Mrs Elphinstone Disappears In London Mystery
In a Marrasdale style plot, Mrs Elphinstone, her daughter Sheila Merchison, and maid Alison Murdoch vanish after a private talk at Short's Hotel. Detectives Maythorne and team suspect a deliberate departure rather than a kidnapping as clues mount around a mysterious observer and a personal brooch.
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Mr. Elphinstone
Maythorne
Elere
Crole
Miss Apperley
Short’s
Sheila
Miss Merchison
Alison Murdoch
Marrasdale
Birnside
Mrs. Elphinstone
Shelia
Mr. Withinstone
London
Mr. Maythorne
Desolation Left by California Gold Dredges
Washington Star notes vast dredge piles scar northern California landscapes. Towers of cobblestones 50 to 60 feet high stretch hundreds of feet, ruins of farms and orchards left barren. Dredges cost about a quarter million dollars to build and mine. operations yield cementable crushed stone and small gold returns, earning profits despite environmental damage.
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California
Washington Star
Chestnut Trees and Blight Threat Prompt Replacement
The article compares Chinese hairy chestnuts and Japanese chestnuts. Chinese varieties are imported to replace trees killed by blight. Growth is slow, taking about ten years to bear, but they may be hardier than Japanese chestnuts which fruit in two or three years.
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Maythorne
Manners
Corkerdale
Mr. Elphinstone
Mr. Hipkinstone
Inverness
Eccleshare
Cottingley
Crole
Edgware Road
Short's
Roba Hood
Western Newspaper Union
Free pipe care booklet offered by Raleigh era ads
Sir Walter Raleigh connects to a free booklet on pipe care that found busy demand after two of Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting helped handle mail. The booklet covers breaking in pipes, keeping them sweet, cleaning, smoking smoother, and hygiene tips. Send requests to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp in Louisville. Tune in to The Raleigh Revue Fridays 10 to 11 p.m. New York time on NBC WEAF.
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Sir Walter
Walter Raleigh
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Louisville, Ky
New York
WEAF
N. B.C
Fable Hint on Fishers Mirror Patent Draws Comment
In Washington a patent proposes a mirror above a fishhook to reveal imaginary competitors, a concept cited by Country Home as a playful Aesop style tale about lure and perception. The exchange also notes a Billboard reference and a quip about today’s greatest actor.
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Aesop
Washington
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Irwin Myers
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
W. N. U. Service
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Armintrade
West End
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Cokerdale
Elphinstones
Gertie
Helen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Chance
Tompy
Rinso
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