A Debt Discharged From a London Mystery Plot
In Green Park at eight thirty the pursuit of Comstock Bell's marriage problem heats up as Helder tracks Gold toward a nine o'clock ceremony at Marylebone Parish Church. Plans to depart for the continent collide with detective attention and a looming arrest on a tangled web of wealth and loyalty.
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Green Park
Comstock Bell
Helder
Marylebone
Gold
Great Central
London
Verity
Maple
Bell
Marryig
Grey Park
Hasits
Big Ben
Cornelius Hilder
Hever
Ike
Comstock
Prouf
Salt Rheum Hand Cure Demonstrated in Boynton Letter
Charlo Suretta of June 6 1913 describes years of salt rheum on her hand causing cracking and pain. After hot water washing and long wrapping with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment she reports healing in about a week. Sample offer from Potter Drug & Corp appears at end of letter.
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Gide
Charlo Suretta
Arugsista
Potter Drug & ‘Corp
Dept. D
Boston
Marriage of Convenience in a London Morning
Comstock Bell plans a loveless marriage to a woman he does not love, aiming to secure status while Gold the detective watches. The couple travel from Gravesend to a church for a quiet wedding as the day begins in London.
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Pactiot
Helder
Gold
Metropolitan Police Code
Comstock Bell
Fei
Great Central Hotel
Paris
Munich
Vienna
Budapest
Comstock
Cota
Bell
Lauder
Sandview Cottage
Gravesend
London
Beginning of one of London’s mysteries and other notes
The article blends a wedding scene as Comstock Bell and his partner exit the vestry with brief glimpses of public affairs. It mentions a London mystery, a peat fuel study by Canada's government, and a humorous exchange about christening a child named Reginald Claude.
New Life Found in Change to Right Food
An eastern woman and her young son describe relief from sour stomach after fifteen months of dyspepsia using Grape-Nuts. They say heavy food caused issues, but after starting Grape-Nuts they regained energy, weight, and health, with daily meals and improved sleep.
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Elief
Poy
Wintner
Wellville
When We Rise to Our Best in Crisis Times
A meditation on latent human potential when danger and duty call. Ordinary people reveal courage as leaders, workers, and guards become heroes. rush and panic fade as resolve shapes action, echoing Kiplingesque sacrifice and communal responsibility.
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Kipling
Mily
Novelty ad describes German newspaper wrapping print
A quirky note describes Eberswalde papers printed on one side to serve as wrapping, doubling in size twice weekly. It mocks remedies for catarrh and touts Cheney and Co patent medicines with exaggerated cures and price claims.
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Eberswalde
Berlin
Fed
Cheney. & Co
Boc Pam
Avatem
Cheney & Coy Tor Lego
Druggsts
Venus Rokeby Venus Reopened After Damage Repair
The Rokeby Venus in the British National Gallery has been skillfully repaired after a slash by a suffragist assault. The painting is now reopened to accredited art students and the public, with attention drawn to the restoration’s effectiveness.
German Teacher Grades and Grandson Gradence
A fragmentary dialogue recalls a German teacher asking a pupil about languages learned and grades. The scene touches on a nephew's graduation and a German mentor's pride as the boy recounts study in Greek Latin German and algebra with a terse exchange about seasons.
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Wilkes-Barre
Great Britain’s Liquor Bill Shows Rising Excise Receipts
The United Kingdom Alliance notes a rise in annual drink expenditure to about £167,000 in 1913, a five million increase over earlier figures, reflecting economic prosperity rather than a drop in temperance. The Daily Mail links heavy drinking to food trade and calculates per-capita costs for working-class families, excluding abstainers and under 18s.
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United Kingdom Alliance Temperance Organization
The
Daily Mail
Iquor
Chiildren
Baby's Own Treasure Tablets Promised Quick Relief
A vintage advertisement extols Baby's Own Tablets as a swift cure for common childhood ailments including constipation. A Quebec mother lauds the remedy for her sick infant and credits it with restoring health, while the product is sold by medicine dealers or The Wm Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario for 25 cents per box.
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Chile
Fiaby
Dominique Ferlind
Michel
Que
Wr. Williams
Medicine Co
Brockville ‘Ont
Wright and a Dayton student dream of aero plane futures
A Chicago physician congratulates Orville Wright on a new stabilizer while Wright jokes about the future. A Dayton medical student laments, and two students discuss career paths, one joking he will specialize in aero plane accidents for a bright future.
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Chicago
Orville Wright
Mr. Wright
Dayton
St. Louis Globe-_ ‘Democrat
Motive Worm Exterminator and Bent on Better Health
Mutue tells Boreman he walked yesterday and collapsed at Busyman's desk. Busyman advises another walk as medicine for a child troubled with worms. Graves' Worm Exterminator is praised as safe for children and allows them to do as they please. A bibulous husband delays pay and a wife waits at the police station, hoping for his arrival.
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Boreman
Busyman
Motfi Graves
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Department of Mines
Canada
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New Mexic
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Jones
Brown
Reginald Claude
Cogna
Japan
Island Kingdom
Vancouver Province
Toway
Ottawa
Journal
Willie
Liniment
Neras Station
J Root
St. Pan
France
Eddy’s Fibrewar
Sritain's Liquor Bile
Prof
Cecil F. LA
Formeny
Teacher's College
Dumbia University
Newar
Ohio State Univere
Columbus
Ohio
Minada
Walmer Road
Teron
Hilcrest
Aquitania
Lusitania
Mauretan
Avery Beliway
Steamauip
Ager
Nellie
Sydney Bulletin
Dr. Pierce
W. M. Pierce
Buffaloy
de. Pierce
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