The Pursuit of Professor Marnac Ends With Capture
In a snowbound chase through Poland and along the coastline, Dr. Weston and companions pursue the fugitive professor Marnac. A police intervention traps the Pole Reski and blocks their escape, leading to a damp jail cell as Mar nac vanishes again.
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Reski
Marnac
Ikre
Mein Herr
Reiki
Kuesea
Marmac
Rudolf Marnac
Henry Graden
Poland
Maniac
Europe
Mary Weston
Towne-So Greathead Faces Death Amid Newspaper Frenzy
The Philadelphia Press notes Towne-So Greathead is dying or resigned as headlines loom from the San Francisco disaster. Browne says the media coverage pushed Towne to fear his obituary would be overlooked.
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Towne
Bomb attempt on Stolypin shocks Russian autocracy
The attempted entry of four men into Stolypin's St Petersburg summer residence ends in a bomb drop during a reception. Officials across the empire face daily revolts as assassinations target high officials, leaving life and property unsafe and the Czar in danger.
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Premier Stolypin
Russia
M. Stolypin
St. Petersburg
Apothecary Island
Stolypin
Empire
Moscow
Finland
Poland
Island of Juan Fernandez and its fabled past
An account recaps the Island of Juan Fernandez in the south Pacific famed for Robinson Crusoe lore. It notes its rugged geography and history as pirate haunts a Spanish station and later a Chilean convict settlement with a small peaceful valley community.
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South Pacific Ocean
Juan Fernandez
Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Lfe
Alexander Selkirk
Pacific
Chili
Valparaiso
Juan Fernandes
Pizarro
Shark
Chillan
Selkirk Tale Marked On Saddle Ridge Island Tablet
The Cinque Ports arrived in 1704 with Alexander Selkirk as mate, the real model for Robinson Crusoe. A 1968 tablet near Selkirk's lookout on The Saddle commemorates his four years and four months solitary stay, noting his death in 1723 aboard H. M. B. Weymouth.
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Alexander Selkirk
Alamnis
Topaze
Mariner
Belitude
TERRORISM IN RUSSIA ATTEMPT ON PREMIER STOLYPIN
A failed assassination in Russia caused by a revolutionary group results in thirty deaths and thirty injuries. Premier Stolypin and his son escape unharmed though his daughter is severely wounded with both legs shattered. Among the dead are a prince, a general, a colonel, a captain and two court officials. One terrorist killed, two wounded, and the other arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Stolrpin
France and Russia Compared in Revolutionary Outburst
An analysis notes that France in its eighteenth century upheaval did not experience a reign of terror equal to that observed in Russia under two successive rulers. It compares the intensity and impact of political repression in the two regimes.
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France
Russia
Beaver Farm Beavers Build Dams In Saskatchewan Run
A New York Post writer reports at Oxbow Saskatchewan that Rev Christmas farm hosts a thriving beaver colony of about 200 within five large dams on Souris River banks. Beavers work by moonlight, accept only contributors, and build underwater entrances with a tunnel to the den. A family of four or five typically stays with parents for two years. Prices for pelts peak at Minneapolis from ages nine to twenty. The piece closes with a hometown tale from Fairfield Connecticut about Dr Labaree leaping into a pond to fetch nitric acid from his pocket.
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Cambridge
Goyal
Polleven
Marjory
W. EB. Chrismas
Canada
New York Post
Oxbow
Sask
Souris
Chrismas
Minneapolis
Fairfield
Conn
Labaree
A Riddle of Temperature Across the Amazon
In the lower Amazon region temperatures stay around eighty seven degrees year round. At Manaos the heat rises by six to eight degrees. An official at Para fails to grasp the yachtman's humor about Manaos, where he says eight degrees hotter, explaining he used to wear six collars daily in Manaos but only three daily in Para.
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Reiki
Mariae
Zip
Sip
Reski
Marnac
Ivan
Mein
Marnace
John Buayrac
London Daily Mail
Bedford Police
John Bunyan
Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress
Amazon
Manaos
Para
Mysterious Wedding Notice Sparks Press Speculation
A Washington Star quote shows a sensational actress deflecting questions about her latest marriage, saying the press agent holds the info. The item notes the first lines of a wedding notice reveal only basic details, hinting at withheld information.
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Washington Star
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Robert Harland
B. Fletcher Robinson
J. Malcolm Fraser
Keski
Paris
Girton
Trumpington Road
Dr. Weston
M.A
FL. R. S
Regius
Lie
University Review
Ienrietta
Street
Covent
Crs
London
Cantab
Washington Post
Philadelphia Ledger
Antarctic Circle
Arctic Region
E Juan Fernandez Host
Largo
County of
Fife
Scotland
H. M. B. Weymouth
Selkirk
Powell
H. M. B. Topase
Terrorigm
Stelypin
Russian Revolutionary Party
Beaver Farm
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