Mystery traveler Mazaroff vanishes after Marrasdale Moor stay
Mervyn Holt accepts a traveling companion calling himself Mazaroff who stays with him at the Woodcock inn on Marrasdale moor. The man later disappears after claiming to be Merchison and claiming wife and daughter status. Holt informs Sheila Merchi son of the disappearance.
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Mervyn Holt
Mazaroff
Woodcock
Marrasdale Moor
Mrs. Elphinstone
Sheila Merchison
Holt
Merchison
Sheila
Mystery on the Moor Deepens as Missing Man Found Dead
Holt returns to High Cap lodge to help search for Mr. Mazaroff who vanished after motoring with a banker and two London men. A police inquiry labels murder and robbery as the likely cause, and a body is found on Marrasdale moor wearing Mazaroff's clothes. Eccleshare later reveals the dead man was shot, deepening the intrigue.
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Sheila
Mr. Elphinstone
High Cap Lodge
Verner
Courthopes
Armintrade
London
Eccleshare
Mazaroff
Woodcock
Courthope
Elphinstone
Holt
Verner Courthope
Marrasdale Tower
Igs
Earth
Webster
Mr. Holt
Sergeant Manners
County Constabulary
Marrasdale
Bownas
Manners
Marrasdale Moor
Musgrave and Webster
Reiver’s den
Musgrave
Park honors Baron Von Steuben with Utica memorial forest
Utica New York appropriates ten thousand dollars to acquire Steuben land grant to be forested and kept as a memorial park for the Prussian officer who served Washington. Papers reveal Steuben planned a country estate and sawmill on his ground near Steuben Creek.
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Utica
N. Y
Congress
Baron von Steuben
Steuben
Water Filtration Protections From Cholera Rise
The 1887 report by Percy Frankland and colleagues found sand filtration killed nearly all bacteria in water. Five years later cholera hit Hamburg, showing filtration’s protective value as Altona with filtered water had few cases while Hamburg faced many.
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Percy Frankland
Hamburg
Altona
Elbe
Houston
McGovern
England
George A. Johnson
A Fair Cop For The Angler In The Pond
A weary angler sits by a pond as the village constable orders him away for fishing without permission. The man quips that he is teaching a worm to swim, prompting a charge about bathing rules and costumes.
Bee’s Knees Oil Claim Hinges on Elk Hills Beehen
Bakersfield California Standard Oil Company defends rights to Section 36 Elk Hills oil claiming mineral status since 1908. A geologist testified that oil indicators on nearby Section 382 date to 1901, but the company argues earlier signs were misread as bee activity. They cite a beeswax base claim tied to Elk Hills as the basis to retain the field.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Standard Oil Company of California
Bee
Elk Hill
Mineral Land
A. C. Veatch
Oil Company
Elk Hills
America
Largest Texas wheat field starts to break for fall sowing
A 7,000 acre Swisher and Castro county tract in Texas is being broken for wheat sowing this fall. Hickman Price, famed Panhandle farmer, leads the work on the land once home to ranching and buffaloes. The 11 section field is owned by Mrs. T. F. Nanny of California, who has barely paid taxes with recent rents.
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Texas
Tulsa
Hickman Price
Panhandle
Swisher
Castro
Otter Hoglets Thrive Eating From Bottle on Farm
In Regina Sask a family reports a remarkable herd of hogs feeding from a bottle. The pigs occupy a chicken brooder at the H Wallis farm in the d Arcy district and have thrived since birth.
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Regina
H. Wallis Farm
He d’Arcy District
Artificial Sunshine to Treat Miners at Idaho Plant
Miners in Idaho are to receive healthful ultraviolet light via an electric solarium. A moving platform carries workers through a narrow cabinet with six mercury quartz lamps to expose the body to artificial sunlight. The system aims to counteract sunshine deficiency and will be accessible to miners' families.
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Idaho
Inkling Used in Rural Indiana School Sentence
A rural Indiana schoolyard task had a pupil use the word inkling in a sentence. He replied The ink ling is full of red ink conveying a playful take on the term.
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Indiana
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J.S. Fletcher
Irwin Myers
Www
NN Service
U. S
von Steuben
New York
Jersey City
New York Times
Faultless Starch CO
Kansas City, MO
Fraultler
Daisy Fly
Harold Somers
Brooklyn
Phillips
Haein
Waverly, O
N. U. Houston
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