The Red Room Mystery Unfolds At Halliday Hotel
Holmes and Gregson close in on the Stangerson murder case as Lestrade arrives with crucial clues. A milkboy witnesses a tall man with a reddish face at Halliday's Private Hotel, where Stangerson lay dead from a deep knife wound and a telegram to J. H. in la Furone is found.
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Holmes
Gregson
Drebber
Lestrade
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Lestrade
Joseph Stangerson
Halliday
Stangerson
Cleveland
J. H
la Furone
Holme
Comriete
Intelligence and mystery deepen in chilling study scene
Lestrade recounts a fresh intelligence from Stangerson’s room as Holmes Greyson and Lestrade converge in a wartime like council. Drebber’s secretary disappearance and a night pursuit around Eneton Station lead to ships in Liverpool.
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Gresnon
Sherlock Holmes
Stangerson
Greyson
Holmes
Eneton Station
Drebber
Brixton Road
Liverpool
Eunton
Holmes Solves Poisoned Pills Mystery in Terrier Case
Holmes deduces two pills with one deadly poison and one harmless. The dog’s death confirms his theory that a single crew altered the crime, transforming a baffling case into a solvable mystery. Forensic reasoning and patience drive the conclusion.
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Holmes
Drubber
Stangerton
Sherlock Holmes
Notable European Trends and World Facts Summarized
A compilation notes Europe deaths from consumption exceeding a million yearly and 587 distinct languages spoken. It cites Turkish murder prosecutions, a Canada to Vancouver rail line, Santa Barbara orchard size, heat from daily labor, Lord Kelvin honors, shifts in immigration to America, and declines in American and Scottish whaling fleets.
Coal miners return to work and storm losses loom
The year 1905 headlines report West Virginia coal miners back at work after strikes, storm damage across England Ireland and Wales, Martinique peril, and a fatal Central Railroad wreck with 1 dead. Roosevelt tours the south and Kansas City visit slated for Sept 20.
Fire on Crete-Pierrot as German detachment fires on ship
The Crete-Pierrot in Gon sives harbor was set ablaze by its own crew before leaving. A German detachment aboard a small boat, with one officer and 20 sailors, arrived near the vessel about 20 yards away and fired about 30 shots before it burned and sank. Port au Prince remains calm as soldiers prepare to march on St. Mare amid political tension.
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Crete
Pierrot
Gonsives
Pussane Gullent
Crete- Pierrot
Panther
St. Mare
Port Au Prince
Souffriere Eruption Triggers Exodus From St Vincent
Advice from St Vincent reports an exodus from Georgetown and Chateau Bellair as La Souffriere erupted. Sounds and electrical discharges were heard from 7:30 AM to 4 AM with dust and rumblings. No deaths yet. heavy sand fall may have damaged arrowroot crops and disrupted life.
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St. Thomas
Close of Seventeenth Week of Anthracite Miners' Strike
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on September 9 with week 18 of the miners strike underway both sides claim progress. Operators report weekly coal output higher than any week since the strike began while miners say big companies fail to resume mining. Strike leaders admit washers are producing coal but call total output a mere drop in the bucket. President Mitchell affirms miners remain determined and rejects any talk of returning to work as unfounded.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
Cook County Real Estate Valuation Rises in 1902
Cook County total real estate value reaches 1 488 749 810 with Chicago city at 1 382 556 875 and county outside Chicago at 106 192 935. The board of review notes an overall increase from 1901 with Chicago showing major gains and a 17 265 777 rise in the assessed valuation from last year.
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Chicago
Cook County
Board of Review
Secret sessions mold Cuban loan and lottery plan
Havana reports the house debates a $35 000 000 loan and possible internal revenue tax to meet it. A lottery proposal gains support while others prefer tax funding. Senate has not confirmed Rafael Monterro as Cuban minister to Great Britain as press favors.
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House of Representatives
House
Senate
Rafael Montero
Great Britain
Four Hours Battle Fought In Venexuela Uprising
United States minister at Caracas Mr Bowen telegraphed the State Department reporting four hour battle on the mountain behind the American station. Government troops routed the revolutionists in Venexuela.
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Mr. Bowen
United States
Caracas
Hee
Department of State
Oregon News Roundup From Troutdale To The Dalles
Free rural delivery starts from Troutdale. large fruit shipments from The Dalles to cities. Prineville planing mill destroyed by fire with tools lost. Clatsop county mulls funding a new courthouse and jail. Pheasants scarcer due to hunting last fall and wet spring. The Sanquest mine in Baker county sells for $50,000. Real estate firms in Eugene form an exchange to boost East advertising. Captain Sames Bags dies in Whatcom at 71. long political prominence.
Wheat and farm product prices from the Walla Walla region
Market quotes show wheat at 60 61c for blue stem and 62 63c for another grade in the valley, barley at 19.00 per ton, flour best grades at 3.50 per barrel, and various grains and hay prices. Dairy, eggs, cheese, beef, veal, and wool quotes accompany regional farm price listings.
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Valley
Graham
Oregon
Wool— Valley
Mount Pelee Eruption Threatens Guadeloupe Island
Paris reports from Point-a-Pitre Guadeloupe indicate Mount Pelee may erupt with deadly force as dark clouds rise south toward Martinique. Evacuation orders urged and relief supplies moved to the south while officials set up lookout posts to report further eruptions and safeguard inhabitants.
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Paris
New York
Point-a-Pitre
Guadeloupe
French West Indies
Martinique
Paneilipanns Wace
Violent detonations heard in Carupano Venezuela
A Figaro correspondent reports in Carupano Venezuela that from 10 PM September 3 to 3 AM September 4 loud detonations were heard in the night, sounding similar to the August 30 volcanic eruption on Martinique.
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Venezecla
Carupano
Venezoela
The
Figaro
Martinique
Miners End West Virginia Strike Calls Return to Work
Huntington West Virginia September 6 coal strike along the Norfolk and Western railroad ends as United Mineworkers urge miners to return to work before winter. Strikers in New River Kanawha fields expected to follow. Pocahontas mine burnout to be controlled soon.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Norfolk & Western
United
New River
Kanawha
Pocahontas
International Banc and Trust Company of American
The proposed International Banc and Trust Company of American consolidates Mexican Trust Bank and the Corporation Trust to operate across Latin American states with a capital plan of 10 million dollars. The scheme outlines directors and governance structure for the new bank.
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Corporation Trust. Y
International Banc & Trust Company of American
Troop Movements From Manila Reach West Coast
The Fifteenth Infantry Regiment continues toward Monterey and San Francisco on a transport from Manila. The naval hospital ship Solace has been at sea 34 days and should reach the coast in about 16 days. The Buford, arriving after a Honolulu stop, is due September 9.
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San Francisco
Fifteenth Infantry Regiment
Manila
Seccess
Naval Hospital
Solace
Buford
Honolulu
Roosevelt and Cortelyou Recover From Accident Scars
President Roosevelt and Cortelyou have recovered from the effects of an accident. Lang, the president's physician, says marks on the president's face will disappear in about four days. Roosevelt is receiving many messages and letters about his scrape from serious injury.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Ry Cortelyou
Lang
Governor signals plan to end strike with arbitration law
Governor Stone told friends he plans to call an extra session to seek a compulsory arbitration law to resolve the strike. He believes the measure can be enacted in under 30 days and would require arbitration whether participants agree or refuse.
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Pla
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