Dark Hollow unfolds a murder mystery amid a judge's wary home
A crowd confronts Judge Ostrander over a murder linked to his son Oliver. Deborah Scoville, widow Mrs Scoville and her daughter Reuther move in with the judge as investigators reveal clues from a torn case. Anonymous notes, a shadowed figure, and a mob push toward truth.
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Judge Ostrander
Deborah Scoville
Algernon Etheridge Pydobn Scoville
Dark Hollow
Deborah
Reuther
Oliver
Miss Weeks
Black
John Scoville
The Secret Man by the Folly of Spencer
A dramatic confession unfolds as Oliver reads a fifteen year old survivor’s nightmarish tale. A boy treks into Spencer's Folly to sculpt a statue, witnesses a deadly card game and gunfire, escapes a murder scene, and flees into a raging storm, leaving a chilling memory.
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Spencer's Folly
Father
Spencer
Iman
Heaven
Claymore Tavern
Claymore Tavaro
Before His Hour of Glory in Paris Mob
Bourrienne recounts a June scene in Paris as Bonaparte observes a riot near the Tuileries. He notes 5 000 to 6 000 marchers, garish guards with varied arms, and the king’s red cap as indignation erupts. Bonaparte judges the mob’s folly and discusses causes and consequences of the unfolding insurrection.
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Rue St Honore
Palais Royal
Bonaparte
Tuileries
Paris
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Land o' Cakes and Scottish Peat Fire Cooking
The article describes Scotland as the Land o' Cakes and depicts rural kitchens where a peat fire cooks a huge griddle cake. Women bake over a big chimney, swinging a crane mounted griddle, tossing the cake and turning it midair with skill, landing perfectly back on the hearth.
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Scotland
Northlands Three Great Kingdoms Discussed and Norways Power Projects
The article surveys Norse history with Orkney and Shetland's transfer to Scotland, notes a major underwater explosion for a dam at Solbergios, and reports on granite freight, archeology professor Gustafson's death, and widespread Norwegian holdings. It also covers the Birkeland Eyde fertilizer patent sale, whaling profits, ship traffic, and recent Rjukan electric plant progress tying to 230 000 horsepower for artificial fertilizer production.
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Telemarken
Rjukan Il
Rjukan
Upper
Norway
Sweden and Russia drift toward cordiality amid war era shifts
Sweden mulls a conference in Stockholm on direct railway links with Russia signaling a policy shift toward Russia. Public sentiment remains neutral on entering the war, while anti German feeling rises after the Lusitania sinking.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Finland
Sven Hedin
Art
Associated Press
United States
Lusitania
Wilson
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Fie
Napoleon
Northland
Denmark
North
Martin W.odland
Orkney Islands
Ragnvald Jari
Orkneys
Shetland Islands
Christian I
United Kingdom
Denmark and
James of
Christian
Christiania
Europa
Glenmen
Solbergios
England
Cuba
Argentine
Fredrikshald
G. A. Gustafson
University of Christiania
Visby
Gothland
University of
Upsala
Norwegian Hydro Company
Canada
Rjukan Falls
South Sea
New York
Storsted
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Narvik
Rotterdam
Kirkwall
Kirkerang
General Telephone Company of
General Telephone Company
G. Amnell
Charlottenberg
Ammmell
Ammell
Herr Monsson
Riksdag
Tiksdag
Aftonbladet
the Commerce Association of
Goteborg
Newcastle
Skagen
Halmstad
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