Substitution of lodgers in a Warren London house
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a Mrs. Warren lodging house where a lodger with a mysterious female companion communicates via a coded newspaper column. A staged discovery and a violent abduction attempt follow, hinting at a dangerous, hidden relationship and a broader plot.
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London
Daily Gazette
Prince’s
Jimmy
Brixton
Watson
Warren
Mrs. Warren
Holmes
Tenta
Bible and Tract Society promotes new crisis book
The broadside extols a forthcoming book titled The MRAIN AGH and the Age of ENLIGHTENMENT. It claims looming global unrest demand explanation and urges readers to send 35 cents to 17 Elicks Street, Brooklyn, NY for the scripture and tract offer.
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Honest Heart
Bible and Tract Society
Elicks Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Thieves and Their Feet in a New York Times Style
A city missionary who meets thieves notes their reliance on chiropodists. They admit time and money spent on foot care and comfortable shoes to stay effective in their dark work. The piece uses irony about foot health enabling successful crime.
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Es-Burdar
New Yours
It Was His
A boy recounts how a playmate choked on a marblelike candy and was helped when others pushed it down. The mother asks if he spat it out. the boy replies that they shoved it down, with the misadventure attributed to the child.
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Edmesa
Adel
Mrs. Warren
Awvatcon
Warren
Lolmes
Watson
Harper’s Weekly
How She Loved Him Quarrels Over Tombstones
A quarrelsome couple exhausts subjects and debates their future tombstone. The husband asks what stone he will get when he dies. The wife answer Brimstone. St Louis Republic.
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Brimstone
St Louis Republic
Painful bills and dentistry tease in Chicago Tribune
A light exchange plays on dental pain versus paying bills with Mrs Brooks and Mrs Rivers joking about what hurts most. The Chicago Tribune frame adds a humorous household vignette.
Compensation. First Chicago Dame People take shorter wedding trips
Life notes that First Chicago Dame People now take shorter wedding trips than in the past while second Chicago Dame remarks they may still travel more often.
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Chicago
Dame
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