A Study in Scarlet Chapter II Continues with Holmes
In a London carriage chase, Sherlock Holmes demonstrates practical deduction as he explains how observation and the history of crime guide him. He reveals his consulting detective role, critiques Dupin, and deciphers clues from a commissionaire’s note about a murder at 3 Lauriston Gardens.
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Afghanistan
Tropics
Edgar Allen Poe
Dupin
Week in Review Highlights From Across the World
Whitelaw Reid returns as special ambassador to Great Britain. Shenandoah collieries may reopen under troop protection. A Chicago woman arrested for starving nine infants to death. Striking coal miners condemn incompetent supervisors. Santa Fe grants wage increases to carmen. US seeks a west coast coaling station. Press censorship tight in Russia after minister’s assassination. Terre Haute collision kills three, injures many. Jamaica talks annexation with the United States. Robbers bind a man on a fishing boat, steal 400. Vatican plans gradual withdrawal of friars from the Philippines. Salt Lake mining man fatally shoots two, then kills himself. Jessie Benning sold to Colombia for 68000. Troops stay in Shenandoah until strike ends. Secret Filipino group rooted out by constabulary. Brooklyn returns with Lord Pauncefote remains. Coal mine explosion in New South Wales kills 100+. Exposition Company expands land for St Louis fair. Costa Rica tidal wave follows earthquakes, causes damage. Cholera spreading rapidly in Manchuria. Harry Tracy sighted near Wenatchee, then heads south. Navy extends seven submarines completion to seven months. Pittsburg fire destroys over 318 thousand dollars in property. King Edward walks on his yacht deck. German gunboat Panther ordered to Caribbean. Shenandoah policeman beaten by strikers. Native unrest in Portuguese West Africa feared. Riots in France easing. religious question may settle. New York subway explosion injures four. Peru urges canal readiness to gain Panama benefits. Illinois battleship in drydock for damage. German inventor exposes wireless telephone.
Ministers Welcome Criticism After First Sermon Tale
A North London minister recalling the "Pulpit and Pew" question notes ministers crave criticism yet receive little. He recounts a young minister's walk with an elder after his first sermon. After a pause the elder says you were not long. The youth replies it was tedious. The elder bluntly answers you were tedious.
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Westminster Gazette
Hair Apparent Crown Prints From Ancient Dinner
An amusing exchange between Damocles and the King of Syracuse is cited, illustrating ancient humor under danger. The tale emphasizes the hanging sword as a symbol of peril even in courtly banter, with Dionysius replying that a fallen blade would leave a crown print on Damocles.
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New York Times
Vanishing Sectional Lines Spark Corporate Fears
Puck voices concern that sectional loyalties fade as talk grows of forming a corporation large enough to own the entire country. The quip frames a warning about national fragmentation and centralized power.
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Puck
World domes measured by interior diameters
The Warsaw Lutheran church features the largest dome with an interior diameter of 200 feet. The British Museum Library dome follows with a 130 feet interior diameter.
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Warsaw
British Museum
On the Move They Have Two Servants
The Philadelphia item notes a remark about household staff with two servants, contrasting two in their house one going and one coming. The quotation implies a discussion of servants and domestic life in a social context.
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Philadelphia
Children’s Day at Portland Elkes Carnival Sept 12
Children’s Day at the Portland Elkes Carnival is planned for September 12 the last full day of the street fair. A Shetland pony with an ap tedate cart and harness will be given to a present child donated by Dr W A Wire and from Studebaker’s. A saddle and embroidered saddle cloth may accompany the pony. Prize baby day is September 5. Captain M I Smith, the man who stretched wires across Wisconsin, still lives in Topeka Kansas. Chicago chemists claim a wallpaper strengthening process to aid the industry. John D Rockefeller is the largest stockholder in United States Steel Company with a $1,000,000 annual dividend, not Andrew Carnegie.
