Counterfeit Plot Unmasks a Deceived Sleuths
Mort Davis and Eugene Marcy chase Ralph Barton amid whispers of a counterfeit plot. A detective discovers a clockwork dummy in Barton's study, leading to arrest. The ruse collapses when Doctor Barton reveals the real culprit was a friend aiding a hidden ex-convict. Lucia Page learns Barton’s innocence as healing love prevails.
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Gertrude Mary Sheridan
Mort Davis
Eugene Marcy
Ralph Barton
Davis
Marcy
Lucia Page
Lucia
Barton
Tie
Doctor Barton
Judge Marcy
Ralph
The Counterfeiter in a Small Town Mystery
A retired professional man in a town exhibits odd behavior and selects Lucia as the prettiest girl. He disappears at night, carries a secret satchel, and leaves for days. A detective is hired after a trunk with counterfeit material is found. The detective vows to trail the suspect to his lair and investigates the upstairs study.
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Lucia
Marcy
Davis
Barton Place
Cameo Carving as a Fascinating New York Hobby
Cameo carving remains popular in New York as a costly yet engaging hobby. Amateur craftsmen work at a pedal driven wheel using dentist like needles and tiny drills, carving stone or shell with careful, nerve tense focus.
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New York
Fish Stings Bathers Amid Warm Coastal Waters
Beach hospital surgeons treated scores of bathers for bites from the Portuguese man o war a small jellyfish. The stinging tail causes painful swelling but wounds are not dangerous. Lifeguards say this is the first appearance in years and attribute it to unusually warm water since June. Atlantic City correspondent.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Tortured Forty Days That Water Saved A Chicagoan
John Robertson, nineteen fifty, escaped Kankakee State Hospital life after forty days of near star vation. A single hourly drip from a rusty pipe kept him alive as guards hunted him through abandoned buildings. He later was found in a basement by workmen and survived his ordeal.
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Kankakee
John Robertson
Chicago
Kankakee State Hospital
Robertson
Companion George Banks: 115-year-old Bangor recluse in dirty log cabin
A Bangor Michigan man identified as George Banks is said to be about 115 years old, born circa 1798. He lived as a former slave who escaped before the Civil War and later served in the Union army. He has avoided modern health norms while relying on a simple diet and a granddaughter caretaker.
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Bangor
Mich
George Banks
George
Kentucky
Darkey
President Wilson
Napoleon
Thomas
Adison
G. A. Smeeman
Grand Rapids
Smeeman
Man recounts digging his own grave under firing squad
El Paso report tells of Maj. C. H. Echagary a California born Mexican and follower of Madero who was held incomunicado for three months in Chihuahua City prison as a Villa spy. He was taken at midnight to a lonely burying ground and forced to dig his own grave before facing a firing squad and surviving the ordeal.
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el Paso
Juarez
Chihuahua
Echagaray
Tex
Orozco
Madero
Mexico
C. H. Echagary
Chihuahua City
Villa
Rodents Cause Wide Power Outage Across Southern Utilities
A mouse and rat chewed a switch at Memphis Consolidated Gas and Electric, cutting power for 45 minutes and knocking out 5600 telegraph offices across Nashville Memphis Texarkana Cairo and New Orleans. Twenty five workers traced the fault over 11 miles of cables until an oil box revealed the remains. Power returned within minutes.
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Memphis
Tenn
Memphis Consolidated Gas and Electric Company
Nashville
Texarkana
Ark
Cairo
New Orleans
Then She Woke Up Funeral Arrangements Courted in Sorrow
Mary Everhart an aged Greenville resident awoke from a trance to find her family arranging funeral details with an undertaker as grief gripped the household.
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Greenville
Mary Everhart
Paris Apache Captured by American Woman
In Paris an infamous tourist mugger known as an Apache was pursued and caught by Mrs. Ford Thompson of St. Louis after he stole her pocketbook. The capture ended his threat to tourists.
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Paris
Ford Thompson
St. Louis
Child Sight Loss from Pebble Eye Petrifaction
Grand Rapids experts investigate Benjamin Wood a thirteen year old whose eyes are petrifying leaving him increasingly blind. Oculists report the boy’s corneas and lenses hardening as doctors search for a cure.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Benjamin Wood
Regular Flock Announces Weddings in New Brunswick
Miss Lilliart Wildgoose and brothers and sisters Robert Andrew and Herbert Wildgoose announce forthcoming weddings in New Brunswick New Jersey with details of engagement and wedding plans for the family.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Miss Lilliart Wildgoose
Robert Wildgoose
Andrew Wildgoose
Herbert Wildgoose
Oysters Cookery Notes With Brown Sauce and Escalloped Dish
Practical oyster cooking guidance covers broiled oysters with brown sauce and bouillon, panned oysters on toast, and escalloped oysters. It includes handling tips, a warning about water disposal, and a Josh Billings quote on cheerful living and luxuries.
Dishes Worth Trying From Old Time Pantry
A collection of home cookery tips and recipes including gravy from roast pan fat, a cake from bread sponge, cucumber salad with sou cream, Ever Ready pie crust, popcorn wafers with frosting, and a pork fruit cake with spices. The cake notes it improves with age and is best after three months.
Dream-Lion reference and a night terror image
The Vienna professor notes dreams as wish fulfilment. The passage recalls a childlike nightmare where a ferocious lion chases, the legs weaken, and the dreamer wakes with a scream as others in the house stir.
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Vienna
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W. G. Chapman
Michigan
Bangor, Mich
Josh Billings
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