A Scandal in Bohemia Opens with Holmes and a Bohemian King
In Baker Street Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson examine a mysterious Bohemian note and a German bohemian suspect. A masked visitor arrives claiming royal peril and a two year secrecy pact linking the Ormstein lineage to a European scandal.
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Boswell
Holmes
England
Astrakhan
Dr. Watson
Count von Kramma
Europe
House of
Ormstein
Bohemia
Hermes
Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein
Duke of
Cassel- Felstein
Thrifty Wife Worries Over Insurance Timing
A Chicago Record-Herald quote portrays Mrs Madgely as thrifty. She fretted life insurance premiums paid two days early would be lost if her husband died before due date.
Giraffe Quirk Tangle Feeds Philadelphia Press Wit
The Uigress quotes a giraffe claiming illness this morning while D. Monk dismisses it as imagination. A muddled exchange centers on whether the animal was truly sick or merely issuing a threat.
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D. Monk
Philadelphia Press
Volunteer Organist Benke's Life Remembered at Bowery Mission
The Bowery Mission community recalls Victor H. Benke, known as the Volunteer Organist, who served ten years and died after a battle with spinal meningitis. Born in Artibor Austria his music charmed audiences and inspired the Bowery Mission Quartet.
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New York
Bowe@y
Benke
Bowery
Bowery Mission
Artibor
Austria
Ernest Benke
Europe
Victor Benke
Benker
Victor H. Benke
New York Subway Opens Near Completion Plans
The rapid transit project from city hall to One Hundred and Forty fifth Street along Broadway and Lenox avenues will be handed to the operating company by August 1. Experimental trains will run then and passenger service should begin by September, the rapid transit commission was told by contractor John B. McDonald at a Saturday meeting.
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New York
City Hall
One
Hundred and
Forty-fifth Street
Broadway
Lenox Avenue
John B. McDonald
Rapid Transit Commission
Abyssinian Emperor Menelik May Send Raz Makonnen
Rome officials deny any Abyssinian ministerial mission to Washington amid reports that Emperor Menelik plans to dispatch Raz Makonnen as envoy. They state no Abyssinian representatives are posted anywhere.
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Rome
United States
Menelik
Abyssinia
Raz Makonnen
Washington
Death for Russian Official in Elisabethpol Killings
An assassin killed the vice governor of Elisabethpol at 7 oclock Sunday night as he left his quarters in Adyshakent near the Persian frontier. The shooting occurred in the late stage of a political climate in the southwest government region.
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St. Petersburg
Eiisabethpol
Adyshakent
Elisabethpol
Pastor Preaches in Shirt Sleeves at Lebanon Church
in Lebanon Pennsylvania Reverend I H Albright pastor of Salem United Brethren in Christ Church extended an invitation to shirt waist men to attend Sunday service He preached in his shirt sleeves asserting no sin in propounding the gospel and sharing faith during worship.
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Lebanon
I. H Albright
jSalem
United Brethren In Christ Church
Albright
Seven Women Die in Flooding in Valparaiso
Severe weather in Valparaiso culminated in a massive cloud burst Saturday flooding the lower districts. Seven women drowned in their homes as tramways halted and streets filled with mud. hundreds of commercial and private buildings were inundated.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Jehoshaphat's Reform and Leaders in Judah
Jehoshaphat returns to Jerusalem and reforms Judah by appointing judges and Levites to judge for the Lord. He warns officials against bribery and partiality, urges reverence for God, and instructs leaders to govern with fear of the Lord, aiming for public virtue and accountability.
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Jehoshaphat
Judah
Jerusalem
Jehu
Hanani
Jehosaphat
Beersheba
Behraim
Israel
Amariah
Zebadiah
Ishmael
House of Judah
God
Ahab
Jehosaprat
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Halland
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Toome
Lile
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Watson
Gary
Myodhoat Helmes
Mary Jane
London
Gesellschaft
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Egloniig
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Carlsbad
Wallenstein
Doctor
the Bowery IS Dead
Tramp Played the Organ
New York Subway
Ras Makonnen
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