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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
3
Henry C. Terry details a criminal scheme in which a man attempts to erase clues and block avenues to guilt. The detective reveals the futility of such plans and reinforces the old adage that murder will out.
The Bowery murder mystery of Chris Berry unfolds from cards and cash through Westward swindles to a fatal confrontation. Lone Jack Sinclair claims the killing, providing details of a street knife fight on the Bowery and exposing Al Livingston as a suspect who was exonerated.
Detective Hickey recalls the Chris Berry case as a major Bowery mystery. Berry, known as the King of the Card Sharps, was found murdered in a gutter near Fifth Street with initial clues scarce and public helpers later identifying him at the station.
A substitute physician, Dr Frederick Morgan, fills in for his uncle at a sulphur springs sanitarium and becomes entangled with Elinor Grayson as misreadings and romantic tension unfold. The two exchange glances across a day of exams meals and a garden rendezvous culminating in a dancing invitation.
A July Alaska earthquake rattled for 40 seconds disrupting fear among residents. Geologists link the tremor to the Mt Kermal eruption on nearby Kodiak Island and warn of widespread ruin, altered sea floors, and potential shifts in ocean currents. Some experts speculate about effects enabling new fishing banks and even strait closures, with distant travel routes imagined from Halifax to Lisbon.
The article notes rising milk consumption in Japan yet remains far below Europe and America. In Tokyo Prefecture in 1911 total milk produced reached 46,636 koku while daily consumption exceeded 127 koku, averaging about 0.1 go per person per day.
The Transvaal region of South Africa uses vast amounts of high explosives in mining operations. Estimates suggest about 7 million dollars are invested in such explosives annually.
Mrs. Mary Taylor of St. Clair Missouri describes years of watery blisters cracking and bleeding from eczema. After trying many remedies she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following a doctor’s advice and reports a complete cure with no remaining traces. Samples offered through Cuticura Dept L Boston.
In a light moment a speaker jokes about chicken-raising for a man, quipping it would be a hen pecking job and prompting smiles.
An old advertisement promotes Cole’s Carboli salve as an effective remedy for catarrh. Available at druggists in 25 and 60 cent sizes.
A witty exchange notes Scrapsley as a possible Socialist. The remark pivots on the paradox of high living costs while some men apparently lead double lives, suggesting a sly verdict about Scrapsley’s character.
A French colonial officer carried a letter from a missionary chief in the southern Pacific islands. It says famine ravages the country as the harvest is ruined, and that sending more missionaries is urgently needed to counter fanaticism.
Since the Chinese revolution many have lost their cues, prompting a surge of barber shops in the Far East. Singapore businessmen imported many American barber chairs and now struggle to obtain more. The Chinese demand American hair clippers and reject other makes, signaling a potential rise in American barber supply exports.
An ambitious girl overcome by nervousness and hysteria finds health and vitality after starting Grape-Nuts. She resumes study, teaches for months, and four years later runs a happy home, attributing her recovery to the cereal and citing Batila Creek Mich. as the source. Read book The Road to Wellville. There is a reason.
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