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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1925
Page
13
Tommy attends a grand Masquée room where German orders echo and a famed princess performs. Dancers swirl on a carpet stage while patrons applaud the spectacle, a display by new wealth challenging old aristocracy, ending with a secret note to Tommy.
In London Lord Norheys hatches a plan to make him king of Lystria through marriage to Calypso while Procopius Cable seeks oil profits. Norheys loves Viola Temple and resists the scheme as intrigue widens with Janet Church seeking a Lystrian passport and Casimir entering the scene at the Mascotte in Berlin.
Tommy Norreys, posing as a titled noble, is hosted by the head waiter of the Mascotte. A pompous reception precedes a private table marked with his name, while diners speculate on his true identity and the potential bill for the grand feast.
The article debunks the belief in a stinging snake, noting no competent observer has seen one. It cites the Furancia abacura as a harmless tail-spined mimic and lists regional names like hoop snake and rainbow snake, concluding the sting notion is poppycock.
The text recalls St Leonard as a French nobleman turned monk who founded a monastery at St Leonard Je Noblat around 599. He is famed for mercy to prisoners and many posthumous legends claim miracles that freed captives, with his feast tied to the Michaelians term and writs returnable.
A chaotic OCR puzzle page lists numbered clues and partial answers across multiple word definitions. The note promises a solution in the next issue, with hints and cross references for a 1920s publication puzzle.
Instructions explain placing letters in white squares with numbers indicating definitions. Each horizontal word ends at a black square and vertical words fit white squares to the next black square below. No letters go in black squares KPACENK and all words are dictionary entries except proper names.
London’s day as a sailing port faded as captains struggle to recruit canvas crews. An officer failed to find volunteers willing to work sails, and aging British seamen prefer steamers. Rare sailings draw Norwegians or Danes for old lime vessels, while locals avoid the hard canvas work.
A J Drexel remarks at a Cannes Casino tea about older men with young wives on the Riviera. He recalls a wealthy Croesus asking Thais about dancing shoes for his age, and Thais suggests chloroform as a grim punchline.
Engineers halted by overstressed towers find a gas main crossing the Niagara River and a sewer rat dragged through a conduit. A weasel pursuer chases the rat and pulls the line, enabling power cables to be laid from Canada to Buffalo.
French police draining the St Martin canal near Paris recovered a rare collection of church ornaments and relics from burglaries. Gold fonts and enameled articles, statues, and images formed a nearly priceless historical trove. Identification is underway to link the objects to unsolved burglaries and possibly identify further crews.
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