Mardi Gras Mystery at Opera House Ends in Tragedy
Gramont and fellow revelers confront a masked thief during Mardi Gras at the old opera house. A gunman kills banker Joseph Maillard amid a chaotic pursuit, and Bob Maillard is later found dead, with police awaiting investigation and Fell guiding the inquiry.
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Hotel Royale
Lavergne
Gramont
Lucie Ledanois
Rex
Lucie
Doctor Anstey
Jachim
Comus
Bacchus
Boone
Louisville
Gearly
Grameoni
Jachin Feil
Maillard
Ansiey
Jachin
Gram
Masquez
Doctor Ansley
Joseph Maillard
Bob Maillard
Jachin Fell
On the Bayou Chapter IX Opens Desolate Bayou Office
At three o'clock on Ash Wednesday the great white Maison Blanche building stood deserted with its offices empty. Cleaners had left and the street outside showed only remnants of carnival activity as dawn approached.
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Maison Blanche
Absent minded savant and the watch that would not wind
A geological survey party in Arizona relies on a fine chronometer. The professor and a keeper ride thirty miles to a town with a watchmender. The expert opens the case, inspects the movement, and concludes the watch must be wound.
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Eastern University
Geological Survey
Arizona
One of Sicily's Beauty Spots Taormina’s Greek Heritage Glows
Sicily’s Taormina stands as a famed Mediterranean spot with roots tracing to the ancient Greek colony of Naxos near Mount Etna. Etna remains active and snow capped while Taormina preserves a strong Hellenic influence in its architecture and people.
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Sicily
Taormina
Naxos
Mount
Etna
Ant society and foraging patterns in the nest
The article describes long lived ants and a teaching generation teaching the next. Worker ants, wingless females, patrol ant roads around the nest during foraging. Inside the nest workers tend the brood, feeding them and moving them between rooms to maintain proper temperatures.
New Boy Scouts Officers Elected at Winthrop Council Meeting
The Winthrop Council of the Boy Scouts of America chose officers for the coming year at the Wednesday Social Hall gathering. Dean G. Freeman was named president with Wiley S. Young C Vernon Browne and Richard R. Flynn as vice presidents. Edward R Clarke became scout commissioner and Alfred M. Bent secretary. The executive committee includes Filmer F. Dawson William H. Gardner J Parker Margeson Edgar F. Power Harry C. Whorf and William E Hewitt. A full story will follow next week.
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Edward R Clarke
Alfred M. Bent
Filmer F. Dawson
William H. Gardner
J. Parker Margeson
Edgar F. Power
Harry C. Whorf
William E Hewitt
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HW Bedford Jones
Irwin Myers
Doubleday
Page
Comparug
Fell
Ansley
Judge Forester
Bob
Lut
Bandit
Joseph
Blackcoats
Krewe
Ben Chacherre
Police
Young Maillard
Chacherre
Bayou
Spencer
Floyd Milk CO
Floyd
Winthrop
Buchanan Street
Review
Catarah
Cliff House
Winthrop Highlands
Ocean
FP. J. Bochterie
Mgr
Ida J. Grover
Shirley Steel
John Robert Vaughan
Washington Ave
Winthrop Beach
OPP
Public Library
Hermon Street
Cale
Maude
Hallam
BOY Scouts
Boy Scouts of America
These
Dean G. Freeman
Wiley S. Young
C. Vernon Browne
Richard R. Flynn
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