Amateur Detectives and the Sweatbox Tradewinds
A Chicago detective explains professional methods, the role of women in agencies, and the risks of amateur private eyes who flash fake badges. He shares cases of a handsomest man pursuit, a failed search from a Detroit encounter, and a wife and son theft inquiry. The sweatbox is defended as a useful tool when interviews reveal truth. The piece ends with Paris kleptomania among titled women and shoplifting penalties.
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Paris
Lions Den Rubber Match Ends In Fatal Hostility
A sensational Hungarian menagerie act ends with lions killing a fifth spectator as four players finish a rubber game. Clarence Watts, a Louisville bicycle club member, had a bicycle funeral with pallbearers on wheels and a rider behind the coffin feeding the bicycle he owned.
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Lion’s den
Lions
Hons
Suan
Clarence Watts
Louisville
Young Watts
Berlin Menagerie Owner Reveals Livelihood Timeline
In a confidences anecdote from Berlin, a menagerie owner describes the animals living together for about nine months, noting the lion, tiger, and wolf with the sheep being renewed periodically.
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Berlin
Grand Rapids widow delivers funeral sermon at husband’s service
Mrs Turner of Grand Rapids gave the funeral sermon for her husband. She explained her unconventional act spoke best to his virtues and memory, setting a new example for the observance.
Algerian brigand Areski killed forty five men in vow
Reports describe Areski el Bechir known as the butcher, a 45 year old Kabyle robber and assassin who vowed to kill one man per year of his life. Leading a 25 man band, he terrorized Kabyle communities, robbed, murdered, and eluded French forces until his capture. Areski’s camp held a Koran, a beaded rosary, and he attracted local support despite crimes. He stood trial and was condemned to death after declaring the dead speak not.
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Kabyles
Ham
Noah
Areshi-el- Bechir
Butcher
New York World
Amiussulman
Robin Iiead
Fra Diavolo
Arashi
Claude Duval
Robin Hood
Aveski
Areski-El-Bachir
Areski
Abdul Heschid
Algeria
el- Bachir
Aresk
Azrael
Eblis
Hell
Algiers
vHlains
Souimmeam
Ateski
the Assizes
Iago
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Thirty-sixth Street
Mohammed
Bill Cook
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Africa
Cleveland
Rev. A.N
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Euclid Ave. J.e.church
Fennar
Pr. Penner
Tor &S
Ot Ad Seed CO
Musouic Temple
Warren
Siegfried & Geo. F. Davis
Eddy
Tames
Supreme Court
Webster's International
Sentes Lion
D.J. Brewer
US Supreme Court
G.& C. Merriam CO
Springfield
Mass
N. K. Wendelboe
Warren, Fuller & Co
East 42d St
New York City
N. K. Wendelboe’s
Liberty Street
Weaswen
Sawiings
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J. Hazeltine
W Beaty
G. B. Ensworth
Geo
August Morck
Eyes
Fredy Cherge
Warren Pal
A. Weiss
Sarony
Sarany
Bouguerean
Gupul
A. E. Chasmar & Co., Publishers
Union Square
Piso
Ci Otl As
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Warren Mills
N. K. Wendlebee
Oiacl
Mekunn Co
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George Kolfrat
Allegheny Mills
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Pine Streets
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