Murder Plot Unfolds Through a Jewel Box Discovery
Philip Severn, a United States consular agent in New York, buys a jewel box that contains a note guiding him to a revolutionary plot against the Chilean government. Disguised, he infiltrates a meeting at an abandoned place, learns of a femme conspirator Miss Conrad, and teams with the thief Gentleman George Harris to pursue the plan for a $1,000,000 revolutionary fund. Severn adopts the alias Daly and plans a future rendezvous at Tom Costigan’s saloon.
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New York
Philip Severn
United States
Jeter
Severn
Eed Fern
Harry Daly
George” Harris
Daly
Miss Conrad
Harris
Revolutionary Fund
Alva
Marie Geasler
Tom Costigan
Miss Corad Mystery Ties To Washington Plot
The narrator contemplates Marie Geasler’s possible link to a criminal conspiracy and plans to meet at a designated place despite danger. He weighs trust, motive, and the risk of treachery as rain-soaked streets blur his surroundings and a gleaming sed an car appears ahead in the dark tale.
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Miss Corad
Marie Gessier
Washington
Alva
Marie Geasler
Deserted car reveals dagger as clue in mystery
The narrator discovers a long thin dagger with a fanciful hilt inside a vacant car by a park, noticing stains on the blade. He recalls it had been seen before as a pin in Marie Geasler's hat, suggesting a link to a prior clue.
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Marie Geasler
The Dagger Mystery In A Fateful Car Ride
The narrator finds a bloodstained dagger and an unconscious Chilean attaché, Captain Alva, slumped at the steering wheel. He suspects the woman in the back seat committed the murder after a prior attempted advance, imagining a sudden deadly confrontation and her subsequent panic and flight.
The Night of Alva’s Murder and a Shadowed Escape
The narrator plans to vanish after a grisly killing, concealing the weapon and fearing discovery. He contemplates the conspirator’s motives, the fate of money, and how authorities may pursue leads while he seeks safety at a hotel and prepares further steps at 247 Le Compte Street.
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Alva
Destruction of Ten Tons of Treasury Notes Moves to Kent
A Kent village becomes the site of weekly destruction of worn treasury notes. Bank and postmaster judgment ends a note’s life, sending it to the Bank of England for cutting and Holloway, where defaced notes are bundled and transported to Kent for pulping into pulp.
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Kent
England
Treasury
Bank of England
Money Order Department
Post Office
Holloway
Manuscripts Claim Bacon Used Modern Tools, Voynich Says
Dr Wikfrid M Voynich claims crude illustrations in ciphered manuscripts show Roger Bacon used a microscope and telescope centuries before their invention. He states celestial and anatomical observations were unseen until four centuries later. Dr William Romaine Newbold of Pennsylvania claims to have found a key and is deciphering the text.
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Bacon
Roger Bacon
Wikfrid M. Voynich
William Romaine Newbold
University of Pennsylvania
Voynich
Seed Buried Seeds Aid Reforestation Says Forester
The forestry service notes mice plant seeds and, with help from the chip munk, play a key role in restoring forests. J. V. Hofmann of the Stabler Washington experiment station reports that young trees often grow from seeds buried by rodents beneath the forest duff, aiding replanting of burned or logged lands.
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Forestry Service
Foresta
J. V. Hofmann
Stabler
Washington
Thirty Days in Australia Footballer in Court
An athletic young man in Australia faced the police court after a string of incidents. His counsel described him as a professional football player who plays outside right for his team. The magistrate quipped that his position would be changed and he would be kept in as a left forward for the next month.
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Australia
Doctor Warns Patient as Thread of Life Teeters
A doctor tells the patient life hangs by a single thread while a tailor quips that the thread will not be waxed as he pulls through. The exchange reflects a blend of medical gravity and rustic humor from Science and Invention.
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Feehly
Temples of Wood and the Japanese Architec
The American Forestry Magazine notes Shinto temples are largely built from Japanese cypress and other native woods. The article highlights wood selection and traditional carpentry shaping temple forms.
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American Forestry Magazine
Alvryitee
Swamp Root Promoted For Kidney Trouble Relief
An old advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a physician's prescription to treat kidney trouble and related symptoms. It urges immediate use of medium or large bottles from drug stores and offers a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Dr. Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
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Kilmer
Dr. Elmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Self Help Fragments Offer Cautionary Tone
Excerpts advise that life is shaped by choices and warn against foolish acts. They urge early marriage as a suggestion while noting advice is limited, comparing guidance to an elusive income tax blank. The tone is pragmatic, with warnings about lasting mistakes.
Red Cross Ball Blue promises rust spot relief
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry to prevent or erase tiny rust spots caused by inferior bluing and invites readers to try the product.
Night Shirts Outlast Dress Shirts In Daily Wear
The saying suggests night shirts last longer than dress shirts because they are worn less and subjected to gentler use, framing durability as the key contrast between the two garments.
No Man Makes a Mountain Yet Big Bluff Is Built
A concise editorial remark frames a notable bluff construction as a feat of local ingenuity. The line contrasts natural limits with human effort, suggesting bold engineering despite impossibility of creating a mountain.
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Strange Case
Cavendish
OF the
Gustave
Captain Alva
le Compte Street
Staffie
Nolse
Costigan’s Place
Parker
Barris
Costigan's
Compte Street
Englids
Worenea
Western Canada
Kodaksee Printing Proto Story Co
Lincoln Dept. K
Ateur
Amd
Salem
Enslow Floral Co
Lincoln, Nek
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