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John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
O R N Contract Awarded for Snake River Line
Wren and Greenough win the contract to build the O R N line along the north bank of the Snake River from Riparia to Lewiston. Work starts at once and must finish by April 15 next year, including 78 miles of grading and a 10,000 foot river bridge at Lewiston. Northern Pacific will jointly use the line to Wallula Junction.
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Almota
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Trinidad Deputation to London Seeks Sugar Estate Relief
A Trinidad deputation to London will press the Colonial Office on the island’s financial strain. The group, including legislative council members and the chamber of commerce president, argues the 4000 pound immigration tax refund is inadequate as sugar crops yield about 50000 pounds yet planters face ongoing losses and may release 50000 workers to the government. They warn that under American rule, sugar estates could profit like Porto Rico.
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Porto Rico
Battle in Agua Dulce Panama Described as Desperate
Washington reports from General Salazar, governor of Panama, saying the battle at Agua Dulce continues fiercely. Government forces about 7000 face revolutionaries totaling around 4000 in the department of Panama. Agua Dulce lies about 70 miles from Panama City and is hard to reach by land or water.
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Agua Dulce
Panama
Problems Loom In Cuba After U S Departure
Washington reports from Havana describe a sharp drop in revenue since U S withdrawal. Daily receipts barely reach five thousand dollars as the new republic cuts expenses, provoking discontent over reduced salaries and concerns about officer competence.
Manila relief plan tied to Taft Vatican talks
The War Department has no confirmation from Rome on Spanish friars in Manila being relieved. It is said such a move would advance Secretary Root's plan presented to the Vatican by Governor Taft, and would simplify negotiations to be renewed at Manila.
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Growth and Happenings Across Oregon Industries Markets
Commercial and financial review notes wheat arrivals in Portland first 1902 car, a 15 percent fall in Umatilla county yields, and multiple small fires in Eastern Oregon. It reports heavy Lower Columbia fish runs, school enrollment gains, Elks carnival plans, and Southern Pacific fire protection timber holdings. Also covered are prison escape suspect sightings, mine tunnel collapse, legal appeals, pulp mill construction to 20 000 pounds daily, veteran reunions, new post offices, dredge profits, timber claims protection, a northern coal prospect near Asbestos, and several post office relocations in Wheeler Gilliam and Klamath counties.
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Seismic Fury Hits Los Alamos California Town
Tremors shake Los Alamos California for four days driving residents from the Pacific coast rail town between Santa Ynez and Santa Maria. The August 2 report describes chimneys falling walls cracking and massive ground shifts with no injuries and damages under ten thousand dollars.
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Market Prices and miscellaneous notices from Wheat-Wailla
The article lists current prices for wheat, barley, flour, mill products, oats, hay, potatoes, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, matton, hogs, veal, beef, hops, and wool across several regions and grades. It also notes Yale University awarding degrees to 650 graduates, plans for a Chinese volunteer mission, a Chicago dispatch on a bituminous miners strike, and the will of Rev. F A Hoffman with an estate valued between 12 000 and 16 000 dollars.
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Oregon
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Soldiers Idle as Troops Camp Over Shenandoah Hill
Twelve hundred state troops encamp on a hill near Shenandoah while riot violence subsides. In town, calm returns after last night's clash as unemployed crowds gather to watch the militia. Brigadier General Gobin leads the forces and the camp overlooks the town, which resumes normal life.
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French General Pistor greets Elihu Root on Savoie arrival
Havre August 2 General Pistor of the French army boarded the steam ship Savoie and officially greeted Elihu Root the American secretary of war on behalf of the French government Root thanked General Pistor He then proceeded to Paris accompanying General Horace Porter US ambassador to France and General Leonard Wood who arrived on the Savoie with Secretary Root
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Savoie
Elihu Root
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Paris
Horace Porter
United States
France
Leonard Wood
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Russian troop withdrawal ordered from Manchuria amid raids
A Daily Mail dispatch from St. Petersburg reports Russia ordering troops to withdraw from Manchuria as Chinese bands overrun the area. Looting caravans and shipments occur while the correspondent notes two Russian merchants in Manchuria were burned alive.
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St. Petersburg
Daily Mail
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