Burmese Sherlock Holmes Shinebo Won the Relentless Detective
Shinebo Won, famed as the "Hurmene Sherlock Holmes," is described as the world’s most remarkable detective. Possessing jungle savvy and uncanny aim, he has pursued criminals through jungles and across rivers, reportedly making more than 3,000 captures and reputedly reading thoughts. Despite threats and poison attempts, he quashes superstition with steady resolve and insists duty guides his path.
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Shinebo Won
Sherlock Holmes
Shinebo
Stage Money Heist Tale In The Theater District
A New York Press report describes a vast amount of fake stage money circulating daily in the city. It recounts an incident in which a man found a roll of stage currency and mistook it for real money, noting the theatrical district hosts a stage money treasury near the Metropolitan Opera House with millions in green and yellow backs used in movies and theater.
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New York Press
Stage
Metropolitan Opera House
Chain Street
Two Ships Lost At Sea Reported By Wireless Messages
New York on February 1 reports the White Star freight steamer Bovie arrived with wireless messages indicating two steamships have recently been lost at sea. The claim follows prior reports of vessels missing, adding to maritime dangers at sea.
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New York
White Star
Bovie
Villa Driven From Hills Surrounded by Carranza Forces
Chihuahua City reports indicate Francisco Villa has been driven from the Piquehos Hills and Santa Clara canyon and is now encircled by Carranza troops. The development comes from dispatches received yesterday detailing Villa's setback amid ongoing operations in northern Mexico.
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Chihuahua City
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Piquehos Hills
Santa Clara Canyon
Carranza
Spreading adder and public life notes in brief
The excerpt discusses the spreading adder or hog nosed adder, describing bluffing behavior when threatened and common myths about its venom. It notes the snake’s size thirty inches, habitat dry woods and sandy hillsides, diet toads and shrews, and alternate names blowing viper and hog nosed adder.
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Philadelphia
England’s last state lottery ends in 1826
The London Chronicle recalls that lotteries had been legal since Elizabethan times and expanded under parliamentary acts, contributing about £500,000 a year at abolition. Government halted the practice due to its demoralizing effects and public diversion from honest work.
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England
London Chronicle
Nebular Hypothesis and its limits in solar formation
Kant and Herschel popularized a theory that the solar system formed from a nebula. The idea likens nebular collapse to trees growing, but Britannica notes that the transformation of a nebula into water has not been observed, leaving the ocean’s condensation history unclear.
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Kant
Herschel
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Animale Natural Swimmers Show Squirrels Swim Fast
A sportsman tested a captive squirrel's swimming in a lake rowboat trip. The animal swam with head and paws above water and back and tail submerged, reaching shallow water quickly. The report notes some aquatic birds will follow ducks if at risk of drowning.
Bergson talk refused by Gwen at Thoss club
Naomi asks Gwen Dolyn about giving a Bergson talk at Thoss Women's Club next week. Gwen declines saying she knows nothing about Bergson, a reason Diana deems silly. The judge notes the exchange as a brief club dispute.
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Thoss
Naomi
Gwendolyn
Bergson
Diana
Ate
Borgson
Judge
Kansas News Briefs Mixed in Short Paragraphs
The Manhattan post office is rated first class by Washington. Other brief items note a Hutchinson reform school escapee surrendering in Kansas City, state senator B P Waggener not seeking re election due to ill health, militia company formation in Junction City, a Soldier Soldiers Union elevator fire at a $16000 loss, and a new Chanute post office building. Additional notes cover dope arrests and seizures, farmers and mechanics wages, local obituaries, university news, and several small business and infrastructure items across Kansas.
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Manhattan
Washington
John Winter
Salina
B. P. Waggener
Wageener
Senate
Federal Revenue Collector
Wichita
L. Katz
Kansas City
Wellington
Hutchinson
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Billy Kerlands
Charles T. Watts
Professor Clark
W. J. Freeman
C. H. McDaniels
Lyric Hall
C. H. Harris
Mgr
Lydia
Hall
Homeain
Bell Grand
Residence
Euclid Ave. Res
Bell East
Nazi History Society
Foremost Cal Magazine
Ica.”' Colored American Review
Sev Avenue New
N.Y
Sports Fine Arts
Inspiratia
Kansas City Sun
Review
United States
For All
the Love Regalia,Company
Flora
Kansas City, Missouri
Bell
East
Possum
Snake Tribe
Baltimore American
Dorr
Rhode Teland
Law and Order
Thomas W. Dorr
Kansas
George Hobson
State Reformatory
Himsell
Topeka
Farmers’ Union
Soldier
Chanute
John Schrag
Schrag
Alexander Marks
Lawrence
United States Smelting Company
Prime Western Smelter Company
la Harpe Zine Company
Alpha Jackson
Albert Jackson
Florence
Spring Creek
Merle Thorpe
University of Kansas
Washington, D. C
Nation's Business
Chamber of Commerce of the
Thorpe
Frank Strong
Kansas Board of Administration
Washington University
Wichita Terminal Elevator Company
The
Terminal Railway Association
Union Stock Yards
Joseph Crouch
Fighty
Illinois
Joe Hooker
Reveille
Crouch
Isuan E. Page
Pratt
Mr. Page
Rock Island
Pratt County National Bank
Osawatomie
Hmporia
Owen Thomas
Santa Fe Railway
Myra Thomas
Santa Fe
Harper
Bougias
Ariz
Exico
Savage Arms Plant
Utica
Savage Arm Company
Vine Street
Harris & Batrick Quality Grocers
Bell Phone
R. P. Derr
Foster Pharmacy
18Th and
Woodland Avenue
Madam Walker
Theo
Smith
Smith’s Drug Store
18Th St
Kansas City, MO
Eugene Edward Vaughan
Kansas Cities
Bell Telephone
West
Brunswick
Marge
WM. Davis
R. D. Jackson
Prop
Poro College Co
Pine St
Dept. G
St. Louis, Mo
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