Theatre of clues in a racing room murder mystery
Vance probes Miss Graem about Swift's death noting a hidden den phone link and a disused buzzer. He links motive access and opportunity, presses for frank answers, and hints at a planned, staged crime as he tightens the watch on Zalia Graem.
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Vance
Garden
Zalia
Weill
Madge
Father
iVance
Iway
Swift
Hannix
Wall Street
Woody
Good Samaritan
Hammier
Hammie
Hammile
Zalia Graem
Hammle
Long Island
Graem
Zave Graem
Rivermont
Professor Garden
Scoobs the Pekes and the Royal Kennel Show
A tale of Blue Boy the Great Dane leaving for a restaurant Armenian and a tiny Pekinese named Scoobs. The narrator notes Scoobs grows on him, debunks show dog bias, and visits a royal dog show finding Pekes priced high and dominated by showy standards.
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Blue Boy
Figueroa Street
La Salle's Griffon sails Great Lakes mystery
La Salle's Griffon, a sixty ton two masted ar moored square rigged vessel, was launched April 1679 at Cayuga Creek. She sailed to Green Bay with furs then headed for Niagara where a storm swamped her and she vanished. Explorations later probed wrecks on Manitoulin Island and other lake sites.
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la Salle
Great Lakes
Cayuga Creek
Niagara’ River
Detroit News
Green Bay
Niagara
Manitoulin Island
Tricky Quiz Answers From A Mixed List Of Facts
A set of questions and answers covers topics from magic incantations and antitoxins to geography and history. Key items include Crete as lab labyrinth location, cow catcher as locomotive pilot, Holy Week before Easter, Japan north of the Philippines, irascible meaning prone to anger, Wilhelm I as modern Germany’s first emperor, and the Bahamas as the southeastern British island group.
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Japan
Philippines
Germany
United States
Florida
Crete
North
Wilhelm I
The
Virgin Islands
Denmark
Arnold Bennett
Bahamas
Chinese Foot Binding Persisting After Three Decades
In Hankow the practice of bound feet remains a national curse half a century on, with about ninety percent of women over thirty still shaving and shaping their feet. The column notes the pain and social pressure surrounding the custom and a long-running crusade against it.
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Lily
China
Hankow
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