The Dartmoor Detective Brendon Encounters a Moorland Mystery
Mark Brendon, a keen detective, visits Princetown on Dartmoor for rest and trout fishing. He meets a red moustached stranger near a quarry and later learns of a murder at Foggingtor. A distraught Mrs. Pendean asks Brendon for help, prompting a planned visit to Station Cottages.
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Ark Brendon
Marks
Dartmoor
Duchy
Princetown
Brendon
Mark
Big Aman
Rel
Brandon
Wil Blake
Boots
Duchy Hotel
Will Blake
Othe Hotel
Station Cottages
Providence
Jenny Pendean
Mark Brendei
Damo
Will
Germans to Work in Ruhr Under French Requisition
A late June dispatch from Düsseldorf reports France intends to requisition German labor to operate Ruhr Valley industries to pay reparations. A decree is to be issued soon, with penalties up to fifteen years for refusal and death for sabotage after court martial. The crisis grows as hours shrink and disputes flare between Berlin and Paris over indemnification and control measures.
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Bor
Dussseldert
Ruhr
Jalif
Berlin
Enderfield
Bertin
Mason Builders Yield In $12 A Day Bricklayers Pact
The bricklayers strike in New York, tying up construction valued at about $175,000,000, ended as the Mason Builders' Association agreed to a $12 daily wage for two years after talks with the Building Trades Employers' Association board. It was expected that construction activity stalled since May 21 would resume soon.
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Mason Builders
New York
Bricklayers
Mason Builders’ Association
Building Trades Employners’ Association
Birthplace of Napoleon Ajaccio Presented to France
The house in Ajaccio where Napoleon Bonaparte was born has been presented to the French nation by Prince Napoleon, marking a formal transfer of ownership for historic preservation.
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Ajaccio
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Millionaire Kills Burglar in Woodside Home
James A. Folger, heir to the Folger coffee fortune, shot and killed a burglar at the Woodside residence five miles southwest of Redwood City. The slain man’s pockets contained thousands in jewelry, part of loot stolen from Colonel D. C. Jackling’s Woodside country home on June 10.
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Redwood City
Cal
James A. Folger
Folger
Woodside
D. C. Jackling
Rain Saves Nine Men Fighting Fire Near Echo Lake
Nine firefighters along the Loen river near Echo Lake in Duluth were saved from death when heavy rain arrived. The crew endured minor burns while battling the blaze.
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Duluth
Minn
Loen River
Echo Lake
Family sets school attendance record at Passaic junior year
Jessie Skol kin completed junior year and has twelve years of perfect attendance by answering present every day since kindergarten. Her brothers Barney and Lee logged eleven and ten years respectively, highlighting a family with stellar school devotion. In Galveston, Tex a liquor ship’s first appearance was reported as captains noted a large steamship eight miles offshore and small boats shuttling to and from the vessel Park Trees. In Peru New York tent caterpillars threaten Central Park trees. Commissioner Gallatin urged emergency spraying and funds as a remedy.
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Passaic
N. J
Jessie, Skolkin
Barney
Lee
Galveston
Tex
Lquor
Calveston
Gulf
Peru
New York
Central Park
Gallatin
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Red Redmaynes
Tierfield
SWAT
Ores
Arret
Warn
Fogsintor
Bayt
Nealers
Dutley Company Inc
N.Y
Molla
Molla Madory
Europe
Crown
North Market St
The
News Job Printing Office
America
United States
Pennsylvania Rubber Company of America, Inc
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Vacuum Cup Tires
Frederick Tire Company
East Patrick St
Frederick, Md
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