A German Detective’s Story of a Silver Heist
A detective investigates the May robbery of Frau Friedow, whose villa near a small town was robbed of 255000 marks. Suspects include neighbors, friends, and relatives, with clues from a broken window, ladder, and a blue blouse. The trail leads to Herr Bottcher, a close relative, whom the detective corners and ensures arrest after a staged confrontation, with Bottcher sentenced to six years.
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Friedow
Frau Friedon
Frederick
Frau Friedow
van Friedow
Old Frederick
Taganre
Fox
Artizans
Route 4T
Ems
Holland
Hare
ten_pfennigs
Batter Security
Herr Bottcher
Boucher
Rascal
Bottcher
Thad
Thaye
Iid
Bat
Botteher
Satay
Bottoher
Tarose
Bottchers
Thia
Ingenious scheme draws crowd to hotel window
In Louisville a clever ruse by two peanut vendors entices curiosity. A man peers from a fourth story window with an opera glass while a crowd gathers, thinking a wager involved a hotel clerk walking a rope and wheeling a barrow.
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Louisville
Policannes
Amal
Native New Caledonia Polygamy Test of Faith
A Paris paper reports that New Caledonians practice polygamy and treat women as laborers. A missionary persuades a male convert to renounce a wife for baptism. The man returns with one wife and claims to have killed the other, producing the severed head as proof to continue the ceremony.
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Paris
New Caledonia
Infusorial Earth Deposits and Uses Across States
The article notes infusorial earth consists of minute organisms with Ehrenberg estimating forty one million per cubic inch. Rich deposits exist in America with a twenty foot Richmond stratum extending into Maryland, Nevada deposits, and recent finds in New Jersey. Known as Electrosilicon, it is used as a polishing powder and noted for heat insulation, fireproofing, and refrigeration applications. It also mentions the pardon of two hundred thirty French communists.
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Ehrenberg
America
Richmond
Maryland
Nevada
New Jersey
United States
Liverpool Geological Society
Lighthearted miscellany and notes from a late 19th century column
A collage of witticisms and anecdotes covers reading and writing in Italy, mirror reflections, manners, minor misdeeds, and social scenes. It cites legal cases, a Baltimore obituary, jokes about onions and fish, school enrollment figures for Connecticut, travel and cheese exports, and a vivid tale of a young niece pressuring an aunt for a kiss, all framed in brisk, period tone.
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Baltimore County
Baltimore
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Western Cemetery
Witis Record
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Mary
School Board
Connecticut
Sebastopol
Tressury
Miss Neilson
London
Clarissa C. Gook
Davenport
Protestant Episcopal Church
New York
Metropolitan
New York Sun
Madame Bonaparte
Jerome Bonaparte
Napoleon
Napoleon III
England
Sedan
Ethel
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