Punder Threatens Bingley Castle Bailiffs and a London Run
Ernest Bingley faces a one week deadline as Punder demands twenty thousand or eviction. The earl plots sales and renovation while Ernest heads to London seeking Otis Wyncoop’s loan, hoping to avert losing Bingley Castle and expose Punder’s power. Rosa stays hopeful as the deadline nears.
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Bingley Castle
Pennyton
Ernest Bingley
Ernest
Sealyham
Otis G. Wyncoop
London
Mr. Wyncoop
Mr. Ponder
Wyncoop
Knees and Rheumatic Pain Recede with Kruschen Remedy
A City man reports three years of back and knee pain alleviated by Kruschen Salts. He credits initial morning use and continued intake for lasting relief, noting uric acid crystals dissolved and expelled naturally. The tale contrasts with a comic street exchange about travel plans and a pondering moment in Praed street.
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Kruschen
Reading the Balkans Trouble Brings Ghosts to Ernest
Ernest seeks distraction from wagon woes by reading a day old newspaper. He skims a Balkans story and a cricket report until a familiar name in the adjacent column catches his eye.
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Ernest
Balkans
Bingleys
Boy in London Crown Jewels Heist Fined and Banished
Mervin Wyncoop, 13, son of wealthy Americans, attempted to steal the Tower of London crown jewels armed with an air rifle. He smashed a glass case, triggered alarms, and was detained by the Beef-Eaters. Magistrate J G B Morris fined him fifty pounds. Wyncoop was discharged after his father promised punishment and departure from the country.
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London
Mervin Wyncoop
Tower of London
Marlborough Street
J. G. B. Morris
Wyncoop
Otis G. Wyncoop
Wyncoops
Mervin
Music, Work Experiments Across British Factories
Industrial psychology reports mixed results from music in factories. In one Wembley plant radio music boosted output by 10 percent among women but irritated office staff. Scottish shirt laundering workers listening to martial music produced astonishing output, while jazz faced resistance. Experts urge case by case evaluation before broad adoption.
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Wembley
National Institute of Industrial Psychology
Scotland
Remembering Joseph Baermann Strauss engineer of Golden Gate Bridge
The St Thomas Times Journal recalls Joseph Baermann Strauss the engineer behind the Golden Gate Bridge and many other bridges. It notes his belief that bridges can be beautiful and efficient, and highlights the $35,000,000 two mile San Francisco span as his greatest achievement.
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Joseph Baermann Strauss
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Los Angeles
Mr. Strauss
Strauss
Cincinnati
Harbor
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Fur hunter aims to rush orders for muskrat and skunk dishes
Israel Brus of Tilbury East Ontario, a 79 year old fur trader, hopes for an early order to resume his hobby of buying fur pelts and to secure muskrat and skunk meat for his table. He extols muskrats as the region’s best animal, praising their tenderness and cleanliness and even recalling skunk oil for medicine.
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Israel Brussell
Tilbury East
Ont
Five Women Honored at McGill Jubilee for First BA Degrees
McGill University marked a fiftieth anniversary of its first BA degrees with a jubilee reception in Montreal attended by five of the eight original graduates. Dr Grace Ritchie England, valedictorian a half century ago, noted that seven of the eight graduates are still living and their combined ages exceed 500 years, reflecting on past views of women’s higher education.
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McGill McGill University
Montreal
Grace Ritchie England
Poem by Texas prisoner put to death in electric chair
A Texas inmate in a penitentiary wrote a nine verse poem before execution by electric chair. The poem’s content cannot be judged for merit or harshness without reading it.
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Texas
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Secies
Ita
Castle
Punder
Bingley
Earl
Sheraton
Dan Furber
Colney Hatch Asylum
Carl
Grampus
Hubert Punder
MacKlintock
House of Bingley
Ernnest
Lady Rosa
Kingsley’s
Rosa
Alhough
Africa
India
Earl of Bingley
Praed Street
Crump
Paddington Station
Hyde Park
J. B. Strauss
Coleman
Coleman Lamp and Stove Company
Eto
Tilbury
Ontario
Para-Sani
Appleford Tae Ee Saeete Ltd
Wales
Winnipeg
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