The Burglary Trap in the Vault and Escape
Jimmy and the lawyer Spedding descend to a vault with iron racks and black boxes. A lights-out standoff ends when Jimmy triggers a hidden door and escapes as the lawyer releases cyanide to trap him, leaving a almond-scented air after the confrontation.
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Jimmy
Spedding
Beale
Jimny
Mr. Spedding
Lawer
Speddineg
Beale’s cryptic verse leads to a hidden vault clue
Angel and Kathleen Kent meet Jimmy to unravel Beale’s five letter word. Jimmy deciphers an occulting light acrostic forming smock, then reveals six capitalized words from the verse. He explains a duck and a snake cue a T, guiding toward a subterranean vault through a dreary house near High Holly Lodge.
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Angel
Jimmy
Spedding
Cley's Road
Friend Spedding
Dumas
Harrison Ainsworth
Scotland Yard
Beale
Kathleen Kent
Rupert Street
Dover
Admiralty Pier
France
Calais
Oce
Jove
Old Beale
Sanda
Milford Haven
Orkneys
Caldy Island
Kinnaird Head
Raw Foods Diet Promoted to Reduce Flesh
The Delineator advocates a raw foods regimen to slim the body. It urges avoiding heating substances and using cold baths to lower bodily heat. The diet centers on raw fruits nuts grains milk and occasional beefsteak raw oysters clams and minimal cracked grain are mentioned. A year of this regimen is claimed to yield striking results.
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Hamburg
Fiddling Bob Taylor Aids Passing Stranger On Train Stop
Senator Robert Taylor travels through Louisiana on a lecture tour when he befriends a train bum. In a pine forest between Lake Charles and Alexandria, the train halts and a passenger leaves with a small handbag. The bum hints the man who alights is guilty of something.
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Robert Taylor
Tennessee
Bob” Taylor
Louisiana
Lake Charles
Alexandria
Texas
Taylor
The Black Bread. A Florence Banker’s Divine Reckoning
Nicholas Nerli, a famed Florentine banker, amasses wealth through usury and charity. He faces judgment after a night vision with Saint Michael, weighing sins against deeds. Prompted to share bread with the poor, he awakens resolved to give more, hoping for heaven through unselfish deeds.
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Anatole France
Nicholas Nerii
Florence
Nicholas Nerli
Nerli
Nicolaus Nerli
Alexander
Caesar
Church of
Santa Maria Novella
Maria Bismantosa
Nicolas Nerli
Republic
St. Michael
Archangel
Neri
Saint Michael
Santa Maria del Novella
Nicholas Verli
Neril
St. John’s Church
St. Andrew
Venice
Swern
Nicholas
Hell
Heaven
Erchangel
British Explorer Shackleton Praised by Witty Critic
Herbert Corey surveys Ernest Shackleton and compares British praise of polar explorers with American jokes. The piece notes Shackleton’s near south pole reach, debts, knighthood, and quirky innovations like a printing press and Manchurian ponies, all amid humorous jabs at the British and Edwardian ceremony.
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Edwin Wildman
Ernest Henry Shackleton
South Pole
Cecil
London
Earth
Edward
Shackleton
Sir Hank
Ireland
Merchant Marine
Scott
Shackleford
Twain jokes on Christian Science apple cure
Mark Twain joked that Christian Science reminded him of the Hannibal apple cure for drunkenness. He recalled a town drunkard from boyhood who insisted he had been cured eight times, prompting a listener to ask if he believed in it and Twain to reply with a punchy affirmation.
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Jimmy
Miss Kent
Jiminy
Angel Esquire
Kathleen
Angel
Antarctic Room
Court Gazette
Edward
Ernest Hank Shackleton
King Edward
San Francisco
Mark Twain
Christian Science
Hannibal
Hank
The Blacksmith of the Revolution Monument Dedication
At Newville on October 6, 1890 a Pennsylvania ceremony unveiled a granite monument to William Denning the blacksmith of the revolution. The address praised Denning as a patriot and skilled craftsman who lived in the region most of his long life and died December 19, 1830 at age 93.
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William Henry Egle
Pennsylvania
Newville
William Denning
St. George
France
Yonder
God’s Acre
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