Moonstone Mystery in London and Verinder Estate
A fragmented narrative traces the Moonstone theft and investigation linked to Rachel Verinder Franklin Blake and Godfrey Ablewhite. Key figures include Sergeant Cuff Rosanna Spearman and Lady Verinder as the tale shifts from India to London, with clues exchanged through letters and a hidden garment. The plot centers on alibis, deceit, and the pursuit of the diamonds as suspects surface.
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Ees
India
Rachel Verinder
Ming Verinder
Rachel
Hin
Frenklin Blake
Dinary
Mim Trechil
Franklin Blake
Mr. Ablewhite
Blake
Moreatons
Prenkiin Blake
Alfaire Andar
Guegeant
Potas
Cult
Rossing Byearman
Mica Hardel
Rosuing Spearman
Lady Vorinder
London
Prooklin Blake
Continent
Godfrey Ablewhite
Rachel Vorinder
Mr. Ablewhita
Lady Verinder
Franklin Rieke
Rosanna Spearman
Hachel
Enen
Mla
Rotterdam
Frankilin Wake
Bargeant Cuff
Gominions
Ita Errient Actly du Post Pubtunl
California Goat Ranch Moves Large Scale Production
The Weunkecot farm at Cool in moderate California dodges small scale limits, reporting 90,000 acre read and a mill goat production line dedicated to ROHL mill chases.
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California
Cool
Biderado County
Discovery of Serum to Prevent Huge Hater Showed
A fragmented report notes a serum discovery aimed at preventing a severe reaction. The readable text mentions scientists, a trial, and hopeful results, but details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Compensation bill to pass with fivefold veteran benefits
North Dakota commander MaacNider cites a new compensation bill expected to pass in February 1922 and take effect in July. The plan offers five options for veterans including adjusted service pay, an insurance endowment policy, vocational training, farm or home aid, and land settlement through government reclamation projects.
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Netivanl
MaacNider
Amdeitan Legion
Seuchildr MacCumber
North Dakota
Senate
Michigan
House
MacNider
American Legion aids wounded with wartime fund
War-time fund of 54000 dollars from the W T U has been turned over to the American Legion to aid sick and wounded. Worthington Minnesota tag sales advertise the town with Legion posts printing notices. Legion bulletins in New York will be aired by Westinghouse radio-telephone.
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Wichtts
American Legion
Worthington, Minn
Legion
New York Legion
Westinghouse Electric Company
The
Department of Foland
Long Distance Ouija Board Joke and Cousin Jord Talk
A censoring note from Chicago and Kansas City Star appears, with a dialect joke about heaven and work on an asbestos ouija board where Sambo greets Rastus and jokes about sweeping clouds. Interleaved is a report of Gap Johnson from Kampua Ridge describing a talk with Cousin Jord and a humorous aside about a sick dog.
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Sambo
Rastus
Chicago
Jord
Gap Johnson
Kampua Ridge
Johnson
Kansas City Star
Brown's Smith's The Horrors of Wedlock tops Author's Club scene
At the Author's Club Brown's Smith's new novel The Horrors of Wedlock is hailed as a season success. Jones notes the book's strong sales and the author claims the earnings could fund his marriage plans.
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Brown
Smith
Jones
Swamp Root Kidney Ailments Ad Blurb
An advertisement touts Swamp Root as a premier remedy for kidney and liver ailments. Claims emphasize quick relief and natural vegetable ingredients, urging readers to purchase bottles in two sizes and consult local stores.
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Kilmer
Jau Hoo
Hambton
Uncle Bragg Locks Up Mount Pizgy Ark Skeptically Seeks Help
An Ark man, Bragg Lockery of Mount Pizgy, complains no one understands his illness. He mocks doctors and neighbors, saying no one has sense and he fears wasting his money while pondering his stubborn condition.
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Uncle Bragg
Gabe
Old Bragg
Mount Pizgy
Ark
Sorfer
Tye
Kansas City Star
Daddy in a Bad Way
A six year old girl Lois, daughter of a university English professor, loves grand words. She overhears her mother say on the phone to a student that Mr B cannot keep an appointment because he is indisposed this afternoon. Later she tells an imaginary visitor at the door that her husband cannot see him today, for he is very much devo tponed.
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Lois
Indianapolis Star
Compliment on Grudge tavern pride sparks odd phrasing
A landlord asks Mr Sewcome for his view of the city at Grudge tavern. The guest, with a peculiar turn of mind, responds in muddled diction praising the town’s appearance and lamenting muddy Mall Street traces as healthy and content.
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Sewcome
Grudge
Weill
Mall Street
California Fig Syrup Baby Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a universal remedy to “cleanse the bowels” and relieve constipation in children. It emphasizes gentle action, liver bile elimination, and a well child after use, urging mothers to keep the product handy and ask a druggist for it.
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California
Bablen
Bettie
Hydro-Glider described in Popular Mechanics on coast
A new hydro glider completed on the west coast promises the thrill of a hydroplane. It glides over the ocean surface like a flying boat without wings, propelled by an air propeller motor at about sixty miles per hour.
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Popwhar Mechanics Magazine
Senator Sorghum Defends Fashionable Speech in Public
In a campaign remark Senator Sorghum asks supporters not to contradict critics who say he eats with a knife and speaks poorly. He argues many do the same and this will show he is not trying to act stylish or pretentious.
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Sorghum
Jose
Gonnabial Pleasantry From Life Quotation
A fragment from Life presents a scene in which a woman teases with a playful question about waiting while emerging from a dressing room. The man responds with weary sarcasm about traditional wife-time, illustrating social banter from the period.
Have You Kidney or Bladder Trouble
A reader testimonials relief from kidney and bladder issues using Dr Pierce remedies. The ad invites readers to write to Dr. Pierce at Buffalo New York for confidential medical advice or send 10 cents for a four trial package of tablets, claiming rapid improvement.
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Pierce
Wuffer
Dr. Plerce
Lavalid
N. Y
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