The Woman with Two Smiles at Volnic Manor Mystery
A Parisian detective digs into the 16 year old Volnic affair where Elisabeth Horain sang amid ruins before collapsing and dying. Jewelry vanished as murder and robbery were suspected, with clues elusive and the manor sealed by secrecy as life at Volnic faded.
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Arsene Lupin
Monwleur
Madame de Jouvella
Volnic
Auversne Gstrict
Vichy
Elisabeth
Hornain
Madame de Jouvelle
Hornath
de Jouvelles
Jean d'Erlemont
Elisabeth Hornato
Brent
Jean -Erlemont
Elisabeth Horain
Elisabeth Vornain
Taken From Our Files 25 Years Ago 1908 Elyma Padres
In 1908 Company B plans to come to Elyra after a conference with Major Windisch and Camain Dulerow. H W Davis declares the Elyma company will be mustered in within ten days. A new divorce court record is noted in the files.
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Elyra
H. W. Davis
Windisch
Camain Dulerow
Fish Regiment
Elyma
Wihin
Avon Ridgeville post office thieves steal nine dollars
Lorain County saw six petitions heard by Judge Washburn granting five divorces and refusing one. Yesgmen rifled cash drawers at Avon and Ridgeville post offices, fled with a horse, abandoning it in Lyita. Loot totaled nine dollars. $300 worth of stamps were dented. They took nothing at Ridgeville.
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Lorain County
Washburn
Yesgmen
Avon
Ridgeville
Lytia
Protest Filed Over Road Closure at Pentre Junction
A protest to the county commissioners challenges the closure of the road at Pentre Junction by the Elyria waterworks contractor laying a new main. Officials say permission to close the tract came from the state. Also, Elyria hosts Sunday talks for young men starting next Sunday with Dean Thomas Graham of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology as speaker.
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Pentre Junction
Elyria
Elyria Bill
Thomas Graham
Oberlin Graduate School of Theology
Fire truck struggles on muddy Adams Street to Parmely Avenue blaze
A Elyria fire engine encountered a mud clogged route on Adams Street while responding to a house fire on Parmely Avenue last night. The deteriorating road slowed efforts as the vehicle slid through the muck.
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Adams Street
Almot
Elyria
Parmely Avenue
Firemen, Residents Push Stricken Vehicle Through Street
A vehicle stuck in the mud required firemen and neighboring residents to push it along a street. Damage was estimated at 750 to 1400 dollars. Officers for 1928 were installed by the Odd Fellows last night, with Frank McDonald as noble grand and Ralph Shribsole as vice grand among others.
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Odd Fellows
Frank McDonald
Ralph Shribsole
Eo. Brecknoch
Nrb Reinhart
Ralph Will
Charles Drusendahl
Real Estate Transfers In Elyria And Lorain County
Mary Hershey and D E Hershey transfer property on Kenwood street Elyria to New York Central Railroad Company. Dell Beers transfers property on Ninth street Tarais to Marie Famser Rod Recher Lear Beers and Deana Beers. Property lies between Ninth and Tenth streets Lorain. An unrelated garbled line about wealth and satire ends the item.
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Mary Hershey
D. EL Hershey
New York Central Railroad Company
Kenwood Street
Elyria
Dell Beers
Marie Famser
Rod Recher
Lear Beers
Deana Beers
Ninth Street
Tarais
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Lorain
Early Schools of Camden by Dr F B We
A historical survey tracks school funding from 1629 to 1883. It notes funding sources, legal duties for districts and towns, teacher payment, and provisions that excluded or accommodated white and colored pupils, fuel duties, taxes, and annual reporting requirements.
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Early Schools OF
Camden
FB. Hwe
Exercise Aids Longevity Says Mrs Brown At 100
Mrs Emily Brown celebrates her centennial in Fremont Wisconsin by praising moderate outdoor activity and freedom from worry. She marked the day by splitting kindling in a backyard wood pile and carrying it to the house as a simple birthday observance.
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Fremont
Emily Brown
Yale studies highway traffic in New Haven
Yale estabishes a highway traffic study bureau under the Commerce on Transportation. Robbing and Sueckel, former Connecticut motor vehicles commissioner, direct the unit. The bureau will serve industry private groups and the public with analysis and service.
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YALE
New Haven
Conn
Robbing & Sueckel
Connecticut
Commeree On Transportation
Ninety-Five Years Of School District Reports
The Camden Township district records from Lorain County Ohio show teaching activity for the past year with three months in common schools and additional months by a female teacher. The average daily attendance was 10 to 35 to 66, with the female teacher paid $14.15 from the common school fund and the remainder from subscribers. Subjects taught included reading writing arithmetic and geography. Directors listed are J. Youngless W. Lesher and C. Parriteh. To be continued tomorrow.
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Connecticut
Cannan
Camden
Isa
Camden Township
Lorain Conti
Ohio
Hospital gardener grows cotton in Nebraska
Thomas Smith, gardener at St Marys Hospital in Columbus, reports the first successful crop of about 20 hills of cotton in the hospital garden. The experiment tests whether cotton can be grown in Nebraska’s climate this year.
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Hospital Garden
Columbus
Nebraska
Thomas Smith
St Mary's
Postal card from 1913 shows women in long skirts at Madison Square Garden
Fred S. Bertsch received a postal card mailed from New York on Sept 17 1913 by Chicago art critic Karry Engle. It features a scene of women in ankle-length skirts promenading near Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Holland, Mich
Fred S. Bertsch
New York
Karry Engle
Chicago
Madison Square Garden
Harvest 12 Million Trout Eggs Planned at Elk Lake
In Oregon at Elk Lake the State Game Commission collects 2.5 million brook trout eggs in the first week toward a expected total of about 12 million. The fish rearing will feed Cascade mountain lakes.
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Elk Lake
State Game Commission
Cascade Mountain Lakes
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Hidle
Tie
Windrake
CIA
Madame de Jourelle
Miiracla
Seale
Paris
Gorgeret
Lebardon
Lrama
Lydia E. Pinkram
Phitas
Aso Piates
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
H. SP. District
W. Sthot
Nsurance
Sohio
United States Weather Bureau
Standard Oil Co
J. Youngless
W. Lesher C. Parriteh
Cuthura
Scep
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Sefore
Potter Dene & Chariral Corp
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