The Will and the Golden Ounces Mystery
Don Carlos, a bookseller, witnesses a dying testator’s will in a Spanish house and learns of a murder plot. After the man dies a dagger strikes the heart, but locals claim the master wished burial to be avoided alive. Don Carlos later recovers from shock, retrieves twenty golden ounces as a fee, and follows clues to uncover a web linking a lawyer Don Pedro Altare and a mysterious visitor named Orozco.
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Don Carlos
Don Carlos Baltasar
Senor
Herbert Spencer
Draper
Santa Teresa
Valdes
Pate
Amico
Philip
Monteslegre Street
Puebla
Pedro Alaterre
la Iustracion Espanola
Orozco
Terence
Mystery of Olmedo Street Reveals Immersive Past
The narrator contemplates a life between two eras as Don Carlos Baltasar endures a feeble, dreamy state after a remote voyage. He grows fond of the book-seller friend who proves appearances can deceive, while Mexico City dims and prodigious events seem possible. The tale hints at a transformed woman and a vanished snuff seller.
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Don Carlos Baltasar
Mexico
Olmedo Street
Don Carlos
Boston Herald
Dangerous fire at Academy of Music and nearby shops
A morning blaze in the Academy of Music basement on Liberty Street spread to Carr Brothers restaurant and Cammilli’s fruit stand. Firemen from two alarms, with Inspector McAleese and Captain Unterbaum directing, fought for two hours. substantial property losses expected but repairs under way. Williams and Swindell reported insured and uninsured losses. Carr Brothers covered by $5,000 policy. The building owner, Colonel E. J. Allen, carries $24,000 in various local policies. Repairs and exhibition shifts planned as fire damages trigger temporary moves to the Grand Central Rink.
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L. J. Swindell
Academy of Music
Liberty Street
Carr Brothers
Cammilli
Academy
McAleese
Unterbaum
Williams
Grand Central Rink
J. Allen
Boatman’s
People's
Union
Trimble
Official Pittsburg street opening viewers report for Chislett street
Viewers of street improvements in Pittsburg report after legal proceedings that no owner is damaged by opening Chislett street from Witherspoon to Greenwood. They calculated costs and assessed charges on benefited properties, with plan, notices, and printing costs totaling $1370.
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Cr.s
Mary Ogden
Owe C. Faber
Eees
J. Hare
W. Bauer
Hugh Gallagher
James M. Cook
A. Leonhanuser
D. Z. Bickel
Opening of Poe alley damages report Pittsburg council
The report of viewers appointed under an 1889 street act assesses costs for opening Poe alley from McCandless to Fifty second streets. It finds no owner sustained damage. costs are charged to benefited properties with detailed per-property amounts and notices already given.
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Summerslea Street
Walnut Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
City of
Pittsboro
Court of Common Pleas
Alleghey County
Summersea Street
Pittsburg
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Board of Viewers
Gallatin Street
Witherspoon Street
Allegheny County
Assembly
Chislett Street
Pitsburg
Maret
Pittbourg
Secon
South Twenty-ninth Street
East Carsor Street
Sarah Street
City of Bcard
Allerheny County
East
Carson Street
McCandless Street
Fifty-second Street
Bigelow Street
Sylvan Avenue
Kealcher Street
Court of Common Press
Biiean Avenue
Kearcher
Duncan Street
Fifty_ second atreet
McCardless Street
Semple Street
Frazier Too
Boquet Street
Frazier Street
Duff Street
Wylie Avenue
Webster Avenue
Wyite Avenue
Pat
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Renfrew Street
Achilles Street
Lincoln Avenue
City of Pittsby
Allerbeny County
Pittsba
Two Canadian Girls Die in Village Murder
In Cumberland Ontario on October 9 Marr and Eliza McGonigie aged 14 and 12 were attacked after leaving school while being followed by Narcisse Lorocque. The bodies were found by villagers, both girls were assaulted and murdered, Lorocque is under arrest on suspicion.
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Cumberland
Ont
Marr
Eliza McGonigie
James McGonigie
Narcisse Lorocque
Lorocque
Sacasa Reelected President of Nicaragua for Term
Roberto Sacasa has been re-elected by an overwhelming majority to a four year term after four days of polling following the death of Evaristo Carillo in August 1889.
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San Juan Dew. Sur
Roberto Sacasa
Nicaragua
Evaristo Caralo
Pullman Wins Exclusive Vestibule Use Suit in Boston
Chicago dispatch notes Mr. Pullman secured exclusive use of the vestibule in his unit against the Boston and Albany road, eliminating the Wagner interests. The item then endorses Syrup of Figs for kidneys liver and bowels, promoting 0c and 61 bottle sales through druggists.
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Chicago
Pullman
Boston
Albany
Wagner
Campsnett and Dick offers coats and dresses at one price
The largest and finest city store showcases ladies jackets misses jackets and made-up dresses for women and children. A wide range of jackets wraps and dresses with latest styles and best value. Prices from 2 to 250 dollars.
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Campsnett & Dick
Hardy & Hayes Art Rooms Show Natural Gas Cut Glass
Visit Hardy & Hayes at 529 Smithfield Street to see crystal glass products made from natural gas. The new building showcases the largest collection with many patterns and the purest crystal, three doors below City Hall and diagonally opposite Hotel Duquesne.
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Hardy & Hayes
City Hall
Hotel Duquesne
Hardy & Uhayes
Art Deasers
Smithfield Street
Unique Catalogue Offer At A. G. Campane & Sons Big Store
Black only items priced with low quantities and bulk lots. Small knees and feet listed at 500, another lot 25 dozen double knees and feet also 500, with values of 1 and 125. The message invites friends and the public to visit the Big Store for comfort without sales pressure and to obtain one of the catalogues by calling or sending in.
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A. G. Campane. & Sons
Fifth Ave
Hosiery Stock At Rosenbaum Overcoats Store
New fall stock of cotton woolen and lisle hosiery offered from 12 1 to 20 cents per pair. See at Rosenbaum & Co s Overcoats located at 434 Wood Street offering fall and winter overcoats.
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Rosenbaum & Co
Wood Street
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