted police to act. Gisson pleaded guilty to selling after hours and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Harry Rodecker of 2502 Northwestern avenue paid 10 dollars plus costs for Nicholson law violation. Mounted Policemen Green observed two men gambling dice.
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Effie’ Gisson
Tenth Street
Gilson
Tate and
Gill
Gisson
Harry Rodecker
Northwestern Avenue
Green
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Nada
Atlanta
Weber Drug CO
Fvrite
Hotel Hernan
Baltimore
Carl von Hark
WM. H. Roberts
James Kervan
Aaries County
Wasson
Universal
Berlin
Steve Polish
Ebbeine
Committee On Appeals and
Ming
Chicago
Anies
Washington Street
Herod
Wiliam Faversham
Stephen Phillip
Garrick
Faversham
Jerusalem
Union
Constance Lytton
Lora Lytton
Walton
Jane Warton
Lady Lytton
Home Secretary
Gladstone
Newcastle
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