The Circular Staircase Memoir of Miss Innes and a Murder
A complex mansion case unfolds with Miss Innes linked to a gun death of Arnold Armstrong in Sunnyside. Jack Bailey and Gertrude confront suspicions while a trail of missing persons, hidden rooms, and a secret bank treasure drives the mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Innes
Rdian
Gertrude
Halsey
Sunnyside
Arnold Armstrong
Jack Bailey
Jamieson Miss Innes
Bailey
Paul
Armstrong
Paul Aeanese
Bae
Miss. Innes
New Cook
Miss Jenes
Dr. Walker
Walker
Paul Armstrong
Watson
Wallace
Lucien Wallace
Casanova Station
Burns
Walker Place
Jamieson
Mr. Jamieson
Casanova
Liddy
Casanova Library
The Dread in the Chimney near Sunnyside
In Casanova a narrator snags a hidden chamber under a mantel in a mansion. As detectives hunt upstairs, the intruder closes in and a tense escape unfolds ending with the safe carried to Hal sey for protection as the night air cools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamieson
Liddy
Alex
Mr. Halsey
Indiana Governor attacks uniform school book policy
Indiana Governor Marshall blames foreign publishers for pushing county uniform text book rules. He warns the move would block reform and invites loss of local control. In Ohio Senator Yount pitches a similar bill to force county boards to select books, opposed as costly and political. A lampoon of Thomas W. Lawson’s Thanksgiving proclamation ends with a banker recalling Lawson’s quip about the service just opened for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Marshall
Indiana General Assembly
BBC
Indiana
Ohio
Columbus
Yount
Senate
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
The Wise Bishop of Memphis
A Memphis man questions charity balls to the Episcopal bishop Dr. Thomas F. Gailor. The bishop replies with humor that he would dance the length of Memphis in full canonicals if it could help anyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Thomas F. Gailor
Memphis
Bishop Gailor
Alike to Aching Heart in Plain Attire
The prose notes a waistcoat made of broadcloth or fusion mirrors an aching heart and observes laughter is the same on velvet cushions as on wooden chairs, suggesting mood and attire share a quiet sameness.
Remedies and aphorisms fill old newspaper notices
The reader is presented with a collage of medical testimonials for Resinol and Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, plus miscellaneous quotes. Claims include relief for pruritus vulvae and eczema, and general praise from various authors and places, interspersed with moral quips and a Mark Twain quotation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. OC. Imes
Philadelphia
Mrs Soothing Syrup Soothes Teething Poor Children
A vintage ad fragment touts soothing syrup for teething pain and claims charity will purify the well rather than merely painting the pump. The mis-spelled text hints at 25¢ per bottle pricing and a call to action for true charity.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Muusimmons
Royle
New York East
Frank Marshall White
Harper's Weekly
Jacob Rosenberg
Ihits School Book Companies
Bae Eine
Wellman
Mark Twain
Hamlins
B. ¥. Fisher
Roanoke
E. R. Wallace
Mi Va
James McGraw
Mandeville St
New Orleans
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
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