Return to New York ends in murder over stolen note
William Wentworth returns from California to find Count Eugene amid a row at a Madison Avenue mansion. After spotting the gambler-host’s debt note and threatening to expose the scheme, Wentworth confronts the count and shoots him during a tense midnight confrontation. The family flees west, while Wentworth leaves for California.
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Madison Avenue
New York
William
California
John
Milly
Eugene
Jack Tayton
New Jersey
Ananias
Phil Darbrook
Thirty Ninth Street
Jack Layton
Count Eugene
William Wentworth
Madison Avenue House
Count
Wentworth
Monsieur
Monsieur Wentworth
Old Subcriber Tells of a Writer Who Made a Fortune
An Ohio town forty years ago produced an old man who wrote for papers and boasted a tale from Cincinnati. He claimed to have earned 28 000 dollars for ten words. the key was the line Pay to the order of John Blank 25 090. The editor laughed, blushed, and invited him to dinner.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Detroit Free Press
Cesar
John Blank
Remarkable Swift Flight of the American Sparrowhawk
The sparrowhawk displays powerful wings and graceful wheeling flight in high wind. It rises against strong gusts with an easy, aslant wheeling motion, yielding to external impulse briefly before regaining control and soaring as if the air were still.
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Yennyson
Be Sure You're Right and Then Go Ahead Motto Debate
A political exchange shows a citizen praising a local leader for rising in politics and suggesting the motto Be sure you're right, and then go ahead while the association prefers Be sure ye get ahead, ye kin make it right afterward. The dialogue reflects partisan tones and the push for decisive action.
Syrian wedding in New York ends with pistol fusillade
Fares A. Ferzan, a jewelry dealer from Atlantic City and other places, wed Miss Sassou Maloof in a Syrian church in New York. During the ceremony, friends fired pistols from windows until police, unaware of proper Syrian wedding etiquette, halted the fusillade.
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New York
Fares A. Ferzan
Atlantic City
Sassou Maloof
London Illusion: Woman Consumed by Fire at Egyptian Hall
A London stage illusion at Egyptian Hall shows a woman seated on a light table with four visible legs and electric lights. a descending screen covers her as a pistol fires, a blaze erupts from a cylinder, and when the screen rises the woman vanishes leaving blackened bones and a skull on the table. the effect aims to stun and realism is claimed.
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Egyptian Hall
London
Speech after five years marks a remarkable recovery
Five years after losing her voice Nellie Fuller of Plainville K L finally spoke again on a November day. Doctors failed to diagnose her condition and she endured months in a nervous diseases hospital and repeated treatments. A miracle is claimed as she spoke “Thank God” for the first time since September 1559 amid family faith in divine interposition.
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Nellie Fuller
Plainville
K L
Miss Fuller
Strong
Hoston
Elderly German man hangs self after marriage bid
At Schillgallen Germany an old 73 year old man named Jurk who had buried three wives proposed to a fourth. His rejected suit prompted him to retire to a forest where he hanged himself.
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Schillgallen
Germany
Jurklies
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Pierre
Mildred
Young Wentworth
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Fred
Mildred Wentworth
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Willie Wentworth
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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France
Scotland
Paris
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Lake Windermere
Kendal
Alleswater
Ruskin
Ati
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