The Crime of rE a the Boulevard Chapter XVI
Prades kills Rovere during a brutal struggle on the boulevard. Rovere dies after a desperate fight over a portrait, which Prades had tried to steal. Bernardet seeks expert Dr Erwin on retinal images and the mystery of a painting retained on the dying man’s retina.
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Prades
Rovere
Desbriere
M. Jacquelin Audrays
Pradés
Revere
Flo
Prairies
Aitheelie
Mme, Moniche
Boulevard de Clichy
Mme. Moniche
M. Gillory
Quai Saint Michel
Bernardez
Bernaret
M. Morin
Dr. Erwin
Paris
Boulevard
Bermudet
Prad
Jacques Datin
Jacques Dantin
Vernardez
Bing
Bernardet
Stendhal
M. Ginory
Dr. Boulton
Absent Mindedness of Genius in 19th Century Tales
The Dundee Advertiser recounts anecdotes about great minds like Morse and Newton. Morse struggles over bridge support for wires until a friend suggests attaching wires to the bridge. Newton reportedly cut a hole in his study door to let his cat and later its kitten pass through.
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Dundee Advertiser
Morse
Isaac Newton
Who Columbus Was Retold by a Little Baltimore Class
The Baltimore Sun recounts a school afternoon where pupils studied the life and deeds of Columbus. A pupil replies that Columbus was the gem of the ocean after a teacher asks who Columbus was, illustrating a humorous misunderstanding and the lesson’s aim.
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Columbus
Baltimore Sun
Lfe
Johnny
Ocean
Gifted author of The Raven born a hundred years ago
One hundred years ago on January 15 1909 America’s great poet Edgar Allan Poe was born. The article praises his preeminence across poetry essays and short stories, notes his orphaned youth in Virginia and England, his time at the University of Virginia and West Point, and disputes Griswold’s portrayal while highlighting his influence as a creator and critic.
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New York
America
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
John Allan
Richmond
England
Manor House
Stoke Newington
Joondon
William Wilson
University of Virginia
Griswold
I. A. Perry
United States Army
Alr
Allan
Marshall
General Scott
West Point
Baltimore
Europe
Charles Leonard Moore
The
Dial
Minto
Britannica
Porm
Barnaby Rudge
Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moore
Hureka
Emerson
Whitman
Thoreau
Kaisers New Hunting Box in Potsdam Forest
Berlin reports Emperor Wilhelm II builds a simple practical hunting lodge near Potsdam to house 70 English foxhounds and English roan hunters. The kennels run two sets, with a hospital, dispensary, and daily cleaning, while hounds are trained for boar and deer trails. Royal hunts draw princes and aristocrats, scarlet and velvet, tally ho, and ceremonial honors at the chase.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Imperial Palace
Fragmented verse and garbled text from a 63 453 Chinese Transvaal item
A poetic meditation on longing contrasts with a damaged line about Chinese in the Transvaal. The readable portion presents James Russell Lowell style reflection on longing as life’s shaping force, followed by an unreadable ciphered segment about Chinese in the Transvaal.
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James Russell Lowell
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M. Bernardet
Monsieur
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
Lutece
Paul Rodier
Mr. Smithson
George
Papa
Byron
Turkey
Boston
Edgar Ai
Voordham, O
Kaiser’s
Transvaal
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