Fifty Pounds Reward
Flavia Lascelles schemes to steal a jewel box to fund her husband Andre and reclaim her missing child. A series of temptations, betrayals, and a surprising turn lead to Flavia confessing her past thefts, the recovered baby, and a mixed ending as Mrs Seabrook withdraws prosecution and rewards are settled.
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Walter Seabrook
Times
the Standard
The
Daily Telegraph
Heriot
Seabrook
James Heriot
London
Sooth
Flavia Lascelles
Miss Lascelles
Rose
Brunton
Flavia
Plavia Lascelles
Bermondsey
Mrs. Lawson
Andre
England
South Africa
Andret
Africa
Jonathan Wheeler
Faugh
Wheeler's
Lascelles
Paris
St. James’s Park
South Kensington
Victoria
Danny
Mary Seabrook
Cranley Gardens
Baby
Mrs. Seabrook
Deborah
Benson's
Bond Street
Out of the Ordinary Reflections From an Era
A collage of brief observations on world affairs from the early 20th century noting Chinese firecrackers in contrast to American habits typewriter scripts in Egypt Arabic, geography distances to China and Japan, Astor land buys in Mexico, Magyar demographics, sugar crop usage, New York foreign-born population, Kilkenny Castle, early ethnology, customs costs, German stuttering in schools, Ellis Island alien arrivals, Danube-Oder Canal plans, Austrian prize offers, Jewish liberty in Egypt, and goat meat imports highlighting global diversity and imperial contexts.
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Egypt
Seattle
China
Japan
San Francisco
Astor
New York
Mexico
Austria-Hungary
United States
Kilkenny Castle
America
North America
Germany
Ellis Island
Danube-Oder
Sphinx Lore and Oddities in the Leisure Hour Notes
A fragmentary column lists quirky wordplay and lore from Sphinx Lore and the Leisure Hour. It references E. R. Chadbourn and Lewiston Maine, plus jumbled verses about vanes, bridges, and a parade of historical and literary figures with uncertain context. The text mixes poems, anecdotes, and stray phrases without a clear narrative.
Prize Names And Winners In A Puzzle Contest
A prize is offered for the best list of answers to No 96 with a week to submit. Katherine L. Dorsey of Indianapolis is noted as taking the prize for 57 percent. The page lists multiple names with varied entries and fragmentary notes, including a magic square, word associations, and a sequence of figures and clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine L. Dorsey
Bilacherne
Indianapolis
Alice Newell
H. L. Scott
M. J. Morse
Mrs. Thomas Flaherty
Ellen Marble
W. A. Bennett
Arthur J. Holmes
Ida Phinney
Josephine K. Thomas
F. L. Harlow
Robert C. Chard
A. J. Wing
Mra. C. A. White
N. F. Lewis
Otis Pratt
R. B. Shaw
N. W. Morey
J. H. Sears
Arthur K. Lambert
C. Burgess
M. R. Dill
Beheading Wordplay Puzzle with Hidden Clues
A compact puzzle presents steps of beheadings on words to yield new phrases. It references TRUSTWORTHINESS, POWER, INCONSTANT, A FLAT SUR FACE, A JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTS, TREATISE, ASSIDITY, FOLDING, and AN ELECTRO-POSITIVE 2 ELEMENT, forming a sequence of letter removals and new meanings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal OF Accounts
No Sense In All This Scene Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse describes dawn in the West with bells, dewdrops dry and world silent. Images of ripe fruit, a skylark, a moonlit lake, and bullfrogs fill the rural nightscape as the piece ends with the signature ARTY Ess.
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Kle
Noted Americans and World Oddities in a Curio Page
A quirky mix lists names like the Eerie Awful Poet and the Daring Borderer among guests at a Styx boathouse gathering and mentions a various global curiosities. It notes Turkey’s goat population per person, Danish pensions for women over forty, Cuba’s war-era death rate drop, and Africa’s slave-led social ladders. It also describes Kelburg in Poland carved from rock salt and Tibet’s Bible translations spreading inland, while Russia tightens missionary policy.
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John Kendrick Bangs
The
Styx
Borderer
Ocean Telegraphy
Orator
Titan
Maria
Italy
Turkey
Denmark
Cuba
General Wood
Western
Central Africa
Kelburg
Cracow
Pol
Tibet
London Growth and Industrial Plans Outline Rising Cities
Consul J C Covert notes an experienced muslin manufacturer seeks to move to the United States to start works, with a town offering initial stock and labor. Estimates for two Cunard steamships include twenty six knots speed, long hulls, high horsepower, costing 250,000, employing hundreds. government subsidy discussed.
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London
New York
J. C. Covert
United
Ues
Cunard
Good Wages Profitable in American Industry
Detroit Free Press argues that high wages boost efficiency and profits. It cites German observers and notes pre Civil War lessons, claiming well paid labor has driven American industry to compete with Europe in markets and steel production.
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Bronson
Ethel
Johnson
Detroit Free Press
Detroit
United G
United States
Seca
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. T. Meade
Cairo
Spain
Austria
France
E. R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Elem Dee
Vane
Vanes
Hal
the Hospital
Sevessors
Enigma
Faneuil
Sone
Telyras
Pet Creek
North Carolina
Everly
Buncombe County
Just Ater
Charon
Arthur de Smyth
Arthur
Qaudrat
Greenhorn
Victor
Venice
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