Guilty Motive Taints Creaking Gambler Lover Tale
In a dim house, Zenas Prall recounts a long tale of deception and debt to Paul, revealing Alma Hartshorne’s murder by an unseen assailant during a Red Cross ball. Prall, once entangled with Hartshorne, confesses a ruinous gambling life and a failed restitution plot, ending with his death at dawn after a final, frail confession to the investigator.
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Paul
Mra MacNab
Mr. Pratt
Margaret
Zenas
Fastopolis
Tm ‘A
Hartshorne
Amasy Ledyard
Greenbrier Springs
Wall Street
New York
Seastopolis
Heaven
Aorth
Bastopolis
Mrs. MacNab
Red Cross
Peneath
Zenas Prall
Mr. Prall
Eliminate the Rat Advertisement Preserved Damage Claims
A farmer reports rats destroying five hundred bushels of corn in one winter and stealing a summer’s hatch of chickens. Another notes grain and poultry losses matching tax burdens for three years. The notice promotes Schroeder’s Poison Wheat to kill rats and mice, with pricing and distributors listed.
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Rata
Ratn
Schroeder
Pattern Price Reduction Offer From Home Instructor
Otis Arnold of Quincy Illinois promotes reduced prices on fashion patterns and a subscription offer for Home Instructor magazine. He claims 400 illustrations in a Big Fashion Book and promises deep savings compared with store prices, urging readers to subscribe and share the deal.
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Medion
Evry
Fashion Journal
Pictures Today in Local Theaters Tonight
The page lists multiple showings across theaters including Gem Theater with Charles Chaplin in The Floor Walker at Savoy Leah Baird in The Volcano Emily Marguerite Clark in Girls and Ford Sterling in Hearts and Flowers at Princess Shirley Mason in Good Bye Bill and Bray pictograph at Princess Verdasco Belasco Geradine Farrar in The World and The Woman at Belasco Quincy Marie Walcamp in Tempest Cody Plays Detective at Quincy Hoot Gibson Josephine Hill in western Neal Burns in Babies is Babies at the Orpheum Corrine Griffith in The Climbers and vaudeville at Star Herbert Roy Wilson in Dangerous Affair at Star.
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Quincy
Marie Walcamp
Tempest Cody
Detective
Lym an Howes Travel Festival comes to Orpheum tour
Lyman H Howes Travel Festival returns to the Orpheum on its silver jubilee tour featuring a globe spanning program. Highlights include Bethelehem Pennsylvania steel plants Canadian Rockies Peru Andean hand car Maine Lake Sebago Camp Wohela Magnolia Gardens Charleston Florida tarpon fishing and visits to film stars. The show blends novelties cartoons and trick pictures with all star talent. An irrigation dam on the Murray River Australia will reach 94 feet and hold 1 000 000 acre feet of water.
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Lyman H. Howe
Orpheum
Mr. Howe
Bethelehem
Canadian Rockies
Peru
Andes
Lake Sebago
Maine
Camp Wohela
Charleston
S. C
Magnolia Gardens
Florida
Murray River
Australia
British War Widows Quick To Marry Amid Shortage
London reports a growing backlash against war widows as men stay scarce. Sir Worthington Bryans notes one in five widows has remarried among 216000 widows, with 38614 remarrying and some women marrying up to four times in five years.
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London
Worthington Bryans
Daily Mail
Daily Express
Advance In Interest Rates Is Announced
The Federal Reserve Bank announced another rate rise on loans to lumber banks to 4 1 2 percent for notes up to 15 days secured by US certificates. Liberty bonds and customer notes secured similarly rose from 4 1 2 to 4 3 4 percent. Rediscount rates for notes and bills maturing within 30 days secured by liberty bonds or victory notes also moved to 4 3 4 percent.
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New York
Federal Reserve Bank
United States
Foreign Exchange On The Toboggan Again
New York December 12 The stock market suffered a sharp decline in exchange rates causing grave concern in financial circles. International bankers warned remedial steps are needed or exports will shrink. British remittances slid to 3 67 1 4 per pound while other rates remained unsettled. Hydroplanes may link Swiss lake cities for passenger service connecting several destinations.
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New York
London
Bandits Loot Washburn Bank in Broad Thefts
Unmasked bandits held up the Washburn bank on Thursday and escaped in a car with about $4,000 in cash and $10,000 in Liberty bonds. Local authorities investigated the banking incident and searched for suspects.
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Washburn
Bank of
Eserye
Cirréa
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Maine Street
Express
Kiefer's
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Otis Arnold
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Minois
Victrola
Weilers
N. 8Th ST
Quincy, Ill
Gem Theater
Charles Chaplin
Orpheum Theater
Aphemn
Constance Talmadge
Geo
Lilly Carden
Belle & Arliss
Lehr—Edmonds—Marr
the Melody Boys
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Princess
Shirley Mason
Bill
Bray Pictographs
Savoy
Leah Baird
Marguerite Clarke
Girls
Ford Sterling
Hearts and Flowers
Chas. Chaplin In
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THE
Ricker National Bank
D'Bulls
CAT Tales
vaRey
Hard Ciper
Dicky Dippy
POP
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