Mystery of the locked room death at Coe estate unfolds
Detective Markham and Vance examine Archer Coe’s scene finding a bolted door, an undisturbed room, and a death that defies a simple self-inflicted gunshot. Vance notes footwear incongruities and an interrupted note page, suggesting an unseen event occurred before Coe’s death. Doctor Doremus arrives to determine if the death was suicide or murder.
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Cee
Vance
Wrede
Grassi
Markham
Gamble
Heath
Hennessey
Doremus
Coe
Dee
Doc Doremus
Doctor Doremus
Hsiung Yuan-p’ien
Que
Ife
Morning intruder shakes mystery at Lake manor
Miss Hilda Lake bursts into the room after a body is found. Markham Heath and I confront her as she pleads for answers while we await the medical examiner. The scene ends with Archer Coe's corpse and a tense standoff at dawn.
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Gamble
Liang
Miss Lake
Markham
Heath
Miss Hilda Lake
Archer Coe
Relief Costs Rise as Winter Approaches
Federal relief chief Harry Hopkins projects an average $23 a month per family on public relief, with higher costs in southern industrial centers. The piece examines welfare strains, suspected waste, and calls for trimming parasitism while forecasting possible riots and a harsher relief program. It also previews Supreme Court hearings on New Deal actions and Wisconsin political maneuvers surrounding the LaFollette family.
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Washington
Federal Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Uncle Sam
Dopkins
Relief Administration
England
Zones of peace between man and animals across history
A Science Service summary notes zones of peace where humans and wildlife coexisted. It cites Tibetan restrictions on fear, a lone Alaskan island archeologist’s fox and birds near a tent, and Smithsonian anthropologist Dr. Wal ter Hough arguing that early man formed friendly bonds with animals in Central Asia.
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Science Service
Tibet
Alaska
Walter Hough
Smithsonian Institution
Scientific Monthly
Hough
Central Asia
Doctor Hough
Philo Vance Investigates Archer Coe Death Suspected Self Harm
The crime solver Philo Vance is brought in to probe the case of Archer Coe whose death is suspected to be self inflicted. The case centers on whether Coe died by his own hand or foul play.
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Congress
Washington
Taxpayers
Taxpayers’ Group
United States
Treasuries
Philo Vance
Archer Coe
S.S.S
Postum offers free week long supply in ad
The Postum Company pledges a full week's supply of Postum health drink free to anyone who writes for it as seen in an advertisement.
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Postum Company
Got Her Lock of Hair but Not Paderewski
Paderewski refuses to share personal hair samples with autograph seekers. A society woman sent a request through his private car window asking for a lock of hair, prompting a witty reply from his secretary about supplying strands from staff and even the cat to avoid disappointment.
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Paderewski
America
M. Paderewski
Peacekeeping Costs Compared to War Efforts
A dated aphorism argues it is cheaper to maintain peace now than to pursue conflict later, reflecting on long term financial and human costs of upheaval over diplomatic steadiness.
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Vesce
Clothea
Mase
van Dine
Van.u. Service
William Bruckart
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
NRA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Wisconsin
John B. Chapelle
John J. Blaine
Callahan
Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
South
Ku Klux Klan
Georgia
Senate
LaFollette
Western Newspaper Union
Jes OF Peace
Idifta
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