The Pearl Thief in Margery Fleming’s House
The Maitland household gathers for a meal as Miss Letitia suspects jewelry theft. Ten pearls vanish from a top closet safe, sparking a plan to trap the thief. The narrator, drawn into late night watch, confronts a masked intruder on the veranda with a revolver leveled toward him.
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Margery
Miss Fleming
Jane
Letitia
Miss Jane
Heppie
Miss Letitia
Margery Fleming
Harry
Bella
Elephant carcass riddle baffling scientists across Asia
Old elephant hunters report a puzzling phenomenon all over Asia. Buried tusker carcasses vanish within a year, leaving no bone or hide. Even in damp Nepal highlands and ant-free locales the mystery persists, with no scientific explanation yet offered.
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India
Siam
Malay Peninsula
Asia
Nepal
Detroit Free Press
Origin of the word green in color history
The passage traces how green originally described vegetation, not the sea, noting early uses before Chaucer and linking the term to root ideas of growth. It cites an Aryan root ghahr meaning to be green or yellow, connecting to terms for yellow gold and yolk.
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Chaucer
Church and temple services listed for Sunday
The page lists Sunday School and worship times for multiple churches including M E Church Lutheran German services and English classes, St Pauls Episcopal no July services, Christian Science and Christian Church communion and dress story excerpt about a Paris fashion dress by Worth for 1500 francs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul’s Episcopal
Garden Tracts School House
Christian Church
Yakima Valley Federated Clubs Plan Exposition Display
The Federated Commercial Clubs of Yakima Valley met at Wapeto on Tuesday the 16th and planned to exhibit at the North Lands Products Exposition in Minneapolis. They decided to provide fresh Yakima peaches for Northern Pacific Railway dining cars and approved badges for firemen members.
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Yakima Valley
Federated Commercial Clubs
Yakima
Wapeto
W. Commercial Club
Minneapolis
W. A. Campbell
Northwest Development League
N. P. Railway
Woman Confined to Insane Asylum After Fright
Mrs. Johanna Lozier of Richland was committed to the Medical Lake insane asylum by court commissioner Andrew Brown with an insanity commission of Drs. Green and French. The 31 year old mother of two, traumatized by the power house fire at Richland six weeks earlier, is said to have strong hopes for recovery. husband and two children reside in Richland.
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Andrew Brown
Green
French
Johanna Lozier
Rickland
Medical Lake
Lozier
Richland
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Fruit & Produce. Co
Jersey
Meadow Brook Farm
Millwood
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co
W. F. Greiner
Kennewick
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Co. Pildeau
Attalia
Wm. Stevenson
Wallula
Hamilton Supply CO
Rhode Island
Mounsey Bros
Willapa Harbor
Wash
D. E. Fessenden
Raymond, Wash
Hotel
Alfred Schaeffer
G. L. Jones
Garfield Land Company
Garfield, Wash
Twin City
Kelley
N. P
Room
By Mary Roberts
Rinehart
Bobbs-Merrill Co
M. E. Church
Bible School
Young Peoples
Purdy
South America
Union Outdoor Service
F. L. Fraser
Baptist Church
Lutheran
E. A. Orr
Baptist Lawn
Christian Science
Little Chapel
Third Street
Paris
Worth
Roge
Maine
Cornet
Champagne Pelka
C. O. Kimball
Danizy
Havana
Oceana Roll
Kennewick’s Printers
HOT Lake Sanatorium
Beret
Union County
Oregon
Heart of the
Blue Mountains
Oregonton Railroad & Navigation Co
O W
N. Rit
Walter M. Pierce
Mar
DAVIS
Kennewick Trading CO
Clatsop Beach
Pacific Ocean
Bens
Columbia River
Oak Side
Gearhart
Atlantic City
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Chicago Colorado Springs
Denver
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Omaha
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Toronto
Washington
Detroit
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Kansas City
Milwaukee
Montreal
New York
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W. E. Coman
Pass
Portland, Oregon
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