True 2x Detective Stories The Red Hand
In a London murder case Colonel Fraser tracks a man named Franz Muller who killed Thomas Briggs on a night train. A bloody handprint on a coach wall confirms the suspect, leading to a New York arrest and eventual hangman's justice.
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London
Locsil
Hackney
James Hraser
Fenhurst Street
Fraser
Victorian Park
Thomas Briggs
A. London Banking House
Peckham
Brigg
Cheapside
Franz “Muller
Muller
Germais
America
New York
Mouliér
Briggs
Fenchurch ‘Street
Franz Muller
Cotton Financing Moves to Export Markets and Cooperatives
War Finance Corporation used export powers to ship cotton to foreign warehouses for cash sales. A five million dollar loan supported a Mississippi cooperative to store 100000 bales in U S warehouses awaiting orderly shipment abroad. Similar plans followed with other cooperatives and financing groups across the South to ensure growers have time and capital to market the crop.
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War Finance Corporation
Mississippi Co-Operative Marketing Association
United States
South
Color of Horses No Indicator of Value Says Government Study
A government bulletin counters old prejudices about horse color and performance noting that speed, vigor and intelligence are inherited independently of coat color. It cites examples of horses with white feet and varied colors challenging stereotypes. The piece also compares life decisions to navigating ruts on a spring road.
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Johnnie
Clay
Arizona
Mouth Holds Few Bacteria
A Johns Hopkins professor reports the mouth naturally cleans itself by suction from surrounding muscles. This action removes bacteria and debris within fifteen to thirty minutes, directing them to the rear of the mouth and preventing lodging on tonsils or the pharynx.
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Johns Hopkins University
Diamonds Territory’s Desert Diamonds Mystery Source
The British now hold former German Southwest Africa a desert land with sparse value yet rich in diamonds found along the coast. Experts suspect a single volcanic pipe once fed Kimberley like stones, but while pipes have been located none contain diamonds prompting an anxious search for the original source.
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Southwest Africa
Kimberly
South Africa
Kimberly Field
Cloud Band Marshals Along South American Coastline
A new atmospheric phenomenon forms a 2000 mile long cloud band off the western coast of South America from Ecuador to central Chile. It runs 10 to 20 miles wide, sits 2000 to 8000 feet high, with a vertical thickness under 1000 feet. The band results from cool winds blowing obliquely along shore, condensing moisture on the coast range to produce clouds without rain.
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South America
Ecuador
Chili
Hilt Range
Buildings of Ancient Rome Limit Front Height to Sixty Feet
Lanciani notes that Caesars era Rome struggled with tall fronts. A law capped front heights at sixty feet, while rear sections rose with additional stories to evade limits. Over time ceilings lowered as structures grew, with some rooms likely under one year that’s a misread. ceilings were described as very low.
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Old
Rome
Lanciani
Executor's Notice for Siby A Slusser Howe Estate
Ruth Miller Bell as executrix of Siby A Slusser Howe's Clark County Illinois estate invites all creditors to appear at the Clark County Court in Marshall for final settlement at the July term. Creditors must file claims and debtors should pay promptly as required by law. Dated May 2, 1922.
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Siby A. Slusser Howe
Siby ‘A. Slusser
Howe
Clark
Tlinois
Clark County
Marshall
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