The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez Part Continues
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pursue a strange case at Yoxley Old Place. Holmes examines footprints, a knife, and a scratched bureau while questioning Professor Coram and housekeeper Mrs. Marker. A mysterious woman, cigars, and a chilling garden clue push the puzzle toward a dramatic confrontation.
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Optician
Tholmes
George
Hopkins
London Opticians
Mr. Holmes
Charing Cross
Chatham
Yoxley Old Place
Thames
Garden Pate
Wilson
Holmes
Watson
Coram
Ilolines
Nolmes
Mrs. Marker
London
Mr. Smith
Stanley Hopkins
Chatham Road
Susan
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram
Spineless Cactus Promises A New Agricultural Miracle
Mr. Burbank touts the spineless cactus as a major plant marvel with potential to double global population via desert peopling. The crop, a spineless form of prickly pear, yields per acre far more than alfalfa and suits stock feeding when paired with cottonseed, while costing $10 to $25 per acre to plant.
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Mr. Burbank
Hamilton Wright
United States Department of Agriculture
They Say the Order of They Says in Washington
A harsh speaker bursts with fury at a friend over They Say as a collective, anonymous menace. He exhorts personal accountability, rejecting anonymous knocks, and urges readers to resign from They Says and speak for themselves. Morning sunlight reveals the friend tangled in bed clothes.
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Washington Star
Tartarus
Washington
Universal Order of
Order of They
They
George W. Childs
Garden of Eden
Siddartha
Buddha
Lincoln
Chevalier Gayard
King Arthur
St. Augustine
Pythias
John Hancock
Quiet Town Water Joke Turns Fire Alarm
Comedian Al H Wilson recalls a northwest town hotel scene where a guest asks for multiple glasses of water from a kindly manager. After two trips for water, the guest reveals she is trying to put out a fire in her room, prompting a shocked reaction.
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al H. Wilson
Ice on the bay leads to unlikely romance and a wedding
A dramatic winter rescue at a lakeside mill ends with Amos and Alice agreeing to marry. Alice retrieves a pike pole to bridge floating logs saving Amos from drowning. Their daring on the ice becomes a town tale and leads to a spring wedding.
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W. R. Hearst
Amesa Cunningham
Amos
Alice Boyce
Alice
Whistled confrontation on a night streetcar
A hatchet-faced wife derides her bald-headed husband after a theater and oyster house outing. A moon-faced messenger boy interjects with snatches of songs and lewd lines as passengers eavesdrop, until the boy leaves at the rear platform amid amused chatter and a cautious nod to restraint.
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Washington Star
Green Avenue
Denver Dan
Deadwood Dynamiter
Senator Redfield Proctor to retire from public life
Vermont's Senator Redfield Proctor announces he will retire at the end of his term. He says the move is planned to give time to select a successor and denounces a haphazard, hand to mouth way of life. The piece includes a parable about a ten year old boy and a pawnbroker.
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Halloa
Hawkins
Holmes
Tonides
Alexandria
Nolmes
Hiolmes
Syria
Egypt
Coram
Susan
Leve-Gages
Willoughby Smith
Helmes
Redfield Proctor
Vermont
Boston collector Carles Wilson dies after vast art and book trove
The renowned collector Carles Wilson died in Boston. He owned about 2,000 volumes and 9,000 portraits and prints tied to Napoleon, building a collection described as the finest in America, perhaps the world.
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Carles Wilson
Napoleon
Boston
America
Leprosy Expert Says Hundreds Affected in America
Dr. Isadore Dyer of New Orleans notes hundreds afflicted with leprosy across the country. The remarks appear amid a broader casual exchange, including a quip about a friend named Grapther and remarks on speed and debt.
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Isadore Dyer
New Orleans
America
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A. Conan Doyle
Collier's
eMae
Harry A Armstrong
Grapther
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