Monaco's Prince and the Decapitation Dilemma
A Maupassant translated tale recounts Monaco under a tranquil king with a punitive yet ironic justice system. A murder leads to a death sentence but lacks executioners, forcing foreign loan negotiations, and finally a life imprisonment, then a pension to exile. A jailer, improvised prisons, and an elusive prisoner reveal court and sovereign tensions. The piece blends satire with courtly excess and ends with a pension arrangement, followed by a second note on fortunes from advertising reform.
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Monaco
Principality
Supreme Court
Paris
C. E
Dominic
Lis Outley
Tabunal
Pristmer
Monte Carlo
Guy de Maupassant
The Kangaroo Bravely Feeds From Pouch Amid Danger
A kangaroo at an Australian country station approached water pails with its joey in the pouch. The mother fed her youngster while a foe watched from the balcony, then fled quickly, displaying remarkable maternal courage in perilous drought conditions.
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Australia
His Trade
Prisoner boasts of world class spinning skill and offers to race on an open road, claiming a mile in time that would astonish observers, in a Bresklyn Eagle quotation.
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Bresklyn Eagle
Third Class Passenger in War’s Quiet Suffering
Fred B. Wells laments a nameless third class traveler trapped by pain and hunger aboard a train or ship. The piece contrasts heroic wartime sacrifice with the quiet torment of ordinary travelers who endure hardship without complaint.
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Fred B. Wells
Hypnotism and a daring Paris forgery collide in a tense tale
In a domestic hypnotism gathering, Mrs. Carl endures tests of will and illusion as a hypnotist vanishes with her diamonds after a dramatic display. A Paris forgery follows, with Altman yer forging a judge's seal to win immediate release, slipping away before discovery.
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Leonora
Ned
Carl
Adam
Mr. Carl
Mohammed
Dr. Smithly
Fanny
Mrs. Carl
China
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Edwin R. Champlin
New York
Justice IN
Louis XIV
William of
Prussia
Forbidden Paradise
Monsieur
Chicago Times-Herald
Famine
Leona
Fanny Ansiously
Darls
Mrs. Darl
Mr. Darl
M. I. Rayne
Altmanyer
Jim
Penman
Palais de Justice
M. Villiers
Juge D'Instruction
Mazas
Altmayer
Lars
On Ile
Roa
T. Case
Warren Mills
Rea Wheat
N. K. Wendelboe
Warren, Fuller & Co
East 42d St
New York City
N. K
N. K. Wendlebee
Liberty Street
Warren, Pa
Ackley
Wheelock
Pennsylvaniia
Ackley & Wheelock
Water Street
Rogers Block
Westen Tangs
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J. Hazeltine
C. W. Beaty
G B, Ensworth
Cashier
GEO
H. Jackson
Ass’t Cashier
W. Beaty
M.B. Danham
L. B. Freeman
L. B. Wood Charles W. Stone
James Clark
A.J. Hazeltine
W.M. Lindzey
C Sigel
Optician
August Morck
Chay
Charce
Morckergs
A. Weiss
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