Murder at Kenesaw Hill House
Clint Jervies recalls a stormy night rescue of June Bowden after Kitty Leaford dies at Kenesaw Hill. Inspector Tope and Miss Moss probe staged pills, a hospital doctor notes overdose timing, and Asa Taine hints at outside involvement while suggesting a missing husband may matter.
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Asa Taine
Inspector Heale
Asa
Rob
June
Grandma Bowden
Heale
Kit
Tope
Miss Moss
Death in the Kenesaw Hill house deepens a mystery
Inspector Tope suspects a wider plot after Kitty Seaford's death as Heale resists action. Clint and Miss Moss discuss June Leaford, possible paternity, and a hidden motive while Tope plans field visits. The trio tests Rab and Justus Taine linked to Kenesaw farm plans as family grief spreads.
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Clint Jervies
Inspector Tope
Miss Moss
Clint
Jervies
Kenesaw Hill
Denman Harder
Ella Kenesaw
Kitty Seaford
June
Evie Taine
Justus
Rab
Asa
Matthew Bowden
Jim
Hardler
Kitty
Cabler
Tope
Inspector Heale
Kitty Leaford
Heale
Derrie
Longwood
Grandpa
Grandma Harder
Grandpa Harder
Doctors Name Lip Disease Riboflavin Deficiency Ariboflavinosis
Doctors at the National Institute of Health identify riboflavin deficiency as the cause of lip lesions later named ariboflavinosis. In a study 18 women showed lesions within 94 to 130 days when deprived of riboflavin, which vanished after riboflavin was added. A daily milligram of the vitamin prevents the condition.
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National Institute of Health
W. H. Sebrell
R. E. Butler
Washington Star
Silk weight test described by burning a sample
A method to identify weighted silk involves melting a small piece and observing its burn. Heavily weighted silk will blacken and char without catching fire, leaving a flat smooth edge with no small burner balls typical of unweighted silk.
Night Ride Ends in Narrow Escape for Doroth Murphy
Dorothy Murphy, then 18, faced a perilous February 1914 night returning from Dover Plains to Chestnut Ridge, driving a surrey drawn by a half blind horse. After skidding toward a cliff and clinging to shrubs, she crawled up a tree to escape a wild dog pack, surviving until dawn when a farmer found her.
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Ello
Dorothy Murphy
Bronx
N. Y
Dorothy
Chestnut Ridge
Dover Plains
Brownie
Surrey
Western Newspaper Union
Works of Leonardo da Vinci on Display in Milan
More than 200 working models of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions are shown in Milan after a three year world wide search for original drawings. Da Vinci, famed painter of The Last Supper, was also an engineer architect and inventor whose differential principles and other mechanisms influenced modern industry and technology globally.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Milan
Italy
da Vinci
Variety of Cutwork To Beautify Linens Pattern 1998
A needlework pattern brief offers a transfer of 18 border and corner motifs ranging from small to large sizes. Includes instructions for buttonhole stitch, materials, stitch illustrations, and color schemes. Send 15 cents with name and address to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Frugal Government Echoes Jefferson Debt Policy
A historic quotation from Thomas Jefferson is cited by Sentinel Features, advocating strict public revenue use to reduce national debt rather than expanding offices and salaries. The comment frames fiscal restraint as key to sound governance and debt management.
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Thomas Jefferson
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WNU
Beale
Doctor Cabler
Dabler
Ben Ames Williams
Miss Leaford
Jim Glovere
Glovere
Leaford
Tepe
Mr. Harder
Bowden and Taine
Justus Taine
Adventurers’ Club
J.C. Dillinger
Gilean
UICK
Sentinel
U. S
W. G. T. Shedd
Moroline
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