Vendetta Plot Drives Corsican Cruise Romance
Wealthy American Burton Barnes tours Corsica and rescues English lieutenant Edward Anstruther and his Corsican bride Marina. They flee to Marseilles and later to Nice, with a mysterious note and suspected Corsican agents pursuing them. Barnes safeguards the party, facing betrayal, a near murder, and a reveal of Count Corresso's interest in Lady Chartris as they seek safety and a London departure.
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Burton Barnes
Corsica
Edward Gerard Anstruther
Marina
Paolis
Enid Anstruther
Langelish
Algaccio
Marseilles
Grouner Constantine
London
Marvia
Barnes
Pievys
C Hatiris
Nite
Aooman
Danella
Mating
Joon Landing
Corregio
D& Prenchman
St. Tropez
Enid
Rook
Nice
Lady Chartris
Maud
Willet
Count Corresio
Nive
Chartris
Private Riviera Wedding Plans Amid Family Tension
Barnes disputes proof of a letter writer while planning a private Riviera wedding to Enid. Prunella, the widow, schemes social splendor with bridesmaids and hotel connections as Barnes insists on secrecy and a church blessing in Nice tomorrow. A mysterious Corregio Cipriano Danella lurks beneath the flirtation.
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Kiss Chartris
Barnes
Corregio
Cip
Emory
Maud
Prunella
Sho
Adelaide Carrington
de la Mediterranee
Milly Portman
de Rome
Lilly Vivian
Hotel Des Anglais
Enid
Edwin
Monte Carlo
Riviera
Nice
Burton
Lady Chartsis
Mysterious Danella ties test loyalties aboard yacht
In a villa near Nice the Barnes party plans shore leave while tension builds over the arrival of Count Cipriano Danella. Marina hides fear for her husband Edwin and contemplates sacrifice as Emory, the detective, is awaited amid hints of a deadly feud and hidden letters. The group resumes dinner under Lady Chartris, with Marina seeking clues about Danella.
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Chartris
Vula
Barnes
Cipriano Danella
Kingdom Come
Count Danella
Edwin
Burton
Weerina
Mr. Barnes
Ienid
Marina
Nice
Uttle
Danella
Deuce
Graham
Enid
Maud
von Bulow
Bee
Count Corregio
Anstruther
Lady Chartris
Emid
Madame Duval
Mortgage Mischief Amid Knavish Credit Tale
A witty Judge piece portrays Ed, a trusted servant in Columbia Town, who saves and invests. He asks his attorney master to draft a mortgage to secure a loan given to Uncle Lisha for a month. Ed values the cow and calf over true interest, highlighting thrift and cunning in a humorous money matter.
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Columbi Town
Lisha
Cheesy Mystery Sparks Odd Conversation
In a Washington Star snippet a child asks about holes in cheese and a mother explains the holes are to lay the smell out. The playful exchange highlights curious domestic remarks from a bygone day.
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Mamma
Little Ethel
Washington Star
Trusts Control Burma In Reserve Shipping Stakes
Burma faces trust control with two transport lines kept in reserve, each always holding 6 percent of the importer’s last six months’ business. This reserve could be forfeited if an independent shipment is received.
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Burma
Preservation of health as duty and physical morality
A Daily Thought quotes Herbert Spencer on health as a duty and the idea of physical morality, urging awareness of bodily discipline as part of moral living.
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Herbert Spencer
Cooperation ends long standing rail shipping dispute in Southwest
The rail roxes of the Southwest, after consulting shippers, have removed a major bone of contention by revising minimum weights allowed in carload shipments of light and bulky vehicles. The change, enacted under a new doctrine of cooperation between shipper and carrier, satisfies shippers and benefits railroads, signaling a new era in traffic operations.
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Chicago
Railroxes
Southwest
Parist Bureau
Warner Loses Will Suit In Supreme Court
In a Springfield ruling the supreme court upholds a lower court decision that Vespasian Warner failed to sustain his claim to his father's will. Mrs. John M M Warner, stepmother, receives the widow's share from an estate valued around two million dollars, with about six hundred thousand dollars to her. The ante-nuptial contract is null and void, and she may renounce the will for her statutory allowance. The court calls irrelevantly the claim of negro blood in her veins.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Vespasian Warner
John MM. Warner
Warner
Mitchell Declines Governor Bid in Chicago Letter
John Mitchell former UMWA president issued a letter declining a political run and announcing he would head the trade agreement department of the National Civil Federation. The letter to John C. Harding secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor action committee follows the union’s endorsement of his tentative Democratic gubernatorial candidacy in Illinois.
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Chicago
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Trade Agreement Department
National Civil Federation
John C. Harding
Political Action Committee
Chicago Federation of Labor
Mitchell
Hlinots
Weds Third Husband at 71 in Chatham
Mrs. Jeanette Howard of Chatham married her third husband, Michael Snedder of Auburn, at age 71 by County Judge C W Murphy who also united her to her second husband five years earlier. The groom is 61.
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Springfield
Jeanette Howard
Chatham
Michael Snedder
Auburn
C. W. Murphy
Women Held in Mystery Near Alton Murder
After three weeks on the run from authorities, Stella Bloomport and Angie Freeman, linked to the unidentified woman slain near Alton, were captured in this city by Deputy Sheriff Fitzgerald and Hillsboro deputy Kiggans at the Brunswick hotel.
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Springfield
Stella Bloomport
Angie Freeman
Alton
Fitzgerald
Kiggans
Hillsboro
Brunswick Hotel
Mount Vernon Burglary Charge Ties to Ellis Murder Case
Mrs. Charles Prestey remains jailed in Mount Carmel on burglary charges. Statements from Prestey’s daughter link her to the fated death of David B. Ellis of St Louis, found Jan 2 with gunshot wounds, as authorities seek to determine potential connections and motives.
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Mount Vernon
Charles Presley
Mount Carmel
Requisition Seeks Florence Return to Spokane
Governor Deneen honors a requisition from Washington for the return to Spokane of C. W. Florence, arrested in Pittsfield. He is charged with writing checks on Traders National Bank of Spokane May 4, 1908 without funds, defrauding Davis & Bradley.
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Springfield
Deneen
Washington
Spokane
Wash
C. W. Florence
Pittsfield
Florence
Illinois Corn Show Increases Capital Stock
Springfield stockholders of the Illinois Corn exhibition vote to raise capital from 10000 to 20000 to meet rising demand for the big show. The extra issue adds 400 shares at 28 dollars each.
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Springfield
Stomach Catarrh and Fat Loss Tied to Fermentation
A discussion on thinness attributed to stomach catarrh and hyperacidity. It explains fats are digested in the duodenum by pancreatic juice, which is neutralized by stomach acids, leading to poor fat digestion and emaciation. Peruna is endorsed to hasten digestion and prevent fermentation, enabling fat formation and fullness with proper intake.
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Archibald Clavering Gunter Amercant
MR Barnes
New York
Aer Barnes
New YR
Sian
Cys
Ores
la Belle
Blackwood
Cipriano
Trusts
News OF Illinois
Ellis
Ana
Dr. May
May, M.D
Pearl Strout
Aptis Products
Libby
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