Mystery at Monken Abbey Ends in Gothic Suspense
Edith Lascelles recounts tapping sounds at night and a ghostly window vision that unsettles the household. Van Hoeck investigates the estate layout, proving a narrow ledge and window access possible only by stealth, while Lola is suspected in a diamond plot involving Sir Edmund and Brace.
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Edith
Var Hoeck
Monken Abbey
Thorne
Sir Edmund
Miss Lascelles
van Hoeck
Lascelles
Lola
Wosd
Bir Edolund
Bruce
Miss Lescelle
Edmund
Brace
van Hoack
Wing
Race
Oriel
Miss Lasce
Handshake tale marks life and death in a moment
In a Connecticut murder case a story teller describes a decisive handshake between two men one facing imminent death and the other to kill him the gesture rendered as a silent exchange of fate. The tale frames a stark moment of human connection amid crime and punishment.
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Thor
Tia
Gaines
Washington
Relen
Inventor's airship concept rivals government competition in Philadelphia
Philadelphia inventor Harry B. Schiller proposes a combined aeroplane and balloon craft with rear propeller and extendable decks to enter a Washington competition. He plans a government funded series of trials at Fort Meade Virginia, detailing ballast water tubes and gas saving bags to improve high altitude operation.
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Harry B. Schiller
Philadelphia
Schiller
Fovernuoent
Washington
Fort Meade
S¢ 3 “Steb Add To the Serviceabilty of the Aero Atte
Wash
Rabbits for a Citys Poor Suggested by Kansas Man
R A Rogers of Seldon Kansas proposes the Salvation Army organize weekly carloads of rabbits. Railroads would supply a car and nearby residents kill rabbits, depots receive them on a designated day, load into a special car for the needy of the city. Major Arthur Cass of the Salvation Army backs the idea and will press railroads to adopt it.
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Kansas
Pilau R.A. Rogers
Selden
Kan
Salvation Army
Kansas City Star
Arthur Cass
The United Work of Society as a Whole
A passage extols a cooperative social system where all professions and roles from miners to tax collectors to merchants contribute to a grand, interconnected machine. It stresses mutual aid, shared benefits, and that even the poorest has a role within a planner driven by public agreement, praising Emile Souvestre’s vision.
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Stati
Hach
Former San Francisco Supervisor Dies at Home
Thomas F. Lonergen former member of the San Francisco board of supervisors collapses dead at his residence. He had confessed to accepting bribes from United Railroads the telephone company and other corporations.
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San Francisco
Thomas F. Lonergen
Board of Supervisors
United Railroads
The
Telephone Company
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Papa
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Trenton
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State Normal School
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National Biscuit Company
H. 8
Aero Auto
Galison
Cate
Bern
Adaul
Ciermauy
Uwanited
Vietor
Tle
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Singer
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