The Man with the Shoulders and the Midland Bay Mystery
A cotton broker scribbles clues in earth and lunch bags at Battery Park. A mistaken arrest exposes a jewel heist plot. Police link a sly wife to the Boyd jewel robbery, with details of a planned southbound transfer thwarted by a bag misdirection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B Lippincpitt
Midland Beach
Stevens
Battery Dock
Long Island
Battery Park
Ula
Gabriel
Hardin
Agron Burr National Bank
Twelfth Unitarian Church
Central Office
New York
Police Department
Savannah
Sen
Mulrooney
Midland
Bobby on the Giraffe
A child’s playful piece about a live giraffe describes the animal as a walking skyscraper with a rubber neck. The tale imagines Noah’s ark adding a roof tower to tolerate the giraffe and notes a wish for a giraffe’s neck during ice cream and a baseball fence without knot holes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby
Noah
Sis
Vicar Bequests Reveal Curious Estate Details
The late Rev Arthur Gilbert Girdiestone, vicar of All Saints Brixton Hill London, left an estate valued at £14820. He bequeathed £19 each to the organist verger blower and pen-opener, £5 to each Sunday school scholar and teacher, one year's wages to six servants including the gardener, and up to £250 to be distributed among church workers at the executors' discretion.
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Arthur’ Gilbert’ Girdiestone
All Saints
Brixton “Hill
London
England
Advancement in Turkey Under the New Regime
The Turkish government removes restrictions on electrical apparatus for all classes and plans to establish a telephone service similar to the telegraph. This marks a notable shift as the regime, historically wary of electricity due to its association with dynamite, embraces modern communication technologies.
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Turkey
Nashville
Tenn
Kentucky
Jessee
Mississippi
Louwiana
Indiana
Illinois
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company
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Albert Payson Terhun
Conroy
Alice
The
Springfield Sun
Louisville Times
Times
the Sun
the Times
William Jennings Bryan
Thompson Publishing CO
Sr. Louis, Mo
L. and
Springfield
Lapel Ows
Bardstown
Louisville
M. Sa
Wee
Aguas
C. Legth
All mi Munn & Co
Ste
ON Earth
Et Clark
School OF Cainess
Granville W. Lyom
Fourth Avenue
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