The Marathon Mystery and a Manhattan affair unfolds
Godfrey probes a complex case around Miss Croydon as coroner Goldberg investigates the murder. Miss Croydon insists she did not kill the dead man, while Godfrey believes her truthfulness may reveal the higher motive and the shooter. Higgins, the janitor, offers a critical lead about a drunken Thompson and a veiled visitor with a pistol.
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Godfrey
Simmonds
Miss Croydon
Kim
Thompson
Mebbe
Higgins
Night Paper Newsroom Inquisitions After Midnight
Godfrey meets janitor Simon Higgins in a newsroom setting after a police inquiry. Reporters insist on illustrations while Higgins reveals the tense mood, noting officers search the building and he has turned keys over to them.
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Godfrey
Record
Higgins
Simon Higgins
Patriot Music at Iowa State Fair Opens With Innes Band
Patriotic program organized by Professor Innes opens the Iowa State fair musical series with the Innes band of fifty performing two concerts daily starting August 25. The program features America a soul stirring phantasy told without words and a strong lineup of soloists. Other amusements include Payne Vesuvius spectacle, a double airship by Knabenshue, vaudeville acts, races and more attractions.
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Innes
America
Innes Band
Iowa
Payne
Vesuvius
Knabenshue
Women's Way at the Store Joke Gathers Smiles
A man tells a salesman to fetch a pair of lady shoes for his wife with the size unneeded because she won't be pleased anyway. The quip plays on marital banter and store humor.
Investors See Peak Inflation to Drive Capital Costs
The New York Evening Post notes economist Paul Leroy-Beaulieu warns that extended industrial inflation will shrink speculative securities and lower raw material prices. He says global capital shortages force higher interest, delaying many projects, and suggests only a few nations can export surplus capital.
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New York Evening Post
M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
Germany
America
M. Leroy-Beaulieu
United States
Austria
Russia
Italy
Spain
England
France
Belgium
Holland
Talked with Bonaparte a Belgian girl recalls Napoleons camp
From the London Daily Graphic a Belgian villager recalls June 16 1815 when Napoleon spoke with her mother at Ligny. Mme Anne Josephe Rubay will turn 102 on July 29 and her memory of the encounter remains clear.
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Napoleon
London Daily Graphic
College Girl Has a New Idea
A Philadelphia Record anecdote notes a clergyman praising college girls for fresh notions. He recounts christening a newborn born to a married college couple who practiced rehearsals with a pail of water, prompting humor about their preparedness.
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Philadelphia
It Awakened Ole Hauge
A humorous Nellsville Wis Times item recalls a deaf aunt and a sleeping Ole Hauge awakened by two women loudly greeting each other upon the arrival of a train. The joke hinges on swapped tales told to the aunt and wife, and a thirsty remark from the aunt.
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Ole Hauge
Nellsville
Wis
Hauge
Hatfield
No Place for Him Here
In a rural Alabama court a prosecutor describes Thomas Jones as a model man who never bet, drank, or chewed tobacco. The judge questions the premises and then releases the prisoner, remarking there is little reason for him to live.
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Thompson
Godfrey
Pete Magraw
Sixth Avenue
Pete
Higgins
Alabama
Thomas Jones
Cheaper at Whites
An elderly man stops at a western Pennsylvania hotel and drinks brandy. After paying a quarter, he returns 17 cents, noting the landlord shorted him. The landlord replies that it is cheaper at whites, a misstatement reflecting a humorous lodging-house exchange.
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Pennsylvania
Cheaver
Mars Echoes From Space as Three Dots Call Earth
An August Metropolitan Magazine piece by Charles Torquet describes mysterious three dot signals at midnight from Martian skies. The story connects these taps to historic sightings of three dots on Mars in 1892 and 1901, suggesting a cosmic message beyond Earth.
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Charles Torquet
Metropolitan
Mars
Marconi
A Life Sentence in The Bohemian July Issue
A couple discusses a man sentenced to life at hard labor for fraud and no visible means of support. The man, accused of obtaining clothes and a fine turnout without money, protests his innocence as his victim is named as their friend Jack Smith. The passage closes with a birth notice for John Smith's twelve pound son.
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Joacker
Jack Smith
John Smith
If One Only Could
A New York Times note describes brokers discussing John W. Gates and his high rent rooms at the New Plaza hotel. An elderly bachelor cites Gates and remarks on women in business. Gates recalls a woman asking her broker to buy 1000 shares at 7 percent and to sell at 100 with profits by noon.
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New York Times
New York
John W. Gates
New Plaza
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