Paris Cafe Night With Doctor Paris Ends In Mystery
Walter Tisdale and two women dine in a Paris cafe where a quiet, enigmatic companion named M. de Paris, claiming to be Dr Guillotin, offers to settle the bill and later vows to perform a morning operation that will kill a patient. The party ends as the doctor departs, leaving a chilling air amid reports of a wife murderer linked to the strange guest.
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Walter Tisdale
Paris
Champs d'Elicier
Ae Geman
Tisdale
Di'sieu
Panion
Guillotin
Mije
Louise Micheau
Micheay
Mile
Sid Mile
Michean
Supcess
Milo
Micheau
M. Dé Paris
Gavitz
Tecate
M. de Paris
Mitheau
Mie Paris
Norman D. White
All Day Cigar From Amazon Tribes in Museum Display
A New York Herald report describes a foot and a half long cigar smoked by a tribe near the Amazon in a collection for the American Museum of Natural History. Explorers Ipdi and ThesIpdi gathered items during a three month journey. cigars with a forklike tuning fork handle are shown with other striking artifacts.
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American Museum of Natural History
Amazon
ThesIpdi
New York Herald
Steamship nicknames show how crews shorten vessel names
The New York Tribune notes clerks in steamship offices frequently shorten long names. The Atlantic Transport ships become Minnies, with Minnetonka called Tonk and Mesaba Mes. The Red One underland is Father while Finland is Fin and Kroonland and Zeeland are Kroon and Zee respectively. St Paul is Loose, St Louis is Billy Two, and Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is Big Bit, Kaiser Wilhelm II Billy Two.
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Atlantic Transport Line
Minneapolis
Minnetonka
Minnehaha
Mesaba
Phillie
Kaiser Wilhelm IL
Billy Two
New York Tribune
The Mussulmans Not Disturbed By Prayer In Chinese Turkestan
A traveler notes Mussulmans praying daily in Chinese Turkestan as a man inside his home chants the Koran while his wife and child converse nearby. The scene shows calm devotion amid bustling life, with both spouses engaging in the ritual morning and evening.
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Mussulman
Iris
Allah
Blindness of Conceit in Business Talk
A New York Press quotation discusses conceit and its social cost. It notes a conceited person often fails to see how his attitude harms others and his associates. The piece likens such individuals to an ostrich burying its head, unable to acknowledge the impact of their behavior.
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New York Press
Half Understood and Dismissed Readings Fragment
A jumble of quoted phrases shows a child Marian reading in parts from a heavy volume while family members remark on understanding. The mix includes lines about trust, life saving, and a witty caricature of social figures, ending with a nod to Macaulay.
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Marian
Mammal
The White Foot Horse Saga
A wild sorrel stallion with one white forefoot roams near the Three Bar ranch, eluding riders for miles. A Mexican pursuer hires aid and trails the horse for days across Mesilla valley, finally learning the horse is his long lost brother Jemez, who dies after the chase.
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M. M. Cunningham
Three Bar Ranch
Colonel Miller
Senor
Ami
Mesilla
Great
Sierra Range
Pane
Quad
Auction Gambler Sold to Buy Alexandria Clock
A veteran tale recounts how gamblers from the southwest were lured and a rogue was sold at public auction in Alexandria Virginia. The high bid of 3 500 funded a town clock and steeple for the city hall and market house, later rebuilt after a 1871 fire.
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Alexandria
Potomac River
Washington
Old City
Stancing
Gammliers
Blacklegs
Eouct
Nest
Blackleg
Kansas City Star
A Funny Book Aged Actor Gets Dramatic Reading Night
An old actor famed for little cheering drinks dines with friends at the Bill board. After leaving, he reasons drunk and retreats home to read. In the library he begins reading aloud, prompting his wife to scold, calling him an old fool and ordering him to bed.
John Knox as a Prophet and Foreteller
The reformer John Knox is described as having notable predictive insight. He reportedly predicted preaching in St Giles Edinburgh within two or three years despite a harsh sentence at Rochelle. He also foretold the deaths of Thomas Maitland and Kirkcaldy of Grange and warned MurrayAgainst Linlithgow where he would die if he went.
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John Knox
Rochelle
St. Giles
Edinburgh
Knox
Thomas Mait-land
Kirkcaldy
Grange
Murray
Linlithgow
How to Prepare Plant for Winter Window Garden
Instructions advise preventing bloom in summer to build a bushy compact plant with many blossoms for next winter. Prune buds, shorten stems, and encourage side branches to create a sturdy plant. Also included are two unrelated ad-like snippets about homemade paste and beauty tips from a Chicago Record-Herald snippet.
Remarkable Rescue From Illness in Fedora Tenn
A Fedora Tennessee man, C. V. Pepper, credits Dr King s New Discovery with a miraculous recovery after hemorrhages of the lungs and throat left him bedridden and hopeless. He reports instant relief from coughing and bleeding, and says he returned to work in three weeks. The drug is advertised as a guaranteed cure for colds. Price 50 cents and 1.00 at Haydon and Robertson drug store with a trial bottle free.
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Fedora
Tenn
C. V. Pepper
Haydon & Robertson Drug Store
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