The Door I Am and a Five Dollar Mystery
Robert Orme in Chicago encounters a striking girl in a traffic jam and resolves to learn her identity. A five-dollar bill marked with cryptic instructions drives his curiosity as he confronts a puzzling code linked to S R Evans in Chicago, foreshadowing a larger search.
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State Street
Robert Orme
Chicago
Middle West
Orme
Masonic Temple
Madison Street
West
Cash Bay
Wallinghams
Pere Marquette
Rush Street
Lake Shore Drive
Annex
Denver
Jack Baxter
Jack
Bessie Wallingham
Tom
Arradale
Bessie
Bob
Lake Michigan
Evans
S. R. Chi
S. R. Evans
Senor Poritol
Mr. Orme
Woman fainted on prison steps beside counterfeiter husband
A Pittsburg woman, Annie Bruwarkski, fainted on the jail steps from hunger as her husband, Stanley Bruwarski, faced a counterfeiting charge. She was revived indoors and asked to join him before dying, prompting a hurried kitchen bustle while she recounted her ordeal.
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Orme
Tom Wallinghams
Tom Wallingham
Bessie Wallingham
Pittsburg
Annie Bruwarkski
Stanley Bruwarski
Bruwarski
Scale Adjusted Pennsylvania Railroad Wage Agreement
President W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen announced terms of the Pennsylvania railroad scale adjustment. Daily and mileage rates rise to match New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio where lower, and stay higher where those lines are higher, yielding the highest schedule among railroads. Lee says operating expenses increase and trainmen’s working conditions are greatly bettered.
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Cleveland
W. G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania
Lee
Quotations on Gifts by Ovid
A concise reflection noting that the most welcome gifts are those made precious by the giver. The line underscores value in intention and personal meaning over mere material merit.
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Ovid
Market Report from New York Commodities Desk
Wheat No 2 red futures ease with Sept at 1.0844 and Dec 1.1156. Corn No 2 Western in elevator at 71 1/2 cents, futures lower. Oats Natural White 46 49 cents. Pork Mess around 24.50 25.00. Butter Creamery specials 29 1/2 to 31 3/4 cents. Cheese State specials 15 4% to 16 cents. Eggs State and Pa 27 to 32 cents. Long Island potatoes bulk 2.00 to 2.25.
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New York
New
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Buffalo Market Prices for Wheat Corn Flour and Livestock
Buffalo and East Buffalo Livestock Market report prices for wheat corn oats flour butter eggs cheese potatoes and livestock. Wheat values range No 1 northern carloads 1.2414 and No 2 red 1.05 with afloat options. cattle and hogs show prime export steers 6.24 to 6.50 and light Yorkers 9.30 to 9.40. sheep and lambs and various grades listed.
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Buffalo
East Buffalo
Buffalo Hay Market Prices and Grain Types
Timothy tops the market at 20.00 to 21.00 dollars per 100 pounds with No 2 Timothy at 17.50 to 18.00. Straw, wheat and oat listed at 8.00 to 8.50 dollars per unit.
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Buffalo
Timothy
Lost Sock and Fortune in City Dump
Chicago reports C. T. Leggett, a retired capitalist, lost 9100 in cash believed dropped from a sock and swept into the city dump with hotel garbage. Detectives search the dumps for nine $1000 bills and one $100, Leggett kept the purse pinned to his undergarments.
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Chicago
C. T. Leggett
Saratoga
Leggett
Reed faces workhouse risk for cutting Telegraph poles
Dover Aug 14 William P Reed a farmer near Farmingtown may be sent to the workhouse for disobeying Chancellor Curtiss injunction by cutting seven Postal Telegraph poles on his farm. After a previous dispute, Reed felled more poles despite the court order. contempt penalties include workhouse imprisonment as authorities investigate.
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Dover
Del
William P. Reed
Farmingtown
Curtiss
Postal Company
Reed
Telegraph Company
Court of Chancery
Dragged in the Sea Whaling Crew Face Punishment Charges
United States marshal was authorized to arrest J. Henry Steeves of the fishing smack Alparella and the crew for inflicting corporal punishment on 15 year old John Rogals. Rogals alleges he was marooned on an uninhabited Gulf island after being beaten and dragged in the sea tied in a canvas sack.
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Mobile
Ala
J. Henry Steeves
Alparella
John Rogals
Gulf of Mexico
Girl Throws Ball 187 Feet in Iowa City Record Attempt
Iowa City report notes 15 year old Add Paintin hurled a league baseball 187 feet during a game aiming to surpass Myrtle McCarrell's 180 foot world mark set at Oak Park, NL on July 17.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Add Paintin
Myrtle McCarrell
Oak Park
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Wall
TLRS
the Hatters’s
Husband
Market Report
Buffalo Provision Market
Princeton
Somerset
Illinois
Kansas
Oklahoma
Lad
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