Park Lane Mystery Continues on Hidden Underground Track
In a Park Lane mansion Carlton and Harlow explore rooms and cellars seeking missing Aileen Rivers. A secret stair and hidden garage lead to an underground complex with hydraulic lifts and a trafficked car platform. A narrator hints at a larger criminal scheme as a faint knock behind a hidden iron door suggests someone else awaits.
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Fury
Theobalds Ros
Harlow
Jim
Elk
Carlton
Park Lane
Pimlico
Mystery of the pit and the ax in the cellar
A disheveled elderly lawyer, Stebbings, reveals a chilling confession about Miss Rivers. He describes an ax murder and a hidden pit beneath a furnace room, where the victim lay in a rose-lit cellar behind a concealed wardrobe. The scene ends with Sir Joseph’s clothes found in the wardrobe as the tale continues.
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Jim
Ellenbury
Elk
Nbury
Mr. Jury
Miss Rivers
Ana
Sir Joseph
Strange Diet Resort To Crude Menus In Time Of War
Reported in April 1917 German famine conditions and wartime food shortages. Dog meat becomes scarce as horse and other meats appear on menus in Dresden restaurants, with elephant meat used for novelty steaks and cutlets after a circus purchase. The period notes bizarre substitutes including donkey mule fish goat rabbit and pink spiced kohlrabi. An expert advises eating grass and other claims of edible earth near the Vistula. A Swiss attache cites bread composition with high wood sawdust content and mineral additives.
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Reich
Dresden
Germany
United States
Leipzig
Passau
Bavaria
Vistula
Berlin
Fragmented tale of murder and missing woman in Ellenbury
In a tense confessional scene Ellenbury recalls a brutal event tied to a holiday plan and a supposed murder. A prison visit escalates as a witness questions the fate of Aileen Rivers while the old man confirms death and a missing woman, with a bloodstained kitchen door and a trip upstairs involving a man and a woman with a yellow face.
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Ellenbury
Aileen Rivers
Carlton
Eli
Eternal Life Through God’s Everlasting Presence
A devotional note reflects Luther’s and Mary Baker Eddy’s faith in God as eternal Life. It emphasizes God’s perpetual presence, the unbound nature of heaven, and the belief that life is eternal through divine being.
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God
Mary Baker Aay
Radio Fiends Morons Panned In Chicago Letter
A Chicago Daily News reader derides radio enthusiasts as morons after admitting to listening from early morning until midnight. The letter blames empty heads for demanding loud programs and attributes the obsession to a dislike of quiet.
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Nicago
Chicago Daily News
Lizards of the Iguana Family Are Strictly Vege Variants
The note states that lizards in the iguana family of topical America are strictly vegetarians.
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America
How to Make Your Own Rugs at Home Booklet Offer
A Winnipeg newspaper notice promotes a Home Service booklet on Navajo rug weaving and other crafts. It describes a simple wooden loom, warp setup, and a 32 page guide with patterns for hooked, woven, braided, and crocheted rugs. Also lists 15 cent extras and related pamphlets. Mussolini comment ends the item.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
England’s smallest county ends long civil case drought
For more than 19 years one of England’s smallest counties had no civil cases or prisoners for trial at its assizes, marking a rare lull in local judicial activity and reflecting a period of legal calm.
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Tlan
England
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Ian
Talbet
Iaffin
Nim
Xic
Olf Man
Charles Stanford
God Confucius
Gienide
Kingdom of
Relkea
Luke
Martin Luther
Home Service
Mount
Vesuvius
Mussolini
Ane Toro Ps
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