A Christmas Mystery on a Cold Rail to Trehenna
Four distinguished guests travel by train from London to Trehenna to visit Deverill at Foulls Castle. Professor Biggleswade Sir Angus McCurdie Lord Boyne and Lord Rayne discuss science, Christmas, and fate as a series of delays and discomforts unfold on the way. The group suspects the journey may reveal more than a holiday visit.
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Neues
Cortmwall
Trehenna
Lee Teowa
Angua
Professor Biggiesw
Boxee
Oipir
Aroun
Angus
Rayne
Justio Bir Angus
Eimas
Lord Borne
Sir Angel McCurdie
McCurdie
Ras
Jemat
Angus McCurdie
Severin
Sennacherib
Dunity
McCuriife
Sennacheri
Ginskov
Deverill
Weatbury
Merable
Boyne
Geleewade
Plymouth
London
Exeter
Plymout
McCurdle
Foulls Castle
Smball Mie
Beonchitis
Biggleswade
the Tigris
Tekrit
Ragda
Three Wise Men in a Polar Moorland Journey
In a 1911 adventure, Professors and adventurers McCurdie Biggleswade and Lord Boyne travel by snowbound car to Trehenna in a bitter winter. A broken axle strands them in a No Man's Land with a driver’s plan to fetch aid. They seek shelter at a haunted house where a drunken master lies slain at the threshold as a grim mystery deepens.
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McCurdie
Plymouth
Trehenna
Trehenna Station
Terre Corte
Min
Si Ge
Professor
Gald
Biggleswade
Boyne
Urdie
Lord Boy
Reyne
Dynamite in City Sewer Threatens Parkersburg Crowd
Five one pound sticks of dynamite found in a sewer basin under Seventh and Front Streets in Richmond. Officials believe it was dropped late Tuesday by a man under the influence, intending to trade it for liquor. Police and detectives will pursue the culprit, with a strict stance on punishment.
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Richmond
Seventh and Fronch Streets
Henry Colyn
Cohn
Broad Street
Seventh and Broad
Colin
Providence
Kower
Werner
McMahon Wil Doubties
Careless switching injures twelve in Kanawha yards derailment
In Charleston West Virginia twelve people were hurt when a coal train partially derailed after a car was switched to another track at the Kanawha and Michigan yards. The injured were taken to area hospitals.
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Charleston
W. VA
Kanawha
Michigan
Lincoln Speech: The Shortest Masterpiece Examined
A NY Herald piece analyzes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address delivered November 19, 1863. It notes 267 words in Lincoln's own 1864 version for Baltimore soldiers and describes diction, sentence structure, and the famed closing line about government of the people by the people.
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Davis
Thomas Jefferson Davis
New York Herald
King George
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson Davie
Lincoln
Howard &£Erett
Everett
Gettysburg
Soldiers and Sailors’ Fair
Baltimore
Lincolm
Patrick Henry
Hamlet
Webster
Hayne
Cost of Census Exceeds Early Estimates in 1909-10
Director E Dana Durand reported 1909-10 census operations cost about 5.86 million dollars for population and agriculture in the continental United States, higher than 1900 costs. The director now believes total decennial census cost will reach about 14.6 million, with higher than planned expenses and calls for earlier legislation for 1920. Enumerators were paid about 4.87 million.
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Washington, D. C
E. Dana Durand
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of the Census
United States
Bureau
Congress
Porto Riese
Census Field Work Costs Rise Between 1900 and 1910
Total enumerator compensation in the continental United States for the 1910 census reached about 4.87 million dollars, versus 3.54 million in 1900. Field work costs totaled about 5.84 million, up roughly 37.5 percent from 1900. Bureau payroll peaked at 3,738 August 31, with a proposal to build a fire-proof office for future censuses.
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Continental United States
Home of Miss Gould Attacked in New York
The home of Miss Helen Gould at 579 Fifth Avenue was guarded after a brick was hurled through a window last night. A man who tried to reach her earlier may have been the attacker, described to police as a possibly crazed beggar or a wealth-hater. Mrs. Edward Schools, a guest, was struck on the head but escaped serious injury.
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New York
Helen Gould
Fifth Avenue
Miss Gould
Edward Schools
Quote exchange sparks home visit request
A Houston Post snippet shows a terse exchange about home life with a request to tell a wife about something. The dialogue hints at tension and a request to visit a residence, reflecting domestic themes in a clipped newspaper fragment.
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Houston Post
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