Hotel Louis le Grande Intervenes in Emotions and Encounters
In a layered pursuit through Parisian streets, Joe Balfour and Chaudron probe Mrs. Ashton’s past room while Victor Labouisse reveals regional secrets. Woodford Vance confronts Noel Duke as tensions mount over Anita and the hotel intrigues lead toward a tense confrontation at Pedro’s Place.
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Joe
Chaudron
Baker
Valois Street
Victor Labouisse
Victor
Monsieur Labouisse
Mr. Balfour
Vicksburg
Monsieur Baffeur
Zis
St. Mary's Parish
Nevatre
Monsieur
Monsieur Baffleur
Pedro
Joseph Balfour
Felix Chaudron
Louis le Grande
Woodford Vance
Noel Duke
Pedro's
Joe Balfour
Vance
Arthemise
Hippolyte
Monsieur Chaudron
Anita
Henry Baker
Historic Ship House Sold on Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia reports the historic Ship House and part of the Johnson homestead on Germantown Avenue north of Washington Lane sold to builder James J. Allen. He will raze the hotelry, preserve the ship carving for a historical society, and erect 68 houses on the site, noting the property bears Revolutionary War bullet marks from the Germantown battle.
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Philadelphia
Johnson
Germantown Avenue
Washington Lane
James J. Allen
Allen
Germantown
William Penn
Darien
Jacob Peters
Peters
James Ford
Bockius
Wabash Mayor backs municipal drink cure plan
Mayor Joseph W. Murphy of Wabash advocates municipal treatment for drunkards and accepted an offer from a drink-habit cure firm to reform Mrs. Tish Higgins, a famed local tag artist. Letters and rival agents swamped the city as Higgins left jail before treatment. Murphy cites yearly costs of about 50 dollars per chronic drunkard and argues reform beats punishment.
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Wabash
Ind
Joseph W. Murphy
Murphy
Coinage Declines as Mint Deficits Persist
Washington reports show annual coinage fell from prior years due to silver bullion exhaustion. The Philadelphia mint idle three months, New Orleans four, San Francisco inactive after earthquake and fire. Domestic coinage totaled 167,371,035 pieces valued at 60,216,747 dollars, with vast gold and subsidiary coins and foreign coinages for Mexico Costa Rica Panama and the Philippine government.
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Washington
George E. Roberts
Philadelphia
New Orleans
San Francisco
Costa Rica
Panama
Philippine Islands
Kaiser a Fast Eater
Paris report cites Enscoffler the chef of the German emperor's summer cruise describing the emperor's dining habits. He eats breakfast faster than dinner and favors chicken stuffed with tomato and paprika dressing. Each chicken bears a crown and eagle in white sauce. asparagus from Argenteuil is liked. meals are light and fast, leaving guests little time to savor.
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Paris
Enscoffler
Argenteuil
Loot Money Found In Wapakoneta Sewer Pocketbook
Workmen at the Burnett hotel in Wapakoneta Ohio found a pocketbook during sewer cleaning containing $90 in bills. The book had been lost over three years ago by a traveling man whose name is forgotten. Most money was destroyed during removal. The find clears those previously suspected of theft.
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Vance
Baker
Pedro
Noel Duke
Miguel
Duke
Wapakoneta
Burnett Hotel
Wealth in nuisance prickly pear fodder spurs Texas alcohol hopes
West Texas ranchers see prickly pear as a cheap cattle feed after spine burning and export it as a potential alcohol plant resource. Experiments show a ration of pear plus rice bran and cottonseed meal can yield butter and gain for stock, with costs as low as 13 cents per day per animal and 3 cents per pound of gain. Authorities note two main pear forms, and “pear burners” let ranchers burn spines in place, enabling cattle to eat the plant and sustain markets.
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Fort Worth
Tex
West Texas
Texas
Cactus
Washington
GEMS IN CORSET AS GIFT IN Hartford CASE
Signora Francesca Cavallo, a Hartford organ grinder, wore a fortune in diamonds given via a cyan silk corset. A patient threw the pink corsets from a sanitarium window revealing a bag with jewelry worth 1100 dollars sewn inside. Police Sergt. Dietrich traced the gems to Francesca and recovered them for owners.
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Hartford
Conn
Signora
Francesca Cavallo
Sergt
Dietrich
East Side
Francesca
The Fish Industry of Canada Report Highlights Record Year
The thirty ninth annual fisheries report shows the season’s catch valued at 29,479,562 dollars, exceeding gold and coal production and the 1901 high. British Columbia now leads in value, with salmon fisheries foremost, lobster second. Over 16 million dollars in fish were exported, 97,000 workers were involved, 73,500 fishermen used 41,463 boats, and fish culture establishments hatched 653 million fry across provinces.
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Ottawa
Ont
Dominion
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Rockefeller Fortune Reported At Sixty Million This Year
New York reports an authority stating John D. Rockefeller's annual income for 1905 to end at $60,000,000. Henry H. Rogers and John D. Archbold discussed the vast accumulation as they spoke with a financier about how fast the oil magnate’s wealth grows daily.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Henry H. Rogers
John D. Archbold
King
Mr. Rogers
Archbold
Mr. Rockefeller
Pocantico
John D. . Rockefeller
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Anglais
Monsieur Champenois
Monsieur Etienne Champenois
Calcasieu
Vairy
Garret
Indiana
Kaiser
Fast
Abraham Ruef
Abe” Ruef
Schmitz
Rabb
Voorsanger
the Fish Industry of Canada
John D
Rockefeller
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