Memorial Day Parade Marks Bessemer’s Observance
The Memorial Day procession led by Post Commander J. M. Johnson and the American Legion Guard with Navy, Army, and Marine representatives drew about 100 members, the largest display in years in Bessemer. Meanwhile a narrative thread follows Nelson amid a suspicious apartment scene, a missing pearl necklace, and a self-directed investigation after an unexplained discharge.
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J. M. Johnson
Guard of Honor
American Legion
George Voemastek
Navy
Leo Ibeski
Army
Chas
Scavarda
Marines
Ameriane Mikiterss Ton
Gaston
Maine
Nelson
Barbara Bradford
Wick
Barbara
Detective Plans After Jewel Theft In House
The narrator considers taking the role of detective after discovering a jewel theft from a safe. He contemplates motives, suspects, and a staged investigation outline to uncover the thief, while pondering whether his relatives orchestrated the loss or left clues for him to solve.
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Maine
Rufus
The Pearl Enigma and Barbara Bradford Mystery
Nelson uncovers signals from Barbara Bradford after a night guarding pearls in New York. A note asks why he has not spoken to the police, while a secret past involving Barbara’s sister Claire unfolds with family scandal and a French chauffeur husband.
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Miss Bradford
Spalding Nelson
McGowan’s Pass
Barbara Bradford
James
Claire
Mother
Europe
Dad
France
Ourselves
Nassau County
Hidden papers threaten a past marriage in Barr Bradford tale
Barbara Bradford reveals her father hid Claire Bradford's annulment papers in a wall safe. A note demanding ransom for the papers arrives, connecting a past marriage, a society match, and a blackmail bid. Claire fears losing her engagement to Harry D Thayer as the secret endangers her future.
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Dad
Claire
Harry D. Thayer
Barbara Bradford
Claire Bradford
Miss Bradford
Mother
Claire Btadford
Thayer
I Would Not Live Always Hymn and Age as Opportunity
A fragment notes a famous hymn and argues that aging brings compensation. It cites Longfellow on age being opportunity, remarking on dim sight, hearing loss, and general decline as natural but not wholly detrimental.
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Longfellow
Fall of Berry Clinched Marne Salient at Soissons
Joseph Mills Hanson reports on the breakthrough against the last German garrison on the plateau south of Soissons. The Twenty-eighth Infantry of the First Division, led by General Beaumont Buck, stormed through Berry amid shellfire to drive the enemy from the town and seal the Marne salient.
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Soissons
Chateau-Thierry
Marne
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Berry
Paris
Jesse James
Beaumont B. Buck
Buck
Hbodies
Crise
Joseph Mills Hanson
The Apostrophe Spares the Boys at Schoolyard Ball
A neighborly dispute near a schoolhouse ends with boys punished lightly for sitting on the neighbor’s chicken house. A misread apostrophe turns the apology note into a farcical defense as the fiery spinster reacts to the insult.
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N— School
Indianapolis News
Locomotive Efficiency Through History Compared
The text ranks engines by efficiency from the locomotive at 6 percent up to modern internal combustion and steam hybrids. It lists the compound non condensing at 10 percent, compound condensing with boiler at 13 percent, Parsons turbine with boiler at 17 percent, automobile at 23 percent, airplane motor at 27 percent, coal gas stationary engine at 30 percent, and diesel at 34 percent. It notes the Still engine at 41 percent with future Still-Diesel at 44.5 percent.
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Dawson
Cost of Marriage in Austria Raises General Discontent
A Vienna newspaper, received in New York, cites the high cost of marriage in Austria. The bride alone costs 240000 crowns, about $6000, worth dresses, linen, and furniture valued at 44000 and 164000 crowns respectively. In Austria the bride funds the house and trousseau.
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Austria
Vienna
New York
Trousseau
London Road to Last a Century
Marylbone borough council adopts a road making system for Oxford Street promising a century of service. Old foundations removed, concrete laid to about eighteen inches deep, then wooden blocks with a coating of treesote and two of tar installed.
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London Road
Marylbone
Oxford Street
London
Speedy Antelope Race Claims Sixty MPH Speed
Roy Chapman Andrews, the Mongolian explorer, announces bringing a remarkable antelope specimen to the country. He asserts the animal can easily reach speeds of sixty miles per hour, highlighting its exceptional pace and potential curiosity for natural history buffs.
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Roy Chapman Andrews
The Storm Surprise Party of Thunder and Lightning
Old King and Queen Thunder plan a seasonal storm party to surprise earth people. They invite the Lightning family and discuss dangers of storms, emphasizing careful behavior and the thrill of a wild hearing thunder and lightning as a party.
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Old King Thunder
Old Queen Thunder
Earth People
Old King Thun
Thunder
Lord
Lady Lightning
Lightning
King
Lord Lightning
King Thunder
Queen Thunder
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